Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
Sheila Kuehl is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, representing the 3rd District. A former state legislator, she served eight years in the California State Senate, representing the 23rd District and six years in the Assembly.
Tackling homelessness in LA Tackling homelessness in Los Angeles will take a lot of funding and some of that money will come via Measure H, a sales tax. How does the county plan to allocate the funds?
As Attorney General aims to punish sanctuary cities, how might LA be affected? Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced sanctions for sanctuary cities today. We find out what that means for Los Angeles, which the mayor says isn’t a sanctuary city, but a city of sanctuary.
The winds of change at the AQMD Ten months ago, Republicans held the majority at the South Coast Air Quality Management District. But the tide is shifting with the appointment of Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, a Democrat.
Taxing Pot for Homeless Services The LA County Board of Supervisors voted yesterday to scrap a measure that would have taxed pot sales to raise money to help deal with LA’s intractable homeless problem. The measure was initially proposed by Supervisor Sheila Kuehl. But yesterday she changed her mind and voted against it.
LA County and Homes for the Homeless LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl calls it an "unprecedented financial commitment" — if she and Mark Ridley Thomas can get one of their three other colleagues to go along. They want to spend $100 million a year on affordable housing from a County budget of $27 billion, as a way to help people who are already homeless and others who are in danger of being.
Construction Delayed for New $2 Billion Jail Last year, LA County's Board of Supervisors approved a $2 billion plan to replace the Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles. But since then, two members were termed out and replaced by the voters. Yesterday, Sheila Kuehl and Hilda Solis joined Mark Ridley-Thomas in delaying the project to determine how big a new facility needs to be. Supervisor Kuehl joins us, along with Terri McDonald, who was with the State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for 24 years. She's now Assistant to Sheriff Jim McDonnell.
Politics and the Minimum Wage in Los Angeles LA County's newly constituted Board of Supervisors wants to consider the impact of raising the minimum wage. New member Sheila Kuehl, who was elected with the support of organized labor, made the proposal and veteran Mike Antonovich made the vote unanimous — to make sure the negative consequences are considered. He opposes the idea .
Sheila Kuehl Republicans’ takeover of the Senate was the big national political story of the week. But here in L.A., voters elected a new leader for a swath of the county bigger than many congressional districts. Former California State Senator Sheila Kuehl will replace Zev Yaroslavsky next month as L.A. County Supervisor for the 3rd District. She joins Madeleine to discuss her priorities and challenges.
County Supervisors Debate: Kuehl and Shriver Here in our KCRW studios are the two candidates in next month’s runoff election for Zev Yaroslavsky’s seat on the LA County Board of Supervisors. He has termed out after 20 years as one of America’s most powerful local elected officials. The Board has just 5 members, who oversee a budget of $26 billion with 30 departments providing services including tax collection, health care, child welfare, fire control, beach safety and animal welfare. The 3rd District includes much of Los Angeles on both sides of the Santa Monica Mountains, 10 other cities and many square miles of unincorporated area. The candidates who survived the June primary are Sheila Kuehl, who spent 14 years as a state legislator in Sacramento, and Bobby Shriver, Santa Monica City Councilman for 8 years, including a term as Mayor. This one of a few debates they’ll have between now and November 4th, when voters to the polls.
The Race for One of LA's Most Powerful Elected Offices With a $25 billion budget, the five members of LA County's Board of Supervisors serve more people than all but seven states of the Union. For decades, they've been almost immune to electoral challenge, but voter-passed term limits are now in effect and major change is in store. Zev Yaroslavsky is termed out of the Third District seat he's held since 1994, setting up what could be an intense political battle. Today, former Santa Monica Councilman and Mayor Bobby Shriver jumped into the race. He's the former brother-in-law of Arnold Schwarzenegger and the nephew of John F. Kennedy. Former State Assemblywoman and Senator Sheila Kuehl announced her candidacy for Zev Yaroslavsky's seat last April. Before starting her political career, she was Zelda on TV's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. She then went to Harvard Law School, and was the first openly gay person elected to the state legislature.
Budget Solutions Look Bad and Worse In Sacramento, it's almost axiomatic that a $24 billion budget gap will have to be closed without any new taxes. After last month's special election , Governor Schwarzenegger said the voters had spoken out against any new taxes. Republicans, of course, agree. Democratic legislators have talked about increased revenues in the most muted terms. We hear from Sheila Keuhl , who served six years in the Assembly and eight in the State Senate, until she was termed out last year. We also hear from Joel Fox, former president of the Harvard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, now editor of " Fox and Hounds Daily ," a blog about the confluence of politics and business in California.
Healthcare Reform in California The atmosphere in Sacramento is right this year for action on healthcare reform. That's according to Herb Schultz, the Governor's point man on the issue , who says there may not be another such opportunity for a decade or more. Democratic leaders of the Assembly and Senate have plans of their own and so do Republicans. All of them involve the insurance industry, which now provides the funding mechanism for healthcare in America. Democratic Senator Sheila Kuehl has a plan that does away with insurance company involvement altogether, replacing it with universal healthcare, free to everybody at the point of service, administered by the government. How does that stack up against the other proposals? We take a look with Kuehl and others.
Is the threat from Russia missing from the Russia meddling probe? There's much being made about the Trump administration's possible ties with Russia. But the bottom line is Russia's effort to influence American democracy. Do the President and his aides care enough to take action before voters go back to the polls?
Who's to blame for the opioid crisis? Some of the lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are now going after Big Pharma. It’s all about the deadly epidemic of opioid use. Are the drug companies to blame? What about the users? Later, on today’s Talking Point: making sense of Britain’s upset election.
Human Rights in the era of Donald Trump President Trump’s UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said today the US might pull out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Serious violators of human rights are members of the Council itself–and a US resignation could make things worse. Later on today’s show, now that he’s into his second term, comedian turned US Senator Al Franken is telling jokes again.
Replacing Obamacare: Now you see it… now you don’t As the Senate deliberates replacing Obmacare, health coverage for millions of people is at stake. There've been no public hearings, and a draft measure won't be made public. Is the House version so unpopular that that Senate is hiding a version that looks much the same?
