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    Which Way, L.A.?

    Wildfires and Political Heat on Sacramento

    Partisan gridlock is partially the result of state legislators redistricting to guarantee that some remain GOP, others Democratic. Prop 11 could change all that. Plus, a local elected official evacuated from her home in Porter Ranch.

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    By Warren Olney • Oct 15, 2008 • 30m Listen

    Partisan gridlock has stymied progress in California—blamed in part on Assembly members and Senators drawing their own district boundaries to guarantee that some will always be Republican while others are always Democratic. We also talk with a local elected official who was evacuated today from her home in Porter Ranch.

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      LAUSD Board Member Evacuated Due to Fire

      No one is immune from the fires raging in Southern California.  One of those evacuated today from her home in the Porter Ranch was Julie Kornstein, 20-year veteran of the Los Angeles Unified School Board.

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      Prop 11 and the Politics of Redistricting

      Every ten years when there's a new federal census, the state legislature redraws boundaries for the Congress and the State Board of Equalization. They also reapportion their own districts in the Assembly and Senate.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Karen Radziner

      Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?

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      Andrea Brody

      Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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    2 stories
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      LAUSD Board Member Evacuated Due to Fire

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      Prop 11 and the Politics of Redistricting

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