The Government’s Defunding My Beloved Public Radio Station Hurts.

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As many of you know, I have been involved in several ways over the last ten years with the largest of Southern California’s local public radio stations – 89.3 FM KPCC, now known as the multi-platform news outlet LAist. I am absolutely gutted by the presidential and congressional actions to take back previously approved monies to fund public media, including LAist, National Public Radio (NPR), and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). It is a devastating blow that will force numerous layoffs nationwide and make thoughtful reporting and useful programming in the radio, television, and online spheres even more rare than it is now.

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“Alligator Alcatraz” Echoes Angel Island

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“Alligator Alcatraz,” as a grotesquely flippant nickname for a Florida incarceration camp, makes light of what will happen to the people there. It’s really an inaccurate comparison as well, since Alcatraz was a max-security prison for America’s most violent, already-convicted criminals. The more accurate comparison would be with Alcatraz’s neighbor in San Francisco Bay, Angel Island, just two miles away. Like Alcatraz, Angel Island is surrounded by cold, shark-infested waters. Unlike Alcatraz, it was, from 1910-1940, a federal immigration station that processed 550,000 travelers to the U.S.

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Natalie Nakase and Kaitlyn Chen give us two huge reasons to be Golden State Valkyries fans

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As a resident of Orange County, I live in L.A. Sparks country, as far as WNBA fandom goes. But as soon as the expansion Golden State Valkyries named Natalie Nakase, a friend of this blog, as their first head coach, I was a committed GSV fan!

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