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Introducing Coronavirus in California: Stories from the Front Lines from 2023-12-14T11:23:43.620049
"Coronavirus in California: Stories from the Front Lines" is a new podcast from the Los Angeles Times hosted by reporter Gustavo Arellano. Every weekday, the podcast will give listeners dispatch...
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Covering the Coronavirus from 2023-12-14T11:23:43.614380
Two months after California’s first confirmed case of COVID-19, the state is preparing to confront what public health officials agree will be a peak in illnesses and deaths. Our guest is Soumya ...
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Losing the Battle with COVID-19 from 2023-12-14T11:23:43.608191
Mourning the death of a loved one is never easy. But for such intimate pain to be part of the biggest crisis of our lifetime — it’s a tragedy. Our guest is Sonia Velez, a Bell resident who lost ...
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Mike Davis on the Coronavirus from 2023-12-14T11:23:43.548260
Whether it’s an earthquake, a fire or a riot, disaster has long been part of the ecology of Southern California. Our guest is Mike Davis, who for decades has been delivering apocalyptic warnings...
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Coronavirus Budget Blues from 2023-12-14T11:23:43.542628
All signs point to a difficult economic period coming our way. The financial crisis is going to hit not only businesses small and large, but also government. Typically, California spends over $2...
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Funny You Should Mask from 2023-12-14T11:23:43.536868
Laughter’s in short supply these days. Thankfully there’s a new show to stream online called “Funny You Should Mask,” in which comedic actors like Ken Jeong, Nicole Byer and Kumail Nanjiani inte...
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Culture Captures Quarantine from 2023-12-14T11:23:43.530973
Pandemics leave a trace on culture, whether it's architecture, public space, poetry or painting. Our guest is L.A. Times culture writer Carolina Miranda, who has been documenting how artists are...
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Don’t Mourn, Organize! from 2023-12-14T11:23:43.524983
The coronavirus has laid bare fundamental problems with our society, and activists are seizing on this moment of collective social consciousness. They're rethinking what organizing, protest and ...
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Local News Struggles from 2023-12-14T11:23:43.518153
The American newspaper industry has suffered for decades, partially due to the loss of advertising brought on by the internet age. With the coronavirus crisis, many newsrooms have had to call a ...
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Coronavirus Boom Busts California, For Now from 2023-12-14T11:23:43.452731
Coronavirus Boom Busts California, For Now. After years of budget surpluses, California is now looking into a financial abyss due to the coronavirus. The legislature must pass a...
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Coronavirus Doesn’t Stop, But This Podcast Does from 2023-12-14T11:23:43.445827
When we started making this podcast two months ago, we didn’t know how the pandemic would play out. Forty episodes later, we still don’t know how it will. There’s been good news and bad news, an...
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Introducing"The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times,"hosted by Gustavo Arellano from 2021-05-20T08:00
“The Times: Daily news from the L.A. Times” is a new podcast hosted by columnist Gustavo Arellano along with reporters from the L.A. Times’ diverse newsroom. Every weekday, the show takes listen...
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Introducing California City, presented by LAist Studios from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
California City is out now! California City is a new investigative podcast series from LAist Studios. Deep in the Mojave Desert, there is a little town with a big name and a bizarre history: Cal...
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Churches Start to Reopen from 2020-05-29T07:30
This weekend, thousands of churches, mosques, synagogues and other places of faith across California will reopen after being closed for two months because of the coronavirus. Gov. Gavin Newsom's...
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A Spring Without Festivals from 2020-05-28T07:00
As California slowly reopens, people are hitting the beaches, going to church, maybe meeting up with family members. But one thing Californians look forward to all year is still off the table: t...
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Baseball in the Time of the Coronavirus from 2020-05-27T07:30
The pandemic has frozen professional and collegiate sports across the world, with Major League Baseball planning to return this summer. But with new thoughts on high-fives, tags at home plate an...
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The Racist Hammer of Coronavirus from 2020-05-26T07:00
Throughout history, pandemics have wrought hell not just on families and economies but on specific social groups. And at times like these, politicians and members of the general public sometimes...
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The Pandemic’s Toll from 2020-05-25T07:00
At this point, tens of thousands of people in the U.S. have lost their lives to COVID-19. To try to memorialize the victims in Southern California as the individual lives that they were, the Los...
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Catalina Island Prepares for a Comeback from 2020-05-22T07:00
The island of Catalina is the keeper of many myths and histories in Southern California. This time of year, it should be bustling with visitors. But due to the coronavirus, it's not. And the mus...
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Archive Your Pandemic Days from 2020-05-21T07:30
What will history say about this crazy period of the coronavirus? That depends on how our lives, our thoughts and our experiences are being documented right now. Archives, like the ones at the H...
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Sympathy for the Mom-and-Pop Landlord from 2020-05-20T07:30
In a city like Los Angeles, where renters make up about 62 percent of the population, you don’t hear much sympathy for landlords. But not all landlords are alike. Some own dozens or even hundred...
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A Coronavirus Middle Road in ... Orange County? from 2020-05-19T07:30
Orange County has received a lot of national attention regarding the coronavirus, and none of it positive. Cities have sued California Gov. Gavin Newsom for shutting down beaches. Protesters by ...
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Hollywood Coronavirus Shuffle from 2020-05-18T07:00
Hollywood, the center of the universe when it comes to producing entertainment, is unrecognizable right now. Live shoots have been placed on hold indefinitely. Studios are running out of shows i...
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Rural California’s Coronavirus Conundrum from 2020-05-15T07:30
California's rural areas often feel isolated from what happens in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento. Up in the northern reaches of the state, in places like Crescent City and Alturas, th...
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A Conspiracy Pandemic from 2020-05-14T07:00
There are wild allegations about how the coronavirus started, shadowy claims about its spread, and apocalyptic pronouncements about an end goal with COVID-19. The Internet Age in particular has ...
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Saving the Legendary City Lights Bookstore from 2020-05-13T07:00
City Lights marks the spot where Allen Ginsberg read his masterpiece, “Howl.” It’s an iconic independent bookstore that still today manages to keep the bohemian vibe of San Francisco alive. But ...
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Dispatch from the Emergency Room from 2020-05-12T07:00
California's emergency rooms have been largely spared the war zone scenes we've seen in places such as Italy and New York. But ERs across Southern California are still adapting to treat the infl...
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How South Korea Tackled the Coronavirus from 2020-05-11T07:00
In the middle of March, South Korea and the United States each had 90 deaths linked to COVID-19. Now, more than 70,000 Americans have died from the disease, while the total in South Korea hasn’t...
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Keeping Farmworkers Safe from 2020-04-30T07:00
California grows more than a third of the country's vegetables and two thirds of its fruit and nuts. That means farmhands are essential workers. Without them, we don't have food. But many farmwo...
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A Mental Health Emergency from 2020-04-29T07:00
How are you feeling? In the middle of a pandemic, that question goes beyond fevers and coughs. Mental health is too often neglected, even in the best of times. Now that anxiety, panic and depres...
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Mariachis Silenced Across the Southland from 2020-04-28T07:00
You hear them performing at parties, funerals, restaurants, and on film and TV. Mariachis are part of the soundtrack of Southern California, their bright horns and beautiful "charro" and "charra...
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Thank Your Grocery Store Worker Today from 2020-04-27T07:00
Some of the first images that showed how much coronavirus would change our daily lives weren’t of victims or hospitals, but of grocery stores. Whether you shop at Trader Joe’s or Northgate, your...
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Immigrant Detainees Fight COVID-19 from 2020-04-24T07:00
The Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County is one of the largest ICE detention centers in the country. It’s also cramped and crowded, according to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU, a...
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Stay Home, Shred Later from 2020-04-23T07:00
The coronavirus has affected California’s coast in profound ways. Fishermen have fewer places to sell their catches because of restaurant shutdowns. Surfers are getting ticketed for trying to ca...
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When Your 90-year-old Dad is on Lockdown from 2020-04-22T07:00
The coronavirus outbreak has hit long-term care facilities such as nursing homes and assisted living facilities hard. In the U.S., thousands of deaths have been traced back to senior homes. Our ...
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The Pandemic Hits Prisons from 2020-04-21T07:00
There are roughly 200,000 people living in prisons and jails across California. But lockups are considered powder kegs for infectious diseases such as the novel coronavirus. Our guest is Rosemar...
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COVID 19 Comes for Communities of Color from 2020-04-20T07:00
Racial and social inequities are becoming a theme of this pandemic. Early data from around the country indicate that black, Latino, and elderly people appear to be dying at higher rates from COV...
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Disneyland Furloughs its Cast Members from 2020-04-17T07:00
Nothing represents the chugging economy of Orange County like Disneyland. The park has closed only three times in its 65-year history: the day after JFK was shot, the day of the 1994 Northridge ...
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A Journalist with the Coronavirus from 2020-04-16T07:00
The novel coronavirus has entered our newsroom at the L.A. Times. Our guest is Julia Wick, the author of our Essential California newsletter, which is a morning cheat sheet on the biggest storie...
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Teaching Outside the Classroom from 2020-04-15T07:00
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for the closure of public schools through the end of the academic year. Nevertheless, instruction continues through distance learning as teachers try to k...
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Homeless at High Risk from 2020-04-14T07:00
Homeless at high risk. Homeless shelters are potential coronavirus hot spots. Yet they’re busier than ever. Union Rescue Mission on L.A.'s skid row continues to serve free hot m...
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Take-out and Delivery Only from 2020-04-13T07:00
In California, no one can dine in restaurants, per Gov. Gavin Newsom's stay-at-home orders. Some businesses are trying take-out, but running a restaurant — hard enough in the best of times — is ...
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Renters Unite from 2020-04-10T07:00
Los Angeles has one of the highest populations of renters in the U.S. Because of the coronavirus, many of them don’t know how they’ll come up with the money to pay their rents in full. Our guest...
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