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A participant at a Tea Party Express rally displays a sign critical of the Obama administration on April 13, 2010 in Albany, New York. The Tea Party Express will head to Boston on Wednesday where the...
View ArticleWhat you need to know about California's ballot measures
Credit: Visions of America/UIG via Getty ImagesOver the past few weeks, AirTalk has discussed each of the measures on this year’s state ballot. We’ve examined the pros and cons presented by both...
View ArticleCampaign lawyers sharpen their pens for voting wars
Credit: Photo by s_falkow via Flickr Creative CommonsThe 2000 presidential election between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush was too close to call – literally. The razor-thin margin...
View ArticleOutside money floods California congressional races and ballot battles
Credit: Tracy O./Flickr Creative CommonsTomorrow’s election will be among the highest ever in California for campaign spending. This election cycle is without the governor’s office at stake and with...
View ArticleMichael Feinstein on conducting and composers
Larry Mantle and Michael Feinstein. Credit: Michelle Lanz/KPCCMichael Feinstein is a celebrity in the music world for his revivals of the classic American songbook, and has been nominated for five...
View ArticleVoting in the swing states
People wait as others vote at the United Auto Workers Local 1250 Hall during election day November 6, 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio. Citizens around the United States head to the polls to vote on the...
View ArticleWhere California goes, the nation follows, except when it comes to...
A jogger on The Stand, a beachfront walkway, passes a directional sign to a polling place in a Lifeguard Station at sunrise during the U.S. presidential election on November 6, 2012 in the Los Angeles...
View ArticleRound-up of hot-button issues at the state level
Maryland Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown (L) holds ten-month-old Natalie Vincent (2nd L), daughter of House Speaker Michael Busch's senior policy adviser Jaclyn Vincent, as Gov. Martin O'Malley (R) looks on...
View ArticleWhat’s the proper polling place etiquette?
A local resident casts her vote at a polling station in St Andrew Presbyterian Church March 6, 2012 in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty ImagesElection day is finally here, and after a...
View ArticleElection 2012: a nail-biter to the end
US President Barack Obama and family arrive on stage after winning the 2012 US presidential election November 7, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Obama swept to re-election, forging history again by defying...
View ArticleCalifornia voters say yes to raising sales tax, no to ending death penalty
Los Angeles Unified school teacher David Goldberg wears an Obama mask at a rally to support Proposition 30 on November 5, 2012 in Panorama City, California. Credit: Kevork Djansezian/Getty ImagesWhile...
View ArticleRepublicans and Democrats focus on fiscal cliff compromise
WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 7: House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) makes remarks on Capitol Hill on November 7, 2012 in Washington, DC. Boehner discussed the looming fiscal cliff and called on President Obama...
View ArticleOC election results roundup
Voters slowly made their way into the voting booths for the 2012 presidential election at Grace Church Of Orange in Orange, Calif., Tuesday, November 6, 2012. Credit: Anibal Ortiz / KPCCThe GOP has...
View ArticleProp 30’s impact on K-12 and higher education
California Gov. Jerry Brown speaks in support of Prop. 30 at a rally of UCLA students on campus, Oct. 16, 2012 Credit: Sharon McNary/KPCCDue to steadfast Democratic support, Governor Jerry Brown’s...
View ArticleColorado and Washington legalized recreational marijuana, but how will...
A woman passes a joint at a pro-marijuana "4/20" celebration in front of the state capitol building April 20, 2010 in Denver, Colorado. Colorado, one of 14 states to allow use of medical marijuana, has...
View ArticleWhat’s next for LGBTQ rights across the country?
Frank Capley-Alfano (L) and Joe Capley-Alfano kiss as they celebrate outside of San Francisco City Hall on February 7, 2012 in San Francisco, California. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit...
View ArticleFilmWeek: Skyfall, Lincoln, and more
Berenice Marlohe, Sam Mendes, Barbara Broccoli and Daniel Craig attend the Germany premiere of "Skyfall" at the Theater am Potsdamer Platz on October 30, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sean...
View ArticleCauses and consequences of California's election results
A view of the California State Capitol in Sacramento. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesCalifornia voters have given Democrats supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature. This will...
View ArticleCan Obama and the GOP mend fences on immigration reform?
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (FL) speaks during the final day of the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on August 30, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty...
View ArticleDoing the cabinet shuffle: who goes, who stays in Obama’s new administration?
US President Barack Obama, with Vice President Joe Biden (L), speaks on the economy in the East Room of the White House in Washington on November 9, 2012. Credit: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty ImagesObama’s...
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