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Travel experts turn you on to out-of-the-way bed and breakfasts, hidden hiking trails, and great spots for families - all right here in our own back yard. Fresh vacation ideas are the focus of this edition of Insight.
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Making money - A recent study says the income gap between the rich and poor in California ranks among the nation’s widest, and it’s getting wider. Jeffrey Callison asks experts why there's such a disparity in California incomes and what - if anything - should be done. Big engine - Local economists tell us if California is really the world’s fifth largest economy.
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How does California news play on the pages of newspapers beyond our borders? We talk to a Canadian reporter on assignment in California whose covering some colorful stories. Also, we learn about California's most powerful farmer.
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The California International Marathon is this weekend. Today on Insight, you’ll meet a professional marathoner from Belarus and a local average Jim. Alena Vinitskaya won the race in 1998 and Linda-resident Jim Picard is running it for the second time. Both tell you what it’s like to pound the pavement for 26.2 miles. You'll also hear from a Sacramento man who has run the marathon every year since its inception. California State Controller John Chiang tells you why his office has decided to...
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A year ago this week, the California Arts Council got the bad news it had been dreading: the state government was cutting its Arts Council funding by more than 90 percent, from $18 million two years ago, to $1 million last year. We'll talk about the state of arts budgets with the Arts Council and local arts groups on today's Insight. Also, KXJZ's Mike Montgomery explains the highlights and bottom line of last night's late-night state budget deal.
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Some key election races are still close too close to call, including California's Fourth Congressional District. It's a longtime Republican stronghold - incumbent John Doolittle is retiring so it's an open seat. Republican Tom McClintock currently leads Democrat Charlie Brown by a small margin. KXJZ's Ben Adler updates us. We talk with a former Insight guest and Davis woman who was recently laid off from her job as a General Motors engineer. The 40th anniversary of Sacramento rock station KZAP...
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Governor Schwarzenegger says special interests are a bad influence on government. Jeffrey Callison speaks with lobbyists and a former legislator about the complex role special interests play in shaping policy. Guests: Former Communications Director for the California Arts Council and longtime political observer Adam Gottlieb, Professor John Syer, Sacramento State University, and Former State Assemblyman Tony Strickland.
Topics: KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento public radio, Capital Public Radio, Arnold Schwarzenegger, special...
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California students are improving, according to recently released results for two major tests. But are tests really a good indication of achievement? Today on Insight, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell and other education experts tell you about the STAR program and the California High School Exit Exam. Plus, you’ll hear how California charter schools are faring.
Topics: STAR program, California High School Exit Exam, charter schools, Jack O'Connell, California...
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What is the state of the California housing market and should home owners be concerned? Today on Insight, local real estate experts tell you about current trends in the market and how some alternative mortgage options work. We'll check in with the Mondavi Center in Davis, about to start its fifth season, and the Gallo Arts Center in Modesto, not yet open and still without a director. How can these two large performing arts centers best serve our region?
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Part-time Legislature? - A proposed initiative to create a part-time legislature in California is gathering signatures. Today on Insight, we'll talk with some of the people behind the initiative and hear why they want it on the 2010 ballot. 10x10 - Local filmmakers have been competing in a contest to make a 10-minute film in 10 days for the Sacramento Film Festival. We'll talk with the festival organizer and with last year's audience award winner, who's also one of this year's participants. Joe...
Topics: part-time legislature, California legislature, California initiative process, California...
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The "My California Songs" edition of Blue Dog Jam
Topics: CA, California, California songs
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Some of the topics we plan to discuss today on our first reporters' roundtable: the State budget, booming construction in the Sacramento area, California’s prisons, how the governor is doing. (And hey, what about those Sacramento Kings? Vlade Divac, sweet-passing, nice-guy, goodwill ambassador out; Greg Ostertag, self-described “big, hated white guy” in? Is it possible that the nice-guy Kings, so beloved by the community, were just too soft to do things like, you know, win championships...
Topics: KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento public radio, Capital Public Radio, Tour de France, California prisons,...
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Note : The first 30 seconds of part 2 contains overlapping content with the end of part 1. Description : An oral interview of Mary Gorman (Watterson), born 1889, near Bishop, California. Mary Gorman's family, the Wattersons, were popular, long-time residents of the Owens Valley. Stories included in this interview relate to early Owens Valley cattle and sheep ranching, the Narrow Gauge Railroad, school days at Warm Springs School, Bishop High School, and the Inyo Academy, and community life in...
Topics: californialightandsound, California, Eastern, Cattle trade--California, Railroad...
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University of California Regents Committee on Finance 5-15-2013. Part of morning meeting. Discussion of the governor's May Revise budget as it pertains to the University. Discussion of lack of pension contributions from state to UC. Discussion of UC debt restructuring to enhance cash flow. Discussion of lack of state funding for UC-Riverside medical school. Discussion of possible funds from Prop 39 for energy efficiency. Discussion of performance standards hooked to budget and...
Topics: University of California, Regents, California
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The "My California Songs" edition of Blue Dog Jam. Playlist at http://www.capradio.org/166656
Topics: California, California songs, songs about California, CA, pop, rock
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Cruz Bustamante - When Cruz Bustamante ran for governor in last fall's recall election, he broke ranks with the leaders of the Democratic Party. Host Jeffrey Callison talks with the Lieutenant Governor about the dramatic events of last year - and his own political future.
Topics: Insight, Sacramento public radio, Capital Public Radio, KXJZ, Cruz Bustamante, California...
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Party politics is the theme of this Insight roundtable. Jeffrey's guests will be Duf Sundheim, chairman of the California Republican Party, and Roger Salazar, a longtime spokesman and press secretary for top Democrats, including Al Gore, Gray Davis and John Edwards.
Topics: KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento public radio, Capital Public Radio, Duf Sundheim, Roger Salazar,...
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The words of former Secretary of State Colin Powell aptly capture the popular sentiment of slavery: "It is incomprehensible that trafficking in human beings is taking place in the 21st century - incomprehensible but true." Host Jeffrey Callison sits down with scholars and officials to discuss the history of the slave trade in California, and modern day traficking in our state.
Topics: Human Trafficking, Slavery in California, Colin Powell, KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento public radio,...
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American Music Club - Blue and Grey Shirt
Topic: California
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On the next Insight, we continue to broadcast live from the steps of California’s Capitol where lawmakers and top administration officials are busy fine-tuning their different plans for health-care reform. They’ll talk about what they think will and won’t work and why they believe their plan is the best. KXJZ's Capital Bureau Chief Marianne Russ co-hosts.
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NorCal port security - Port officials and security experts tell you just how safe northern California’s ports are. A family reunited - Sacramento's Debbie Lomba, now in her fifties, just discovered she has 16 siblings. Jeffrey Callison speaks with Lomba and one of her newly discovered sisters about their complicated family history.
Topics: California port security, Debbie Lomba, family reunited, KXJZ, Insight, Capital Public Radio,...
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The new Mega Millions lottery promises big payouts to winners, but what's the payout for California? Experts join guest host Mike Montgomery to talk about challenges the lottery faces, and how ticket sales affect school budgets and local business.
Topics: lottery in California, Mike Montgomery, KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento public radio, Capital Public Radio
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Overcrowding, escalating costs, and changes in its health care system are some of the challenges facing California's prisons. Today experts tell you how the state can best respond.
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Malcolm MacKenzie has just finished performing in the New York City Opera's production of "Carmen." Next he'll reprise his role in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. What was it like performing in the Big Apple, and where does this talented local performer hope to take his career? Malcolm MacKenzie joins host Jeffrey Callison live in our studios. The California Lighting Technology Center at UC Davis, charged with developing energy-efficient lighting with market-friendly design, is set to present its...
Topics: Malcolm MacKenzie, Opera, California Lighting technology, UC Davis, KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento...
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Insight: Unprecedented California Water Resources / Nigerian Elections / Toulouse-Lautrec / Bees Update / "My Mother's Kitchen
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A coaching expert joins guest host Donna Apidone to reveal how you can avoid spending too much during the holiday season, and still give meaningful gifts to the ones you love. "Champion" Emotions flare when a mother tells her bi-racial son the truth about his father. The story comes to life on stage this weekend. We'll meet the cast; they'll perform a scene. A competitor in this weekend's 23rd Annual California International Marathon tells us why he returns, year after year! Guest...
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From California's bullet-train ambitions to the plight of small, alternative radio stations in our region, we've covered a great range of topics on Insight this year. A great range of people, too, like the West Sacramento man who's now a government minister in Liberia. Today on Insight, we'll update you on these and other topics and people we covered in 2006.
Topics: KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento public radio, Capital Public Radio, California transportation,...
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How can California find and manage enough water for its growing population? Host Jeffrey Callison speaks with stakeholders about plans for water use, how the Sacramento region fits into the big picture, and how it will impact you.
Topics: water use, California water, KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento public radio, Capital Public Radio
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An update from a local widow on her nearly one year long effort to convince the military to allow a religious symbol on her husband’s headstone. It’s one of the world’s most widely consumed grains and it impacts jobs and lives here at home. Today on Insight experts tell you what challenges face California’s rice industry. Plus, you'll hear from the owner of Bubalus Bubalis, a company that makes cheese using milk from water buffalos. The animals also happen to eat rice straw.
Topics: wicca, rice, California rice industry, Bubalus Bubalis, Insight, KXJZ, Sacramento public radio
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Business climate - Is California unfriendly to business? Today on Insight: Experts from business, government and labor tell you if California's tax and regulation policies foster a healthy business climate or if they send would-be employers in search of greener pastures. Cowboy philosophy - Cowboy poet and former large animal veterinarian Baxter Black, who's never short on words and always quick with a rhyme, sits for a spell with Insight's Donna Apidone. Baxter tells you just what cowboy...
Topics: California buisness, cowboy philosophy, Baxter Black, KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento public radio,...
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Outsourcing is a hot topic in the current political discourse, and many Californians are against it. How dramatic an impact does outsourcing really have on our economy, and what can, and should, be done about it?
Topics: KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento public radio, Capital Public Radio, CSU Sacramento, California Labor...
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William phones Weaverville, California and gets an insight into thrift shops
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Commuting trends in California are becoming more complicated. A new report from the Public Policy Institute of California reveals Californians are living closer to work; yet average commute times are on the rise. At the same time, median commute times are down despite an increase in the size of the workforce. Today transportation experts tell you what's behind these trends, and what, if anything, should be done. "Scheherazade" - An exotic ballet inspired by "A Thousand and One...
Topics: California Commuter Paradox, Scheherazade, Kathryn Posin, KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento public radio,...
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The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not guarantee health care to all of its citizens. A new bill in the state Senate would bring universal health care to California, but could it work here? Host Jeffrey Callison speaks with experts, including the bill's author, about how the bill would impact health care in our state.
Topics: Universal Health Care, Health Care in California, KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento public radio, Capital...
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Governor Schwarzenegger wants to limit fee increases for students in California's universities. But some say raising student fees makes more money available to help needier students. Jeffrey Callison speaks with experts from education, government, and the media. Also, a student who wants fees kept down and opposes big pay raises for university executives.
Topics: student fees, Schwarzenegger, California universities, KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento public radio,...
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A former Sacramento Bee Baseball writer has been named to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Today on Insight, Nick Peters reflects back on his long career and on the state of baseball today. Also, Stockton's Dave Brubeck is one of this year's inductees into the California Hall of Fame. We'll talk with the jazz great. The California Hall of Fame red carpet arrivals begin at 6 p.m., induction ceremony at 7 p.m. at The California Museum, 1020 O Street, Sacramento. Inductees include Dave Brubeck, Jane...
Topics: California Hall of Fame, Dave Brubeck, Paul Conley, Nick Peters, KXJZ, Sacramento, Insight
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Poet and essayist Jane Hirshfield recites from her work. Hirshfield appears at the Sutter Cancer Center, 2800 L St., Sacramento, as part of Sutter's Literature, Art, and Medicine Program (LAMP) author series. Grocers in our region report many customers want imported Coca-Cola from Mexico. Why do some prefer Mexican Coke over the domestic stuff, and how are consumers and industry impacted by the prevalent use of high-fructose corn syrup as a sweetener? It's an unlikely guide book, but...
Topics: Jane Hirshfield, corn syrup, cane sugar, Weird California, KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento public radio,...
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State of State Parks - Seventy State Parks are slated for closure in the coming year due to budget cuts. The Governor's Mansion in Sacramento is one of those parks. On a special live broadcast of Insight from the Governor's Mansion, we'll talk about the status of California's parks with the Director of the Department of State Parks, Ruth Coleman, and the District Superintendent for the Capital District of California State Parks, Catherine Taylor. Governor's Mansion Foundation - As California...
Topics: KXJZ, Insight, Capital Public Radio, Sacramento public radio, California Governor's Mansion, Jerry...
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California Governor's Mansion Will there ever be a new California Governor's mansion? Key players join guest host Mike Montgomery to tell us where we stand and what it will take. Become a Writer! Have you ever thought about becoming a food or travel writer? Dianne Jacob, author of Will Write for Food: The Complete Guide to Writing Cookbooks, Restaurant Reviews, Articles, Memoir, Fiction, and More, is our guest. She has the inside story about what it takes and how it works. New Sacramento State...
Topics: California Governor's Mansion, Become a Writer!, KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento public radio
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What will the impact of the California Performance Review be on California jobs and infrastructure? We welcome Billy Hamilton, co-author of the Performance Review, plus CSEA President JJ Jelensic and other experts.
Topics: KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento public radio, Capital Public Radio, California Performance Review, Billy...
Description : Oral interview with George Clarkson, born 1929, in Bishop, California. Stories relate to Mr. Clarkson's father's employment with Southern Sierras Power Company, early ranching life in the Owens Valley, specificlaly Alfalfa ranching, the Narrow Gauge Railroad, the founding of the Spark Plug Mine and other mining ventures located in the White Mountains, bootleggers at Yellow Jacket Springs, and anecdotes about local characters including Dutch Pete and Richie Conway. Call Number :...
Topics: californialightandsound, California, Eastern, Agriculture--California, Railroad travel--California,...
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Additional Title : Mixon moved to San Diego in 1917. He discusses the Depression in San Diego, cowboying in Julian, working on a city hog farm, San Diego River floods, strikebreaking during the longshoremans strike on Pier One, and joining the Laborers Union in 1936. Rights : Copyright status unknown. This work may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, its reproduction may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and...
Topics: californialightandsound, Cowboys--California, Great Depression--California, Labor...
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The crew discuss their time at Anime California
Topics: Anime, California, Anime California, Cosplay, Convention
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Note : Program recorded at very low level. High amount of hiss on tape. Content ends abruptly. Description : Lillian Reed, who resided in Kern County in the 1960s, has first-hand knowledge of the Dust Bowl-era migration to California. Rights : Public domain. No restrictions on use. Digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) .
Topics: californialightandsound, California--Emigration and Immigration, California--History
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Mashary Rashed California USA
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LibriVox recording of Loafing Along Death Valley Trails; A Personal Narrative Of People And Places by William Caruthers. Read in English by David Wales William Caruthers was a retired newspaperman who spent 25 years listening to stories told by the inhabitants of Death Valley. This 1951 book collects those stories; the printed version has many interesting pictures. ''Of the actors who made the history of the period, few remain. It was the writer’s good fortune that many of these men were his...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, california history, death valley california
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Note : Program recorded at very low level. Right channel slightly higher than left. High amount of hiss on tape. Description : Herb Francis, a Kern County resident in the 1960s, has first-hand knowledge of the Dust Bowl-era migration to California. Rights : Public domain. No restrictions on use. Digitized by the California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP) .
Topics: californialightandsound, California--Emigration and immigration, California--History
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Political Junkie Ken Rudin: McCabe Fired, Trump Tweets Against Mueller Cody Drabble Political Junkie Ken Rudin recaps a weekend with Andrew McCabe fired at the FBI, campaign activity in New Hampshire, and tweets from the White House on the Mueller probe. BBC World Service Look Ahead: Russia And UK Expel Diplomats Chris Remington BBC World Service looks ahead to the week in international news, including Russia and the UK expel diplomats, China reacts to the elimination of presidential term...
Topics: KXJZ, Insight, Sacramento, public, radio, Capital Public Radio, CSU Sacramento, Political Junkie,...
