What's Next, Los Angeles? with Mike Bonin
Los Angeles is at a turning point. We are living in a defining moment. What happens next is up to us. Over the past few years, problems and challenges have shaken this city -- and tremendous opportunities for change have presented themselves. How do we rise to this moment and emerge a better place to live? What will it take to create a more just and a more equitable community? Working together, how are we going to create a stronger, forward-thinking Los Angeles? Mike Bonin, writer, teacher, progressive activist and former City Councilmember, looks at the issues and problems facing Los Angeles, examines ideas, and talks with the people who will lead us to a brighter future.
Produced in partnership with LA Forward.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 55 minutes
- Episodes
- 103
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Congressional Candidate Spotlight: Nick Melvoin
With Adam Schiff running for U.S. Senate, his Los Angeles area 30th district congressional seat – which stretches from Burbank and Glendale and Sunland Tujunga down to Hancock Park and West Hollywood…
Power, Politics, and Police Raises
LOTS to talk about this week. Big wins for workers in the state legislature, and now Gavin Newsom needs to be decide whether to sign or veto a bunch of important bills. Former Sheriff Alex Villanueva…
Congressional Candidate Spotlight: Mike Feuer
With Adam Schiff running for U.S. Senate, his Los Angeles area 30th district congressional seat – which stretches from Burbank and Glendale and Sunland Tujunga down to Hancock Park and West Hollywood…
Candidate Spotlight on LAURA FRIEDMAN
With Adam Schiff running for U.S. Senate, his Los Angeles area 30th district congressional seat – which stretches from Burbank and Glendale and Sunland Tujunga down to Hancock Park and West Hollywood…
The Trouble with Hydee
Los Angeles City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto is blocking affordable and homeless housing, refusing to help tenants facing eviction, and violating the First Amendment rights of reporters -- and more…
Handcuffing the Press
Journalists have been detained, beaten, and targeted by the government -- right here in Los Angeles. It has happened to freelance, independent journalists, as well as journalists with major organiza…
Zev's Los Angeles
For forty years, Zev Yaroslavsky was a major force in Los Angeles politics. As a member of the City Council and then the Board of Supervisors, Zev played a leading role in civic affairs at a time of …
The Fed Tapes: How the LA Times Won the Pulitzer
Last October, one the biggest news stories in Los Angeles and around the nation was the release of the Fed Tapes -- revealing an ugly, racist conversation between some of my council colleagues and th…
A Dirty Eviction and a Dangerous Precedent
Los Angeles is about to experience the biggest mass eviction in generations – and it might be just the beginning of a huge wave of mass evictions – unless we stop a corporate real estate giant that i…
Happy Father's Day - with Congressman Jimmy Gomez
In a special Father's Day episode of What's Next, Los Angeles, Mike talks with Los Angeles area Congressman Jimmy Gomez, who this year formed a Congressional Dads Caucus to focus on pushing legislati…
Who is really behind the anti-LGBTQ+ protests in Los Angeles?
The national wave of anti-gay, anti-trans hate is erupting here in Los Angeles County – and it’s a lot uglier and even more sinister than you think. It’s being led and fed by dangerous forces – Prou…
What Will Keep Our Neighborhoods Safe?
What will it to take to keep our neighborhoods safe?
Both progressives and conservatives agree we need an alternative to always calling the police. People usually at odds are in consensus that we nee…
How do we fight Big Money $$$ in elections?
How can we fix a broken political system? How can we re-energize grassroots democracy? How do counteract the poisonous influence of big money in our elections? One big idea is something called "democ…
Streets for ALL of us
Los Angeles has some of the worst traffic, some of the worst air, and some of the most unsafe streets in the country -- and LA voters are going to have a chance to do something about it next year.
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The First 100 Days (with Alissa Walker & Scott Frazier of LA Podcast)
It’s been 100 days since Mayor Karen Bass and the new crew of elected officials took office in the city of Los Angeles. How are they doing? I talk about that, homelessness, public safety, LA Metro, a…
On Trial: Corruption in Los Angeles
Bribery. Prostitution. Betrayal. Courtroom drama. The FBI investigation into LA City Hall has it all. It had led to a series of guilty pleas and guilty verdicts, for elected officials, staffers, dev…
CD6 Candidate Spotlight: Isaac Kim
When Nury Martinez resigned from the City Council in October, it left 270,000 residents of the east San Fernando Valley without representation. The special election to fill the seat is April 4, and …
CD6 Candidate Spotlight: Douglas Sierra
When Nury Martinez resigned from the City Council in October, it left 270,000 residents of the east San Fernando Valley without representation. The special election to fill the seat is April 4, and …
CD6 Candidate Spotlight: Antoinette Scully
When Nury Martinez resigned from the City Council in October, it left 270,000 residents of the east San Fernando Valley without representation. The special election to fill the seat is April 4, and …
CD6 Candidate Spotlight: Imelda Padilla
When Nury Martinez resigned from the City Council in October, it left 270,000 residents of the east San Fernando Valley without representation. The special election to fill the seat is April 4, and …