Inaccuracies Emerge Over L.A.'s Olympic Bid
Los Angeles is making a bid to host the Olympic summer games in 2024. City officials there told the U.S. Olympic Committee that Governor Jerry Brown would support a state financial guarantee for the games - a kind of financial back-stop to cover any cost overruns. But as KPCC reporter Ben Bergman tells us, it's not clear if Brown actually made such a statement.
Need-to-Knows About California Guest Worker Program for Undocumented Farmworkers
Today is decision day for bills in Sacramento that require the state to spend money. Fiscal committees will decide which bills advance to the Assembly and Senate floors and which bills die for a year. Among the most ambitious of those bills would establish a state-sanctioned guest worker program for undocumented farmworkers already employed in California. The California Report's Queena Kim spoke with the bill's author, Assembly member Luis Alejo why he chose to focus on farmworkers.