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	Podcast:		KQED’s The California Report
	Episode:		A Hollywood Cliffhanger Over a Labor Agreement
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:10:11
	Publish Date:		2019-04-08 08:17:54
	Description:		A Hollywood Cliffhanger Over a Labor Agreement Hollywood had a real life cliffhanger over the weekend. The Writers Guild of America, the union that represents writers for film and TV, has been locked in a battle with screenwriters’ talent agents and they were supposed to have reached a deal Saturday. But when one wasn’t reached, both sides decided to give themselves a few more days to hammer out an agreement. Reporter: Saul Gonzalez Gov. Gavin Newsom in El Salvador On his first international trip since taking office, Gov. Gavin Newsom is drawing stark contrasts with President Trump on immigration. Homeland Security Secretary Resigns Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, who paid a visit to California on Friday, has resigned. Nielsen appeared with President Donald Trump in Calexico Friday morning to emphasize what they call a “border immigration emergency.” Nielsen thanked the president for his leadership in a press release yesterday morning. But by the afternoon, Trump announced she was out. Reporter: Tyche Hendricks How Are Universities Helping Homeless Students? We’ve been hearing a growing numbers of stories about university students in California struggling with homelessness. Some campuses are doing more to help than others. Reporter: Zoe Schiffer Starting Blocks: How California Fails Its Kids In many ways California is a land of opportunity. But for millions of people struggling to get by, many of them children, the reality is quite different. Today, the California Report begins a series we’re calling Starting Blocks, which examines how California policies are failing our kids. Guest: Scott Shafer 25 Local Governments Sue California Over Rule Allowing Marijuana Delivery More than two dozen cities, as well as Santa Cruz County, are suing the state over home delivery of marijuana. Reporter: Michelle Wiley White Collar Crime Task Force The U.S. Attorney’s office for the Northern District of California, based in San Francisco, has had a declining number of white collar crime prosecutions over the past decade. David Anderson took the job as the US attorney for the Northern District on January 15th and he’s forming a task force to go after white collar crime in Silicon Valley. Guest: Matt Drange
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