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Shaky Town

Shaky Town

De: Eric Leonard
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In the world of big rig truckers, Shaky Town refers to Los Angeles, due to the earthquakes that make the buildings shake.

And in the undercurrent of SoCal politics, policing and the powerful, the footing is just as treacherous as our infamous fault lines.

In this weekly podcast, NBC Los Angeles investigative reporter Eric Leonard fills a void in America’s second largest city -- A voice keeping tabs for the voiceless and digging deeper into the stories that impact, inspire and interest locals.

From the unfair to the amazing and the bizarre, you might not be getting the entire truth -- until now.

Eric Leonard exposes what’s really happening in Shaky Town.

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Episodios
  • Prop 22

    Prop 22
    Nov 12 2020

    With the passage of Prop 22, voters decided that companies like Uber and Lyft did not have to classify their drivers as employees. We take a look at what this means for the future of gig workers here in the state.
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    20 m
  • Election Polling Problems

    Election Polling Problems
    Nov 6 2020

    Polling leading up to the November 3, 2020 Presidential Election showed a strong lead for Former Vice President Joe Biden, but the results were much tighter than what those polls let on. The same thing happened in 2016 when polls predicted Donald Trump would lose. We talk to NBC4 Political Reporter Conan Nolan about what went wrong and about the future of the polling industry and American politics.
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    32 m
  • Surprise Bills

    Surprise Bills
    Oct 23 2020

    People who have had medical emergencies are often hit with surprise bills afterwards. We talked to a former UCLA student whose family was charged more than $25,000 for ambulance rides. Experts weigh in on how and why surprise billing has become such a problem, and a Los Angeles lawyer tells a story that demonstrates a terrible side effect of these practices of surprise billing.
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    25 m
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