Is California Back?

Sacramento politicians love to say that we’ve made a California Comeback. As the state with the highest poverty rate in America, I wanted to see for myself if this is true. - Neel Kashkari

The Republican candidate for governor of California went to the city of Fresno to spend a week homeless and made this video about his experience. B.S. or commendable? - Jacob Soboroff

Are Bitcoins Making Online Shopping Safer? -- TakePart Live

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Could Bitcoins be a solution when it comes to privacy while making purchases online? Los Angeles Times tech writer Salvador Rodriguez, host of The David Seaman Hour podcast David Seaman, and our daily contributor Tehran Von Ghasri join 'TakePart Live' hosts Jacob Soboroff and Cara Santa Maria to discuss.

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Olympic Pressroom on Native Intelligence

Jacob Soboroff and his camera made a stop at our production facility last week, and has a nice five minute video of several of the departments producing the Los Angeles Times.

The Times has two production facilities. The Olympic plant in downtown L.A. opened in June 1990 and according to a plaque in the lobby its 500 employees -- with help from 6 Goss Colorliner presses and dozens of robots -- produce 676 million copies of the Times annually. When I showed up to the "Oly" plant for a tour the presses were just starting to roll. Take a look: Video

Maybe we can get Jacob together with the publisher of the Times, David Hiller, for a short interview one day.

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Meet Jacob Soboroff

Here’s Jacob Soboroff and myself outside the NLRB offices last Saturday, Jacob is a video blogger, and joined us for the counting of ballots. Jacob will be visiting the Olympic pressroom sometime soon for some live footage of the printing presses rolling out thousand of copies per hour. Should prove to be another interesting video, thanks for joining us Jacob.

Jacob joins us from Native Intelligence, a branch of LAObserved.

Photo by Jesse Espinoza