“Next on LA News, Rachel Dumont with your weekend forecast.” That was all I said as I passed the figurative baton onto Rachel today during our broadcast taping. My story, about the end of LA’s red light camera program, had just finished and it was time to cover the weather. The broadcast taping was...
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Archive for July, 2011
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Would you rather eat a burger found on an avenue or from The Avenue?
I’ve lived on a college campus for over a week now and I’ve had a few realizations: Dorms aren’t as cramped as I thought. Dorm bathrooms are somewhat bearable. The food sucks. Let me elaborate on number 3 a bit more. Cal Poly has a variety of dining options, but only a limited number...
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Aneesa loves Harry Potter
Harry Potter has captured the hearts, minds, and imaginations of youth for over a decade. Since the 1998 release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, millions of fans, including sixteen-year old Aneesa Andrabi, have gone to midnight book releases and movie premieres to enter the fictional world of Hogwarts. Andrabi has been to...
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Tweet tweet
I’ve always been a bit of a Twitter hater. I had an account for a while but I eventually deleted it because I saw no point. My life just wasn’t interesting enough to send out rapid 140 character or less messages. But it turns out Twitter can actually be pretty useful, especially for a...
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Who let the cats out?
Someone let the cat out of the bag, or should I say the cage. Hidden in the far corner of the Cal Poly SLO campus lies the Cal P oly Cat Program cat shelter, a mysterious building that is home to dozens of cats. Many of them roam free, walking carelessly between the inside...
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When earthquakes and K8 Middle-tonn collide…
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake hits San Luis Obispo. Hundreds or thousands could be injured or dead. The power is out. The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant is leaking. What’s a reporter to do? Let the on the spot news writing begin.
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What Carmageddon?
The freeway signs flashed for weeks. The media hyped about it for months. Finally the mid-July weekend came. Carmageddon, the 53 hour complete freeway closure of one of the nation’s busiest freeways, was here. Despite the months of preparation, I don’t think anyone was ready for what this “autopacolypse” turned out to be: nothing....
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