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Billions, Boulevards & Big Crackdowns
Monks & Merrill Hour 2 - California’s latest transportation and public-safety shakeups—from a $2.4 billion Valley rail project that could transform t…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
L.A. Showdown & SoCal’s Wild Side: Politics, Property & Rare Birds
Monks & Merrill Hour 3 - The latest L.A. political battles as Mayor Karen Bass tells LAPD to stop issuing criminal citations to street vendors, while…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Mark Thompson’s Shocking Fall, SoCal Heatwave Peaks & Is Faith the Missing Piece in LA’s Homelessness Crisis?
Monks & Merrill Hour 1 - Mark Thompson reveals what happened when he passed out and broke his ankle, while Southern California braces for the peak of…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
California’s Student Homelessness Crisis, LA28’s Money Questions & Can the 405 Widening Clean Up the Air?
Monks & Merrill Hour 2 - California student homelessness reaches record highs as communities face a growing crisis. Meanwhile, LA’s City Controller d…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
From L.A.’s Streets to a Cross-Border Trade War
Monks & Merrill Hour 3 - L.A.’s graffiti battle to the front lines of the U.S.-Canada trade war. Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown joins the show to discu…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Monks Tackles the SoCal Heat & California Jobs
Hour 1- Monks is flying solo on this episode of Monks and Merrill. He is covering SoCal heat and boy is it hot! PLUS California bosses may be creatin…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Faith, TikTok & a Troubling LAPD Recording Scandal
Hour 2- Monks is flying solo on this Monks and Monks edition of Monks and Merrill. Did you know youth is going to digital platforms for spiritual gui…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
E-Bike Rules Are Coming & The Gas Station Drug Raising Alarms
Hour 3- Michael Monks is flying solo on today's Monks and Merrill Show. E-Bikes are causing some damages and injuries but we may be getting some regu…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Dolly Parton, OC Chemical Evacuation Claims & Gavin Newsom’s Next Big Fight
Monks & Merrill Hour 1 - Country music legend Dolly Parton’s reported death at 80, a new $100 million claims program for those impacted by the Garden…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
DUI Reform, Voting Power & Newsom’s $7.5M Mansion Turn
Monks & Merrill Hour 2 - Lawmakers’ controversial “hostile amendments” that gutted a major DUI reform effort, a new PPIC report mapping California’s …
2 weeks, 6 days ago