An hour-long news magazine with a strong focus on state and local issues. A statewide collaboration, featuring hard-hitting interviews, debates, and in-depth reporting from journalists working everywhere from Los Angeles to Oakland to Sacramento.

Up Front is produced by KPFA's award-winning News Department. Listeners can look forward to challenging interviews with political and community leaders, civil but heated debates, and frequent breaking news updates.

 
About the hosts:

Brian Edwards-Tiekert is a radio journalist who has won multiple awards for his feature reporting and radio documentary work on environmental issues. He's the former co-host of The Morning Show, at the time KPFA's top-rated local program.

Sonali Kolhatkar is the founder, host and producer of Uprising, a daily morning program at KPFK-FM in Los Angeles. She's also the co-director of the nonprofit Afghan Women's Mission, and is the co-author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence.

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Up Front - December 31, 2012 at 7:00am

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Up Front - December 20, 2012 at 7:00am
The gun lobby re-surfaces; new fracking rules for California; Medical Marijuana in court

UpFront - Social Security Cuts loom in fiscal deal; Solutions to gun violence - December 19, 2012 at 7:00am
Social Security Cuts loom in fiscal deal; Solutions to gun violence

Up Front - Guns, Drones - December 18, 2012 at 7:00am
State-by-state fights over gun laws; the expansion of domestic drones

Up Front - December 17, 2012 at 7:00am
Egypt ReEgypt Referendum; North Korea Missile Test; Mass Shootings and the Gun Lobby

Up Front - Fracking California - December 14, 2012 at 7:00am
Ahmad Shokr on Egypt; Fracking California; The Central Park Five

UpFront - Jane Slaughter on Michigan; John Burris and Ali WInston on the OPD - December 13, 2012 at 7:00am
What it means that *Michigan* approved Right To Work legislation

Up Front - Fund Drive Special - December 11, 2012 at 7:00am

Up Front - December 10, 2012 at 7:00am

Up Front - December 7, 2012 at 7:00am

Up Front - December 6, 2012 at 7:00am

Up Front - December 5, 2012 at 7:00am

Up Front - December 4, 2012 at 7:00am

Up Front - December 3, 2012 at 7:00am
Brian Edwards Tiekert interviews