Capitol Weekly Podcast

Covering the Capitol, with Lia Russell of the Sacramento Bee

Episode Summary

Today's guest is Sacramento Bee reporter Lia Russell. Russell covers the governor for The Bee’s Capitol Bureau, and was part of the team that broke the story of Dana Williamson's arrest last year. We asked about that story, covering the capitol, and what it was like to cover politics in their earlier gigs in Bangor, Maine and Baltimore, Maryland.

Episode Notes

Today's guest is Sacramento Bee reporter Lia Russell. Russell covers the governor for The Bee’s Capitol Bureau, and was part of the team that broke the story of Dana Williamson's arrest last year.  We asked about that story, covering the capitol, and what it was like to cover politics in their earlier gigs in Bangor, Maine and Baltimore, Maryland. 

:47 Affordability

2:00 What's on Capitol Weekly

4:16 Lia Russell

6:09 The race to replace Gov. Newsom

8:20 "Whether they like it or not..."

10:15 View from Maine

16:37 Working for the Baltimore Sun

18:37 The Dana Williamson story

23:45 Reading indictments

26:16 Origin story

32:04 The tattoos

33:43 Asm. Matt Harper mention

38:06 #WWCA

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