KCET 28's award-winning news magazine. Airs every Thursday night at 8pm.
Information
- Network:
- KCET LA, Channel 28
- Season:
- 1
- Genre:
- Public Affairs and Local News
Links
Events
5 past eventsSee All
- SoCal Connected Support Special
Your Television and Web browser
Sunday, August 2 at 6:00pm - Tonight on SoCal Connected, Ap...
KCET 28, as well as your web browser
Thursday, April 16 at 8:00pm - Tonight on SoCal Connected, Ap...
KCET 28 and your web browser
Thursday, April 9 at 8:00pm - SoCal Connected Tonight on KCET
Your TV, tuned to KCET 28
Thursday, March 12 at 8:00pm - SoCal Connected on KCET 28
KCET 28, your web browser
Thursday, January 29 at 8:00pm
SoCal Connected
In case you missed it - More and more middle-class families are finding themselves on the
streets. Correspondent Lisa Ling reports on this new group, she calls
the Hidden Homeless.
Source: kcet.org
More and more middle-class families are finding themselves on the streets. Correspondent Lisa Ling reports on this new group, she calls the Hidden Homeless.
SoCal Connected If someone offers to help "fix" your troubled home mortgage - beware. Consumer columnist David Lazarus has the low-down on the latest "mortgage modification" scams.
Source: kcet.org
Desperate homeowners facing foreclosure are increasingly falling for ploys that promise to help them save their homes, but leave them worse off than they were before. Consumer columnist David Lazarus offers a cautionary tale inside the often shady world of "mortgage modification."
SoCal Connected LA Times columnist Steve Lopez says a recent report showing a drop in LA's homeless population was more than wrong. It was harmful to those trying to solve the problem.
Source: kcet.org
LA TImes columnist Steve Lopez knows something about the homeless. His columns about the homeless were the inspiration for the Hollywood film, The Soloist.
SoCal Connected Here's another geo-challenge from SoCal Connected. This time we head for the hills. Take a look and see if you can Name That Spot.
Source: kcet.org
Each week, we bring you some visual details from a specific site somewhere in Southern California. It might be a city block, a park, or a civic institution. Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to study the material and try to guess the location.
SoCal Connected Homelessness is painful enough, but especially so for the young. Some distrubing facts about the number of children with no place to call home.
Source: kcet.org
Los Angeles County contains the largest number of people living below the poverty line in the entire country. With the high cost of living here, it's no wonder that many of those people are homeless.
SoCal Connected Check out SoCal Connected's interview with the executive director of Door of Hope, a transitional housing program that serves homeless families with young children.
Source: kcet.org
Tim Peters says he and his family chose to live in Los Angeles' skid row for 15 years in service to its residents. Here he describes the transitional housing program Door of Hope, which was set up in Pasadena in 1985 to assist homeless families with children. ...
SoCal Connected
For large numbers of workers in the LA area, getting scammed over a
mortgage isn't a concern. They don't earn enough to come close to
owning a home.
Source: kcet.org
While many people facing foreclosure are preyed upon by the unscrupulous, a huge class of folks in Southern California have never been able to afford a home here.
SoCal Connected
As foreclosures rise, so do scams that target desperate homeowners.
Find out how to avoid being taken, and what to do if you suspect fraud.
Source: kcet.org
Bad times for millions of homeowners facing foreclosure is turning out to be good times for scam artists. Some homeowners become so desperate, they fail to exercise basic good judgment. And scamsters are becoming ever more sophisticated.
SoCal Connected SoCal's Val Zaval visits Otis College of Art and Design to see an art exhibit on swallowing stereotypes.
Source: kcet.org
The following images are from an art installation by Travis Somerville at Otis College of Art and Design. It's based—obviously—on the days in the South when "Whites only " and "Blacks only" drinking fountains were not art, but real life. ...
SoCal Connected Novelist, teacher, and family man Marcos Villatoro shares his personal tale of involvement with the H1N1 flu virus.
Source: kcet.org
Got something to say? Got an idea that would make a great local story, or want to share an article or blog post you find interesting? Tell us about it.
SoCal Connected Last week, we heard from LA residents who faced big insurance bills after FEMA declared their homes to be in flood zones. We follow up, this time, it's Ventura county.
Source: kcet.org
Last week correspondent Judy Muller reported on some South LA home owners who'd been hit with big insurance bills after FEMA declared their neighborhoods to be flood zones.
SoCal Connected Arson is the leading cause of wildfires in California. But it's tough to solve an arson crime and convict a suspect. Correspondent Angie Crouch looks at the work of arson investigators, and how they piece together bits of evidence at a crime scene that's little more than ashes.
Source: kcet.org
Arson is the leading cause of wildfires in California. But it's tough to solve an arson crime and convict a suspect. Correspondent Angie Crouch looks at the work of arson investigators, and how they piece together bits of evidence at a crime scene that's little more than ashes.
SoCal Connected Southern California produced a man that investigators say was among the worst serial arsonists of he 20th century. He was also an arson investigator.
Source: kcet.org
A fire captain and arson investigator, Orr was convicted in 1992 of three counts of arson and sentenced to life in prison. Though he has always maintained his innocence, investigators believe he may be the among the most active serial arsonists in history. ...
SoCal Connected Death certificates acquired by our friends at Neon Tommy tell the story of an unpredictably vicious virus and a dubious response from public health officials.
Source: kcet.org
Flu-shot seekers faced long lines and short supplies at a public clinic set up at the University of Southern California last week.
SoCal Connected Check out this interactive map, and then visit Floodsmart.gov to get your flood risk profile.
Source: kcet.org
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is currently updating the maps used by insurance companies to determine whether your home is at risk of flooding and to what degree. For some residents, that means paying a premium they've never had to pay before. ...
