
Pat Finn
ProducerPat Finn previously served as a producer for KPBS Midday Edition and KPBS Evening Edition. Finn began her career in broadcasting at KTLA and KCET in Los Angeles. In 1979 she became KPBS’ Public Information Director, then Director of Advertising and Promotion, Program Director, and Director of Broadcasting. She oversaw the station’s local and national productions, including the one-hour documentary Los Romeros: The Royal Family of the Guitar, and Child Protective Services, a one-hour look inside the San Diego County agency responsible for the welfare of at risk children. Both programs also aired on public television stations nationwide. Finn has earned honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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KPBS Midday EditionAfter 25 years of writing about music and art in San Diego, James Chute has left The San Diego Union-Tribune. He looks back and ahead to an arts scene he believes is on the brink — in a good way this time.
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KPBS Midday EditionIn October, 67,000 pounds of climate-changing methane gas began spewing into the air each hour from a gas storage field near Los Angeles. Work on a relief well is on schedule, and SoCalGas is working on a plan to capture the methane.
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KPBS Midday EditionMore than a third of all private sector workers in the U.S. have no retirement benefits. Social Security helps a little, and some say it is in trouble itself. But there are simple initiatives the government could take to remedy the situation and ease minds.
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Some won't go away in 2016 either: Can you say, Chargers stadium?
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A methane leak in Los Angeles is a huge, dangerous, environmental disaster. A judge allows a police shooting video to be released to the news media. The civilian watchdog for the SDPD is pretty toothless.
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KPBS Midday EditionDr. Alan Shahtaji, director of the Sports Concussion Clinic at UC San Diego Health, sees six to eight kids each week who have suffered brain trauma while playing football or other sports.
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