Tune in to NPR radio affiliate KPCC, 89.3 FM, Thursday at 10:40 a.m. for the OC Journalists Roundtable on AirTalk with host Larry Mantle, featuring Voice of OC Editor-in-Chief Norberto Santana Jr., OC Weekly’s Gustavo Arellano and KPCC’s new Orange County reporter Ed Joyce.

This week’s topics include problems at the Southern California Edison’s San Onofre nuclear power station, a gay student pulled off the stage at the Mr. Fullerton contest, the race for the 69th Assembly race, the latest socio-economic indicators for Orange County, Anaheims’ hotel subsidy controversy, the ongoing influence of former Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle and Costa Mesa missing the deadline for submitting a June ballot initiative to become a charter city.

— THE EDITORS

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