My first show for All Sides will tape this Thursday and pre-production is bananas. I am definitley excited and not nervous at all. This show, All Sides, is a public access show that deals with Public Affairs. I enjoy working on this publication because it opens me up to a whole new world. I have not had much experience with public affairs. My whole life has been filled will affairs so I guess things like dealing with poverty, which is what my first show will be about, comes natural.

The City of Long Beach recently ranked 6th in poverty in the nation. These results were compiled from the 2004 Census. With the ACS sampling a new result came that Long Beach wasn't actually 6th in poverty, but 24th. Advocates are saying that the margin of error from small sampling is great and Long Beach may very well still be one of the top cities for poverty. With this being said, they don't want the city to ignore the issue of poverty in a whole.

I will be interviewing a demographer, Jack Humphrey on Thursday's show. Erroll has given me time to become an "expert" on the subject so that I can execute a good interview. My class will be joining us for the taping so this should be fun.