SOVERN NATION

Politics and beyond with KCBS Political Reporter Doug Sovern

Monday, November 11, 2024

The World Keeps Spinning

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I live in the Republic of Catatonia. There is weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. My neighbors are walking around muttering, shakin...
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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

The Toughest Election Call Ever

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Close presidential elections are no longer the exception in the United States. They're the norm. Since 2000, there's only been one t...
Saturday, February 3, 2024

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Your Super Bowl Par-Tay Playlist This will drive a small but vocal segment of America inexplicably mad, but as a public service, we hereby p...
Sunday, August 22, 2021

Why You Shouldn’t Leave The Second Half Of Your Recall Ballot Blank

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California Governor Gavin Newsom has a simple message for his supporters: Just vote NO in the September 14 recall election. Don’t even bothe...
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Monday, November 2, 2020

The Next President Of The United States...

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Reading the last dregs of the 2020 tea leaves, late Monday night, November 2: My track record took a severe hit four years ago when, like so...
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Monday, July 6, 2020

July 4, 2020

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I had the great honor and privilege of being asked to be this year's Patriotic Speaker at the 59th annual Claremont neighborhood July 4...
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Sunday, June 7, 2020

A Show Of Weakness

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The presidentially endorsed “law and order” approach to peaceful political protest that we saw too many times over the past two weeks often...
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About Doug

Doug Sovern
San Francisco, CA, United States
Doug began his career as a copy boy at the New York Times & then moved to California to play in a rock band. After hundreds of gigs and one Indie album failed to make him a rock star, Doug returned to journalism, working for AP Radio & San Francisco station K-101. He did a brief stint at KGO before joining KCBS in 1990. Since 2006, Doug has been the Political Reporter at KCBS, and he hosts the interview program "The State of California." He has won more than 250 broadcast journalism awards, including a duPont-Columbia Special Citation,16 National Headliner Awards,12 national Edward R. Murrow Awards & a record nine awards from the national Society of Professional Journalists. Doug was also the first three-time winner of the AP's Best Radio Reporter of the Year Award and has won it five times overall. Doug was born in New York City, raised in Manhattan and Wisconsin, and has a degree in History from Brown University. He lives in Oakland with his wife, Dr. Sara Newmann. And yes, he still plays music! He is the bass player for the Eyewitness Blues Band, made up of broadcasters from KCBS and CBS-5 TV.
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