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Ask a Pol Crypto — EXCLUSIVE: Democrats want "more time” for crypto negotiations, Sen. Bill Hagerty says
Ask a Pol Crypto is LCB founder Matt Laslo’s interactive politics news outlet.
Salt Lake City’s KUER: Utah’s Democratic delegates are returning from Chicago’s DNC feeling electric
Salt Lake City’s KUER relies on the regionally-focused national wire service The LCB to cover Washington politics and the local Utah delegation for the award-winning NPR member station.
Salt Lake City’s KUER: ‘We’re tighter as a party’: What Utah’s delegates had to say about the RNC
Matt Laslo and his regionally-focused national wire service The LCB have covered the Utah delegation in Washington, DC and at political conventions across the US for more than a decade.
Ask a Pol AI — EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Rounds wants US to use AI to fight deepfakes in 2024 election
Upending Washington one interview at a time Ask a Pol — ie, ask a politician — is your conduit to Congress. We're veteran journalists. The Capitol’s our office. Senators our sources — well, now your sources too.
Wyoming Public Media: Chris Christie called out Sen. Barrasso when he withdrew from the presidential race. Why does it matter?
Veteran Washington correspondent Matt Laslo covered energy, climate change, gun control, The Cheneys, the federal budget, tech, new media and wild fires, along with the Jan. 6, 2021 US Capitol insurrection, for Wyoming Public Media for more than a decade.
Raw Story exclusive — Deepfake democracy: How AI is bamboozling Congress and threatening Election 2024
WIRED magazine tech and AI reporter Matt Laslo covers generative artificial intelligence for The LCB’s regional and national news outlet clients.
Raw Story: Exclusive: All 50 Senate Republicans weigh in on Jan. 6 hearings – only 8 are watching
The LCB’s Matt Laslo regularly breaks news for award-winning client Raw Story, including when Laslo doggedly chased down half of the United States Senate in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, Laslo’s office since 2006.
MJ Biz Daily: Schumer’s marijuana reform bill poised to fail without more GOP support
Marijuana Business Daily has relied on Washington, DC based news service The LCB and its founder, Matt Laslo, to break cannabis news from the nation’s capital for the new media outlet.
2020 could be a headache for Congressional members from Philly region
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The Daily Beast: The Cheney Family Is Reasserting Its Control Over the Republican Party
Red mouth wide open seeming to be shouting “Daily Beast,” a longtime client of LCB founder Matt Laslo
Miss. Public Broadcasting: Speculation on Cochran's Future Abounds
Veteran Washington correspondent Matt Laslo and his wire service The LCB have helped make national politics relevant to local Mississippi and other regions’ local NPR member stations, like Mississippi Public Broadcasting, for more than a decade.
KQED EXCLUSIVE — Showhorses vs. Workhorses: What makes an effective US Senator?
San Francisco’s award-winning NPR station KQED and NPR stations across the Golden State have relied on The LCB and Matt Laslo for original coverage of the California delegation for years.
Philadelphia’s WHYY: Some Dems insincere on gun law reforms, Toomey and Manchin say
The LCB’s founder Matt Laslo covered gun control and partisanship and trade wars and tech issues for Philadelphia’s WHYY NPR member station for years.
Vermont Public Radio: Sanders Introduces Bill To End Federal Marijuana Ban
The LCB’s Matt Laslo was the Washington, DC correspondent for Vermont Public Radio before anyone had really heard of Bernie Sanders pre-Election 2016
North Country Public Radio: In campaigns free "franked" mail is a big incumbent advantage
The LCB’s Matt Laslo conducts original enterprise reporting and then localizes Washington political reporting for individual news outlets nationwide.
WEKU & Kentucky Public Radio: As Wars Wind Down, Depot Left Without Work
The LCB and founder Matt Laslo covered southeastern Kentucky coal country and Senate Leader Mitch McConnell and libertarian Rand Paul for WEKU and Kentucky Public Radio for more than a decade.
Arizona Public Radio, KNAU: McCain, Campaign Finance and Super Pacs
Based on Capitol Hill, Matt Laslo has been covering Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court since 2006. While he has filed stories for more than 50 local NPR stations, his work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Chattanooga Times Free Press, National Public Radio, The Omaha World-Herald, Pacifica Radio, Politics Magazine and Washingtonian Magazine.
Houston’s KUHF: Does Washington know Rick Perry?
Political reporter Matt Laslo and The LCB have covered Congress for NPR member stations across Texas, including KUHF in Houston, KERA in Dallas, KUT in Austin, KSTF in San Antonio, etc.