California Voters Send Mixed Messages

Now that the dust has settled on this week's election, one thing seems clear: Voters across the country wanted change. Here in California the message was a little more muddled. Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democrat Dianne Feinstein both racked up landslide victories this week, leaving the two major parties with one victory each at the top of the ballot. Guests: Art Torres, chairman of the California Democratic Party; Duf Sundeim, chairman of the California Republican Party.

L.A. Veterans Pack Up 200 Years of Military History

This Veterans' Day weekend, a group of old soldiers will be working in a quiet, wood paneled room above downtown Los Angeles, sorting through 200 years of U.S. war artifacts. For the first time in 80 years, veterans are vacating Patriotic Hall, a ten-story neo-Italian Renaissance style landmark dedicated to L.A.'s veterans in 1926.Reporter: Rob Schmitz

Preserving a Rural Sierra Nevada (Part 1 of 3)

Locals in some remote areas of the Sierra Nevada have worked the land for generations and are proud of their rural heritage. But loggers and ranchers worry about the future of livelihoods dependent on forests and rangelands. Suburban sprawl is already gobbling up the Sierra foothills. And as development races up the mountainside, it threatens not only the landscape and its resources, but also rural residents and their ways of life.Reporter: Catherine StifterReporter: Jesikah Maria Ross

• More: Saving the Sierra : a public media and citizen storytelling project documenting community efforts to conserve the environment, culture and economy of the Sierra Nevada

Book Review: Janet Fitch's "Paint It Black"

For Los Angeles author Janet Fitch, success came out of the box with her first novel, "White Oleander." The book was featured on Oprah's Book Club and eventually made into a movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Renee Zellweger. Now Fitch is back with her second novel, "Paint It Black." Does she hit the sophomore slump with her latest book? Guest: Jordan Rosenfeld, book critic.

Last Checkered Flag Waves at the Stockton 99 Speedway

After 60 years of Saturday night stock-car action, the Stockton 99 Speedway held its final race last month. The mood was both festive and somber as thousands of fans came out to pay their last respects.Reporter: Scott Shafer