Libby Denkmann
Libby Denkmann is KPCC's veterans and military reporter. She focuses on stories about active duty service members, veterans, and their families in Southern California.
Libby joined KPCC in 2016 as a fill-in host for the talk show "Take Two," and she later served as interim host of KPCC's Morning Edition. She is a regular fill-in host for Larry Mantle's AirTalk on KPCC, and her reporting can be heard nationally on APM's Marketplace Morning Report.
Before joining KPCC, Libby was an anchor and a reporter on KFI-AM in Los Angeles. She began her journalism career in her native Seattle with the CBS News affiliate KIRO Radio.
Her work was part of the 2015 Regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuing Coverage of the deadly Oso, Washington landslide. She is a graduate of The University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies.
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"Top Gun: Maverick" is scheduled for release next year. But perceptions of the military and warfare have changed since the original iconic movie premiered in 1986. -
It was 25 years ago that Proposition 187 passed, prohibiting undocumented immigrants from receiving health care, public education and other services. Its passage damaged Republicans in the state.
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For the first time in decades, veterans and local military families have access to a final resting place alongside fellow servicemembers in the city of...
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Raul Guerra was adopted, so his DNA couldn't be matched to blood relatives. Scientists instead turned to an emerging technique that linked his bones to...
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LA's Coliseum, Built As A War Memorial, Is Getting A Corporate Sponsor. Some Veterans Are ProtestingSimilar debates have played out elsewhere, as sports stadiums that were originally built as memorials to veterans take on new corporate names.
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The VA Mission Act hopes to improve upon the Choice program, which ran over budget and didn't do much to reduce wait times for many veterans.
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At "recreational therapy" camps, outdoor activities and mindfulness help veterans with PTSD, sexual trauma, and other issues.
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"Ring of Red: A Barrio Story" relies on oral histories to tell the rarely heard stories of Mexican-American veterans.
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An agency pilot program aims to bypass regulations that can make it hard for veterans to get cutting-edge medical treatment.
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The number of veterans in the VA healthcare system who are 70 or older is expected to grow 30 percent in the next eight years.
