One Way Streets for Los Angeles; Prop 36 Study; Virginia Tech Shooting; Preview Of Gonzales Testimony; The N Word
One Way Streets for Los Angeles
Larry Mantle and guests discuss the latest study about traffic flow that suggests that making Pico a westbound one way street and Olympic an eastbound one way street would ease congestion.
Prop 36 Study
Larry Mantle and guests discuss the recent study out of UCLA about Proposition 36 and its effectiveness.
Virginia Tech Shooting
Larry Mantle talks with local resident, Steve Grant, his father, John Wallace Grant, is a professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Director of the Biomechanical Engineering Department at Virginia Tech. Professor Grant was in a faculty meeting when the shooting began on campus. Larry also talked with Scott Stevens, Operations Manager for WFNR in Blacksburg Virgina.
Preview Of Gonzales Testimony
Larry talks with Constitutional law experts about Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys. Gonzales is scheduled to go before the panel on Tuesday.
The N Word
It's one of the English language's most volatile words. In his new book, The N Word, Jabari Asim traces the twisted history of the term "nigger" and looks at how it has both reflected, and spread, bigotry in America over the four hundred years since it was first spoken here. Larry talks with Asim who argues that even when used with the opposite intent by hip-hop icons and others, the slur helps keep blacks at the bottom of America's socioeconomic ladder.