Arizona And New Mexico Declare States Of Emergency; California State Mental Hospitals Criticized For Poor Patient Care; Mental Care Of Children In Los Angeles; Open Phones: What Are Southern Californians Doing To Combat Rising Gas Prices?; The Great Earthquake And Firestorms Of 1906
Arizona And New Mexico Declare States Of Emergency
The governors of Arizona and New Mexico have declared states of emergency along their borders with Mexico. The Department of Homeland Security is attempting to defend itself from charges that it wasn't doing enough to combat the crime and violence associated with drug smuggling and illegal immigration. Guest host, Patt Morrison, discusses the situation in our neighboring states with Jeanine L’Ecuyer, Communications Director for Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, and Billy Sparks, Deputy Chief of Staff for New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, and asks whether Governor Schwarzengger should follow the lead of the Governors Napolitano and Richardson.
California State Mental Hospitals Criticized For Poor Patient Care
According to a recent U.S. Dept. of Justice report Napa Valley State Hospital routinely fails to protect it’s patients from harm. The report also states that the California Deptartment of Mental Health had denied federal investigators access to the Napa facility and to two other state hospitals. Patt Morrison and Anna Ramirez, Assistant Deputy Director of the Licensing and Certification Program for California’s Department of Health Services, and Bob Garcia, Chief Deputy Director at the State Dept. of Mental Health in Sacramento discuss the conditions in California’s Mental Health facilities.
Mental Care Of Children In Los Angeles
An independent panel was asked to oversee the mental health treatment of children in Los Angeles after the County said that it would improve mental health treatment in the child welfare system. Has the County done so? Patt Morrison talks with Paul Vincent, Chairman of the panel of independent experts to monitor the County, and director of the Alabama based Child Welfare Policy and Practice Group, Kimberly Lewis, staff attorney for the Western Center on Law and Poverty, Dr. Marvin Southard, Director of the L.A. County Department of Mental Health, and David Sanders, Director of the LA County Department of Children and Family Services.
Open Phones: What Are Southern Californians Doing To Combat Rising Gas Prices?
Gas prices got you down? The average price of regular gas in the Southland increased by 18 cents per gallon in the past month hitting an all-time record monthly average of $2.77 a gallon. That’s 66 cents per gallon more than we were paying last August. Patt invites our listeners to offer their suggestions for how to deal with the rising price of getting from point A to B. Patt talks with Steve Mazor, Principal Automotive Engineer with the American Automobile Association, and takes listener calls.
The Great Earthquake And Firestorms Of 1906
In his new book, The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself, Philip Fradkin calls the 1906 disaster "this country's greatest urban catastrophe." Patt Morrison talks with Fradkin who says the devastation could have been far less severe and the fatalities far fewer if the city had been better prepared.