King-Drew Los Angeles Times Investigation; Tenth Anniversary of the Orange County Bankruptcy; Vote Today on Money for Communities Near LAX; Teaching God Through American History; The History of Burlesque
King-Drew Los Angeles Times Investigation
Larry Mantle speaks with LA Times staff writer Charlie Ornstein about the investigative series on the troubled King-Drew Medical Center.
Tenth Anniversary of the Orange County Bankruptcy
A decade ago Orange County was forced to declare bankruptcy after suffering staggering losses in the financial markets. The county’s investment pool suffered a loss of $1.6 billion, the largest ever recorded by a local government. Larry Mantle speaks with Chris Reed, op-ed column editor for the Orange County Register, and Mark Baldassare, Senior Fellow and Program Director at the Public Policy Institute of California and author of When Government Fails: The Orange County Bankruptcy (University of California Press, 1998). They discuss how a financial disaster of this magnitude could happen to a municipality and how the county has dealt with the economic and political ramifications of the its fiscal crisis.
Vote Today on Money for Communities Near LAX
The Los Angeles World Airports Commissions will vote today on a $500 million agreement to ease noise, air pollution and traffic in neighborhoods around LAX. Larry Mantle talks about this “highly unusual bid to placate residents” in communities surrounding LAX with one of the lead negotiators of the agreement, Jerilyn Lopez Medoza.
Teaching God Through American History
A public school teacher in Cupertino, CA is suing his school district and principal because he claims he is being barred from using historical documents, such as the Declaration of Independence, as teaching tools. The school claims he is using the documents to teach religion. Joining Larry to discuss the issue is Joe Conn, Director of Communications for Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, a religious liberty watchdog group based in Washington, D.C., and Brad Dacus, President of the Pacific Justice Institute, an organization that defends religious freedom and other civil liberties based in Sacramento.
The History of Burlesque
Larry Mantle interviews Rachel Shteir about her new book Striptease: The Untold History of the Girlie Show (Oxford University Press).