Reaction To The Governor's State Of The State Speech; New Tactics In Combating Gang Violence; Orange County Journalists Roundtable; Tracking Corruption In World Governments; George Gershwin - His Life And Work
Reaction To The Governor's State Of The State Speech
Larry and experts provide analysis of Governor Schwarzenegger's State of the State speech.
New Tactics In Combating Gang Violence
Los Angeles law enforcement officials have agreed on a new anti-gang strategy that would focus on smaller neighborhood gangs and use a new legal tool tried last year on skid row. Larry and his guests discuss the effort which comes on the heels of a 14 percent increase in gang-related crime last year.
Orange County Journalists Roundtable
Larry Mantle talks with William Lobdell, City Editor of the Orange County Edition of the Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register senior editorial writer and columnist, Steven Greenhut, and OC Weekly senior editorial writer and columnist, Gustavo Arellano, about the latest news events and developments in Orange County.
Tracking Corruption In World Governments
Corruption in government is an obstacle that negatively affects the progress of any society, and has a significantly detrimental effect on poor countries. Larry Mantle will talk with Nathaniel Heller of the nonprofit research organization Global Integrity about the key findings of their just released 2006 report on global corruption. Global Integrity is a nonprofit research organization that investigates and tracks governments and political corruption in national and international arenas.
George Gershwin - His Life And Work
American composer George Gershwin died at age 38 after surgery for a brain tumor. But his short life was long enough for him to make some of the most important and memorable compositions in popular American Music. Larry Mantle discusses author Howard Pollack's new encyclopedic biography George Gershwin : His Life and Work.