The State Budget; UN Management of the Tsunami Relief Program; In the Realms of the Unreal
The State Budget
Larry Mantle talks with a variety of guests who respond to Governor Schwarzenegger’s just-released 2005-2006 budget. Joining him is H.D. Palmer, Deputy Director External Affairs for the State Department of Finance; Jack Scott, Democratic State Senator representing California’s 21st district; Richard Riordan, State Education Secretary; John Laird, Democratic State Assemblyman representing California’s 27th State District; Rick Keene, Republican State Assemblyman representing California’s 3rd district; J.J. Jelincic, President of the California State Employees Association, and Dr. Jonathan Fielding, Director of Public Health and Health Officer for Los Angeles County.
UN Management of the Tsunami Relief Program
The United Nations will manage the ongoing tsunami relief effort, with an appeal to donor nations for $977 million. The money will be used for various projects, with allocations to both UN agencies and NGOs. Critical voices have raised concerns about the UN managing this money, after the oil-for-food scandal. Joining Larry to discuss how the UN will manage the money and how public and private aid agencies will work together, is Stephanie Bunker, spokeswoman for Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs at the United Nations (OCHA), Peter Hall, Hauser Lecturer on nonprofit organizations at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Ronald Bailey, Science correspondent for Reason magazine, and Nicholas Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington D.C.
In the Realms of the Unreal
Larry Mantle talks with Jessica Wu, Director of the upcoming film, "In the Realms of the Unreal: The Mystery of Henry Darger." Yu won the 1997 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for BREATHING LESSONS: THE LIFE AND WORK OF MARK O’BRIEN, an intimate portrait of the writer who lived for four decades paralyzed by polio and confined to an iron lung. She has directed episodes of TV’s “The West Wing,” “ER,” and “ “The Guardian”. "In the Realms of the Unreal" opens in LA on Jan. 21st.