SAG Strike May Be Averted; Jessica's Law: Is it Working?; Bush's Legacy: Energy and the Environment; Things She's Been Silent About
SAG Strike May Be Averted
The Board of the Screen Actors Guild was on the verge of a strike vote yesterday, but developments last night may prevent a strike from happening. Actors in the 120,000-member guild have been working without a contract on movies and prime-time TV shows since June 30.
Jessica's Law: Is it Working?
A state panel reports that Jessica's Law, the voter-approved initiative that prevents sex offenders from living near schools and parks, isn't working. The report states that the 25 million spent yearly on Jessica's Law is a waste of taxpayer money, and that the housing restrictions may even lead sex offenders to re-offend.
Bush's Legacy: Energy and the Environment
What environmental and energy policies will President George W. Bush be remembered for? Larry Mantle talks with John Walke of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Ken Green of the American Enterprise Institute.
Things She's Been Silent About
Azar Nafisi, bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, joins Larry Mantle to talk about her new memoir, a moving portrait of growing up in Iran. "Things I've been Silent About" is a deeply personal account of her life lived in the thrall of an intelligent and complicated mother against a backdrop of the many changes leading up to the Islamic Revolution. The book explores Nafisi's family secrets and the mesmerizing fictions that her mother created to cope with her disappointing life and marriage.