Larry discusses the newest developments in California's budget negotiations, and the impact cuts are having on higher education. He will also talk about the Great Park in Orange County, about new legislation that would affect the paparazzi and he will talk with Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke.
Update on CA budget negotiations
California legislators failed to agree on a budget once again Wednesday, unable to reconcile how, and how much, to cut funding to public schools. Much of the difficulty stems from Proposition 98, a voter-approved amendment to the state Constitution that sets minimum funding levels for state-run schools, community colleges and universities. Will a budget agreement finally be reached this week? Larry Mantles gets all the latest from Sacramento.
Julie Small, KPCC's State Capital Reporter
Cuts to higher education in California
The state budget crisis is taxing higher education in California. It's expected that the UC, Cal State, and community colleges will offer fewer courses and have larger class sizes. To offset cuts in funding, yesterday a UC Regents panel approved a plan to make faculty and staff take 11 to 26 unpaid furlough days next school year. For the Cal State campuses, student fees have increased 10%, and are likely to increase up to 20%. Larry Mantle looks at how higher education in California is dealing with the drop in funding.
Matt Krupnick, higher education reporter, Bay Area News Group
Orange County Great Park
Larry Mantle talks with Larry Agran, Chairman of the Great Park Corporation Board, about The Orange County Great Park, its offerings, and its significance to the community.
Larry Agran, Chairman of the Orange County Great Park Corporation
CA may penalize paparazzi
The California legislature is considering a bill that would impose heavy penalties on those who break laws in order to take and sell photographs of celebrities with their families. Assembly Speaker Karen Bass advanced the bill to discourage photographers from trespassing or violating traffic laws in order to get intimate portraits of the famous. Any photographer who knowingly breaks the law to obtain a celebrity family photo could be fined up to $50,000. Additionally, broadcasters of illegally obtained images could be subject to individual lawsuits. If passed, will such a bill protect privacy, or curtail the rights of a free press? Larry Mantle learns more.
Jay Lavely, entertainment law attorney at Lavely & Singer
Doug Mirrell, President of The ACLU Foundation of Southern California and an attorney in private practice
Walking on the moon
On April 16, 1972, Charlie Duke, John Young and Ken Mattingly lifted off in their Saturn V on the fifth manned lunar landing mission. Duke would spend three days on the moon, collecting rock and soil samples, and driving the Rover over its surface. On this 40th anniversary of the first moon mission, Larry talks with Duke about the first landing mission to the moon and his own moonwalk.
Charlie Duke, Astronaut on Apollo 16, retired Air Force General