Local Community On The Mideast Crisis; Term Limits And Redistricting Deal; LA City Council Calls For Term Limits; Plame/Wilson Lawsuit; Teenage Binge Drinking Affects Brain Physiology; Rand Study Finds No Evidence Of Racial Bias In Federal Prosecutors' Decisions To Seek Death Penalty From 1995-2000
Local Community On The Mideast Crisis
Larry Mantle talks with individuals in the local Israeli and Lebanese communities, and takes calls about the conflict in the Middle East.
Term Limits And Redistricting Deal
Larry Mantle talks with experts about the the issues of state term limits and redistricting.
LA City Council Calls For Term Limits
A group of Los Angeles civic and business leaders are seeking a ballot measure that would extend term limits for elected city leaders and tighten ethics rules for officeholders. Larry talks with Ron Gastelum, of the LA Chamber of Commerce, about the proposal which would allow city council members to serve three four-year terms, one more than the current limit.
Plame/Wilson Lawsuit
Former CIA agent Valerie Plame and her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, have filed a lawsuit against White House Political Strategist, Karl Rove, Vice-President Dick Cheney, and Cheney’s former Chief-of-staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Plame and Wilson allege that Cheney, Libby, Rove, and other White House officials, engaged in a "whispering campaign" to discredit them both and deter other critics of the Bush Administration from speaking out. Larry discusses the case with Plame and Wilson's co-counsel, Erwin Chemerinsky, and John Eastman, Professor of Law at Chapman University.
Teenage Binge Drinking Affects Brain Physiology
New findings from the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, suggest that alcohol may affect the brains of teenagers significantly more than those of adults. Larry speaks with Fulton Crews of the Bowles Center of Alcohol Studies about the medical implications of these finding in a society where binge drinking among teenagers is not uncommon among high school and college students?
Rand Study Finds No Evidence Of Racial Bias In Federal Prosecutors' Decisions To Seek Death Penalty From 1995-2000
Larry Mantle discusses this new study from Rand on racial bias and the death penalty.