State Senate Breaks Impasse In Budget Crisis; Thousands Of Murders Go Unsolved In L.A.'s Most Dangerous Neighborhood; Panel Of L.A. Newspaper Men
State Senate Breaks Impasse In Budget Crisis
Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Weintraub joins Larry Mantle to talk about the compromise budget that the California State Senate approved on Sunday. The budget includes program cuts and fee increases but pushes a 7.9 billion dollar deficit into fiscal year 2004. Passage in the assembly is uncertain.
Thousands Of Murders Go Unsolved In L.A.'s Most Dangerous Neighborhood
A new study has found that the LAPD assigns more detectives to homicide cases in affluent, safer neighborhoods than in the city's most dangerous areas. This disparity has created a massive backlog of nearly 5,500 unsolved murder cases in Central and South Los Angeles. LAPD Chief Bratton says he plans to shift detective workloads to achieve greater parity in homicide caseloads. Larry Mantle talks with Eric Monkkonen, Professor of History and Policy Studies at UCLA, and Jill Leovy, Staff Writer for the Los Angeles Times.
Panel Of L.A. Newspaper Men
Larry Mantle talks with Rip Rense author of The Last Byline, Jim Bellows, author of The Last Editor: How I Saved The New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency, Al Martinez, author of The Last City Room and columnist for the Los Angeles Times about their books, and about their long careers in Journalism.