Primary Election Preview; Consumption Tax; A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra
Primary Election Preview
The election is on Tuesday, and the race for mayor is still a toss-up. Larry Mantle talks with the LA Business Journal’s Howard Fine; Occidental College political science professor Peter Dreier; Fred Balitzer, Professor of Government and Senior Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University; Tom Hollihan, Professor and Associate Dean at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication, and Martha Groves, staff writer for the LA Times about the mayoral race, including the recent negative campaign ad blitz, as well as other interesting initiatives and races to be decided on in the Southland.
Consumption Tax
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said recently that the US should consider transitioning from an income-based tax system to a one based on a consumption tax. Larry Mantle talks with USC Professor Elizabeth Garrett and Ed McCaffery, Professor of Law at USC School of Law and Caltech, about how this system would work.
A Park Ranger's Patrol in the Sierra
In his new book Nature Noir: A Park Ranger’s Patrol in the Sierra (Houghton Mifflin), author and former U.S. Park Ranger Jordan Fish Smith reveals some startling truths about what park rangers actually do on America’s public lands, giving us an astonishing account of the less than pristine inhabitants who lurk amidst the American great outdoors at the crossroads where nature and mankind collide.