PLAN TO CLEAN UP SKID ROW; PAPER-THIN PROTECTION? CALIFORNIA’S RESTRAINING ORDER LAWS; THE POLITICS OF IMPEACHMENT; A FIELD GUIDE TO EVANGELICALS
PLAN TO CLEAN UP SKID ROW
Leaders from the ACLU, downtown business interests, and the City of Los Angeles have come up with a new plan for cleaning up Skid Row. The proposal involves a crackdown on crime without sweeping the homeless off the streets. At its heart is the theory that the city must reduce crime on Skid Row before it can tackle the underlying social and medical causes of homelessness downtown. Larry and his guests George L. Kelling, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, and a fellow in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Carol Schatz, President & CEO, Central City Association, and Paul Tepper, Director of The Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center, in downtown Los Angeles discuss the new plan.
PAPER-THIN PROTECTION? CALIFORNIA’S RESTRAINING ORDER LAWS
Larry Mantle talks with Orange County Register reporter Monica Rhor about her weekend series investigating problems with California’s restraining order laws. Her series, entitled Paper Thin-Protection, describes the challenges victims face in obtaining restraining orders, as well as problems with enforcement of orders once they have been filed.
THE POLITICS OF IMPEACHMENT
Larry talks with political analysts about how both the democratic and republican parties have used the impeachment debate to gain a political advantage. Guests include Dan Schnur, Republican political strategist, and Michael Genovese, Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Center for Leadership Studies at Loyola Marymount University.
A FIELD GUIDE TO EVANGELICALS
There are 70 million evangelicals in America, but most people still don’t know exactly what makes them tick. Larry talks with Joel Kilpatrick, writer of A Field Guide to Evangelicals & Their Habitat, a satirical look at the habits and belief structure of Evangelical Christians. In this book, he sends up this powerful religions movement, pointing out some of the misconceptions - and contradictions - of this branch of American Christianity.