The Latest on the Terry Schiavo Case; United Teachers of Los Angeles Sign a New Union Contract With LAUSD; LA Times Publisher and President John Puerner Leaves; Health Dialogues: STRESS!; Firoozeh Dumas
The Latest on the Terry Schiavo Case
After a panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta would not reinsert Terry Schiavo’s feeding tube, her parents have now vowed to take their fight to the U.S. Supreme Court. What is next? Robert Pugsley, Professor of Law, Southwestern University School of Law, joins Larry to talk about the case.
United Teachers of Los Angeles Sign a New Union Contract With LAUSD
Los Angeles Unified School district officials announced Tuesday they have reached a settlement with United Teachers Los Angeles on a new contract that will give Los Angeles' 34,000 public school teachers a 2 percent raise, ending a lengthy dispute. The settlement also includes a 1.28 percent salary hike to cover the increased costs of health benefits, giving teachers an overall 3.28 percent increase. District officials said the 2 percent raise will cost about $80 million. The additional 1.28 percent will cost an additional $50 million to $60 million. Larry Mantle will discuss the new contract with Roy Romer, LAUSD Superintendent, John Perez, President of UTLA, and Joshua Peshthalt, Vice-President Elect of the American Federation of Teachers.
LA Times Publisher and President John Puerner Leaves
Los Angeles Times Publisher and President John Puerner announced yesterday that he is leaving the Times. General Manager and Executive VP Jeff Johnson will take over from Puerner on June 1st. Kevin Roderick, founder and editor of LAOBserved.com and a contributing writer to Los Angeles magazine, and Jonathan Taplin, Professor of Communication at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication, join Larry to talk about what this means for the future of the Los Angeles Times.
Health Dialogues: STRESS!
Larry Mantle and guests discuss the physiological effects of stress on our bodies. How does stress affect the aging process? What does it do to our cardiovascular systems? Does it have any relation to cancer? Dr. Michael Irwin, MD, Director of the Cousins Center at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, and Professor Elissa Epel, PhD, Assistant Professor, in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, join Larry to talk about how stress affects our bodies.
Firoozeh Dumas
When she was seven years old, author Firoozeh Dumas moved with her family from Iran to Southern California arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father’s glowing memories of graduate school here. Her book, Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (Random House), is a lighthearted account of the antics of her extended family’s trials and tribulations as Iranian immigrants living in the land of hot dogs and hushpuppies.