Open Phones On Creative Ways To Relieve Southern California’s Traffic Congestion; San Diego Mayoral Update; North Korea Missile Launch; Gangter To Gangsta: The Romantic Outlaw Of Yesterday And Today
Open Phones On Creative Ways To Relieve Southern California’s Traffic Congestion
In light of the Mayoral candidates transportation plans for Southern California, Larry Mantle opens the phones to listeners to see how they would reform transportation in the area.
San Diego Mayoral Update
San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy announced his resignation last week, saying that he will step down on July 15th. Murphy resigned under criticism amid a widening federal investigation into the handling of the city's deficit-riddled pension fund. The San Diego City Council is meeting later this morning to decide whether it will appoint a replacement or hold a special election. Larry talks with Tony Perry, San Diego Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times, Ryan Singer, Regional Analyst with the Economic Research Bureau at the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, San Diego Councilman Scott Peters who represents San Diego’s 1st District, and Russell Lewis, KPBS reporter.
North Korea Missile Launch
On Sunday, North Korea apparently fired a guided missile into the Sea of Japan, though South Korean intelligence officials said it was a short-range missile and not the kind able to carry a nuclear warhead. Sunday’s test raises concerns for the Bush administration about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Larry Mantle speaks with a North Korea expert about the worrisome state of relations between the US and the North Koreans and the standstill in the nuclear negotiations with the North. Larry talks with Jim Walsh, political scientist and Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Gangter To Gangsta: The Romantic Outlaw Of Yesterday And Today
Larry Mantle discusses the notion that Americans have, for centuries, romanticized, mythologized, and commodified the criminal cultures of the American West. The guests will explore the history of the Western outlaw from the criminal gangs of the nineteenth century, through the Jewish mobsters that helped build Las Vegas, to today’s hip-hop “gangsta” culture, and examine why we’re fascinated with American outlaws. Larry talks with Paul Hutton, Ph.D., University of New Mexico and former President of the Western History Association, and Raymond Codrington, Ph.D., Assistant Curator and Director of the Julian Dixon Institute of Cultural Studies at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.