LA County has lower rates of opioid use and abuse than much of the US. Some research says one reason is the cultural resistance among many Latinos and other minorities to take pills for pain. We also discuss the US DOT trial commercial drone program; a proposed ballot initiative that wants to protect your data; and more.
On the ground in Gaza: Is Israel’s use of force justified?
US Ambassador Nikki Haley told the UN Security Council this morning no member “would act with more restraint than Israel has.”
She was referring to yesterday’s confrontation between Palestinians at the Gaza border and Israeli soldiers. 59 Palestinians were killed. More than 2,000 were wounded. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights condemned Israel’s use of lethal force.
Guests:
Jeannie Assad, Middle East producer for the BBC; she tweets
Amos Guiora, retired Lt. Colonel in the Israeli Defence Forces Judge Advocate General Corps, where he held senior command positions including Legal Advisor to the Gaza Strip and Commander of the IDF School of Military Law; he is currently a professor of law at the University of Utah
Hal Kempfer, retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel and CEO of KIPP knowledge and intelligence, a consultant firm specializing in security training; he has worked in the intelligence community since 1987
Hussein Ibish, senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute, a Washington, DC-based non-profit think tank dedicated to issues impacting Arab Gulf states; he tweets
KPCC special: How your culture impacts the user of painkillers
LA County has lower rates of opioid use and abuse than much of the US.
Some research says one reason is the cultural resistance among many Latinos and other minorities to take pills for pain. KPCC health care reporter Michelle Faust meets a woman who turned away from opioids to use such methods as a sobadora, a practitioner who uses body manipulation and herbs to heal her patients.
Larry speaks with Michelle about her reporting and opens up the phones to listeners to talk about whether their culture has played a part in how they see the use of painkillers and other medications.
Read Michelle’s story here.
Guest:
Michelle Faust, KPCC health care reporter whose story today looks at how cultural resistance among many Latinos and other minorities to take pills for pain has contributed to lower rates of opioid use and abuse in California
‘New Journalism’ creator and best-selling author Tom Wolfe dies at 88
Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of "New Journalism" who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satirical wit to such novels as "The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "A Man in Full," has died. He was 88.
Wolfe's literary agent, Lynn Nesbit, told The Associated Press that he died of an infection Monday in a New York City hospital. Further details were not immediately available.
An acolyte of French novelist Emile Zola and other authors of "realistic" fiction, the stylishly-attired Wolfe was an American maverick who insisted that the only way to tell a great story was to go out and report it. Along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote and Nora Ephron, he helped demonstrate that journalism could offer the kinds of literary pleasure found in books.
His hyperbolic, stylized writing work was a gleeful fusillade of exclamation points, italics and improbable words. An ingenious phrase maker, he helped brand such expressions as "radical chic" for rich liberals' fascination with revolutionaries; and the "Me" generation, defining the self-absorbed baby boomers of the 1970s.
His fans included millions of book-buyers, literary critics and fellow authors.
With files from the Associated Press.
Guest:
Richard Kallan, professor of communication and chair of the Communication Studies Department at Cal Poly Pomona
Proposed ballot initiative wants to protect your data, but some tech companies say it will lead to job losses
The Cambridge Analytica scandal brought renewed scrutiny to how internet companies access, collect and use your data, as well as calls from consumer advocates for more stringent regulations.
One such call comes from a new proposed initiative, likely to appear on the November ballot: The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018. The initiative has three components: it gives consumers the right to ask companies for the data they’ve collected on them, it gives consumers the power to stop companies from selling or sharing the data with third parties for business reasons and it lets consumers the power to sue or fine a company that doesn’t comply.
Proponents say this would be a huge step towards protecting consumers from internet giants, but opponents, which include Google, AT&T and California’s Chamber of Commerce, have come out against the initiative. They say that it’s overly broad and that it jeopardizes the economic model that sustains the internet, and will in turn slow down California’s tech sector and endanger jobs. The opposition campaign is called “The Committee to Protect California Jobs.”
Facebook was initially a funder of this Committee, but withdrew support in April, after Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony.
Is this a much needed check on largely unregulated internet companies? Or would this initiative unnecessarily sandbag the tech sector which has contributed to California’s booming economy? And how will having these California-specific regulations affect the national landscape?
Ready for Election Day? Get up to speed on what you need to know with KPCC’s Voter Game Plan. Read up on the candidates and ballot measures, find out about registration deadlines and ask us your questions.
Guests:
Rick Arney, co-author of the California Consumer Privacy Act
Robert Callahan, vice president of state government affairs at the Internet Association, a national trade organization that lobbies on behalf of internet companies; he is one of the co-chairs of the “The Committee to Protect California Jobs,” the opposition campaign to the California Consumer Privacy Act
FAA picks San Diego as pilot region for US DOT trial commercial drone program
Drones delivering lab samples to and from labs and take-out orders right to your door just got one step closer to reality.
Last week, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced San Diego would be one of the 10 cities it chose to be part of an experimental program for commercial drone use called the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Program. It was selected from a pool of 149 city and state applicants who wanted in on pioneering drone use in real-world environments, and their approval for the program means that the city will be able to get approvals and waivers more quickly for it and its 20-plus partners who are also involved with the testing.
Companies including AT&T, Qualcomm, GE, Uber and others will be participating with testing in sectors like public safety, package and food delivery, and international commerce and border security.
What went into the application for this program? What are some of the specifics of how the partner companies will be working with the cities to test commercial drone delivery? What are some of the legal questions that may arise?
Guests:
Jesse Gipe, senior economic development manager for the San Diego Economic Development Corporation, which partnered with the cities of San Diego and Chula Vista in their joint application to participate in the FAA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Pilot Program
Sezen Jones, attorney and director of public policy at AirMap, a company that develops airspace management programs for drones and one of San Diego’s partner companies participating in the drone testing program