Proposition 71; Orange County News; The Next Four Years of the Bush Presidency; Steve Johnson
Proposition 71
With the passage of Proposition 71 in California, $3 billion of new state spending will be designated to create a massive program that will put California in the forefront of stem cell research. Larry Mantle talks with Fionna Hutton, Communication Director for the Prop. 71 Campaign, and Dr. Harley Kornblum, Director of neuro-stem cell research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA about setting up the state agency to distribute the research money and regulate the research.
Orange County News
Orange County Journalist “Roundtable:” Larry Mantle talks with Orange County journalists Chris Reed, Orange County Register op-ed column editor, Jean Pasco, Los Angeles Times staff writer and Gustavo Arellano, Staff Writer for the OC Weekly, about the latest news events and developments in Orange County.
The Next Four Years of the Bush Presidency
Larry speaks with Abraham Sofaer, George P. Schultz distinguished scholar and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and Nancy Roman, Vice President and Director of the Washington program of the Council on Foreign Relations about the next four years under the reelected Bush administration. What will happen on the domestic front with social security, the Supreme Court, the deficit? What will happen in the arena of foreign policy--in Iraq? North Korea?
Steve Johnson
Steven Johnson, author and techno-cultural historian, joins Larry to discuss his upcoming book Everything Bad is Good For You. His books include Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life. He writes the “Emerging Technology” column for Discover magazine.