Judge Rules Guantanamo Trials Invalid Under U.S. And International Law; What’s Next For Indian Gaming; New Heart Drug For Blacks Raises Ethical Concerns; Mayor Hahn’s Proposed City Sales Tax Increase; Marcos Mcpeek Villatoro
Judge Rules Guantanamo Trials Invalid Under U.S. And International Law
A federal Judge ruled Monday that the “combatant status review tribunals” used by the Pentagon for “enemy combatants” held at Guantanamo do not give the detainees due process. This ruling affects all of the men being held at Guantanamo. Professor Robert Pugsley of Southwestern University school of Law joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss the ruling.
What’s Next For Indian Gaming
On November 2nd, California voters rejected Propositions 68 and 70, measures that were designed to promote the expansion of Indian Gaming and to increase gaming revenues to the state. Larry Mantle talks with Dan Morain, staff writer in the Sacramento Bureau of the Los Angeles Times, Vince Sollito, Deputy Press Secretary for Governor Schwarzenegger, Howard Dickstein, attorney and partner in the law firm of Dickstein and Zerbi, and Gene Raper, governmental affairs consultant to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians about the future of Indian Gaming in California and the challenges facing Governor Schwarzenegger in negotiating new compacts with California’s gaming tribes.
New Heart Drug For Blacks Raises Ethical Concerns
A new heart drug has been approved that targets African Americans specifically, reducing deaths from heart failure by as much as forty-three percent. Many cardiologists applauded the new drug, because blacks die from heart failure at twice the rate of whites. But, the drug caused concern, because it is targeted specifically at a particular race. Geneticists argue that racial categories are an inappropriate way to guide medical treatment. Larry talks with Dr. Karol Watson, Cardiologist at UCLA, David Geffen School of Medicine, and Jonathan Kahn, Assistant Professor of Law at Hamline University School of Law in Minnesota.
Mayor Hahn’s Proposed City Sales Tax Increase
After voters rejected Measure A, a proposal to raise the sales tax to fund law enforcement, Mayor Hahn proposed putting a city-wide sales tax on the March ballot for the same purpose. Mayor Hahn and L.A. City Councilman Jack Weiss join Larry Mantle to discuss the Mayor's proposal.
Marcos Mcpeek Villatoro
Poet, novelist and essayist Marcos McPeek Villatoro joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss his work and new book of poetry called On Tuesday, When the Homeless Disappeared. Mr. McPeek’s book Home Killings: A Romilia Chacon Mystery was called one of the best books of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times.