Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Reaches Out To Palestinians; Socializing in the Suburbs; Problems At The Red Cross; The Legalities Of President Bush’s Domestic Surveillance Policies
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Reaches Out To Palestinians
Larry Mantle discusses the major policy speech by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in which he offered Monday to reduce checkpoints, release frozen funds, and free prisoners in exchange for a serious push for peace by the Palestinians. Olmert also said Israel would also pull out of the West Bank and uproot settlements under a final peace deal.
Socializing in the Suburbs
Do suburbanites or city dwellers make better neighbors? According to a new study by UC Irvine professor and economist Jan Brueckner, suburban living is better for people's social lives. The study says that for every ten percent drop in population density, the likelihood of people talking to their neighbors once a week goes up 10 percent. This runs contrary to the arguments often put forth by new urbanists that suburban life is stultifying and anti-social. So which is it? Is the city or the suburb more social? Larry talks with Rick Cole, City manager of Ventura and a prominent new urbanist, and Bob Bruegmann, who wrote the book Sprawl: a Compact History, he's also professor of Arts, Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Problems At The Red Cross
Larry Mantle discusses the latest problems at the Red Cross both nationally and within the local San Gabriel Valley chapter with Hector Becerra, Los Angeles Times staff writer, and Daniel Borochoff, President of the American Institute of Philanthropy.
The Legalities Of President Bush’s Domestic Surveillance Policies
Larry Mantle talks with Erwin Chemerinsky, Professor of Constitutional at Law Duke University School of Law, and Orin Kerr, Professor of Law at George Washington University School of Law about the wire-tapping issue among other issues.