Lettuce Legislation; Orange County's Great Park Design; Orange County Journalists Roundtable; Deficit Debate; Michael Lewis
Lettuce Legislation
In the wake of the e-coli outbreak in Salinas Valley spinach, State Senator Dean Flores is proposing tougher state regulation of the state's produce industry. Would stricter oversight of irrigation, farming practices and processing plants reduce the possibility of contamination? If so, how stringent should new regulations be? Larry Mantle takes listener calls.
Orange County's Great Park Design
Ken Smith, Orange County Great Park Design Studio Master Designer, presents the Preliminary Master Design of the Orange County Great Park to the Great Park Corporation Board of Directors. The Preliminary Design includes ideas presented from community members who participated in a variety of public focus groups. It also includes information gathered from the public process last year that helped the Great Park Design Studio create its initial conceptual design. Larry Mantle talks with Ken Smith about the Great Park design.
Orange County Journalists Roundtable
Larry Mantle talks with Orange County Register op-ed column editor Steven Greenhut, OC Weekly senior editorial writer and columnist, Gustavo Arellano, and William Lobdell of the LA Times, about the latest news events and developments in Orange County.
Deficit Debate
The federal deficit has fallen to a four-year low because of a 12% rise in tax revenue. President Bush took credit for the drop in his speech yesterday, saying he had made good on a 2004 campaign promise to cut the deficit in half over five years. Democrats said the improvement in the 2006 federal deficit was a temporary blip and predicted rising deficits for years to come unless policies are changed. Larry talks with economists with a variety of points of view.
Michael Lewis
In his new book, The Blind Side, Michael Lewis delves into the hidden substructure of football. Larry talks with Lewis about the story of left tackle prodigy, Michael Oher, one of thirteen children whose mother was a crack addict. Oher was adopted by a wealthy white family, went to a Christian high school, and soon had every college coach in the country courting him.