Banning Smoking on Some L.A. Beaches; Teamsters Strike Involvement; Orange County News; The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves; The New Play: It's Edie in Here
Banning Smoking on Some L.A. Beaches
Larry Mantle talks with Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss about his motion to ban smoking at Venice, Cabrillo, Dockweiler, and Will Rogers beaches.
Teamsters Strike Involvement
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is honoring the grocery workers strike by picketing two key food distribution centers; Vons in El Monte and Albertsons in Brea. On Wednesday the Union threatened to extend picketing to all the other seven additional food distribution centers in support of striking grocery workers. Larry Mantle talks with teamster head Jim Santangelo about the prospects of this action.
Orange County News
Larry Mantle talks with Orange County Register, Op-Ed column editor Chris Reed about the latest news events and developments in Orange County.
The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves
English Professor and author, Curtis White, joins host Larry Mantle to talk about his new book, The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think For Themselves (Harper). He argues that Americans have lost touch with the imagination, and "forgotten how to read and think" for themselves. White's book moves beyond the Left-Right continuum to criticize what he sees as the pervasive mediocrity in American society.
The New Play: It's Edie in Here
Larry Mantle talks with stage, screen and television personality Edie McClurg about her new one-woman show, It's Edie In Here.