Southern California Wildfires; Latino Politics; The End Of Easy Rawlins?
Southern California Wildfires
Guest host Jon Beaupre talks with various officials and other voices around Southern California about the wildfires. Guests include: Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times San Diego Bureau Chief, Sandy Stoltze, resident from San Diego County who was evacuated earlier this morning, Brooke Binkowski, KPCC reporter in San Diego, Claudia Pesciutta, reporter for KNX News Radio, Fire Inspector Rick Dominguez, L.A. County Fire, Brett Anderson, Meterologist with AccuWeather Inc., Dr. Andrew Benton, President of Pepperdine University, Jerry Sanders, the Mayor of San Diego, Maurice Luque, spokesman for San Diego County Fire, and Richard Minnich, a fire ecologist at UC Riverside.
Latino Politics
Guest host Jon Beaupre discusses the Latino vote both nationally, and in California, and how it will figure into the upcoming election. Jon talks with Kenneth Burt, author of The Search for a Civic Voice: California Latino Politics, and Political Director for the California Federation of Teachers, and Jaime Regalado, political scientist and Executive Director of the Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute for Public Affairs at Cal State Los Angeles.
The End Of Easy Rawlins?
Mid-century Los Angeles, with its racial diversity and the surrounding changing social dynamics, has always been one of the complex characters in Walter Mosley's popular Easy Rawlins series. Mosley recently revealed in Ebony magazine that, after writing the Rawlins' tales since 1990, Blonde Faith, the tenth in the series, may be the last. Larry Mantle speaks with L.A.-born Mosley about Blonde Faith and his prolific career.