Patt Morrison Mon, 11/10

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Monday, November 10, 2008

1-3 p.m.

 

 

**GUEST HOST DAVID LAZARUS, HE WRITES THE ‘CONSUMER CONFIDENTIAL’ COLUMN IN THE LA TIMES

1:00 – 1:40

OPEN

 

 

 

1:40 – 2:00

Fiction and History Intertwine: Author David Liss on Financial Upheavals of an Earlier Century

The economy’s bad now, but hey, get a load of 1792! A new novel about the financial upheavals in the new United States draws on Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and the panic of ’92 – that's 1792. History and fiction intertwine at a time when the nation was struggling to establish stability and shape its destiny in best selling author David Liss’s latest, “The Whiskey Rebels.” Guest host David Lazarus talks with Liss about the roots of the US economy….and about Liss's flair for historical drama.

 

Guests:

David Liss: Author, “The Whiskey Rebels”

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David Liss is the author of A Spectacle of Corruption, The Coffee Trader, and A Conspiracy of Paper, winner of the 2000 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, as well as The Ethical Assassin.

 

 

[NPR NEWS]

 

 

2:00 – 2:30

Where the Rubber Meets the Road: How Would You Spend $4 Billion to Fix Up Foreclosed Homes?

At the front line of the national house foreclosure crisis is the Department of Housing & Urban Development’s Neighborhood Revitalization Program.  The basic concept is this:  counties and cities are receiving a total of $4 billion, divided up according to the hardest hit areas, to rehabilitate neighborhoods wracked by foreclosures and hopefully shore up property values in the process.  Almost everything is on the table, from investing in foreclosed homes to direct assistance for struggling homeowners.  Now our local county authorities are about to allocate the money and many questions remain.  Will some creative thinking make a dent in the foreclosure rate?

 

Guests:

William Huang, Acting Executive Director of the Community Development Commission of the County of Los Angeles

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Tom Freeman, Riverside County Economic Development Agency

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2:30 – 3:00

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