Patt Morrison for Tuesday, 12/15/09

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:06 – 1:30

Villaraigosa, live from Copenhagen Climate Summit

The mayor of Los Angeles is going abroad to go green—he joins us from the Global Climate Summit in Copenhagen to talk about his vision for a greener LA. So far he’s signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) and the Adlershof Technology Park to share best practices on the construction of clean technology clusters and to promote (green) economic growth in both cities. He joins Patt to talk about going green, starting with the city level, and then we move to the state level.

 

Guests:

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, mayor of Los Angeles; he joins us from the Climate Summit in Copenhagen

ON TAPE

 

Daniel Jacobson, legislative director for Environment California

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1:30 - 1:39

OPEN

 

 

1:41 – 1:58:30

The Bush Administration’s inbox mystery: 22 million missing emails

Given all of the controversy and secrecy surrounding many of the Bush administration’s national security decisions over eight years, the White House email from 2000 – 2008 must contain some juicy reading.  To that end, two advocacy groups had sued the former administration in search of some 22 million emails that the Executive Office of the President claimed were missing or destroyed.  Turns out that the emails were retrievable (they were found) and that there are dozens more days’ worth of potentially lost email from the Bush years.  How does all of that valuable information get lost, and what does this mean for presidential secrecy?

 

Guests:

ALL UNCOMFIRMED

The National Security Archives

 

Citizens for Responsibility & Ethics in Washington

 

Former Bush Administration official

 

2:06 – 2:19

Banking the Underbanked: FDIC tries to reach out

The number is surprising in this electronic age of debit cards, online banking and e-commerce:  17 million adult Americans do not have a bank account.  In total 25.6% of all households in the U.S. are “unbanked” or “underbanked” and those households are disproportionately low-income and minority.  Patt covered this story a few weeks ago but now we’re back to the FDIC response to this story, and to see how private banks and the government can draw more Americans into everyday banking.

 

Guests:

Barbara Ryan, deputy vice chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

SHE CALLS US:

 

 

2:21 – 2:39

The personal toll of unemployment

A New York Times/CBS News poll of unemployed adults traces the painful personal conflict and strife that is caused by joblessness.  Almost half of the respondents have suffered from depression or anxiety, and about four in ten parents have noticed behavioral changes in their children that they blame on their job struggles.

 

Guests:

OPEN PHONES

 

 

2:41 – 2:58:30

Medicaid children and their access to antipsychotic drugs

If you're a kid and poor, you're more likely to be prescribed antipsychotic drugs - four times more likely to be exact - than if you're a kid from a middle-income family.  We check in with the study's lead author on this stark disparity and the reasons behind the numbers. 

 

Guests:

Stephen Crystal, (Ph.D.), Board of Governors Professor and Director for the Center for Pharmacotherapy, Chronic Disease Management, and Outcomes -- and Center for Education and Research on Mental Health Therapeutics at Rutgers University. He is lead author of the study.

WILL CALL

 

Dr. Derek Suite, medical director and founder of Full Circle Health.  He is a psychiatrist whose practice includes children and adolescents covered by Medicaid and who sometimes prescribes antipsychotics. 

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Jonathan Serviss

Producer, Patt Morrison Program

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