Patt Morrison for Monday, 2/1/10

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Monday, February 1, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

CALL-IN @ 866-893-5722, 866-893-KPCC; OR JOIN THE CONVERSATION ONLINE ON THE PATT MORRISON BLOG AT KPCC-DOT-ORG

 

 

1:06 – 1:39

OPEN

 

 

1:41 – 1:58:30

Citizen reporters—help bust your Congressman at the Super Bowl!

The Super Bowl is a thoroughly American event—a huge sports spectacle mixed with gluttonous eating, drinking, partying….and even a little politics.  The Super Bowl has long been used to rub shoulders, gain influence and form ties that help congressional candidates raise the approximately $1 billion they spend on their campaigns.  Politicians use discounted Super Bowl tickets, with a face value approaching $2,000, to reward big donors and corporations use them to reward politicians.  Investigative journalism outfit ProPublica is calling on anyone hanging around Miami this week to keep an eye out for your elected officials behaving badly—we’ll tell you how to bust your Congressman at the Super Bowl.

 

Guest:

Marcus Stern, senior reporter for ProPublica

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2:06 – 2:30

Meet your new EPA director

Jared Blumenfeld is the brand new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator for Region 9—that means he overseas environmental policy throughout California, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, the Pacific Islands, and over 140 Tribal Nations. He joins Patt to focus on the environmental concerns of our backyard, where he’s already opened an investigation into birth defects among migrant workers near a dump in Kettleman City, pledged to help the state regulate carbon emissions and find sustainable, economically viable solutions to global warming. He vowed to make “revolutionary” changes to the EPA when he took office earlier this month; he talks about those and takes your questions.

 

Guests:

Jared Blumenfeld, regional director of the Environmental Protection Agency

IN STUDIO

 

 

2:30 – 2:39

Should California look up to Oregon?  

In the final year of his term, Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski is taxing the rich in an effort to try end what he has called the, “cycle of fiscal instability”. In a state that doesn’t pay sales tax, has limited property taxes and has vetoed income taxes the voters passed two targeted tax hikes against the wealthy and corporations. Will the Governor be able to close the budget gap? Could Oregon’s next step be an amendment to their constitution to create a financial reserve from kicker funds? Does California have something to learn from our petite northern neighbor?  

 

Guests:

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Governor Kulongoski, Governor of Oregon

 

 

 

2:41 – 2:58:30

Buzzie is back

He spent his childhood at the White House while photographers flashed pictures of him playing—not the normal childhood, but then again, he didn’t have normal grandparents. Curtis Roosevelt was the grandson of President Franklin Roosevelt, which offered many positives, but also presented a slew of negatives. Patt talks to the Curtis about growing up in the White House, growing up in the shadow of an American President and what it’s like to try to live a normal life, in abnormal circumstances.

 

Guests:

Curtis Roosevelt,

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Jonathan Serviss

Producer, Patt Morrison Program

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