Patt Morrison for Wednesday, September 15, 2010

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:06 – 1:39

Big Man on Campus – inside LAUSD with Superintendent Cortines

The school year started days late for many L.A. schools due to budget cuts, negotiations are about to begin with UTLA on the contentious issues of teacher evaluations, and there’s good news as API scores are up… Ray Cortines, who heads the nation’s second largest school district, takes your questions on the latest with LAUSD.

 

Guests:

Ramon Cortines, Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District

IN STUDIO

 

 

1:41 – 1:58:30

The FCIC comes to California and Bakersfield gets to represent
The bipartisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) was appointed by Congress to investigate the causes that lead to the near collapse of the U.S. financial and banking system.  The FCIC has summoned major players from Goldman Sachs to Citigroup to Alan Greenspan to testify before its committee members.  Now that they’ve heard from the big wigs working for institutions deemed too big to fail, they want to hear from people on the front line of the economic crisis.  The first stop in a series of four hearings took place last week in Bakersfield, California.  Bakersfield and Kern County are suffering from some of the highest unemployment and foreclosure rates in the country.  The commission listened to testimony from elected officials, representatives of local community banks, and heard public comment.  Witnesses had a lot to say about foreclosure rates and modifications and the inequity of new financial regulation, but you’ll have to listen to Patt to hear about it.  

 

Guests:
Phil Angelides, chairman, Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
HE CALL US:

 

 

2:06 – 2:30

Election 2010—California Crack-Up: How reform broke the Golden State and how we can fix it

What’s the worst thing about the golden state? According to veteran journalists Joe Matthews and Mark Paul, it’s not our failing school system or overcrowded prisons, the water shortage in the central valley or even our UC system’s pension obligations, but the fact that there’s currently no way to address these problems in our present system. In California Crack-Up, Matthews and Paul take a look at the history of California, a seemingly ungovernable state that’s wrestled with its governing system since its inception. Is it possible to streamline our state government—the way we elect our representatives, the way those representatives govern (especially fiscally) and the initiative process and referendum system?  Matthews and Paul assert representative democracy should be responsive, representative and cohesive, so as we head into another election system and another set of ballots, is it time to reconsider the bigger picture?

 

Guests:

Mark Paul is senior scholar at the New America Foundation and a visiting scholar at the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley. He has written about California policy and politics for three decades as a journalist at the Sacramento Bee, a policy thinker, and a state official.

IN-STUDIO

 

Joe Matthews, Irvine Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is the author of the People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy and a columnist for the Daily Beast. His latest book is California Crack-Up: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How we Can Fix It

IN-STUDIO

 

 

 

2:30 – 2:39

OPEN

 

 

2:41 – 2:58:30

Dexter is Delicious

Would you knowingly invite a serial killer into your home? No? What if it was Dexter Morgan? Jeff Lindsay, the man behind the Dexter television and book series, joins Patt to discuss the differences between the two story lines, why he decided to write his protagonist as a murderer and how he managed to make him so darn lovable.

 

Guest:

Jeff Lindsay, author of “Dexter is Delicious”

IN STUDIO

 

 

Jonathan Serviss

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