Patt Morrison for Tuesday, October 19, 2010

GoPATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

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FRANK STOLTZE FILLS IN FOR PATT

 

1:06 – 1:39

OPEN

 

 

1:41 – 1:58:30

Republican or Democrat? Oh, there are other options?

Anyone paying attention to California’s U.S. Senate seat race has heard of Democratic candidate Barbara Boxer and Republican candidate Carly Fiorina. But what about the Green Party candidate, the American Independent, Libertarian, or Peace and Freedom party candidates? They exist and they want your votes too. In America’s political landscape, third party candidates are often overlooked if not ignored. What do they have to say about the issues, and what will they do to best represent the people of California? Patt talks to U.S. Senate candidates from four third parties – each of them tells you what sets them apart from the other, and from the Democrats and Republicans.

 

Guests:

Marsha Feinland, Peace and Freedom Party Senate candidate

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Gail Lightfoot, Libertarian Party Senate candidate

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Edward C. Noonan, American Independent Party Senate candidate

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Duane J. Roberts, Green Party Senate candidate

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2:06 – 2:19

At risk child-care workers may get jobs reprieve

Assembly Speaker John Perez has a new plan to protect the jobs of 60,000 child care workers, whose jobs are at risk because of the governor’s blue-pencil cuts to the budget.  These jobs and the welfare of thousands of families are threatened by the Governor's veto of child care subsidies, and Perez sees “bridge” funding as a way to keep these programs going until funding can be restored by the Legislature. He’s here with the details.

 

Guest:

John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles), Speaker of the California Assembly

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TBD—Governor Schwarzenegger’s office

 

 

 

2:21 – 2:39

That flight delay cost more than just time and patience—try $16.7 billion

Everyone has been delayed in an airport—rushing to make a holiday dinner, a business meeting or just a connecting flight, there are few worse feelings than staring at the airport marquee to see that your flight has been delayed.  Even worse is being stuck on the plane itself while it sits on the tarmac for hours at a time.  While it’s easy to quantify the elevated blood pressure and extreme frustration that a flight delay can cause it’s harder to estimate the economic damage of these delays, and the results are surprising.  The total annual coast of flight delays to the U.S. economy is $32.9 billion according to a FAA-commissioned report released yesterday; airline passengers alone lost $16.7 billion.  It’s easy to blame the airlines for these delays but there’s a lot of it to go around, especially at the nation’s antiquated air travel infrastructure, from overcrowded airports and runways to badly outdated air traffic control technology.  Next time your delayed in the airport, the pain in the behind your feeling might have more to do with your wallet than your emotions.

 

Guests:

David Castelveter, vice president of the Air Transport Association

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MORE GUESTS TBD

 

 

2:41 – 2:58:30

Hey, Listen to This! Alex Ross on music
Alex Ross has heard it all, from Beethoven to Bjork.  The music critic from the New Yorker trains our ears in his new book Listen to This, and you can listen to him.  Guest host Frank Stoltze talks with the author and MacArthur genius about music—what it is, why we like (or hate) it and what it says about us.  Finding common ground in concert hall oldies-but-goodies like Brahms, Schubert and Mozart, and modern pop icons such as Bob Dylan, Radiohead and Kurt Cobain, Ross surveys the world’s vast musical landscape and offers many a new way of understanding the world.

Guest:
Alex Ross, music critic and writer for The New Yorker; his was a 2009 MacArthu Genius Award recipient and the author of The Rest is Noise : Listening to the Twentieth Century, a cultural history of music since 1900.  His latest book is Listen to This.

IN-STUDIO

 

 

 

Jonathan Serviss

Producer, Patt Morrison Program

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