Sunday, June 30, 2013

Fwd: "Twenty Minutes under Hollywood!" LA Mayor&His Magic Bus Lay Subterranean Giant Turkey Egg!

THE LAST COMMUNIQUE FROM HOLLYWOODHIGHLANDS.ORG DURING THE DYING MOMENTS OF THE BANKRUPT VILLARAIGOSA ADMINISTRATION!

 "Twenty Minutes under Hollywood!" LA Mayor & His Magic Bus Lay Subterranean Giant Turkey Egg!

DURING FINAL FAREWELL 24-HOUR DRAGGED-OUT BUS TOUR ANTONIO'S COLOSSAL EGO GETS RUN OVER BY NEAR EMPTY REDLINE SUBWAY TRAIN!

LA MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA MIRRORS INFAMOUS CHARLIE SHEEN PHOTO FOR NEWS CAMERAS AT SUBWAY STATION WITH "WORLD'S GREATEST GADFLY" JOHN WALSH AS SOBER STAND-IN!

                           "20 Minutes Under Hollywood!"

Departing LA Mayor's  Nocturnal Magical Mystery Tour lays subterranean giant speckled turkey egg Friday night while Antonio buries the hatchet with perennial antagonist, Über Gadfly, John Walsh, by way of fond embrace at practically deserted Red Line "mass" transit  subway station in front of  Antonio-worshiping shutter-bugs!

Outgoing Mayor Villaraigosa semi-officially washes his hands and transfers "unwelcome" custody of Hyper-Critic John  Walsh to  incoming Mayor Garcetti at little-noticed  24-hour Farewell Bus Tour Marathon runs out of gas!

FRIDAY NIGHT ALSO HIGHLIGHTED THE BIG SUBWAY RIDERSHIP FIZZLE  FOR OUR "INSANE" RAIL BOOSTER MAYOR AND HIS  REPORTER/ EDITOR SUPER-OBEDIENT LOVE SLAVES OVER AT THE LOS ANGELES TIMES!

UNDERGROUND HOLLYWOOD IGNORES OUTGOING  MAYOR, LEAVING "SINGLE" FATHER OF THE REDLINE SUBWAY SORT OF RED-FACED... WITH NOTHING MUCH FOR THE CITY HEAD HONCHO TO DO TO PLEASE NEWS CAMERAS WHILE STANDING IN FRONT OF  THE BURIED TRAIN LOBBY'S STILL UN-LOCKED TURNSTILES , EXCEPT TO TRY IN VAIN TO HOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE ON THE SPOT WITHOUT ANY DAMN NEWS TO ANNOUNCE" AND JOHN WALSH HECKLING HIM! 

INSTEAD OF HAVING WALSH REMOVED THE WILEY MAYOR RESORTED TO CLOWNING AROUND  WITH ANCIENT NEMESIS, JOHN WALSH,AND  THEN INTRODUCING HIMSELF TO A SCANT NUMBER OF REALLY PUZZLED NON-ENGLISH-SPEAKING, SUBWAY-TAKING ASIAN TOURIST/STRAGGLERS 100 FEET BENEATH THE FAMED TINSELTOWN INTERSECTION  OF HOLLYWOOD AND VINE!

WHEN SCHEDULING THIS ABORTIVE SUBMERGED PR "NOTHING MUCH" HAPPENING,THE DWINDLING MAYOR MUST HAVE  FERVENTLY BELIEVED THE LA SUBWAY'S OFFICIAL  FEDERAL RIDERSHIP PROJECTION FOUND IN THE DC ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW DOCUMENTS OF 300,000 DAILY PASSENGER BOARDINGS BY THE YEAR 2000!

HOWEVER, THE MTA'S OWN CURRENT YEAR SUBWAY RIDERSHIP BOARDING STATISTICS IS A VERY DISAPPOINTING HALF THAT AT 150,000 DAILY RED LINE SUBWAY ONE-WAY TRIPS PER WEEKDAY...THAT MEANS THE VAUNTED  LA  SUBWAY IN 2013 IS ALREADY THIRTEEN YEARS BEHIND ITS PROMISED RIDERSHIP TIMETABLE  AND THIS YAWNING NUMBERS GAP ONLY CONTINUES TO WIDEN!

IT IS HIGHLY DOUBTFUL THAT THE REDLINE SUBWAY WILL EVER DOUBLE ITS CURRENT DEEPLY DISAPPOINTING RIDERSHIP TOTALS TO ACHIEVE  ITS  "IMPOSSIBLE-DREAM" FEDERAL GOAL MANDATE!

THE MAYOR SAW PROOF OF THIS NEWSMEDIA-IGNORED KEY FACT WITH HIS OWN TWO EYES FRIDAY EVENING WHEN NO ONE BOTHERED TO SHOW UP AT HIS REDLINE  RAIL CELEBRATION THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO OCCUR IN THE BOWELS OF THE LA SUBWAY SYSTEM AT 8:30 PM SHARP! 

IN SHORT: "THEY BUILT IT AND HARDLY ANYBODY WILL COME"!

SO....ANTONIO AND WALSH DECIDED RIGHT THERE AND THEN OUT OF SHEER BOREDOM TO SHOOT ONE ANOTHER ...WITH VIDEO, OF COURSE!

THE MAYOR SWIFTLY GRABBED A HANDY CAMERA AND APPROACHED  TARGET WALSH STRAIGHT-0N, SHOOTING HIM FACE-TO-FACE WHILE ANTONIO GOT SHOT IN REVERSE  BY THE "GADFLY'S"  OWN  LENS!

      (ASK ANTONIO TO RELEASE HIS TAPED VERSION OF THE RUN-IN!)

                   (HERE ARE MORE DEVILISH DETAILS!)

Mayoral Magic BUS ARRIVAL in Hollywood: 8:35 PM .
Mayoral Magic BUS DEPARTURE for Sepulveda Rec Center in the Valley: 8:55 ...not a minute too soon to terminate this pesky embarrassment!

Nothing drives the Mayor crazier than not being recognized at one of his own preening public events...in front of news cameras no less. DOUBLE  OUCH!!

Get used to it, Mr. Ex-Mayor---From now on, you shall be merely referred to as: Citizen Villaraigosa!

Against his will ,the political has-been formerly known as "Hizzoner" is turning into "yesterday's  mashed potatoes"... thanks to our Mayoral Term Limits Law!

The plan might have looked really promising on paper for Antonio to be swamped by thankful subway riders on their way to a big "Hollyweird" Friday Night on the Town at the below ground "transit hub" that  the Amazing Shrinking Mayor was egomaniacally instrumental in building and ballyhooing; but the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry!

Inevitably, the whole set-up turned out to be quite a mini-media fiasco for the fast-fading fickle Mayor as each tick of the clock was seriously eating away at Tony Villaraigosa's precious few remaining hours as Chief Executive of the second largest metropolis in America!

The Mayor's private Magic Bus harbored just a dozen or so hard-core party-hearty Villaraigosa hangers-on who  reverently followed Antonio,("I'm still the Mayor, thank you! ") Villaraigosa  out of the bus and down two MTA station levels on a pair of creaky,chronically under-repair seldom-in-working order escalators to the oh-so isolated ticket machines lined up side by side against one grimy wall of a practically-deserted dingy underground station lobby devoid of humanity!

The Mayor's brains trust desperately seeking to salvage this misbegotten photo-op suggested to their Big Boss and his anemic entourage that they hang-out for just a few minutes more until the next subway train arrives at the desolate Metro subway station, hopefully coming to Antonio's rescue by unloading a horde of subway passengers, excitedly pushing one another out of the way to frantically surround the Mayor in abject adoration!

Thus creating that marvelous  photo opportunity for Antonio's well-paid personal Videographer to memorialize this momentous non-event, as witnessed by a micro-throng of Antonio cultist...with the quasi-notable exception of John Walsh (and his trusty I-pad) ,who had walked  two short blocks from his abode situated at HOLLYWOODHIGHLANDS.ORG WORLD HEADQUARTERS on Yucca at Argyle to be there and create a  subterranean Mayoral confrontation that ultimately transformed itself into a farewell love fest between these two longtime grudge-bearing nasty political foes!

The  deeply-interred clique of Mayoral-sycophants clucks was impatiently waiting for any old packed Redline train to arrive and deposit its swarm of motley passengers who had to be hell bent on surrounding "the Movie  Star Mayor" while  playing the roles of passionate Antonio admirers at the Hollywood & Vine  Decrepit Sunken Subway Station.

Villaraigosa and Walsh, who first met during Antonio's early years a quarter of a  century ago when Antonio was a lowly LA teachers' union organizer and Walsh was a lowly LAUSD teacher and union member, made the simultaneous madcap decision to go ahead and shoot one-another......with video,that is!

Nostalgia for the good old days gripped the pair who hugged at the Mayor's insistence for the incredulous camera operators, which is the closest Walsh ever got to a $1,500 men's suit!

Just as Nixon didn't have the Press  to kick around any longer...very, very, very soon neither will Walsh have Mayor V. to kick around any longer!

Just then "America's 'Least' Wanted" John Walsh made a flash counter-intuitive decision to try and rescue Antonio's media event from disaster by turning himself into a shrill-voiced barker in order to funnel some desperately-needed hand-shakers towards the solitary figure of poor old lobby-lizard,Antonio V. , managing to lure into becoming Mayor Antonio aficionados  two or three of the painfully few rail riders who happened to jump off that latest train to stop at the almost vacant Hollywood 

When these seriously needing-safety-repairs Red Line subway cars finally pulled into the station tardily, most of the handful of debarking Hollywood riders turned out to be rather bewildered foreign tourists who found themselves greeted by the Walsh pitch that must have  sounded a bit weird to their ears!

"Ladies and Gentlemen, step this way and shake hands with the Mayor of Los Angeles...I'm not kidding...Honest to God! "

After the Mayor got the un-expected silent treatment from a forlorn handful of disoriented touristic passers-by, mixed in with a sprinkling of un-interested local yokel public transit rider-types, Walsh hurried after the mini-flock and convinced a some of the slow walkers to comeback and press the flesh with a sadly deflated, formerly prideful Mayor of LA!

At that pointless juncture,the soon-to-be- permanently-departed Mayor of LA, who never wished to be a glutton for punishment, quickly decided to beat a hasty retreat toward the relative safety of his street-level charter bus that was simply sitting there upstairs in  front of the Hollywood & Vine Subway Station.... enjoying  LA City Traffic Officer parking ticket immunity!

Antonio had arrived in the Motion Picture Capital of the World by bus 5 minutes late according to his own schedule,and now Antonio was more than delighted  to check out of Glitter Gulch on that very same bus 5 minutes early... amounting to the Mayor's full "Twenty Minutes Under Hollywood" !

As Villaraigosa  made his private escape inside his very own darkened-windowed charter bus (paid for in full by city taxpayers thankful to get rid of him for that relatively small price), Yours Truly pointedly shouted to the Mayor over the heavy street traffic noise that everybody in Hollywood anxiously looked forward to Antonio's next personal appearance at a Metro Rail Redline Station slated to occur sometime in 2018 when the Ex-Mayor of LA has vowed he'll be running again...this time for Governor of California against Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom!

In the meantime,let's contribute the helpful suggestion that this same ex-Mayor of Los Angeles,might try showing up at the Tinseltown Red Line subway lobby on weekends every once in a while to sell his autographed photos underground for $2 apiece...the same thing that other faded Hollywood celebrities do to make some spending cash at fan conventions!

The Big Question remains: When will Antonio  throw in the towel and quit searching endlessly for that perpetually elusive next hIgh-paying  scum-suck political gig that pays as well as his last 8-years-long  engagement sitting on top of Los Angeles City Hall ,attracting to himself nothing  much more than lots and lots and lots of empty media attention, leaving the City slightly worse off than when he defeated Mayor Hahn?


So far no Big Dough job offers for Antonio have materialized because of the genuine fear among his potential employers that additional Charlie Sheen-Antonio Villaraigosa party pictures may be a lot more shocking than the first one that mysteriously appeared on the World Wide Web . 

If somebody prestigious hires Villaraigosa in the near future for big bucks, the consequent media splash might very well trigger the popping-up on the Internet of some more of those highly embarrassing photos  from that set of  candid  (porno?) pictures taken of Antonio and others  courtesy of the Mexican Drug Cartel that owns the Ganzo Holel in Baja California where The Mayor was staying as a freeloading guest of the"gangster" management  at the same location where  Antonio initially got caught unawares and tie-less by Charlie's probing camera as well as the hotel's own security surveillance camera system!
       
Cross your fingers and pray for him!
    
 John Walsh

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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

AirTalk for Wednesday, June 26, 2013

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SCHEDULE FOR AIRTALK WITH LARRY MANTLE

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

 

11:06 –11:30

Topic: Everything you need to know about the Supreme Court ruling on Prop 8 & DOMA:

Guest: Lisa McElroy, Assoc. Professor of Law, Earle Mack School of Law, Drexel University

BY PHONE

Guest: Laura Brill, Partner with the law firm Kendall Brill Klieger (pron: KLEE-gur); Former Supreme Court Law Clerk for the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Brill's pro bono work focuses on same-sex marriage rights

BY PHONE

Guest: John Eastman, Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence and former Dean at Chapman University School of Law; chairman of the National Organization for Marriage

BY PHONE

 

11:30 -11:35

Topic: Twitter's temperature, trends and top tweets on #Prop8 and #DOMA: From RuPaul to Rand Paul, how is the twitterverse reacting the Supreme Court decision?

Guest:  Mike Roe, Web Producer, KPCC Digital Media

IN STUDIO

 

11:40-11:50

Topic: Practical fall-out from decision on Defense of Marriage Act:

Guest: Emily Hecht-McGowan, Esq, Director of Public Policy of the Family Equality Council

BY PHONE

 

11:50-12:00

Topic: Will there be a backlash in public opinion and activism?

TENTATIVE

Guest: Ben Binish, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside

BY PHONE

 

12:06 – 12:20

Topic:  Same-sex marriage: the political is personal for these Californians:

Guest: Jenny Prizer, LAMBDA Legal; Prizer was among the first lawyers whose cases led to the California Supreme Court ruling for same-sex couples in 2008,which was the impetus for Proposition 8

BY PHONE

Guest: TBD one of Prizer’s original clients

Guest:  TBD Church leader

 

12:20 – 12:40

**TENTATIVE** DO NOT PROMOTE**

Topic: Jerry Brown reluctantly pursues legislation to reduce inmate population

TENTATIVE

Guest:  Kim Raney, Police Chief for Covina PD; Current Chair California Police Chief Association

TENTATIVE

Guest: Don Spector, director of the Prison Law Office, the law firm that filed one of the suits the federal judges were responding to with their ruling

 

12:40 – 1:00

**TENTATIVE** DO NOT PROMOTE**

Topic: Man shoots and kills intruder in Ontario; is it a justifiable use of deadly force?

Police said an apartment resident in Ontario shot and killed a man who broke into his home early Monday morning. The intruder has been identified by police as a 24-year-old Barstow man, who was drunk and mistakenly went to the victim’s apartment unit and broke into the home. While there is no “stand-your-ground” legislation in California per se, the state does have laws in place sanctioning the use of deadly force against home intruders. The shooter is a legal gun owner. “Obviously [the victims] have the ability to protect themselves in their home with reasonable force," Ontario police Sgt. David McBride told the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.  

Guest: Laurie Levenson, Professor of Law and the David W. Burcham Chair in Ethical Advocacy at Loyola Law School.

BY PHONE

 

 

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Monday, June 24, 2013

AirTalk for Tuesday, June 25, 2013

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SCHEDULE FOR AIRTALK WITH LARRY MANTLE

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

**SCOTUS WATCH**

 

11:06 –11:30

Topic: (Shelby case?)

Guests: (Lisa McElroy; Jim Burling, Pacific Legal; Nancy Abudu or colleague, ACLU; Rick Hasen, Irvine)

 

11:30 -11:45

Topic: President Obama unveils National Climate Plan:

Guest: TBA, Natural Resources Defense Council

2nd Guest: TBA

 

11:45-12:00

Topic: The latest workplace attitude buzzword: actively disengaged

All work and no raises could be the motto of today's workplace. With unemployment is at 7.6% many of us are grateful to be working, but how engaged and satisfied folks are folks with their jobs -- that's an entirely different matter. Gallup recently asked workers about how "engaged, or involved in, enthusiastic about, and committed to their workplace" and found that only 30 percent of those polled returned a positive response. The survey looked at worker engagement beginning in 2010 and ending in 2012, continuing the work of a previous poll that covered the period between 2008 through 2010. "Actively disengaged" workers, the polling giant estimated, apparently cost the U.S. economy as much as $550 billion in lost productivity each year. Surprisingly, the report found that those with a college degree felt more unhappy with their work than those without. Why are workers feeling so checked out? If you are a manager, how do you rally your troops to get them to invest more?

Guest: Jim Harter, Chief Scientist of Workplace Management and Wellbeing at Gallup.

BY PHONE

 

12:06 – 12:20

Topic: Who wins in Coliseum deal between USC and the California Science Center? The California Science Center’s governing board is expected to vote tomorrow on a 98-year-lease deal that would give USC control of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. USC would have control over the majority of the parking garage for football games and other events held at the coliseum. The school would also get the money from the parking that currently goes to the Science Center and the African American History Museum. The new lease would replace a 25-year deal USC signed in 2008. It has been modified from previous versions, but some Science Center trustees say the museums in Exposition Park will still be hurt by the terms of the deal. Is this lease more beneficial for USC than the California Science Center?

Guest: TBA

2nd Guest: Marvin Holen, Trustee, California Science Center Foundation; and a practicing attorney

BY PHONE

 

12:20 – 12:40

Topic: How relevant is a liberal arts degree?

A liberal arts education used to be the cornerstone of universities but an increasing push towards engineering, business and science degrees is putting the classic liberal arts degree in jeopardy. Low enrollment in the humanities, even in institutions like Harvard, is causing concern that too many students are abandoning liberal arts. A new report presented on Capitol Hill last week by the Commission on the Humanities & Social Sciences last week has called for a new national corps of "master teachers" trained in humanities and social sciences and increased support for liberal arts degrees. Are degrees such as political science, English and humanities still relevant to today's workforce? Do fields including law, business and medicine benefit from having students with liberal arts backgrounds? Should the White House be pushing investment into science degrees and leaving the liberal arts behind?

Guest: James Cuno, President and CEO of J. Paul Getty Trust. And a member of the Commission on the Humanities & Social Sciences, which prepared the report.

BY PHONE

Guest: Richard Vedder, the director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and Professor of Economics at Ohio University

BY PHONE

 

12:40 – 1:00

*DO NOT PROMOTE*

Topic: Astronaut Wives *or* Wedding Gifts

 

 

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

AirTalk for Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Contact: Producers Joel Patterson, Jasmin Tuffaha, Fiona Ng

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

11:06 –11:30

OPEN

 

11:30 -12:00

Topic: LAPD Chief answers questions on restraining orders, tba, tba (temp head)

Guest: Charlie Beck, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department

IN STUDIO

 

12:06 – 12:20

Topic: Should the US be engaging with the Taliban? Peace talks between the US and the Taliban are set to resume Thursday after being suspended for more than a year. The talks will take place in Qatar and aim to avert civil war once combat troops from the U.S.-led coalition withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014. President Obama described the talks as "an important first step toward reconciliation, although it is a very early step." Afghan President Hamid Karzai is expected to follow up with his own talks with the Taliban a few days later. The top US commander in Afghanistan, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, said the only way to end the lengthy war was through a political solution but should the US be negotiating with the Taliban? Will there be any political repercussions? Will peace talks give more power and legitimacy to the Taliban? If the US doesn’t engage the Taliban, is there any chance of a peaceful withdrawal in 2014?

Guest:  Michael Rubin, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He joins us from Kirkuk, Iraq.

BY PHONE

2nd Guest: TBA

 

12:20 – 12:40

Topic: Distracted Driving: Voice-activated technology more risky than cellphones, study says: The most desirable upgrade packages for new cars may be the most dangerous, according to auto safety experts. Voice-command programs in cars allow you to make a phone call, listen and respond to texts and emails, ask for directions and more. It was thought to be safer than using your hands to fumble through menus and buttons. However, safety experts for the American Automobile Association compared listening to the radio, talking on the phone and using voice-command technology. They found stunning results. On a scale out of five, music or phone calls were rated a category "1" and "2" - minimal risk and moderate risk, respectively. Voice-activated technology used so much of your mental workload, researchers ranked it at a "3" - extensively risky. This is in sharp contrast to recent legislation passed in California. Last year, AB 1536 (Miller) specifically okayed “hands-free, voice-operated texting while driving.” This year, a bill seeking to repeal 1536 died in committee (AB 313 - Frazier). Where is the law headed on this issue? What about manufacturers? How will they take this research into account? Does the study show that distraction differs from one driver to the next? What's your experience using voice-command technology?

TENTATIVE

Guest:  Jacob Nelson, Director of Traffic Safety Advocacy and Research, American Automobile Association

REQUESTED

Guest: TBD, Automobile Manufacturers Association

 

12:40 – 1:00

Topic: Only children and ‘having it all’: Can you tell if someone is an only child? Are you a parent who had a second child for the sake of your firstborn? In Lauren Sandler’s new book, “One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One,” Sandler set out to prove that “only child syndrome” is a myth and such stereotypes don’t exist. As an only child and mother of one child herself, she wondered why society frowned upon having only one child. Her new book cites international studies showing only children are not lonely and going to school provides sufficient companionship and social skills. Sandler argues that societal views need to shift. With a struggling economy, less financial stability, and more women with established careers, the American ideal of two children and a dog is not the happiness formula. Rather, with just one child and therefore fewer costs, Sandler believes parents really can “have it all.” Is she right? What’s your experience as an only child? Are you a parent with only one child? What are your considerations about having more children?

Guest: Lauren Sandler, author of “One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One;” reported and offered commentary for Time, The New York Times, and Slate.

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Monday, June 17, 2013

AirTalk for Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Contact: Producers Joel Patterson, Jasmin Tuffaha, Fiona Ng, Kaitlin Funaro

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SCHEDULE FOR AIRTALK WITH LARRY MANTLE

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

11:06 –11:20

Topic: OPEN

Guest: TBA

 

11:20 -11:40

Topic: Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa: the exit interview

Guest:  Antonio Villaraigosa, mayor of Los Angeles  

 

11:40-12:00

Topic: Is obesity a disease?

Guest: TBD

Guest: TBD

 

12:06 – 12:30

Topic: The debate over the TCA’s 241 Toll Road extension, Round 2

Guest: Joel Reynolds, NRDC’s Western Director

Guest: Paul A. Bopp, TCA’s 241 Tesoro Extension Engineering Manager

 

12:30 – 12:40

Topic: OPEN

Guest: TBA

 

12:40 – 1:00

Topic: After 40 years, does the Endangered Species Act actually work? This year marks the 40th year of the Endangered Species Act, signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1973. But how effective is this law? What actions have been taken to preserve endangered species, and how many people have been prosecuted for harming them? According to History and Environmental Studies assistant professor Peter S. Alagona, the Endangered Species Act has been more influential in California than any other state. His new book, “After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California” traces the history of the grizzly bear and how its population has severely decreased. Alagona says that in the 19th century, there was actually 1 grizzly to every 11 people in California. However, it didn’t take long for grizzly numbers to dwindle down; and the last sighting was near Sequoia in 1924. California is also known for the endangered condor. When the California Condor isn’t accidentally mistaken for a Turkey Vulture and shot, it’s sometimes accidentally killed by wind farms. How can these accidental killings be prevented? Also, the gray wolf population is rising and the federal government may take gray wolves off its endangered list. Would the species still survive?

Guest: Peter S. Alagona, author of, “After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California;” Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara

 

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Friday, June 14, 2013

AirTalk for Monday, June 17, 2013

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SCHEDULE FOR AIRTALK WITH LARRY MANTLE

Monday, June 17, 2013

 

9:00 Taping: Bernadette Peters

 

11:06 – 11:30

 (Watching SCOTUS)

 

11:30 - 12:00

Topic: Covered California’s Peter Lee answers your questions about the Affordable Care Act and California: Key parts of the Affordable Care Act — popularly known as Obamacare — take effect in 2014, but by October this year, Californians will be able to shop for health insurance and compare plans through Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange. Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, joins Larry for a discussion about how his team plans to implement the healthcare exchange in our state. What would you like to know? Do you have any questions about how the exchange works? What about the possible impact it will have on California's finances? Will your healthcare costs go up?  We hope to get to as many as possible when Mr. Lee is on the show.

Guest:  Peter Lee, director of Covered California

BY ISDN

 

12:06 – 12:30

Topic: Court ruling on tip pooling affects restaurant workers and customers: It's a long-running fight that pits wait staff against other restaurant workers and proprietors. This month, a federal appeals court ruled that the Labor Department went beyond its authority when it issued regulations prohibiting the use of tips by an employer even when the employer does not take a tip credit. If the Labor Department does not appeal, it means tip pooling can be used by restaurants to redistribute some of its servers' tips. Front-of-house staff will have to share gratuities with back-of-house staff and bartenders. Some servers argue table service will decline if there is less incentive. Restaurateurs say overall dining experience is improved when everyone shares in gratuities. There are many more implications of tip pooling including paid sick days, minimum wage and even racial disparities at restaurants. If you work in the service industry, how has this affected you? What are the ulterior consequences of tip pooling in this important industry?

Guest: Paul DeCamp, Lead counsel on this case for businesses in support of tip pooling; Previously, DeCamp ran the Wage & Hour Division of the Department of Labor; Partner with Jackson Lewis law firm based in Washington, D.C.

BY PHONE

2nd Guest: TBA

 

12:30 – 12:40

OPEN

 

12:40 – 1:00

Topic: Does prison overcrowding lead to prisoner radicalization? How have terrorist attacks been carried out by men behind bars? In “The Spectacular Few: Prisoner Radicalization and the Evolving Terrorist Threat,” criminology professor and former prisoner warden Mark S. Hamm examines why prisoners can be radicalized. Hamm’s book includes the story of Kevin James who was indicted for plotting to attack American military facilities. James began as a gang member on the street in South Central Los Angeles. While in prison, he joined the Nation of Islam, but he eventually founded an extremist group known as the Assembly of Authentic Islam (JIS). While in prison, he recruited several other inmates and planned an attack on a U.S. Army recruiting office four years after the September 11 attacks. Although cases like Kevin James are rare, why are prisoners susceptible to being part of extremist groups? What is the current state of prison gangs? Does prison overcrowding mean less supervision and more potential for radicalization? What can be done to stop the “evolving terrorist threat”?

Guest: Mark Hamm, author of “The Spectacular Few: Prisoner Radicalization and the Evolving Terrorist Threat”; professor of Criminology at Indiana State University and senior research fellow at the Terrorism Center, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and The City University of New York; Hamm is also a former prison warden from Arizona

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Warm regards,

Jasmin Tuffaha    office: 626.583.5162

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