AirTalk for Thursday, May 9, 2013

­­Contact: Producers Joel Patterson, Jasmin Tuffaha, Fiona Ng, Jerry Gorin

626-583-5100

SCHEDULE FOR AIRTALK WITH LARRY MANTLE

Thursday, May 9, 2013

 

11:06 – 11:20

Topic: OPEN

Guest: TBA

 

11:20 – 11:40

Topic: Governor Brown proposes to amend Prop 65, toxicity disclosure law: The governor has proposed a serious overhaul to the decades-old Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act that requires product manufacturers, retailers and property owners to post signs warning the public if goods or premises contain toxic chemicals. While most agree that the law has forced businesses to eliminate or reduce toxic chemicals, for years many have complained that the law has been heavily abused by private lawyers who make frivolous “shake-down” lawsuits. Governor Brown wants to ensure, among other things, that attorney’s fees are capped for Prop 65 related cases, and to require stronger demonstration by plaintiffs that they have information to support claims before litigation begins.

Guest: Tom Scott, Executive Director for California Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse

Guest: (tentative) David Roe, attorney for Environmental Defense Fund and principal draftsman of Prop 65 law

 

11:40 – 12:00

Topic: NRLB unionization notice (temp head)

Guest: Karen Harned (HAHRN-nehd), Executive Director of the National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Legal Center. NFIB is one of the plaintiffs in the case.

2^nd Guest: TBA

 

12:06 – 12:20

Topic: OPEN

Guest: TBA

 

12:20 - 12:40

Topic: Is there a "re-Latin-ization" of "lohz AHN-hell-uhz" place names? Newbies and tourists in Los Angeles easily betray themselves when they spit out the Spanish pronunciation of what we know as San Pedro (san PEE-droh) or Los Feliz (los FEE-lus). Resident Angelenos anglicized those locales so long ago that  native Spanish speakers get corrected for saying "sahn PAY-dro" or "lohz fay-LEES." But that could be changing. As Marisa (mah-REE-sah) Gerber of the LA Times writes, "A younger generation -- perhaps more sensitive to the region's history -- favors truer Spanish pronunciation. L.A.'s growing Latino population helps propel the new pronunciations, too." Have you noticed a trend? What's your prefered style? How do you pronounce Hermosa Beach? What about Cesar E. Chavez Avenue or the Chavez Ravine?

Guest: Marisa Gerber, (mah-REE-sah) Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times

 

12:40 - 1:00

Topic:  Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic opens at the Autry:

Guest: Karen Wilson, UCLA historian and co-curator “Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic”

Guest: Carolyn Brucken, co-curator “Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic”

 

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Senior Producer, AirTalk

626-583-5375 office

858-349-2205 cell

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AirTalk for Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Contact: Producers Joel Patterson, Jasmin Tuffaha, Fiona Ng, Jerry Gorin

626-583-5100

SCHEDULE FOR AIRTALK WITH LARRY MANTLE

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

 

11:06 –11:20

OPEN

 

11:20 -11:40

Topic: How can the U.S. military fight sexual assaults within the ranks? [blurb coming]

Guest: TBA

 

11:40-12:00

Topic: Why is Chris Christie getting flak for weight-loss surgery?  For years, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been mocked and criticized for weighing upwards of 300 pounds. The health and fitness of political leaders - especially those with rumored presidential aspirations - isn't necessarily superficial. When Christie faced a punishing schedule during Hurricane Sandy, former White House doctor, Dr. Connie Mariano, told CNN, “I’m worried he may have a heart attack [or a stroke.]" Many in the Garden State are perturbed at the suggestion. They have witnessed Governor Christie's boundless energy and stamina for decades. Christie told the New York Post he underwent the lap-band surgery at the urging of family and friends, not for political optics. "For me, this is about turning 50 and looking at my children and wanting to be there for them," he says. Does this increase the odds Christie is seeking a presidential run? Does this increase his chances of a successful bid? Did Christie take the easy way out by having surgery instead of losing weight by dieting or working out? Is this a case of "Damned if you do and damned if you don't?"

Guest:  TBA

 

12:06 – 12:20

Topic: (TBA) LA County Newser

Guest: Deepa Fernandes, Reporter, KPCC

BY PHONE

 

12:20 – 12:40

Topic: Could the Washington Redskins become the Washington ‘Redtails’?: Washington D.C. councilman David Grosso has put forth a new resolution asking the city’s pro football team to change its name. Though there’s some debate as to the origin of the term ‘Redskins’, the phrase has often been described as offensive to Native Americans. Team owners have refused to address the issue, however, and a recent poll by the AP shows that 79% of Americans nationwide support the name and don’t think the team should be forced to change it. American Indian advocate Susan Shown Harjo has stated that “it’s not up to the offending class to say what offends the offended.” Is she right? Or does a widespread community of football supporters have more stake in a name that represents their team and their traditions?

Guest: Ray Smith, Founder and Editor of SonOfWashington.com, a Washington Redskins blog.

BY PHONE

Guest: Kevin Blackistone, Sports Journalism Professor at Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

BY PHONE

 

12:40 – 1:00

Topic: Is there a "re-Latin-ization" of "lohz AHN-hell-uhz" place names? Newbies and tourists in Los Angeles easily betray themselves when they spit out the Spanish pronunciation of what we know as San Pedro (san PEE-droh) or Los Feliz (los FEE-lus). Resident Angelenos anglicized those locales so long ago that  native Spanish speakers get corrected for saying "sahn PAY-dro" or "lohz fay-LEES." But that could be changing. As Marisa (mah-REE-sah) Gerber of the LA Times writes, "A younger generation -- perhaps more sensitive to the region's history -- favors truer Spanish pronunciation. L.A.'s growing Latino population helps propel the new pronunciations, too." Have you noticed a trend? What's your prefered style? How do you pronounce Hermosa Beach? What about Cesar E. Chavez Avenue or the Chavez Ravine?

Guest: Marisa Gerber, (mah-REE-sah) Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times

BY PHONE

 

 

Warm regards,

Jasmin Tuffaha    office: 626.583.5162 

Producer, “AirTalk with Larry Mantle” 

 

89.3 KPCC 89.1 KUOR 90.3 KVLA
A Southern California Public Radio station
SCPR.org | Facebook | @AirTalk

 

AirTalk for Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Contact: Producers Joel Patterson, Jasmin Tuffaha, Fiona Ng

626-583-5100

SCHEDULE FOR AIRTALK WITH LARRY MANTLE

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

 

 

11:06 –11:20

Topic: OPEN

Guest: TBA

 

11:20 –11:40

Topic: Three bills seek to ban fracking temporarily

The controversial oil extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is again coming under scrutiny in California. Last week, the Assembly Natural Resources Committee okayed three measures that would place a moratorium on fracking until its environmental impacts are fully understood. California is in the early stages of regulating fracking. And the fight over fracking in the state has been centered around the Monterey Shale in the San Joaquin Basin, which contains about 15 billion barrels of oil. These three bills were not the first bills to make it out of committee this year, but they are the toughest. Last year, the California Legislature killed a proposed temporary ban on the practice.

Guest: Holly Mitchell, Assemblymember for California’s 47^th district, with Culver City as its center. Author of AB1323, one of three measures proposing a fracking moratorium in CA.

Guest: Tupper Hull, Vice President, Strategic CommunicationsWestern States Petroleum Association

 

11:40 –12:00

Topic: OPEN

Guest: TBA

 

12:06 – 12:20

Topic: In the wake of the AP Twitter hack, should high-frequency trading be regulated?

Guest: TBA

 

12:20 –12:40

Topic:  Zero-emission vehicle credits: Do they unfairly penalize non-electric car companies?

Guest: Jerry Hirsch, LA Times reporter (He wrote the Tesla credits piece for the paper)

Guest: Eileen Tutt, Executive Director of the California Electric Transportation Coalition, a non profit organization. Their members include utilities and automakers.

 

12:40 –1:00

Topic:  (tentative – DO NOT PROMOTE) Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body rejected for burial at Boston cemeteries.

Guest: David Sloane, Professor at USC’s Price School of Public Policy, and author of  The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History

 

AirTalk for Thursday, May 2, 2013

Contact: Producers Joel Patterson, Jasmin Tuffaha, Fiona Ng

626-583-5100

SCHEDULE FOR AIRTALK WITH LARRY MANTLE

Thursday, May 2, 2013

11:06 –11:20

OPEN

 

11:20 –11:40

Topic: Is the California Fire Fee an unfair tax on homeowners in danger zones:

Guest: Marc Lifsher, reporter at the Los Angeles Times

BY PHONE

Two bills are moving through the legislature to repeal the fee now.

 

11:40 –12:00

Topic: Forget QWERTY! Introducing KALQ: The QWERTY keyboard is for big, chunky computers. But as more and more us turn to our smartphones and tablets for daily computing, doesn’t it make sense to come up with a new, smaller keyboard that is also more thumb-friendly? That’s exactly what University of St Andrews lecturer and research fellow Per Ola Kristensson and his team did. It’s called KALQ, named for the last line of the letters on the keyboard. This invention is supposedly more ergonomic and efficient, but it takes at least 8 hours of practice to master its usage. Kristensson and his team plan to release the keyboard as an Android application in the next month or so. Are you frustrated by the QWERTY keyboard on your tablet and smartphone? Would you switch to the new KALQ keyboard? What is the design principle behind KALQ?

 

Guest: Per Ola Kristensson, Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction and a Research Fellow in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews in England. Also the inventor of the KALQ keyboard.

BY PHONE

 

12:06 – 12:20

Topic:  California prison population’s midnight deadline: A federal court has given the state of California until midnight on Thursday to come up with a plan for how it's going to reduce its prison population by 9,000 inmates. The Brown administration must make the cuts to the prison population by the end of the year to comply with a court order. The state is weighing its options including shortening prison sentences for low risk offenders, transitioning prisoners who are nearing their release date to house arrest with a GPS monitor or sending prisoners out of state. What will the state plan look like? Has the changes that the state has made so far worked? What are the risks involved in shifting these inmates out of state prisons?

 

Guest:  Julie Small, KPCC's Sacramento reporter

Sacramento Bureau ISDN

 

12:20 –12:40

Topic: How are workers with alcoholism protected by disability law?: A police officer fired for driving drunk, while off duty, is suing his Oregon employer for discriminating against his alcoholism disability. In early 2011, Jason Servo, 43, was at a bar with colleagues after firearms training. He later crashed his unmarked police car in a ditch then was arrested. Servo's lawyers say he immediately quit drinking, entered treatment then was diagnosed as an alcoholic. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) does apply to the disease of alcoholism, but does not prohibit employers from firing employees whose drinking problems interfere with work. When the ADA was drafted, negotiations went to pains to ensure that alcoholics were a protected class a people, but that the associated behaviors were not protected necessarily. What if Servo had been an undiagnosed epileptic who crashed his car after a seizure? Could he still be fired? Are different disabilities treated differently? How far can employers stretch to accommodate employees with unpredictable disabilities?

 

90% CONFIRMED

Guest:  Jason Short, Attorney for Jason Servo; Partner with Short Law Group based in Portland

BY PHONE

 

TENTATIVE

Guest: Karla Lopez, Staff Attorney, Legal Action Center based in NYC; Lopez specializes in legal issues surrounding substance abuse

BY PHONE

 

12:40 –1:00

Topic: NYC company offering a raise in return for a logo tattoo. A New York City company is offering its employees a 15 percent raise if they get a tattoo of their company’s logo. Rapid Realty owner Anthony Lolli says the bonus plan will encourage employee loyalty and be a great ambassador for the company. There are no restrictions on size or location and forty employees are now sporting fresh new 'Rapid Realty' ink. Would you get a company logo tattoo in exchange for a raise? How much would it take for you to get a company tattoo? Do you have any tattoos that you regret?

 

Guest: Anthony Lolli, owner of Rapid Realty, a real estate company in New York City

BY PHONE

 

 

Warm regards,

Jasmin Tuffaha    office: 626.583.5162

Producer, “AirTalk with Larry Mantle” 

 

89.3 KPCC 89.1 KUOR 90.3 KVLA
A Southern California Public Radio station
SCPR.org | Facebook | @AirTalk

 

AirTalk for Monday, April 29, 2013

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

626-583-5100

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Monday, April 29, 2013

 

WATCHING SCOTUS DECISION ON TEXAS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CASE

 

***TENTATIVE**DO NOT PROMOTE***

11:06 –11:40

Topic: Supreme Court rules on race charges against University of Texas:

Guest: Greg Stohr, Supreme Court Reporter, Bloomberg News

BY PHONE

Guest: Ilya Shapiro, (pron TBA)Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute - a libertarian think tank; Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review

BY PHONE

Guest: Daria Roithmayr (pron: dah-REE-uh ROYTH-my-er); Law Professor, George T. and Harriet E. Pfleger Chair in Law, USC Gould School of Law; Roithmayr specializes in critical race theory and comparative law

BY PHONE

 

11:40-12:00

Topic: Should legal immigrants who aren’t citizens serve on juries?

Guest:  TBA

 

12:06 – 12:20

Topic: UCI “Blackface” video

Guest:  TBA

 

12:20 – 12:40

Topic: Who should be responsible for factory safety overseas?

TENTATIVE

Guest: Brian Finnegan, Global Rights Coordinator for AFL-CIO; author of AFL-CIO report, “Responsibility Outsourced: Social Audits, Workplace Certification and Twenty Years of Failure to Protect Worker Rights”

BY PHONE

2^nd Guest: TBA

 

12:40 – 1:00

Topic: The painful search for a hangover cure: For years, the medical community abstained from studying hangover cures because doctors didn’t want to be seen as encouraging overindulgence of alcohol. What helped change that was grasping the severity of the problem: it’s estimated that painful hangovers cost the U.S. economy $148 billion annually. Recovering revelers either call in sick or show up with headaches, nausea, decreased skills and general misery. Now, scientists are calling for more research into cures. What about tequila shots or a bottle of wine actually causes the pain of a hangover? Dehydration was blamed in the past, but that’s changing. What are your home-made cures and what do actual doctors recommend?

 

Guest: Dr. Sharon Orrange, (pron: like the fruit) M.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at USC; Also has a private practice in Internal Medicine at USC

BY PHONE

 

Warm regards,

Jasmin Tuffaha    office: 626.583.5162 

Producer, “AirTalk with Larry Mantle” 

 

89.3 KPCC 89.1 KUOR 90.3 KVLA
A Southern California Public Radio station
SCPR.org | Facebook | @AirTalk

 

AirTalk for Friday, April 26, 2013

 

Contact: Producers Joel Patterson, Jasmin Tuffaha, Fiona Ng

626-583-5100

SCHEDULE FOR AIRTALK WITH LARRY MANTLE

Friday, April 26, 2013

 

11:06 –11:20

Topic: Lawmakers want to strip the California Medical Board’s power to investigate physicians

Guest:  State Sen. Curren D. Price, Jr. who sponsored legislation to have the Medical Board’s powers removed. Sen Price represents the 26th district, which covers much of Los Angeles.

 

11:20 -11:40

Topic: OPEN

Guest: TBA

 

11:40-12:00

Topic: Doctors debate telling patients they are terminally ill

Guest: Peter Ubel, Physician at Duke University and author of “Critical Decisions: How You and Your Doctor Can Make the Right Medical Choices Together” (Harper Collins, 2012)

Guest: Leslie Blackhall, Director of the Palliative Care Research Program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

 

12:06 – 12:40

Topic: FilmWeek: Mud, At Any Price, The Big Wedding, and more: Larry is joined by KPCC film critics Tim Cogshell and Lael Loewenstein to review the week’s new film releases, including Mud, At Any Price, The Big Wedding and more. TGI-FilmWeek!

Guests:  

Tim Cogshell, film critic for KPCC and Alt Film Guide

Lael Loewenstein, film critic for KPCC and Variety

 

12:40 – 1:00  

Topic:  Friedken looks back on The French Connection, The Exorcist and life: Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin is out with a new book chronicling his rise from a poor urban neighborhood the height of Hollywood elite. Director of The French Connection and The Exorcist, Friedkin gives readers a behind the scenes look at how his films came to life - from how the Exorcist's demon voice was created to whom he considered for the lead role of Popeye.

Guest: William Friedkin, director of The French Connection and The Exorcist and more

AirTalk for Thursday, April 25, 2013

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

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Thursday, April 25, 2013

11:06 –11:20

Topic: OPEN

Guest: TBA

 

11:20 -11:40

Topic: More students identify Stanford as their “dream school” than Harvard

Guest: Elizabeth Scarborough, CEO of SimpsonScarborough [ONE WORD], a market research firm that specializes in looking at higher-education brands.

 

11:40-12:00

Topic: OC Roundtable

Guest: Ben Bergman, KPCC’s Orange County reporter

Guest: Norberto Santana, Voice of OC

Guest: Teri Sforza, OC Register reporter

 

12:06 – 12:20

Topic: OPEN

Guest: TBA

 

12:20 – 12:40

Topic: You can have Burger King delivered to your home...but would you? The fast food giant Burger King announced that it’s expanding their limited delivery service to Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago. One local Burger King in Glendale has been delivering Whoppers and fries since earlier this month. The new push for delivery is one way that the fast food chain is trying to hold on to customers in an increasingly competitive industry. A trend toward healthier eating and competition from newcomers like Chipotle and Panera are encroaching on fast food’s territory. Will offering deliver help Burger King keep its market share? What else are fast food chains doing to hold on to customers who are more concerned about the health effects of fast food? Would you order a Whopper to be delivered?

Guest: TBA

 

12:40 – 1:00

Topic: Apps, ‘big data,’ and the ‘folly of technological solutionism’: Are you tired of hearing, “There’s an app for that?” In today’s technologically-savvy world, there seems to be an app to solve everything. This has many techies expectant of a promising future. As technology develops, it’s presenting solutions for problems as big as education reform and as basic as forgetting something. Not so, says Evgeny Morozov. In his new book, “To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism,” Morozov unabashedly attacks “solutionists” and the ideas coming out from the Silicon Valley. Morozov criticizes solutionists, those who try to solve problems with technology, for their utopian ideals because technology could never provide a solution to complex human problems. Rather, its solution can even make issues worse. With education, Morozov argues that technology can limit teacher-student interactions, which hinders development through discussions. In politics, online transparency discourages political activism because individuals want to keep their privacy. Is Morozov right? Are we so caught up with “big data” hype that we believe in an unrealistic Utopia? Can the internet cause more problems than find solutions?

Guest: Evgeny Morozov, author of “To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism” (Public Affairs) and “The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom” (Public Affairs, 2012)