KPCC PROGRAMS/ISSUES REPORT KEYWORD REPORT October - December 2005
Key Program Title P Date Time F Guest(s) ORANGE COUNTY SPECIAL ELECTION: Seventeen candidates from five political parties are vying to fill former Newport Beach Jean Pasco, LA Times staff writer OC Congressman Chris Cox’s seat. AT 10/3/2005 :10 based in Orange Co.
INTERNET GOVERNANCE: Larry Mantle talks HANS KLEIN, Associate Professor about the future of Internet governance and who in the School of Public Policy at POLI, will have authority and control over the vast and the Georgia Institute of TECH complicated electronic network. AT 10/3/2005 :30 Technology. John Lahr, Senior Drama Critic of AUGUST WILSON: Award winning playwright The New Yorker Magazine. August Wilson passed away yesterday, less Gordon Davidson, Founding than two months after announcing he had Artistic Director of the Center OBIT inoperable liver cancer. He was 60. AT 10/3/2005 :10 Theatre Group. DAVID BALTIMORE TO RESIGN FROM CALTECH: Nobel laureate David Baltimore David Baltimore, President of SCIE, joins Larry Mantle to talk about his decision to Caltech. He has a Nobel Prize in SGV resign as President of Caltech. AT 10/4/2005 :20 biology. Jerri Price, Director of Education BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN JAZZ AND for The Pasadena Symphony and CLASSICAL: Larry Mantle speaks with the Producer of Clazzical Notes. musicians involved in “Clazzical Notes,” The John Pisano, Jazz Guitarist. Pasadena Symphony’s newest adult Robert Edward Thies, Classical ART educational outreach program AT 10/4/2005 :40 Pianist.
LOS ANGELES TIMES: SOFTER, FLASHIER AND MORE PROFITABLE? Larry Mantle talks with New Yorker staff writer Ken Auletta about Ken Auletta, staff writer for the ECON the Los Angeles Times. AT 10/5/2005 :30 New Yorker David Wharton, co-author of Conquest: Pete Carroll and the Trojans’ Climb to the Top of the College Football Mountain. Gary CONQUEST – USC FOOTBALL: USC Coach, Klein, co-author of Conquest: Pete Pete Carroll, rebuilt the school’s football Carroll and the Trojans’ Climb to program and led the Trojans to two consecutive the Top of the College Football SPO National Championships in 2003 and 2004. AT 10/5/2005 :20 Mountain. CALTECH PROFESSOR ROBERT GRUBBS Robert Grubbs, Victor and SCIE, WINS THE 2005 NOBEL PRIZE FOR Elizabeth Atkins Professor of SGV CHEMISTRY AT 10/6/2005 :10 Chemistry at Caltech.
Lawrence Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Hal Kempfer, Lt. Colonel in the USMC Reserves. James Phillips, senior policy analyst for Middle IRAQ UPDATE: Larry talks to experts about the Eastern Studies, at the Heritage current conditions, the referendum, and what we Foundation. Bobby Ghosh, TIME can expect in the coming months in that war- Magazine Senior Baghdad FORE torn country. AT 10/6/2005 :30 Correspondent Richard Riordan, former Los Angeles mayor and former California Education Secretary. Steve Barr, Founder and Chief Executive, Green Dot Charter MAYOR’S EDUCATION PROPOSALS: Larry Schools. David Tokovsky, LAUSD Mantle discusses the proposals, and the larger Board Member from District 5. ramifications of Villaraigosa’s plan, with A.J. Duffy, President, United EDU education professionals. AT 10/6/2005 :30 Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) Andy Klein, film editor and chief critic of both CityBeat and ValleyBeat, Henry Sheehan of HenrySheehan.com, and Charles FILMWEEK: Larry Mantle and critics discuss Solomon, animation critic for ART this week's new releases. AT 10/6/2005 1:00 amazon.com
Joel Fox, Past-President of Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. Trudy Schaefer, PROPOSITION 76: Larry Mantle moderates a Program Director and Legislative debate on Proposition 76, which places new Advocate for the League of POLI limits on state spending AT 10/10/2005 1:00 Womens Voters of California. RAY GUNS AND BUCK ROGERS…FOR REAL: Larry talks to Doug Beason, author of The E- Bomb, about his new book on military Doug Beason, retired colonel in TECH technologies of the future. AT 10/10/2005 :20 the U.S. Air Force. Charles Ornstein, Los Angeles Times staff writer. Zev KING/DREW: NOW WHAT? Larry Mantle and Yaroslavsky, LA County guests discuss the future of King/Drew and Supervisor 3rd District & MTA MEDI likelihood that the hospital will close. AT 10/11/2005 :20 Board Member Supervisor.
POVERTY AND RACE IN NEW ORLEANS: In a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece, American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Joe Hicks, a social critic and vice Murray advanced the theory that the president of Community lawlessness seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Advocates. Kwame Asante, Katrina was caused by the failure of government President of the NAACP of Baton ECON to address root problems. AT 10/11/2005 :20 Rouge, Louisiana.
Matt Klink, Southern California REMOTE DUELING DISCOUNT DRUG PROGRAM spokesman for Californians for , ECON, INITIATIVES: Larry Mantle moderates a special Affordable Prescriptions. Anthony POLI, AirTalk broadcast on Propositions 78 and 79 Wright, Executive Director of HEAL from the Chinatown Public Library. AT 10/12/2005 1:00 Health Access California. THE NEW VIDEO IPOD: On Wednesday, Apple Computer and its head honcho Steve Jobs introduced the new Apple video i-Pod. Larry Mantle talks with digital audio expert James Kim from cnet.com about the new video I- Pod technology and how it might change our James Kim, Senior Editor of digital TECH viewing and listening habits. AT 10/13/2005 :20 audio for cnet.com LOVE MY RIFLE MORE THAN YOU: Larry Kayla Williams, author of LOVE talks with Williams about her new book, LOVE MY RIFLE MORE THAN YOU: MY RIFLE MORE THAN YOU: Young and Young and Female in the U.S. LIT Female in the U.S. Army. AT 10/13/2005 :30 Army.
Janice Hahn, Los Angeles City Councilwoman for the 15th district. Assemblywoman Betty Karnette, (D-Long Beach), 54th District. Geraldine Knatz, Managing Director of Development for the Port of Long Beach. S. David Freeman, President of the Los Angeles Board of Harbor THE PORTS OF LONG BEACH AND LOS Commissioners, Port of Los ANGELES: Larry Mantle talks with a panel of Angeles. Julie Masters, Senior experts about security and environmental issues Attorney and head of the Southern REMOTE at both the Ports of Long Beach and Los California Air Project for the , ENVI Angeles. AT 10/14/2005 1:00 NRDC. Dr. Michael Friedman, President STEM CELL LINES CREATED WITHOUT and CEO of City of Hope Cancer SCIE EMBRYOS AT 10/17/2005 :14 Center. Dan Murphy, Middle East Correspondent/Cairo Bureau Chief for the Christian Science Monitor. Barbara Bodine, Executive IRAQ’S CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM: Director of the Middle Eastern Larry Mantle talks with the Christian Science Governance Initiative at the Belfer Monitor’s Dan Murphy about this weekend’s Center for Science and Iraqi elections. Larry also talks with Barbara International Affairs at Harvard’s Bodine of the Belfer Center at Harvard’s John F. John F. Kennedy School of FORE Kennedy School of Government. AT 10/17/2005 :30 Government.
Rafe Esquith, Teacher, Hobart Boulevard Elementary School. Patricia Rucker, Instruction and Professional Development Specialist with the California Teachers Association (CTA). Prof. Stella Erbes, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, Coordinator PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS: Larry Mantle of Secondary Education, discusses a number of issues facing teachers Pepperdine University-Seaver including teacher recruitment, retention, training, College. David McCabe, tenure, pay, among others. What makes a good Education Program Coordinator, EDU teacher? AT 10/18/2005 :54 Pasadena City College Philip Seymour Hoffman, star of “Capote.” Mr. Hoffman’s numerous films include Magnolia, THE NEW FILM, CAPOTE: Larry Mantle talks Boogie Nights, The Talented Mr. with actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, star of the Ripley, Almost Famous, and new film Capote, and with the film’s director HBO’s Empire Falls), among Bennett Miller about this film that provides a others. Bennett Miller, director of ART glimpse into the life of writer Truman Capote. AT 10/18/2005 :30 “Capote” Karen Mapp, lecturer in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Charlotte Castagnola, Program Associate for Parents as Learning Partners at LAUSD’s District 2. Martha Powell, Principal, Aldama Elementary. Tracy Mikuriya, President of the PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT: Research shows Parent Teacher Association at Don parent involvement in schools improves student Benito Fundamental School in EDU performance, but why, how and what kind? AT 10/19/2005 :40 Pasadena.
THE TRIUMPHE OF SAM COOKE: Awarding Peter Guralnick, author of Dream winning music biographer Peter Guralnick joins Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Larry Mantle to talk about Sam Cooke, the Cooke (Little Brown and ART subject of his new book Dream Boogie. AT 10/19/2005 :30 Company). Congressman Henry Waxman. Larry Pratt, Executive Director, GUN MANUFACTURERS TO BE SHIELDED Gun Owners of America. Josh FROM LAWSUITS: Congress passed a bill Horwitz, Executive Director of the today protecting the firearms industry from Education fund to Stop Gun POLI massive crime-victim lawsuits. AT 10/20/2005 :30 Violence. LIVE NPR COVERAGE: FEDERAL RESERVE ECON, CHAIRMAN ALAN GREENSPAN ANNOUNCES POLI HIS SUCCESSOR AT 10/24/2005 :54
PROPOSITION 77: AMENDING THE Steve Poizner, Campaign Chair, REDISTRICTING PROCESS: John Rabe Yes on 77. Eugene Lee, voting discusses Proposition 77 with a proponent and rights Staff Attorney for Asian an opponent of the measure which will appear Pacific American Legal Center POLI on the November 8 special election ballot. AT 10/25/2005 :30 (APALC). Congressman Xavier Becerra. Congressman Becerra. State Senator Gloria Romero, Democrat, THE PASSING OF FORMER CONGRESSMAN Senate District 24. Fernando ED ROYBAL: When he was elected to the Guerra, Associate Professor of House of Representatives in 1962, Ed Roybal Political Science and Director of became the first Hispanic legislator that the Center for the Study of Los California had sent to Congress in some 80 Angeles, at Loyola Marymount OBIT years. AT 10/26/2005 :11 University.
HARRIET MIERS WITHDRAWL, THE David Menefee-Libey, Political POLITICALS BEHIND IT: Bowing to constant Science Professor at Pomona attack from conservatives, President Bush College. Dr. Alfred Balitzer, abandoned his push to put Harriet Miers on the Professor of Government and Supreme Court. Democrats accused him of Senior Research Fellow at POLI bowing to the ``radical right”. AT 10/27/2005 :11 Claremont Graduate University.
IT’S INDICTMENT DAY: Karl Rove escaped indictment at least for now, but Vice presidential adviser Lewis “Scooter” Libby was not so lucky. Linda Feldmann, White House He has been charged with obstruction of justice, Correspondent for Christian POLI making false statements and perjury. AT 10/28/2005 :11 Science Monitor PRESDIENT BUSH NOMINATES SAMUEL Erwin Chemerinsky, Professor of ALITO TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME Constitutional Law, Duke COURT: Larry Mantle talks about the University School of Law. John nomination of Samuel Alito to the United States Eastman, Professor of Law, POLI Supreme Court AT 10/31/2005 :30 Chapman University. INTERVIEW WITH SENATOR BARBARA POL BOXER ON ALITO NOMINATION AT 11/1/2005 :12 BARBARA BOXER
SECRET MEETING IN THE SENATE: Democrats forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session yesterday. Senate Minority leader Harry Reid is demanding an accounting of what went wrong with the intelligence that President Bush used to Jim Manley, spokesman for Harry justify the war in Iraq. He accused Republican Reid, Senator from Nevada and members of the Intelligence committee, who Democratic leader. Max Boot is an were supposed to study this issue, of author and military historian. He is stonewalling. Republicans deny this, but the a senior fellow at the Council on indictment of Lewis “Scooter” Libby, and Foreign Relations, a contributing accusations that pre-war assessments of Iraq’s editor to The Weekly Standard and WMDs may have been intentionally a weekly columnist for The Los POL exaggerated have Democrats AT 11/2/2005 :12 Angeles Times AN UNLIKELY WAR CORRESPONDENT: London Times celebrity reporter Chris Ayres was happy pumping out articles on Britney Spears when his editors decided to send him on POL, a camping trip in the Iraqi desert, courtesy of the Chris Ayres, author of War FORE, 2nd Division, 11th Battalion of the US Marine Reporting for Cowards (Atlantic LIT Corps. AT 11/2/2005 1:00 Monthly Press)
DEFENSE CUTS MAY AFFECT BOEING WORKERS IN LONG BEACH: The Air Force has scrapped plans to order additional C-17 cargo planes, which could bring Boeing Co. a Kevin Klowden, Research step closer to shuttering its Long Beach plant in Economist with The Milken 2008. Boeing has about 6,500 employees in Institute specializing in Long Beach, at California's last major airplane transportation and employment manufacturing plant, where the four-engine jet economics. Jacki Harris, used to transport personnel and heavy President of UAW Local 148, OC, equipment in Iraq and Afghanistan is which represents 2,600 workers at ECON assembled. AT 11/4/2005 :20 the Boeing plant in Long Beach.
Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Chicano Studies, UC Irvine. Alfred Balitzer, Professor of Government and Senior Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University. Tony Perry, LA Times San Diego POL ELECTION PREVIEW AT 11/7/2005 :50 bureau chief. POL CHECK IN AT THE POLLS AT 11/8/2005 :04 John Rabe, KPCC reporter Marc Blitz, Fletcher Jones Professor of Political Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College. His most recent book is Duty Bound: Responsibility and American THE VOLCKER REPORT: Larry talks with Public Life. Before coming to experts about the U.N. Oil for Food program and Claremont, he served as a senior the Volcker Commission Report, a 500-page staff member of the Senate document detailing alleged corruption by Foreign Relations Committee countries involved in the program. After an 18- during the Reagan Administration month inquiry into the scandal, the commission and as Associate Director of the found that half of the 4,500 companies taking United States Information Agency. part in the oil-for-food program paid kickbacks Maggie Farley, UN correspondent FORE and surcharges to Saddam Hussein. AT 11/8/2005 :30 for the Los Angeles Times. THE BRAIN AND CREATIVITY: World renowned neurobiologist Antonio Damasio joins Larry Mantle to talk about the newly created Antonio Damasio, neuroscientist, Institute for the Neurobiological Study of neurologist, and the Director of Emotion, Decision-making and Creativity, that USC’s Institute for the he and his wife, neurologist Hanna Damasio are Neurobiological Study of Emotion, SCIE heading at USC. AT 11/9/2005 :30 Decision-making and Creativity
Joe Hicks, social critic and Vice President of Community Advocates, Inc., a non-traditional civil rights organization. Earl Ofari Hutchinson, political analyst, radio CRIPS FOUNDER “TOOKIE” WILLIAMS – host, TV commentator and noted EXECUTION OR CLEMENCY? The founder of author of nine books about the the Crips gang, Stanley “Tookie” Williams, is African American experience in scheduled to be executed on December 13 th at America. His on-line newsletter is POL San Quentin State Prison. AT 11/10/2005 :25 called the Hutchinson Report.
Ron Kaye, editor of The Daily News of Los Angeles. Wendy Greuel, LA City Council Member representing District 2 in the Northeast San Fernando Valley. Miguel Santiago, President of the Canoga Park Neighborhood Council. Richard Close, President of the Sherman Oaks THE STATE OF THE SAN FERNANDO Homeowners Association (SOHA), VALLEY: AirTalk continues it’s 20th Anniversary the largest HOA in the city. Bob REMOTE Tour with a live broadcast from Spazio Jazz Hertzberg, attorney and , ECON Club in Sherman Oaks. AT 11/11/2005 1:00 businessman Todd Maurer, Executive Director of Sinica Advisors, Ltd. Michael Wade, President of the China Trade Development Corporation. Michael Parr, export manager for DOING BUSINESS IN MAINLAND CHINA: Wente Vineyards, the oldest family- Larry Mantle talks with experts and owned CA winery. Jerome Cohen, entrepreneurs about the promise, the difficulties, Professor at NYU School of Law, FORE, and the dangers of selling American products to and a specialist on the Chinese ECON the mainland Chinese. AT 11/14/2005 :35 legal system.
Jon Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Michael J. Wise, Partner, and Chair of the China Intellectual INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CHINA: Property Practice for the law firm Larry Mantle discusses the issue of Intellectual Perkins Coie. Andrew Mertha, Property as it relates to the U.S. and China. Is it Author of The Politics of Piracy: FORE, possible to regulate counterfeiting, and Intellectual Property in POL intellectual property violations in China? AT 11/15/2005 :40 Contemporary China. J. Thomas Rosenthal, MD Director, UCLA Medical Group HEA, NEW STUDY SAYS THAT LOS ANGELES IS Vice Provost, UCLA Medical ECON THE LEADER IN COSTLY CARE FOR DYING AT 11/16/2005 :20 Group Affairs. TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL: Larry Mantle speaks with Tab Hunter who has written a candid and eye-opening autobiography Tab Hunter, author of Tab Hunter revealing what its like to be a movie star at the Confidential: The Making of a ART end of the big studio era AT 11/16/2005 :30 Movie Star MIKE WALLACE: A leading force behind 60 Minutes, CBS’s seminal newsmagazine, Mike Wallace is a familiar face of American television. His direct, forward, and often confrontation interview style has engaged audiences – and terrified corrupt politicians and bureaucrats – for many decades. But Wallace, unlike his newsroom colleagues at CBS, started Mike Wallace, author Between out not as a journalist, but as an actor and You and Me : A Memoir. (The book ART announcer. AT 11/17/2005 :30 was written with Gary Paul Gates).
Dana Rohrabacher, Republican Congressman from the 46th district. Brad Sherman, Democratic congressman from the San Fernando Valley’s 27th PRESIDENT BUSH UNDER FIRE: Larry and his congressional district. Bob Drogin, guests discuss the controversy over the pre-war Los Angeles Times reporter who intelligence on Iraq and how questions about co-authored “How U.S. Fell Under the administration's competence are being fired the Spell of ‘Curveball. Ken Rudin, POL from both the left and the right. AT 11/21/2005 1:00 NPR Political Editor. DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LAUSD: Larry speaks with KPCC’s education reporter, Adolfo Guzman Lopez, about recent developments at Adolfo Guzman Lopez, KPCC EDU Belmont High School. AT 11/22/2005 :20 reporter
ELIA KAZAN: Larry Mantle talks with Time film critic Richard Schickel about his new book Elia Richard Schickel, author of Elia LIT Kazan: A Biography (HarperCollins) AT 11/22/2005 :30 Kazan: A Biography
Mary Roach, author of Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Norton). Her first book, Stiff, took a similarly unique look at issues SPOOK: What happens when we die? Does the about the human corpse. Her light just go out and that's that—the million-year writing has appeared in Salon, nap or will some part of our personality persist? Wired, GQ, and the New York LIT What will death feel like? AT 11/24/2005 :30 Times Magazine. Andy Klein, film editor and chief critic of both CityBeat and FILMWEEK: Larry Mantle and critics discuss ValleyBeat, and Scott Foundas of ART this week's new releases. AT 11/25/2005 1:00 Variety and the L.A. Weekly
Jack Kyser, Chief Economist, Los Angeles Economic Development THE ECONOMIC FUTURE OF CALIFORNIA’S Corporation. Steve McDonald, FILM INDUSTRY: Larry talks about the results President of LA's Entertainment and the economic future of California's film Industry Development Corporation. ART, industry with Jack Kyser, co-author of the study, Amy Lemisch, Director of the ECON Steve McDonald, president of LA’s EIDC. AT 11/29/2005 :30 California Film Commission.
Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, Director of DR. THOMAS GARTHWAITE RESIGNS: The the Department of Health Services embattled director of the Department of Health for LA County. Zev Yaroslavsky, Services for LA County, Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, LA County Supervisor representing HEA resigned. AT 11/30/2005 :24 the Third Supervisorial District.
Brian Dietz, Vice-President of Communication with the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA). Dan Isett, “A LA CARTE” CABLE AND INDECENCY: director of corporate and Federal Communications Commission government affairs for the Parents Chairman Kevin Martin told Congress Tuesday Television Council. Paul Crouch that parents need better and more tools to help Jr., Vice President of them navigate the, entertainment waters, Administration at Trinity ART particularly on cable and satellite TV. AT 12/1/2005 :30 Broadcasting Network.
Tom Regan, regular contributor for POL 9/11 PANEL REPORT CARD AT 12/5/2005 :30 the Christian Science Monitor. THE LIFE AND IMAGINATION OF C.S. LEWIS: Over the past half century, children have Alan Jacobs, author of The escaped into the world of delight and Narnian: The Life and Imagination enchantment created by C.S Lewis in The of C.S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia. Alan Jacobs, author of a (HarperSanFrancisco), professor new biography of C.S. Lewis, joins Larry Mantle of English and director of the Faith to talk about one of the most gifted and and Learning Program at Wheaton LIT influential writers of his day. AT 12/5/2005 :30 College in Illinois. JAZZLIFE: In 1960 noted jazz photographer, William Claxton and musicologist Joachim E. Berndt traveled the country for months on the trail of jazz music. A year later Jazzlife, was published. The book chronicles an era regarded as one of the greatest in the history of ART jazz. AT 12/6/2005 :30 William Claxton, photographer. Walter Russell Mead, Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. PRESIDENT BUSH’S IRAQ STRATEGY: Foreign Policy at the Council on President Bush delivered his second in a series Foreign Relations. Max Sowickey, of four speeches today on his Iraq strategy to economist for the Economic Policy FORE the Council on Foreign Relations. AT 12/7/2005 :20 Institute.
David Maul, Program Manager for LNG TERMINAL IN LONG BEACH: Larry talks Special Projects at the California with a representative of FERC about that Energy Commission. Brian Lee, agency’s documents regarding the safety of the spokesman for FERC (Federal SEC, OC proposed LNG terminal in Long Beach. AT 12/8/2005 :10 Energy Regulatory Commission)
Dr. Jehni Robinson, Chief Medical Officer at The Los Angeles Free Clinic in Hollywood. Dr. Robert K. Ross, President and Chief Executive Officer at The California Endowment. John Wallace, Director of External and HEALTH CARE FOR THE UNINSURED IN LOS Government Relations for the LA ANGELES: Larry Mantle travels to the Los County Department of Health Angeles Free Clinic in Hollywood to moderate a Services. Gerald Kominski, discussion with a panel of expert guests on the Professor of Health Services and REMOTE subject of providing health care for LA County’s Associate Director of the UCLA , HEA uninsured. AT 12/9/2005 1:00 Center for Health Policy Research.
Ken Frank, City Manager for the LAGUNA BEACH’S MEASURE A – On City of Laguna Beach. Gary December 13th, Laguna Beach residents will go Alstot, Measure A opponent. He’s to the polls to decide on a six-year, half-cent a columnist for the Laguna Beach POLI, sales tax increase. The proceeds would help Independent and former President ENVI, refill city coffers that have been drained to pay of the Laguna Beach Taxpayers OC for landslide repairs. AT 12/12/2005 :10 Association. Stan Rosenstein, Deputy Director of Medical Care Services at the California Department of Health STATE PROVIDES DRUG COVERAGE Services. David Lipschutz, Staff BRIDGE: Larry Mantle talks with an official from Attorney with California Health HEA, the State’s Dept. of Health Services about the Advocates, a non-profit consumer POL situation. AT 12/13/2005 :30 health advocacy organization.
Xavier Becerra, (Democrat) FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAWS MAY GET Congressman from California’s TOUGHER: Larry Mantle talks with members of 31st District. Mark Krikorian, IMMIG, Congress about the provisions of this Executive Director, The Center for POL Sensenbrenner’s legislation. AT 12/14/2005 :20 Immigration Studies
WHOOPING COUGH OUTBREAK: Larry Mantle talks with Los Angeles County Director Dr. Jonathan Fielding, Director of of Public Health Dr. Jonathan Fielding about Public Health and Health Officer, what whooping cough is, why cases are rising, Los Angeles County Dept of HEAL and his concerns about the local outbreak. AT 12/15/2005 :10 Health Services.
BUSH ALLOWED NSA TO ILLEGALLY Adam Schiff, Representative for EAVESDROP ON PHONE CONVERSATIONS: 29th District in the House of President Bush authorized the National Security Representatives. John Eastman, Agency to eavesdrop on thousands inside the Professor of Law Chapman U United States, without getting search warrants, School of Law, and Director of POL, following the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a Claremont Institute's Center for LAW The New York Times story published today. AT 12/16/2005 :14 Constitutional Jurisprudence.
David Menefee-Libey, Professor of Politics at Pomona College. Jack Pitney, Associate Professor of Government at Claremont POL BUSH’S SPEECH & PRESS CONFERENCE AT 12/19/2005 :30 McKenna College.
Hector Becerra, Los Angeles Times staff writer. Daniel Borochoff, President of the HEAL PROBLEMS AT THE RED CROSS AT 12/20/2005 :30 American Institute of Philanthropy.
CALIFORNIA PRISONS END POLICY OF RACIAL SEPARATION: Ending a long-standing practice, California prison officials have agreed Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for to stop using race as a principal criteria for the Department of Corrections and segregating inmates. Larry Mantle talks with Rehabilitation. Laurie Levenson, guests about the significance of this settlement Professor of Law and Associate and how prison authorities will handle this Dean, Academic Affairs Loyola LAW change in policy. AT 12/21/2005 :20 Law School. Christopher White, TSA spokesman. Brian Michael NEW TSA REGULATIONS: Larry talks with a Jenkins, Senior Advisor to the Christopher White of the TSA and Rand President of the Rand Corporation. terrorism expert, Brian Michael Jenkins, about Chris Witkowski, director of Air what the government hopes to accomplish with Safety, Health and Security for the SEC the new regulations. AT 12/21/2005 :20 Association of Flight Attendants. Neal Guglielmo, Manager of Recycling for the City of Los Angeles. Rosalie Mule, member WASTE MANAGEMENT: The mountains of of the California Integrated Waste garbage keep growing in communities Management Board, used to work throughout the Southland. Where are we going for BFI. Mark Murray, Executive to put all this rubbish? Larry talks to experts Director, Californians Against ENVI about this important question. AT 12/22/2005 :30 Waste.
ONE NATION UNDER GOD: In his new book, One Nation Under God: The History of Prayer in James P. Moore, Jr., author of LIT, America, James Moore looks at our country’s One Nation Under God: The RELIG history through the prism of prayer. AT 12/26/2005 1:00 History of Prayer in America. CALIFORNIA REPUBLICANS IN ’05 and the AGENDA for ’06: 2005 was hardly a banner Kevin McCarthy, State Assembly POLI year for California Republicans. AT 12/27/2005 :30 Republican Leader. Marc Silver, Assistant Managing WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE IN 2006: Editor at U.S. News & World Don’t have a New Year’s resolution yet? Is the Report. Marc edited the piece, 50 idea of improving your life so daunting, you’re Ways to Improve Your Life in LIT, I not even sure where to start? AT 12/28/2005 :30 2006.
ORANGE COUNTY JOURNALIST Steve Greenhut, Orange County “ROUNDTABLE:” Ted Chen talks about the Register senior editorial writer and latest news events and developments in Orange columnist. Gustavo Arellano, Staff OC County. AT 12/29/2005 :30 Writer for the OC Weekly.
CRITICS PICK: TOP TEN FILMS AND DVD RELEASES OF 2005: Ted Chen talks with NBC Jeffrey Lyons, NBC film critic. film critic, Jeffrey Lyons, and Entertainment Leonard Maltin, film critic and Tonight film critic, Leonard Maltin, about what historian for Entertainment ENT they consider the best, and worst, films of 2005. AT 12/30/2005 :20 Tonight.
Key Program Title P Date Time F Guest(s) Kenwood Fire: There is a 10 acre fire burning Robin Prince: Fire Information near the Kenwood exit off the I-15 in San Officer, San Bernardino National ENVIR Bernardino County. TOTC 10/4/2005 :04 Forest Election Results: Republican state Senator John Campbell finished first in yesterday's special Dena Bunis: Washington D.C. election in Orange County's 48th Congressional bureau chief, Orange County POLIT District. TOTC 10/5/2005 :07 Register. Proposition 77: Redistricting: Proposition 77 on the November ballot would amend the process for redistricting in California. Instead of the Bill Mundell, Chairman of legislature redrawing the boundaries of the Californians for Fair Redistricting. districts used to elect public officials, the job Nathan Lowenstein, Associate would be given to a panel of three retired Director for the No on 77 POLIT judges. TOTC 10/6/2005 :14 Campaign.
Kathy Gannon: Currently the Iran I is for Infidel Part II: Kitty spoke with AP bureau chief designate. Also, reporter Kathy Gannon about Afghanistan Author, I is for Infidel: From Holy FORE, earlier this week. She returns to the program War to Holy Terror: 18 Years RELIG today to discuss Pakistan. TOTC 10/7/2005 :15 inside Afghanistan (Public Affairs). What Can Superman Teach you About Quantum Mechanics?: Physics Professor James Kakalios (“Professor K”) has made teaching physics actually FUN by using the concepts to explain the scientifically plausible feats of some heroes and the completely James Kakalios: The Physics of LIT ridiculous exploits of others. TOTC 10/10/2005 :11 Superheroes
Bob Finkelstein: Executive Proposition 80: Electric Service Provider Director, The Utility Reform Regulation: Power to the people – that’s what Network (TURN). Dan Pellissier: Proposition 80 proposes. Kitty moderates a Campaign Manager, NO on Prop lively debate that hopefully sheds some light on 80 campaign; “Californians for POLIT a complicated issue. TOTC 10/12/2005 :14 reliable electricity”
Law Students take on Katrina: In an unprecedented partnership, Southwestern Law School has teamed with the American Red Cross and the LA Pro Bono Council to create an Emergency Legal Clinic for the over 1,000 Bryant Garth, dean of LAW Hurricane Katrina evacuees in the LA area. TOTC 10/12/2005 :07 Southwestern Law School
New Candidate for California Attorney General: Pierre Prosper: Candidate for Former Ambassador Pierre Prosper will California Attorney General; announce his candidacy for California Attorney Former US Ambassador for War POLI General on Talk of the City today. TOTC 10/17/2005 :11 Crimes Issues
Education Week Feature: What Makes A Good Education?: What makes for a good education – better organized administration, stronger REMOTE curriculum, community involvement – or does it , EDUC all come down to that one really great teacher? TOTC 10/21/2005 :15
Jared Genser, Attorney with the global law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary. He is co-author of the report “Threat to the Peace: A Call Burma Struggle: Burma, also known as for the UN Security Council to Act Myanmar, is in the spotlight again for what in Burma,” commissioned by activists say are atrocious and ongoing human Vaclav Havel and Bishop FORE rights violations. TOTC 10/24/2005 :05 Desmond Tutu. NPR Reporter Rob Gifford: After spending the last six years in China, NPR reporter Rob Gifford is taking on a new assignment in POLI London. TOTC 10/25/2005 :23 NPR Reporter Rob Gifford Steve Henson: Sports reporter Steve Henson: Sports reporter covering the covering the Dodgers for the Los SPORT Dodgers for the Los Angeles Times TOTC 10/31/2005 :07 Angeles Times
TOTC / I Global Health Conference: Leaders from politics Ann Veneman, Executive Director / HEAL / to policy, medicine, government and big of UNICEF. Nils Daulaire, FOR / business are meeting in New York City to President and CEO, Global Health YOUT discuss solutions to global health crises. TOTC 11/2/2005 :12 Council. TOTC / I The Special Election Quiz – What Do You / POLI / Know?: Take a chance and test yourself with Tamara Keith, KPCC’s SAC our special election quiz. TOTC 11/4/2005 :24 Sacramento bureau reporter
Heart Gallery: November is National Adoption TOTC / I Month, and with a little bit of help from a few / YOUT / talented photographers, previously hard-to- Tina Anjozian, photographer for ART place foster kids are finding homes. TOTC 11/8/2005 :08 Heart Gallery
Adolfo Guzman Lopez, KPCC reporter. Frank Stoltze, KPCC Local Races to Watch: We’re all familiar with Reporter. Martin Wisckol, Politics TOTC / I the 8 propositions on the November ballot, but Reporter, Orange County Register. / POLI / what about the county measures and city races Steven Cuevas, KPCC Inland OC / IE on local ballots? TOTC 11/7/2005 :15 Empire reporter. Special Elections—the big picture for Democracy in CA: Schwarzenegger came to Michael Alvarez, Professor of power in California with a special election, two Political Science, Caltech; TOTC / I years later he is calling one of his own. But is Associate Director, USC-Caltech / POLI / this the most efficient way for California to Center for the Study of Law and SAC govern itself? TOTC 11/7/2005 :12 Politics
Wilshire Boulevard – Grand Concourse: Wilshire Boulevard is often called the “Symbolic Spine” of LA, the “Fifth Avenue of the West,” and the “Champs Elysees of the Pacific”. To celebrate this famous avenue, the LA Cindy Olnick, communications Conservancy is launching a new educational manager, LA Conservancy. Kevin TOTC / I initiative called Curating the City that will Roderick, author Wilshire / HIST / underscore the importance of preserving a city’s Boulevard: Grand Concourse of ART / LIT architecture as a means of preserving its past. TOTC 11/8/2005 :19 Los Angeles (Angel City Press).
Race Against Time: Chronicles his frustrations with the developed world’s ongoing failure to respond to the AIDS pandemic in Africa. Lewis, I / FOR / who is in town for one day to deliver the sixth Stephen Lewis, United Nations HEAL / Haskins Lectureship on Science Policy at the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy POLI RAND Corporation. TOTC 11/10/2005 :15 to Africa for AIDS Governor’s New Bond Issue: Following the special election in which all of his propositions went down to defeat, Governor Schwarzenegger Senator Tom McClintock (Rep), is promoting a statewide public works program Senate District 19. H.D. Palmer, D / SAC / that would be financed by a $50 billion plus Deputy Director, California State POLI bond. TOTC 11/14/2005 :15 Department of Finance.
Breaking into the China Film Market: Hollywood is fighting a two-pronged battle in China: it’s trying to get the Chinese authorities to crack John Burman: International down on DVD piracy, while it’s trying to gain General Manager for the I / ENT wider distribution of American films in China. TOTC 11/15/2005 :12 Hollywood Reporter Andy Lipkis: President, China Looks to Southern California for TreePeople. Paul Johansen, Environmental Help: The Chinese government Assistant Director of has brought southern California Environmental Management, Port environmentalists to China to advise it on of Los Angeles. Joe Pan: Partner FORE, innovative ways to tack its panoply of at Lang/Pan/Chan (LPC) Public ENVI environmental problems. TOTC 11/16/2005 :22 Relations.
Another Wen Ho Lee?: Closer to home, the Chinese American community is expressing outrage over the treatment of four suspects portrayed in the media as spies but who were I / FOR / actually only charged with failing to register as George Bao, Reporter Chinese SEC agents of a foreign government. TOTC 11/17/2005 :12 Daily News
Peter Anderson, Nurse Practitioner USC Medical Center. Alberto Mendoza, Co-chair Hepatitis C Hepatitis C – The Silent Epidemic: Hepatitis C is Task Force and Regional Director one of the greatest public health threats of this for Southern California Drug Policy HEA century. TOTC 11/21/2005 :11 Alliance.
Ask the Mayor: L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa’s first 100-plus days in office have been extremely busy ones. From his infamous early morning workouts and trips to D.C., to his appearances, well, everywhere, Mayor Villaraigosa seems to be living up to his promise to bring more energy to his mayoralty than his predecessor, James Hahn. But will all this vigor translate into actual POLI results? TOTC 11/22/2005 :13 Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
Johnny Grant: This Sunday, LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will serve as Grand Marshal of this th year’s Hollywood Christmas parade. This is 74 Johnny Grant, Executive Producer year for the LA tradition and the 27 th in a row for of the Hollywood Christmas ART it executive producer, Johnny Grant. TOTC 11/23/2005 :18 Parade for the past 26 years.
Inside the Not So Big House: Author, architect, and cultural visionary Sarah Susanka joins Kitty to talk about her latest book, Inside the Not So Big House: Discovering the Details that Bring a LIT Home to Life TOTC 11/25/2005 :11 N. Christian Anderson III, CEO & OC, LIT OC Register turns 100 TOTC 11/29/2005 :08 Publisher, Orange County Register
Rachael Myrow, KPCC reporter. Liquefied Natural Gas in Long Beach?: There Tom Giles, President & CEO of are currently only five liquefied natural gas Sound Energy Solutions. SEC, (LNG) terminals in the United States, and Long Elizabeth McCarthy, Editor of the ECON, Beach may house the sixth, pending approval independent weekly California OC by the Long Beach City Council. TOTC 11/30/2005 :19 Energy Circuit.
Agreement Reached on New LAX Plan: After spending $150 million and 11 years designing a modernization plan for LAX, the city has put TOTC / aside most of the resulting blueprint and is TRAN starting over to craft a more modest proposal. TOTC 12/1/2005 :06 Rachael Myrow, KPCC reporter Capital Punishment in California: There are TOTC / currently 648 inmates on California’s Death POLI / Row. Stanley “Tookie” Williams, the co-founder SAC / of the notorious Crips street gang, is probably LAW / P / the most prominent Death Row inmate in the D country. TOTC 12/6/2005 :14 Frank Stoltze, KPCC reporter
TOTC / Ask the Chief: This month, Police Chief William LAW / Bratton joins Kitty to talk about the latest LAPD POLI developments and to take your calls. TOTC 12/7/2005 :13 LAPD Chief William Bratton
Clemency Hearing Update: Attorneys for convicted killer Stanley "Tookie" Williams TOTC / pleaded their case for clemency today to Gov. LAW / Arnold Schwarzenegger, who will now decide Tamara Keith: KPCC Sacramento SAC whether the Crips co-founder will be executed. TOTC 12/8/2005 :06 Reporter Larry Gelbart: A Hollywood fixture for over 60 TOTC / years, Larry Gelbart, joins Kitty to discuss his ENT / latest project, a one night only benefit of his new ART play “Floodgate.” TOTC 12/9/2005 :20 Larry Gelbart
Salem al-Jawad, National Media Coordinator for the election. Melissa Aleshaiker, Iraqi voting today after work in Pomona. Ban Elections in Iraq: Voting in So Cal: Iraqis now Al-Ani, Iraqi born, voted today. TOTC / living in Southern California will be able to take Rastgo Shali, Kurd Voted at El FOR / part in their country's election by voting at the Cajon today. John Kalabat, POLI / P Pomona Fairplex beginning today TOTC 12/13/2005 :14 Christian, voted today. Teri Garr’s Memoir: Teri Garr has lived the TOTC / Hollywood lifestyle, while at the same time LIT / ENT dealing with multiple sclerosis. TOTC 12/14/2005 :12 Teri Garr, actress and author John Maceri, Executive Director, Ocean Park Community Center. Homeless in Santa Monica: In his campaign to Ed Edelman: Former LA become Santa Monica city councilman, Bobby Councilman and County Shriver, sister of First lady Maria Shriver, Supervisor, will oversee Santa TOTC / promised to tackle the issue of homelessness. Monica's homeless programs and HEAL / Now that he has been elected, Shriver is work with other areas to develop HOUS sticking to his promise. TOTC 12/15/2005 :10 regional solutions. Mark Murray: Executive Director, Have an Environmentally Friendly Holiday: Californians against waste. Gary KPCC environmental reporter Ilsa Setziol joins Petersen, Board Member, TOTC / Kitty with tips for celebrating the holidays in an California Integrated Waste ENV environmentally friendly way. TOTC 12/16/2005 :27 Management. Politics as Usual?: On a brief trip away from Washington this past weekend, U.S. Senator Senator Barbara Boxer, U. S. Barbara Boxer visited Los Angeles and sat Senator from California and author down with Kitty to talk about her new novel, A with Mary-Rose Hayes of A Time POLI Time to Run. TOTC 12/19/2005 :22 To Run (Chronicle Books)
New Auto Insurance Regulations: Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced John Garamendi: Insurance regulations requiring auto insurance companies Commissioner. Pete Moraga: to base rates primarily on drivers' records, not Spokesperson, Insurance POLI where they live. TOTC 12/22/2005 :10 Information Network of California. Nick Roman, senior news editor, SPO Top Ten Sports Stories for 2005 TOTC 12/27/2005 :13 KPCC Second Chance Amnesty Ends Saturday: Undocumented immigrants who were disqualified from the amnesty program passed in 1986 because they traveled outside of the Peter Schey, president, Center for country have until Saturday to apply for second- Human Rights and Constitutional IMMIG chance amnesty. TOTC 12/29/2005 :10 Law Jennifer Kerns, Spokesperson, Sec of State Bruce McPherson. Brett Rowley, communications, Voting Machine Certification: Due to the Orange County Registrar of confusion following the 2000 presidential Voters. Connie McCormack, LA election, Congress passed the Help America Registrar of Voters. Barbara Vote Act (HAVA), requiring states to update Dunmore: Riverside County POLI voting systems by 2006. TOTC 12/30/2005 :19 Registrar-recorder.
Key Program Title P Date Time F Guest(s)
ARTS Feature ontalent agents at record companies WE 10/1/2005 3:15 (Montage)
"The stacks," a storage place for rare books, will EDU find new home on UCLA campus WE 10/2/2005 :57 Roman Residents given primer on budget on POL "Community Budget Day" ATC 10/3/2005 2:20 Nakano POL, The Governor gets to choose new State SAC Supreme Court Justice ATC 10/3/2005 1:02 Keith EDU, SGV Cal Tech president announces his retirement ATC 10/4/2005 :59 Myrow ENV Relieved fire evacuees reflect, show thanks ME 10/4/2005 3:35 Stoltze Antiquities curator at Getty Museum quits amid ARTS investigation into looted art ME 10/4/2005 :56 Guzman San Bernardino County issues preliminary injunction blocking the city from disbandin gthe LAW police force ATC 10/4/2005 1:14 Cuevas HEA, POL Flu season begins in OC ATC 10/5/2005 :43 Rabe Sen. John Campbell is top votegetter for 48th Congressional district seat; five advance to POL runoff ME 10/5/2005 3:06 Schmitz POL, Governor tries to win over League of CA cities SAC on Prop 76, LA not convinced ATC 10/6/2005 1:47 Keith
LAW Burbank mulls using cameras to catch taggers ATC 10/6/2005 :43 Julian
HEA, POL, OC Flu season begins in OC ME 10/6/2005 2:10 Rabe ARTS Capsule reviews of the week's new movies ME 10/7/2005 3:13 Mantle COMM Commentary opposing Prop 75 ATC 10/7/2005 1:50 Carey Governor signs several more bills including one that would link driver's licenses to the online POL, organ donor registry and outlaw hunting ion the SAC internet ATC 10/7/2005 1:09 Keith Villaraigosa opposes Schwarzenegger special POL election ME 10/7/2005 1:06 Stoltze
One of Orange County's top defense lawyers LAW indicted as part of bail bonds kickback scheme ME 10/7/2005 :58 Roman POL, Governor vetoes gut and amend bill on malt SAC beverages WE 10/9/2005 :45 Keith
ENV Fire weather watch in effect through Monday WE 10/9/2005 :38 Stoltze Q & A with LA Times photog. Boris Yaro, ARTS featured in new Getty exhibit ME 10/10/2005 3:53 Rabe HEA, POL, Eastern San Gabriel Valley tries to make do SGV without trauma center ME 10/10/2005 4:34 Davis State may not be ready for the big one when it SAC comes to communications ME 10/11/2005 4:43 Keith
ENV, Huge wetlands restoration project breaks POL, OC ground today in Newport Bay ATC 10/11/2005 4:07 Schmitz
LAW 2985 murder of Alex Odeh remains unsolved ATC 10/11/2005 1:06 Roman LA Archdiocese releases proffers dealing with LAW sex abuse by clergy ATC 10/12/2005 1:08 Julian Sheriff's Dept., other agencies move to stop LAW spike in Compton murder rate ATC 10/12/2005 3:47 Stoltze
Amnesty International calls for an end to life LAW sentences without parole for juvenile criminals ME 10/13/2005 1:01 Jahad Mayor Villaraigosa speaks with Larry Mantle EDU about education reform ATC 10/13/2005 3:31 Mantle Tickets go on sale for Angels World Series tickets (which are only good if the Angels win SPORTS the pennant) ME 10/13/2005 :56 Roman COMME NTARY COMMENTARY ME 10/13/2005 2:50 Loh POL, Absentee voters could be critical to the SAC November vote ME 10/14/2005 3:42 Keith LA City Council moves to create gang LAW department ATC 10/14/2005 :54 Stoltze
POL, Prop 79 backers are trying to use the Internet to SAC generate buzz about their initiative WE 10/16/2005 1:09 Keith UCLA LAUSD develop language computer to EDU help Spanish students learn English ME 10/17/2005 3:33 Rudick HEA, LA County Supervisors consider King/Drew POL items ME 10/17/2005 :59 Rabe ENV First major storm of season hits area ATC 10/17/2005 :54 Roman
TECH, Telephone service, including 911 service, down ECON, for Long Beach & 11 surrounding communities. LAW, OC A look at the problems it created ATC 10/18/2005 2:49 Schmitz This year's heavy rainfall produces larger then ECON expected harvest for wine vintners ATC 10/18/2005 1:03 Nakano Prop 76 will change how economic forecasting POL is used ME 10/19/2005 4:30 Myers Environmentalists sue in LA over Navy sonar ENV use ME 10/19/2005 :37 Rabe A look at Jefferson HS through the eyes of the EDU former student body president ME 10/19/2005 3:04 Stoltze California doesn't do well in national report that compiles the results of fourth and eighth graders EDU in reading, math ME 10/20/2005 3:27 Jahad Bush visits LA for fundraiser, dedication of Air POL Force One exhibit at Reagan Library ATC 10/20/2005 :25 Rabe Comedian Bill Cosby speaks in Compton - tells RACE residents to work for change ME 10/20/2005 3:25 Davis ARTS Capsule reviews of the week's new movies ME 10/21/2005 3:46 Mantle
Preview of CA Connected report with POL Schwarzenegger, Nunez about special election ME 10/21/2005 5:19 McRee HEA, Another patient dies at King Drew because of POL alleged improper care ATC 10/21/2005 :51 Rabe LA Unified to consider whether to get involved in fight between charter and City of LA Building EDU Dept. ATC 10/21/2005 1:00 Guzman Lopez
LA to have police team up with volunteers LAW trained in helping victims of domestic violence WE 10/22/2005 1:00 Roman Getty opens exhibit of Julius Shulman's ARTS architectural photography work ATC 10/24/2005 3:25 Rabe CA Senators demand disaster plan for CA, local lawmakers ask NASA to keep space work in CA and Rep. Richard Pombo under fire for POL overseas trip ME 10/24/2005 Shaw Greek government goes afer Getty owned ARTS antiquities ATC 10/24/2005 1:00 Guzman Lopez POL, SAC Law enforcement groups endorse the Governor ME 10/24/2005 1:14 Keith
Children's Theater holds community meeting to LAW, discuss arrest of Calimesa City Councilman Jon POL Winningham, who volunteered at the theater ME 10/25/2005 2:21 Cuevas Community leaders demand Paramount remove ads promoting 50 Cent movie Get Rich or Die ARTS Trying ATC 10/25/2005 1:00 Nakano Fish and Game wardens set up checkpoint to IE check for deer and elk carcasses ATC 10/25/2005 :59 Cuevas HEA, LA County Supes stay with Navigant, suspend POL Health Advisory Board ATC 10/26/2005 3:28 Myrow Gary Walker, a reporter with the Compton Bulletin, discusses Bill Cosby's recent speech at RACE Compton High School. ATC 10/26/2005 5:00 Austin Thomas Congress considers splitting up 9th Circuit Court LAW of Appeals ATC 10/26/2005 1:15 Strickler
South LA residents celebrate victory after Paramount removes billboards promoting 50 ARTS Cent's new movie - "Get Rich or Die Tryin" ATC 10/27/2005 1:02 Nakano Latest Academic Performance Index numbers show more than two-thirds of California's EDU schools last year met targets ME 10/28/2005 1:10 Roman Explainer on Proposition 75, the union dues POL SAC initiative ATC 10/28/2005 4:01 Keith High school officials allow student to pass out EDU flyers critical of military ME 10/28/2005 :52 Guzman Reax to Samuel Alito nomination to the POL Supreme Court ATC 10/31/2005 Julian Orange Line opened for first weekday runs on TRANS Monday ATC 10/31/2005 3:10 Myrow POL, Field poll brings more bad news for the SAC Governor ME 11/1/2005 :59 Keith Officials break ground on 140 acre park in East ENV LA ATC 11/1/2005 1:00 Myrow
Explainer on Proposition 78, the drug discount POL measure funded by pharmaceutical companies ME 11/2/2005 3:36 Keith Art school students update Day of the Dead ARTS altar for the digital age ME 11/3/2005 2:54 Guzman Lopez
LA Unified will get millions of dollars from Gates EDU foundation for low-performing high schools ATC 11/3/2005 :52 Guzman Lopez State Dept. of Justice says murder rate down LAW slightly in CA ATC 11/3/2005 1:03 Roman A look at how the San Bernardino mayoral POL candidates stand on economic issues ME 11/4/2005 4:32 Cuevas HEA, King/Drew announces its shutting down liver POL transplant progra ATC 11/4/2005 :40 Rabe Bakersfield school settles with journalism students; allows article on gay students to be POL published WE 11/5/2005 :47 Rabe Researchers at UC Davis say it's virtually certain avian flu will arrive in So Cal, potentially HEA devastating poultry WE 11/6/2005 1:05 Roman POL, SAC Absentee voting could slow vote tally ME 11/7/2005 :49 Keith Herb Wesson is a shoe-in in 10th District POL Council race ME 11/7/2005 4:35 Stoltze Secretary of State predicts 42-percent turnout POL for special elex ME 11/7/2005 :56 O'Mara POL JDL activist Earl Krugel is killed in prison ATC 11/7/2005 1:05 Stoltze
RELIG, IRS accuses Pasadena church of political ECON, involvement that threatens tax-exempt status; 2- POL way with current rector of All Saints ME 11/8/2005 3:55 Mantle LAPD says it'll do a better job of working with LAW LA's clean needle exchange program ATC 11/8/2005 1:02 Roman Democrats rejoice after defeat of every POL proposition in special elex ME 11/9/2005 1:00 Stoltze Herb Wesson elected to 10th District City POL Council seat ME 11/9/2005 1:04 Stoltze Scientists find way to estimate earthquake's ultimate strength at beginning; discovery could ENV save lives ATC 11/9/2005 :55 Julian
Reax of Schwarzenegger's adminstration, POL opponents after special election ballot defeat ATC 11/9/2005 1:46 Keith Governor to meet with legislative leaders POL following special elex ME 11/10/2005 1:00 O'Mara Federal government decertifies UCI's liver HEA transplant program ATC 11/10/2005 :48 Rabe COMME NTARY COMMENTARY ME 11/10/2005 2:51 Loh 2-way with Bloomberg News contributor Katie Harris about death of Peter Drucker - the father ECON of modern management ATC 11/11/2005 3:40 Jahad POL, The L Atimes weights in on itself after giving ARTS several columnists the boot ATC 11/11/2005 :54 Myrow New Orleans performance artist premieres show ARTS about Katrina devastation WE 11/12/2005 4:21 Guzman POL, Schwarzenegger plans to focus on piracy during ARTS China trip WE 11/13/2005 :55 O'Mara POL, Judge rules Rialto can't dissolve its police force, LAW at least not yet ME 11/14/2005 2:00 Cuevas UC pays out more top salaries, as it cuts EDU student services ATC 11/14/2005 :55 Stoltze Rob Schmitz feature on efforts to fight piracy in ECON China ME 11/15/2005 5:00 Schmitz LAX officials promise faster travel this holiday TRANS season, offer tips ATC 11/15/2005 :46 Stoltze Charter Company organizes march on LA Unified headquarters demanding reform at EDU Jefferson High ATC 11/15/2005 :42 Guzman Lopez SPORTS Dodgers pick Giants exec Ned Colletti as GM ATC 11/15/2005 :54 Roman FOR, Rob Schmitz reports from China on day 3 of the POL Governor's trade mission ME 11/16/2005 3:55 Schmitz ECON, MEDIA LA Times to cut 85 newsroom jobs ATC 11/16/2005 :57 Myrow POL, SAC, State legislative analyst releases data showing ECON state on track for balanced budget ATC 11/16/2005 1:09 Keith COMME NTARY COMMENTARY ME 11/17/2005 2:46 Loh FOR, Rob Schmitz from China on Day 4 of the Gov's POL trade mission ME 11/17/2005 3:48 Schmitz ARTS Capsule reviews of the week's new movies ATC 11/17/2005 3:11 Mantle For first time, OC authorities arrest paroled sex OC LAW offender using GPS ATC 11/17/2005 1:18 Nakano Man who started 2003 Cedar Fire in San Diego LAW sentenced to probation ME 11/18/2005 1:30 Sharma Political experts expect another redistricting POL measure to hit the ballot ME 11/18/2005 1:03 O'Mara POL, LA Mayor announces expansion of LA's Best EDU after school program ATC 11/18/2005 :48 Guzman Lopez Fire in Ventura County now at over 2-thousand DIS acres ATC 11/18/2005 :13 C & C FOR, ECON, POL Wrapup of Gov's trade mission ATC 11/18/2005 3:19 Schmitz MOCA's Geffen Contemporary host exhibition ARTS on Ecstacy WE 11/19/2005 3:15 Adair ENT Newest Harry Potter movie tops Box Office ME 11/21/2005 :54 Moran A look at how free trade is effecting the LA ECON garment district - the nation's largest ME 11/21/2005 6:00 Margolis Greek government says it will sue Getty ARTS Museum to get art back ATC 11/21/2005 1:10 Guzman POL, Public hearing held in Sacramento on reliability SAC of touchscreen voting machines ME 11/22/2005 1:28 Margolis
2-way with Dr. Joanna Jankowsky of Cal Tech how genetically engineered mice may lead SCI researchers to an Alzheimer's treatment ME 11/22/2005 3:19 Julian Former Riverside County sheriff's deputy faces multiple counts of sexual battery, kidnapping LAW and assault ATC 11/23/2005 :32 Cuevas Battle over scheduled execution of Crips co- LAW founder heats up ME 11/23/2005 :48 Stoltze Community groups and private sector step in to EDU help Belmont High School ME 11/23/2005 :53 Guzman California's Assembly majority leader says he'll introduce legislation to handcuff a governor's POL effort to call a special election ME 11/24/2005 :55 O'Mara LAPD tells officers to stop using Glock 21 LAW pistols ME 11/24/2005 :46 Stoltze Pasadena Unified Board votes to close four as- EDU yet unnamed elementary schools ME 11/25/2005 :58 Moran California high tech companies reviving the ECON Silicon Valley holiday party ATC 11/25/2005 4:00 Schuler
ECON Retail sales strong on day after Thanksgiving ATC 11/25/2005 1:09 Baer UCLA study of heavy drinkers show they tend to HEA cut back as they get older WE 11/26/2005 :54 Baer UCLA study of heavy drinkers show they tend to HEA cut back as they get older WE 11/26/2005 :54 Baer HEA, POL, Assemblywoman Karen Bass hopes to reform YOUT foster care WE 11/27/2005 :53 Rabe Supporters of failed Proposition 75 to try again - the measure would require public employee unions to get member approval before using POL dues for political purposes ME 11/28/2005 1:06 O'Mara
US Department of Justice to work with teachers, IE, EDU, students from Pacific High School in San LAW Bernardino to help prevent campus violence ATC 11/28/2005 :42 Cuevas HEA, POL, Assemblywoman Karen Bass hopes to reform YOUT foster care ME 11/28/2005 3:46 Rabe Thousands line street for Hollywood Christmas ARTS parade ME 11/28/2005 2:02 Montage Despite LA lifting hiring freeze, many jobs remain unfilled, Las Vegas is stealing LA's cache and businesses throwing big bucks ECON toward corporate holiday parties ME 11/29/2005 Julian HIST, Little Tokyo class teaches the art of the Samurai ARTS warrior ME 11/29/2005 3:39 Rudick ENT, Hollywood hampered by runaway production, ECON slowing DVD sales and unions ATC 11/29/2005 :51 Myrow
LAW, Governor to sit down with attorneys to discuss POL clemency for Stanley "Tookie" Williams ME 11/30/2005 1:04 O'Mara 44 indicted in "landmark" marriage fraud LAW, OC investigation ATC 11/30/2005 1:49 Schmitz LA DA Praises Mexican Supreme court ruling allowing extradition of Mexican citizens who face LAW life in prison abroad ATC 11/30/2005 :55 Stoltze Thursday is World AIDS Day; advocacy group HEA, calls attention to infection rates among black POL women ATC 11/30/2005 :44 Rabe LAW, HEA, Riverside will become first Southland county to POL issue ID cards for medical marijuana users ATC 12/1/2005 :49 Julian POL, EDU LA City Controller volunteers to audit LA Unified ATC 12/1/2005 :51 Guzman Lopez
RACE, Media watchdogs report shortage of minorities DIV, ENT on TV both onscreen and behind the scenes ATC 12/1/2005 2:18 Nakano Commentary on public versus private TRANS transportation ME 12/1/2005 2:43 Loh LAW, Judge says Schwarzenegger administration HEALTH, moving too slowly on implementing healthcare POL reform in state prisons ATC 12/2/2005 :58 Julian LA Unified says West LA charter school out of EDU control and will revoke its charter ME 12/2/2005 4:41 Guzman Lopez TRANS, LAX kick starts push to handle Airbus A380 - but ECON is it too late ATC 12/2/2005 2:58 Myrow ENV, TRANS, California concerned with global warming, ENER toxicity WE 12/3/2005 1:07 Myrow Illegal immigration is large issue in 48th POL Congressional District race - largely because of IMMIG, Independent candidate Jim Gilchrist, founder of LAW, OC the Minuteman Project. ME 12/5/2005 4:18 Schmitz DA decides not to prosecute officer who shot 13- LAW year-old boy ME 12/5/2005 1:00 Stoltze HEA, POL, IMMIG, Bill would ban use of kids as medical YOUT interpreters ME 12/6/2005 4:19 Goldberg TRANS, TCA staff recommends building a tollroad OC through state park to ease OC traffic ATC 12/6/2005 1:17 Schmitz LA County Board appproves plan to build temporary bridge between Pico Rivera and POL, Montebello; replaces one that was destroyed by TRANS fire ATC 12/6/2005 1:10 Nakano LAW, Judge rules Sarah Chavez' accused killers must YOUT stand trial ATC 12/6/2005 3:52 Rabe Governor experiences rapid heartbeat after SAC, suffering from stomach flu, goes to hospital - POL he's OK ATC 12/7/2005 :43 Keith LAW, SAC Lawyers for Tookie lay out strategy ATC 12/7/2005 2:29 Keith ARTS Capsule reviews of the week's new movies ATC 12/8/2005 3:12 Mantle Governor considers clemency for Crips co- founder "Tookie" Williams; features on history of LAW Crips gang ME 12/8/2005 5:02 Baer TRANS, Insurance Commissioner touts CA low-cost auto ECON insurance program ATC 12/8/2005 :47 Myrow Newly elected Congressman John Campbell POL sworn in, gets right to work ME 12/8/2005 :58 Pergram Commentary on her "Martinis and Magnets" EDU gathering ME 12/8/2005 2:55 Loh POL, Longtime LA Citycouncilman Marvin Braude OBIT dies at 85 ATC 12/9/2005 3:56 Julian LA City Commission gets report on possible EDU ways to overhaul LA Unified ATC 12/9/2005 :53 Guzman Lopez HEA, POL County sSupervisors to consider new DHS chief WE 12/10/2005 :47 Rabe OC, Voters in Laguna Beach will go to the polls ECON, again Tuesday to vote for a half cent sales tax POL that would fund the landslide cleanup ME 12/12/2005 4:21 Schmitz LAW, San Quentin officials preparing for execution of POL "Tookie" Williams: ME 12/12/2005 1:01 Russ Governor denies clemency to Stanley "Tookie" LAW Williams ATC 12/12/2005 :38 Keith Romoland School Board in southern Riverside IE, LAW, County deciding what to do about newly elected POL board member who is in jail ATC 12/12/2005 1:37 Cuevas LAW Hate crimes down in LA County ATC 12/12/2005 :57 Stoltze Stanley "Tookie" Williams executed - Judy Campbell of KQED witnessed execution - gives LAW account ME 12/13/2005 4:57 Campbell POL, State lawmakers propose moratorium on the LAW, death penalty to conduct review of how it's SAC imposed ATC 12/13/2005 :52 Keith LAPD says computer program required under federal consent decree won't be in place until LAW May ATC 12/13/2005 1:00 Roman Supes delay final approval of Public Health split HEA from DHS ATC 12/13/2005 1:33 Myrow TSA introduces 3-day test program to have air SEC, marshals patrol boats and trains, along with TRANS planes ME 12/14/2005 1:02 Julian Cable operators respond to pressure from the FCC, Viacom subsidiaries get active, and will the new film releases pump up Hollywood's ENTER sagging bottom line ATC 12/14/2005 Jahad LAW LA Police Commission to release reports ME 12/14/2005 2:29 Stoltze
LAW, Governor Schwarzenegger promotes statewide POL effort to combat drunk driving during holidays ATC 12/15/2005 :48 Russ Motivational guru Anthony Robbins pledges to ECON, return $45-thousand to Southgate that was POL misspent by the city's former treasurer ATC 12/15/2005 :45 Thomas
LAW LAPD chief pushes for cameras in police cars ME 12/15/2005 3:41 Stoltze ECON, Supermarket indicted for rehiring locked out LAW workers w/ false names and SS #'s ATC 12/15/2005 1:00 Myrow Plaintiffs in major equity settlement say quality EDU of education improving ATC 12/15/2005 1:01 Guzman Three Disney workers hospitalized after being OC exposed to chemicals ATC 12/16/2005 :38 Baer HEA, POL Big pertussis increaes in California ATC 12/16/2005 3:25 Rabe Union Rescue Mission hands out toys to the YOUT poor kids ATC 12/16/2005 :38 Nakano POL A look at Governor's political future ME 12/19/2005 2:56 O'Mara So Cal says they didn't benefit from the record ECON year of donations ME 12/19/2005 3:35 Farghalli Supporters of executed murderer Stanley LAW "Tookie" Wiliams hold memorial ME 12/19/2005 :13 Baer Part 1 of a four part series examining trash and ENV recycling ME 12/20/2005 3:59 Setziol RELIG, Cal State San Bernardino blocks Christian club EDU, from establishing on campus; cites anti- LGB, IE discrimination policies ATC 12/20/2005 2:00 Cuevas LAW, State prison officials will no longer use race as RACE primary factor for separating new prisoners ATC 12/20/2005 :49 Julian EDU, LA City Council and mayor support audit of LA POL Unified by LA controller ME 12/21/2005 1:30 Guzman Assembylman Joe Baca wants to refine bill on POL combat pay ATC 12/21/2005 :58 O'Mara POL, SAC Junk faxes law won't go into effect Jan. 1 ATC 12/21/2005 1:15 Keith ENV Tons of trash end up in ocean, hurt sea life ME 12/22/2005 3:48 Setziol LA City ordinance would force grocery store ECON buyers keep old workers ATC 12/22/2005 1:03 Myrow LAW, HEA City attorney investigates patient dumping ATC 12/22/2005 1:04 Stoltze Metrolink adds new trains between San Diego, TRANS Orange and Riverside Counties ATC 12/22/2005 :38 Cuevas CA Insurance Commissioner wants auto insurers to base rates on driver's record, rather ECON than where they live ME 12/23/2005 1:01 Keith
SPOR A Skating rink has been set up in downtown LA WE 12/24/2005 :47 Rabe POL, Several new laws affecting teens and kids go SAC into effect Jan. 1 ME 12/26/2005 2:03 Keith Braille Institute publishes comprehensive guide ARTS to Rose Parade for blind people ATC 12/26/2005 :36 Julian Class teaches comedy hopefuls the art of ARTS standup in Pasadena ME 12/26/2005 3:58 Gardner ARTS, RACE Significant black art collection in LA is in danger ME 12/27/2005 4:01 Guzman Lopez HEA Riverside, SB Counties need blood ME 12/27/2005 1:20 Cuevas ENT, Library of Congress picks 25 more movies to ARTS save in its National Film Registry ATC 12/27/2005 :53 Rabe ECON, ENER Utility bills to climb in 2006 ATC 12/27/2005 1:11 Myrow
ARTS Significant black art collection in LA is in danger ME 12/28/2005 4:36 Guzman Lopez LAW, POL San Francisco, NRA reach deal on gun ban ATC 12/28/2005 :32 Stoltze ARTS Rain won't stop the Rose Parade ATC 12/28/2005 :39 Rabe Man arraigned in gang killing outside carnival, LAW one of hundreds this year ME 12/29/2005 4:00 Stoltze ECON, LABOR, Seattle will take over 100 FAA jobs from TRAV Hawthorne ATC 12/29/2005 :52 Myrow How Christmas trees are used on Mackinac ENV Island in Michigan ATC 12/29/2005 :54 Rabe
LAW, Dodgers to file police report after confidential SPORTS documents were stolen ATC 12/30/2005 :51 Julian Orange Line may make 101 traffic marginally TRANS better, but not for long ATC 12/30/2005 1:00 Myrow AMPAS launches Internet database of movie ART script info WE 12/31/2005 2:13 Rabe