The Governor’s plan to let out the locked-up is still locked-up in the Assembly. The Assembly is using amendments to water down the proposal that was already passed by the Senate but the weaker version may not have the support of the Police or the Governor. Why can’t the GOP make peace with early release?
Terminally ill prison inmate Deborah Peagler has won her battle for release, after spending 25 years behind bars for her role in the murder of her abusive boyfriend. On the same day, the California Senate voted to reduce the prison population by 27,000, including elderly and medically incapacitated inmates. Overcrowding, early release, sentencing of battered and abused women… we tackle all these issues as highlighted by Peagler's case.
Unfortunately, The Cove is no Hollywood thriller. The film exposes the horror of Japan's tradition of herding dolphins into a hidden cove for slaughter. Using state-of-the-art equipment - including spy drones and cameras disguised as rocks - a group of activists risked their lives to create this documentary with an agenda: stop the slaughter and the unhealthy consumption of the mercury-laden dolphin meat. With Japan's dolphin hunting season set to begin in September, how successful were the filmmakers in bringing awareness to the issue and ultimately changing minds?
Southern California doesn’t get the majority of its water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, but the region and the state as a whole are still dependent on management of the massive watershed east of the San Francisco Bay. The Governor is putting forward a package of legislation that promises a dramatic makeover for the hurting Delta region, including ecological restoration and a very controversial peripheral canal. Is there a way to please farmers, fishermen and drinkers of California’s water in these increasingly dry times?
California's unemployment rate climbed to 11.9 percent in July, the highest number in modern record-keeping, while the rate for the city of Los Angeles' rose to 13.7 percent and Riverside County tops at 14.7. In the face of rising joblessness, what can cities do to support their citizens in finding new employment?
CyberFrequencies talks about the newest David and Goliath war brewing on the Web: Google vs. Facebook Smackdown. Wired's Fred Vogelstein maps out the landscape and Arianna Huffington tells us about friending Facebook.
Co-creators Queena Kim and Tanya Jo Miller conceived CyberFrequencies as a way to explore the culture of the Web. From their servers in LA to the vast reaches of CyberSpace, they are the portal to the net, news, noise, and nonsense. They join us to talk about their latest debate: the power and potential of facebook to compete with google.
Patt Morrison is known for its innovative discussions of local politics and culture, as well as its presentation of the effects of national and world news on Southern California.
