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June 30 - July 4, 2003
Monday, June 30
Live from Sacramento!
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Talk of the City goes on the road to Sacramento. On the eve of the new fiscal year, the show travels to the state capitol to tackle the still unbalanced state budget. Host Kitty Felde gets the low down on the bottom line with a mix of legislators, activists, and lawmakers.
Guests include John Burton, President Pro Tem of the Senate; Senate Republican Leader Jim Brulte; Assembly Budget Chair Jenny Oropeza; State Controller Steve Westly; and Assemblymembers Joe Canciamilla and Keith Richman among others.
State Controller
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State Controller Steve Westly shares the dismal budget news with host Kitty Felde.
Prison Raises Observed
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Lance Corcoran, the executive vice president of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association, explains why prison guards will see a raise in salary this year despite the budget crunch.
Tuesday, July 1
Open Phones on the State Budget Impasse
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ItÕs the start of the new fiscal year, and despite all the time spent up in Sacramento yesterday, Talk of the City was unsuccessful in getting the legislators to compromise on a budget proposal before the July 1 deadline. Today Kitty opens up the phones to get your response to another year without an on-time budget: Does it matter to you? What are your suggestions for getting the legislators to compromise?
The budget plans proposed from the Assembly and Senate are changing daily, although they are all modifications of the Governor's May Revise.
Donald Hall
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Kitty speaks with celebrated poet and essayist Donald Hall about his latest collection of stories, Willow Temple (Houghton Mifflin). Hall is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and prose.
Wednesday, July 2
Juveniles in MenÕs Central Jail
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At the MenÕs Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles, as many as 44 teenagers spend up to 231/2 hours a day locked in their cells. The juveniles are sent to the adult facilities after hurting or threatening others at Juvenile Hall. The situation has garnered the attention of several local politicians, clergymen, as well as national human rights advocates. Kitty speaks with Zev Yaroslavsky, Board Supervisor for the Third District, about the conditions in which these juveniles are being held, as well as what alternatives exist to holding juveniles in adult facilities.
Recalling Gray Davis
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While in Sacramento this week, Kitty sat down with representatives from each side of the debate to recall Governor Gray Davis. Ted Costa is the CEO of PeopleÕs Advocate, Inc, proponents of the Davis recall committee and Carroll Wills is the spokesperson for Taxpayers Against the GovernorÕs Recall.
SAG/AFTRA Merger Fails
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KPCC reporter Rachael Myrow stayed up late to follow the tally of the close SAG/AFTRA vote. She gives Kitty the details.
Whiteness
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What does it mean to be white? Twenty-eight artists explore the complexity of ÒwhitenessÓ in an exhibit by the same name at the Laguna Art Museum. Kitty Felde speaks with the curator, Tyler Stallings, and exhibiting artist, Lezley Saar, about cultural identity, power, and more.
Whiteness, A Wayward Construction is on exhibit at the Laguna Art Museum, 307 Cliff Drive, Laguna Beach, through July 6th. For more information, call 949.494.8971 or visit www.lagunaartmuseum.org.
Thursday, July 3
Liberia Update
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Pressure is mounting on the United States to send as many as 1,000 peacekeeping troops to Liberia. Kitty speaks with Gayle Smith, former Senior Director for African Affairs for the National Security Council, about the latest turmoil in the volatile, West African country.
Jozoor Microfinance
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Although they both lost family in the escalating crisis in the Middle East, Hashim Jabi, a Palestinian, and Uri Pomerantz, an Israeli, are not enemies - they are instead business partners. Along with a third partner, Bryan Berkett, the trio formed Jozoor Microfinance, a business that will offer small loans to angry and unemployed Palestinian men to help them start microbusinesses in West bank towns. The money will hopefully spark entrepreneurship among the men and give them reason to live and reason to channel their energies in other places besides terrorism. Kitty talks to the three co-founders as they embark on the pilot project phase of the program.
The Relationship Between Elephants and Humans
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Do humans have more in common with elephants than any other species? In his new book, Love, War, and Circuses: The Age-Old Relationship Between Elephants and Humans, Eric Scigliano explores the complex history between humans and elephants.
Friday, July 4
Virtual Primary
Last week Howard Dean won the largest primary everÑnot New Hampshire or IowaÑon the web at Moveon.org. Kitty Felde speaks with the organizing director of Moveon.org, Zack Exley, about virtual politics.
We the People
A man whose name you may not know penned these famous words. Kitty Felde speaks with historian Richard Brookhiser about the Gentleman Revolutionary (Free Press), Gouverneur Morris, the peg-legged ladies man who wrote the Constitution.
SOUSA for July 4th
Dan Reed is a music teacher with an obsession. He collects and restores turn of the century big band recordings. His love of early cylinder and disc recordings led him to become a sound preservationist and restorer. On the occasion of our nationÕs birthday, he joins Kitty with the highlights from his John Philip Sousa collection.
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