California Dream Gets Dimmer
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Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed $656 million today before signing last week's budget deal. Even he concedes that California's "not out of troubled waters." We look at the prospects and ask whatever happened to the California Dream. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, Mexican grey wolves are almost extinct, and efforts to reintroduce them are failing fast. Will the President from Chicago be more sensitive to the Endangered Species Act than his predecessor from Texas?
Main Topic
Will the Mexican Wolf Survive the Obama Administration? ()
Mexican gray wolves are the most endangered mammal in the United States. In 1998, the Clinton Administration began a recovery program on 4 million acres of mostly public land in New Mexico and Arizona. The goal was to have 100 animals living in the wild by 2006. Today, there are only about 50.
Guests:
- Julie Cart: Reporter, Los Angeles Times
- Caren Cowan: Executive Director, New Mexico Cattle Growers Association
- Ray Ring: Senior Editor, High Country News
- Michael Robinson: Conservation Advocate, Center for Biological Diversity
Links:
- Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009
- Cart's article on federal efforts to bring back the endangered Mexican gray wolf
- Robinson's 'Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West'
- Center for Biological Diversity on saving the Mexican gray wolf
- High Country News' timeline of Mexican gray wolf
- New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association update on Mexican wolf
Main Topic
The State Budget and the End of the California Dream ()
Governor Schwarzenegger today signed last week's budget compromise into law, minus $656 million in cuts he said were necessary to balance the measure. He called it "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly."
Guests:
- Judy Lin: Reporter, Associated Press
- Anthony Wright: Executive Director, Health Access California, @healthaccess
- Jean Ross: Executive Director, California Budget Project
- Lou Cannon: Editorial Advisor, State Net Capitol Journal
- Peter Schrag: former Editorial Page Editor, Sacramento Bee
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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.
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