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california is a leader and on the cutting edge so naturally i jump on the next airplane to anaheim i arrived on a sunny day and called mr citrin to arrange interview we met at the casa defunct which incidentally i recommend for its final list of waters and many varieties of sprouts you know i would recount here my conversation with mr sigman what is a derivative i ask a derivative is a financial instrument he said can you be a bit more specific i said only a little he said a derivative is an investment a lot of money that produces real high returns how does it do that i ask well he said it has something to do with a prediction that interest rates will go down and when they do you receive high returns oh i said then a derivative is like a bet that interest rates will go down is that right my broker

never described derivatives like that he said so i said you put orange county money on this bear right yes he answered you even borrowed money to put on this bed right yes he said isn't that fantastic well what happened i ask interest rates went up he said so orange county lost the bet i suggested at that point mr citrin seemed a bit annoyed and said i want to remind you that it was not that it was a financial instrument right but how do you feel about the loss of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money gay boss and not that he said in the short run interest rates are up sooner or later they will come down the sides this is a rich country tell me how did you arrive at this approach to local governments finance well he said

it's rough out that our government has to do more with less these days good government officials must have the entrepreneurial spirit and take risks let me tell you government has to compete in the market the sides competition is good for government it's based on these principles that i came up with this innovative approach to local finance i feel very empowered by this innovation in fact i've applied for the harvard innovation award do you think this idea will spread i ask like kudzu he said i don't wish to appear smog but i have invented a whole new way to increase taxes this is hot in the future it will be known as the sacred tax i'm already consulting with many county treasures showing them how to do it then i changed the subject i noticed that the airport here in orange county is called the john wayne airport i said yes he said the duke is my idol he was a risk taker and entrepreneur lesson tight

pilgrim the duke as a role model for the modern county treasurer i understand i said but there have been allegations that what you did is not ethical i have heard those allegations he said as soon as i find out through the alligators or i'm going to shoot their tails off while i said voters here is written in advance along with his gang crime drugs illegal weapon bad attitude right mortgage loans are brave and we want to rejection now some representatives in the kansas house think they know how to fight fair and they workout meal twenty four twenty two committee that bill will allow kansas citizens to carry concealed weapons so they can feel more secure and protect themselves and according to testimony can stop crimes while they're being implemented

concealed weapons advocates also support house bill twenty five forty one which will preempt city gun ordinances like the one in which a tall and here and make it a crime to carry a loaded gun in the city limits whitney's julie how we can carry concealed weapon and carry them in any community in kansas no matter what the community grocery bills are opposed by whatever's on board of that organization in the state the opponents spoke before the house federal and state affairs committee some of whose members like thacker republican topeka i call him until after our co sponsors of the house bill calling for twenty overland park police detective and then tear testified in my years of experience as a police officer i cannot recall one single instance where an innocent citizen our rent a firearm in public play successfully protect himself or herself from criminal on

another day began this labor municipalities complain about the twenty five forty one that's the one that creates local ordinances would violate the constitutional rights of home rule and so according to maintain sixty six florence restriction on firing guns in the city except by permission of major and on carrying concealed weapon county along that their own standard for public safety co wrote the bill will make it to the house floor even though those you'd experience and wisdom in the four years experience why when my old friend claude anderson was a boy he lived and many olympians is right next to the wild west counted off his father reginald go one day godmother demanded a move to die while the kurds the city was a long order municipal ordinance forbade the carrying of

weapons you see back in the countdown they fear had written into dodd along with his gang crime drugs illegal weapons bad attitude but at a dog out of the carrying of guns in town and was as they fly and the patient here folks that public safety and where the individual's right to feel secure by kanika half built on a boardwalk with the individual's right to feel secure about the public's right to the hey as one of an increasingly threaten public i'll vote no on it at will majorities i think in the city to have gun ordinances lines to be in wichita my wisdom tells me that people with guns and of the people who use guns especially when they're afraid and triggered a judgment of course if this bill passes then we've got one way out they'll keep anyone with a mental disability from carrying a concealed weapon go to apply for licenses can be denied permits on

medical grounds anyone who wants to carry a gun these days is either paranoid or dangerously aggressive enough to know folks next time someone starts talking gun rights to say guns don't have rights people do for nascar tax bill which past by a fourteen vote margin more than doubled the amount of cuts approved by the senate endorsed by governor bill graves earlier this year at issue is whether the slash cans motor vehicle taxes by thirty or sixty million dollars sponsors of the house bill say car taxes in kansas are among the high the nation and voters are demanding major reductions governor graves and those who support the more moderate senate bill they addressed it cut and cut taxes or force local governments to either raise property taxes or cut important education and social service programs in a statement condemning the house vote mr

graves said major car tax cuts would create a one hundred billion dollars shortfall in state aid to public schools that shortfall according to graves would force the legislature to either enact a tax increase or reduce aid to public schools all no one in either house has spoken out against a car tax cuts there's little agreement about exactly how much to cut and how to make up for potential lost revenue senate and house leaders are expected to appoint a conference committee sometime this week where both sides of the tax controversy will try to reach a compromise this board is been this is william jennings bryan oleander commentary law no legislator going home for the weekend edition aired on thursday march night folks i thought going to the legislature would be hard

thing but returning home for a long weekend of support and rest and relaxation can be a rougher than the senate response to a bad house you see i took off last thursday we finally had a legislative holiday and drove the slow way home to hear kansas everything started fine i'll humble was on the porch with pucker lips the mayor was backed by the door and dinner was on the table anything but chicken i had told iowa i've eaten a barnyard chickens and bees lobbyist banquets after dinner i found the couch to let through digest i said but i was seriously and why not and deserves arrest after these weeks in the kansas house of representatives that's when the phone rang i will unearth new way your constituencies she said which one i asked if she shrugged and i said hello and to make a long story short though their county sheriffs all my sixty two

international harvester truck as i started their own back country roads he told people i was on the dollar's been what's going on up there in topeka screen tommy burns folks it was like waking up from a bad dream through a nightmare and tommy wasn't the last one i started picking up the phone and say an abortion school finance gun rights term limits lottery cloud seeding sales tax car tags liquor laws and then before anyone could get a word and i'd say no yes no no no no yes yes no and then i'd hang up mabel bremer one inmate thirty saturday afternoon to meet her niece who'd never met a state legislator before reverend washington of they hear first methodist church invited me to services though i haven't been to church since nineteen forty five might improve your attitude about prayer he says peterson wanted me to call the numbers at saturday night bingo game of interior we have no need for you

ought to be good at numbers after all those house and senate bills sb fido a beta b twenty four twenty post but i'm i unplug the phone my calendar was full and what about me yes viola as i put my head on the pillow for some deserved sleep where's my time on your busy calendar representative or hinder we're together right now are playing and you're coming with me all these things aren't you i'm not she said i've not been your ladies auxiliary and i won't start now i should have called you first since i seen to be your only constituent you don't have time for i don't cares about was she was right well not now i ask them in coffee and we talked all night while we sort it was brought in for the trash bag of laundry for a mudra weeks away meant weeks to catch up on something or wait until the session ends in may on monday morning back in topeka i

saw a fellow democrat now good weekend i asked her how you go home wash your clothes sleep fight with the kids go to church and drive back because there's anything more tiring and being in the legislature she said it's been home from the legislature you're listening to morning edition i'm steve lickteig last november voters in kansas and dozens of conservative representatives to the state legislature most of those politicians believed they'd been given a mandate to cut taxes and hold down spending joining us this morning to talk about how those concerns are doing in topeka and the overall progress of this years legislators kansas public radio's managing editor chris hoyer morning dance so the software is conservative

republicans are these republicans revolutionizing kansas politics the way to try to do in washington or borrowing at you for conservatives and a really victorious if you look at the ten to twelve main conservative proposals most of them are either dead or they're in trouble are there floundering in committee what about radical conservatives are having is that lack of support from their governor hard for them to push a hundred million dollars in spending cuts when it's fairly clear the governor graves would veto any cuts that are that deep i should say here that there is one similarity between kansas and washington politics and that's meant most of the conservative bills are coming from the house being sent to the senate where they're either going to die or be drastically amended for example bill that would allow canada to carry concealed weapons is one example of a conservative bill that probably doesn't stand much of a chance in the senate who are the consumers having any

success in a couple of years they are either the chance for conservatives to push through legislation requiring doctors in kansas to report all abortions that they performed to the state also i should say the conservatives they manage to keep higher education budgets lower you are the governor or regions want even most universally supporters acknowledge at this point that college budgets are in trouble so are you know conservative and moderate republicans agreeing on anything most republicans believe that the voters want to think that about crime that's really clear whether that will come in the form of more like a more expensive death penalty or some sort of tougher prison sentences unclear yet committee hearings are expected on those issues in the next week so we'll work with the democrats we don't really could fairly well after the midterm elections when he says it's pretty easy being a loyal opposition and yes it's no

different than democrats or the position right now where they cannot criticize severely easily and republicans can't completely ignore democrats if they want to get anything done so just how influential democrats are going to be this year it's going to be a lot more clear once conference committees begin trying to work out compromise on to really big issues like the budget and car taxes to put a twist on an old or phrase ordinarily see the children separated from the adults here in the next few weeks the deal are going to be cut because in order to get anything passed people are going to have to trade favors well this whole car taxes issue has become very hot topic because of late in the legislature and i think you know most kansans there are excited about the possibility of cutting car taxes and victims expect the cut what i've heard from the people i've talked to i think that they can write it is a hot button issue of voters problem is marion county commissioners her an unusual government are worried that a major contract that would amount especially to an

underfunded mandate from the state and other words in local governments don't get context money to fund school when any of that money graeme year period and he says that to allow local governments to find other revenue sources or conservative republicans like house speaker issue and burger say that the couple have to be a lot larger in that in order for to make a noticeable we legally average taxpayer the weather got to cut by thirty forty or fifty percent over what kind of time period is what a conference committee is going to have to work out and that everyone i've talked to said that could take a really long this forest one issue that i think was a hot button topic last legislative session that day isn't so much the session or is not being talked about nearly as much as last time as usual crime what was going on in the legislature this time around while making it easier

sixteen year old violent criminals that and then throw a country to issue that we're going to be a hearing about it this week that the snowstorm and so much sadness put those hearings on hold that i believe that they're going to be rescheduled perhaps next week so that's one example or reaction the real problem with a crime right now is that it's tied to the budget like everything else anything that the legislature's got a patch of money for if you connect tougher sentencing laws so you have to realize that prisons are going to become more fuel and are you going to build more prisons marriages like that that i have on the of a lower allowable in the legislature and other issues over it so far so character oriented let's talk or anything that you've noticed about concerning

situation with a governor graves is dealing with a legislature recently sylla tells you not going to see what well pretty enviable he had been championed by democrats and moderate republicans conservative agenda has as i mentioned before not done too well and the conservative agenda seems to be the least with respect to the budget opposing governor graves agenda that had a need to be doing it just coming out of a number of people have mentioned that he's been doing good work behind the same way surely you know a lot more now than three weeks ago kansas according to money laundering here will be allocated exactly the

same way it is now it's hard to say on that is really difficult for a legislature that facing a tough tight budget has simply say well forty seven million dollars we're going to just get rid of the threat of history the objections by opponents are basically on moral grounds of our world for the lottery opponents are arguing you could replace lottery percent sales tax money for every five dollars but sources in the governor's office to tell me that there's no way the governor will sign a bill no education fb what legal risks might face the city and meanwhile what medicine

one one fifteen billion dollar regions budget passed narrowly in the house and is nearly six million dollars less than what governor gray has proposed earlier this year in his state of the state address conservative republicans in the house argued that the six million dollar reduction amounts to nearly nothing and claimed that their constituents want cuts to go far deeper than that a lobbyist for regions institution say the house cuts will put universities in kansas at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to attracting professors and updating facilities just hours after the house rejected budget passed bipartisan members of the senate ways and means committee voted to recommend restoring those cuts a final senate vote on the region's budget isn't expected until at least the end of march from the state house and the entire recording this is morning edition i'm steve lickteig yesterday the kansas house judiciary committee began hearings on a controversial proposal that would extend the death penalty the sixteen year old's kansas public radio managing editor vance

hunter attended the hearings and joins us now good morning dance morning were there any surprises yesterday the death penalty controversy was an emotional issue last year well nothing's really changed it's still a very wrenching issue committee hearing room was packed with not only with representatives of murder victims' families are people both pro and con and there was one surprise and i came from a death penalty supporter attorney general carl was still hall who has been the main champion of expanding the death penalty to sixteen year olds that way off of her previous public statements know she still very much in the labor of the proposal but apparently in response to our own perception of the bill might be in trouble in some pretty pointed questions by legislators i shall produce compromise if you wanna leave it at a team that's fine might ensue as nick akins is that the whole idea behind that proposal was simply that a recognition in this day and age in terms of the violence that we have amongst are juveniles and the

fact that even as if this were to pass not every sixteen year old who commits a homicide we have the death penalty side that case that only for the worst of the worst of the worst possible cases and then similarly true in the adult population as well and so that's what we have to focus i know it's very emotional everybody gets caught up on the idea of sixteen but let's just make it consistent an innovative sixties inappropriate than say seventeen or so attorney general in the capital to the idea and that offer to drop the provision caused quite a few the death penalty opponents see them off guard well if you take out the sixteen year old provision in this temporary bill would anyone be paying attention to it all want it a few judiciary committee members were asking them very question carol of them wandered out well the bill even worth debating now so drop a sixteen year old provision once the spill oh i

actually think there's still a number of the number of things that are worth addressing according to attorney general stovall she says that the current wording of the year kansas death penalty statute is very ones and according to her consultation with death penalty experts in other states the language needs to be a heightened otherwise any death penalty convictions in kansas would be fairly easily appealed she would like them to go and right now if you well you know you can't get from you there are people in the kidnapping for lack of a better term a loophole in the law that attorney general store would like to see tonight and that she also like this week the death penalty apply to anyone who kills someone age fifteen or seventeen right now current law only applies and it's restricted circumstances people under fourteen

when general attorney general store like to see language tightened up considerably from what it is right now so another the committee responded mr walz testimony yesterday well it's hard to say i didn't take a straw poll but committee chairman michael o'neill republican from hutchinson pointed out that the bill would even if it was passed without amendments probably wouldn't actually result in any execution sixteen year old because but on the appeal process would be or most of those convicted of the law would be well into their twenties armed and on the democratic side representative david healy of richmond what is clear from kansas city kansas what we went on a very election he made it clear during his questioning of attorney general stonewall what he thought about executing sixteen year olds as someone who lives in an represents a very violent violent never neverland i find this entire dialogue was somewhat republican only

because i know that i think that you know that these children are still going to commit these crimes and we're going to spend a lot of time money and resources to address this issue that won't change one with the status of our communities in the state that's questionable and deterrence unquestioned to get is that if in fact this well intentioned but thoroughly misguided proposal will it work and what would we do with our of fourteen fifteen year olds sense now between sixteen and at those young adults as adults what then happened anywhere else we age actually it also though repeated her suggestion that the sixteen year old provision were going to be a sticking point that the committee simply drop it so so what happens now well even if the bill werde have to the house for a general debate

judiciary committee members say any expansion of the death penalty cases major opposition in the senate and house members pulled me that they got of the measure even make it out of the senate committee because many senators who voted in favor of the lament the death penalty we have now voted last year promised that they would never vote for anything strict or children make sense of kansas public radio managing editor grant's hiner talking with us about hearings yesterday before the house judiciary committee on a proposal to expand the state's death penalty to sixteen year olds hello my name is tatiana liberal yes i said the word out loud i certainly feel better ok oh well i'm also a card carrying member of the eighties you know you have to really historians policy

but i'm working on it and i say my prayers to speak every night all hell i can't keep this up and i come to grips with that i just can't fit within the regime even to make peace i tried just a liberal in a strange land in all fairness it's sometimes good for the status quo to get shaken up our priorities get clarified and it makes us think a currency that word anymore but in this nightmarish inner world the wickedness of east is in charge here has been awakened monkeys aren't interested in discussing the long term policy of facts they may say their product well they call themselves christians with a capital c but they don't act like they have much love in the arts these leaders and believe me i use the term loosely are trying to cut nutrition programs for women infants and children cut school lunch programs which are the last line of defense against hunger for many kids and get a head start a program proven and its benefits for preschoolers that corporate welfare is a sacred cow that still intact and

capital gains taxes scheduled to be reduced i guess now the new congress realizes though war on drugs is a desert disaster decided to declare war on poor children and single mothers gosh gaza but that's when you may wear but at what price to a nation stuck and then they can play for fruit and school states' rights rationale they're still trying to put strains on the block grant like your payments to teen mothers as well as a lemonade all federal nutrition guidelines moon catch up again this isn't a stodgy passino welfare reform other policies in the contract on america include getting bothersome federal regulations like those regulating our drinking water everything will be on a cost benefit basis replacing health considerations with economic ones how much do tend to say human life was worth really pay and help really benefit as deep throat used as they follow the money the new congress has already expanded warrantless searches not idle rides except in searches for illegal weapons frankly i find that

will entire logical men and g i'm glad there any special interest groups involved here it's in a certain way i don't believe speaker nunez been a child he does believe in the future the trouble with the new regime is that they basically don't believe in government virgin is that this may lead not improve it the contract on america is a policy without a vision and without a conscience and hopefully without a future because it's killing ours and it happening very strange land and it's due to air on thursday march sixteenth i believe it is the polls but to pay and local folks have been dancing in the statehouse square dancing it as they testified last week for a bill and it would make square dancing the official state and kansas if the bill makes it out of committee and is best of both house and senate the square dance could join all the

other official state symbols from the song home on the range to the recently designated barred tiger salamander a state amphibian i like state symbols and i've said so before in this session in the house has me thinking about another group of people who have danced into the state house this session we democrats call the are of course the religious right the radical right radical republicans railroad years what would happen if they started putting their energy into state symbols one from what i've seen so far all kansas might be redefined for example they'd be sure the official state language was english made before state religion baptist just a prayer the lord's prayer as sung by house chaplain washington a few weeks ago folks i might go along with that one because that was the only time in the session the reverend it not in a prayer in the name of jesus

folks the political issues and personalities of the radical republicans are becoming part of our state symbolism our symbol of kansas rural conservatives and his record field after darlene cornfield about the center marquez estate birth control has become an abstinence the safest most effective method and one that requires no sex education at all here are some other symbols the official state murder mr ellenberger name for the house speaker just how much media that is anyone's guess but it's your vote because the state villains are the moderate senators and the state reckoning is the roll call vote that forces them to go on record now instead of the square and see are ours would probably vote in the weigel republican spin named for speaker pro tem susan why girls spin she'd published to help conservatives too difficult votes like cutting education

she says a good politician can sell almost anything going for spending cuts and tax reductions has the potential of turning each republican house member into a hero that is if we spin our story for the state cut it's no longer a nice piece of kansas brief but kansas as beggars belief taxes so the state cut will be any tax cut especially if accompanied by a slogan choose from the jewels and why girls spin sheet rampant government growth has to stop then we will put the state on a low fat diet with all the hoopla over to pta and the radical but rejections about schools teaching students now use the state that uses to ms ez anything not learned in a public school and a state building

any prison and the state closed building a mental retardation hospital and for the state weapon anything concealed finally for the kansas state know about the wizard of applause because it shows that brain that's heartless cowardly folks can work together before they go home to the real kansas a land that after our rule is definitely not over the rainbow definitely not if but when don't talk to darrell bush about flea circus is what he's got jumping through hoops is way smaller than fleas interested kansas chemist bush can make a strange shape the molecule slither down through a ring shaped molecules of a war a shoestring passing through

and the pilot the strings with their suspended inside i let those are the only animals in the molecular circus of the ringmaster bush he's also learned course straight line molecules to arch their backs they look like ok what this rather than a string or ring shaped affairs mother nature tends to furnish this is dan spectacular we're talking about cracking the whip over the heads of molecules friends only thing smaller molecules of the atoms that constitute them how many of bush's molecules could you jam into a sugar cube one hr aside the number starts with two n's with twenty one c rose there's dozens crimes often same terms i just heard he doesn't seem self was a lion tamer a seal trainer instead he can cancel to one of her ancestors who long ago mastered the use of fibers you should be able to do anything with a long molecule you can with a fiery says the audiobook break molecules time outs in them i'm working on molecular macrame oh i've read that one reason for the sweetening the provision of materials stronger than what we've got today in a moment here on to

say pushing alone there are probably fifty to one hundred chemists worldwide involved in the same line things got friends' names of irish descent the time over and not an astringent molecule other chemists are forced as many as five molecules into a chain that strengthen mechanically woven bonds between molecules are hundreds of times stronger than the weaker interactions that nature supplies imagine you've got a lot of people standing on a railroad track holding hands the person in each and grabs a locomotive the locomotives are pointed in opposite directions they start up how do think that human chain would last now imagine those people handcuffed to each other and to locomotives when the engine starts that would be the strength of the new molecular woven materials compare with today's thinking years and years from the bush envisions the use of thin sheets of plastic native mechanically like molecules on the insides of cars

those cars would be much safer in case of accidents he can imagine a bulletproof vest as impenetrable as a concrete wall this is visionary stuff venture science yesterday's chemistry produced today's textbook bush says that this is tomorrow's chemistry obviously bush's know mayor weaver of molecules he's a dream we are too the coffee shop was tucked in a corner of the brickyard that part of the city that used to be its industrial park over the past two decades the brickyard sunk into a school hasn't abandoned warehouses rusty railroad tracks and low income housing that he didn't have any trouble believing the poet william swor a lot wade member cure you owe me some money it's a child at war ii is unfolding point at you cover people on emel about inside jacket was brown sports coats and on the table next to the keys carson was read toilet the keys are under the format back and picked up a more important to his lab he glanced at reform three inch thick stack of

bills inside all say no it's non sequential old knew he put him in his pocket and rose pleasure doing business with a while said you don't screw around when shrug your social farmer habits give those keys to my man been on friday or pork no thank you sir alisa karr long term parking at the airport you not willing to walk out of the diner williams will lose had been on a long term partner arms it was still smiling beauties smile back as some bitch be headed for forever parking he said and both the chemical and turn back the morning paper i ended up red american will survive accident you write about whatever seems all for an opportunity to make some money and so and the brain is a little worse but i've always been a fan of crime fiction in detective fiction a tough guy faction of a huge debt limit family and chandler fan

i've always wanted to read some and i was one or a series of books about a character and this is being treated as the beginning of a series ah rather than take a private detective a classic approach to the genre i used a thief and my character's name is makin and he's a professional thief who steal signs on contract and in fact as these he is hired to run a warehouse and does so but that is then double crossed by his employer and the remainder of the book is a sort of shoot them up revenge for that sad i studied you come up with this idea i wanted machen to steal something unconventional but i also didn't want the year that this ought to be the focus of the book because i mean i'm just sort of setting the table with the point of the story is does the double cross effort of that so it is snack food stands out here and that proved to be a bit of a problem that plot was because of margaret know you

can do with food stamps which is still out but i have a very fortunate conversation with a couple of friends one night after a party on the street corner and they gave me a few little plot for food stamps were the same making process yet even of these though the thief machen and a couple of his friends his gang i suppose will be the continuing characters from one book to go along with possibly an insurance investigators mr carr i'm the next book which world have up here are will feature although almost all the characters are enforced but how far we go with the idea is to reach beyond that is caught up appearances promised crime we did two book contract and it was implicit in the contract that the next book will be a sequel to this book so i'm not crazy

about the ideas that interest now i've read about their scarlet crowns and i have plans to write different novels along the heavily execute on contract will likely be iraq now and we'll see how that goes over for making a decision why that whatever some other recent been favorable and some nights of a lot hasn't been fraying and they didn't cynthia neely has long first because they thought they were entirely unjustified and we're just distracting everyone is scared of your life or i think what everyone forgot wasn't i had spent almost the last ten years writing book reviews american movies and movie reviews an i'm more of a moderate how this game is played and i spy the first year is we outline was very positive and was very negative asset that read them both at the same time walker lot of the unknowns got informed and i thought this is what it really

feels like and this is what they're really feels like big deal that just doesn't seem to get to appoint publication book is out in the stores of it it's not really yours anymore they're really talking about many years of literary prizes the store without the first book is very streets it's very air is very violent and it's very long and it's very dark and then in the second book is going to build a political map in my favorite any higher by some shady intelligence flights to steal such shady intelligence stuff he's doing it i don't want to sell an immortal spies because that's not exactly the case but there's been obese at washington's not too much of a middle aged it appears that one of the characters in your book resembles a local reporter of the character talking about isn't is named mick moloney and edits yes and

it's more than a resemblance a little odd characters is explicitly modeled on a jj milan have cancer reporter was to our was the lead reporter for the cancer just aren't working mob wars yeah i have late nineteen seventies following that he was the star and once you were on your generation california where he broke the freeway killers story and the course is bridgette has been nominated for i think four pulitzer prize for investigative reporting and he's treated for a minute and we were sometimes what makes it a really interesting is that he has accomplished all this following serving fourteen years and three on three licenses for which so far as i know makes him the only successful ex convict writer american resident of that prison and he publishes most recent book was your collection of his writings and get cynical employees and

their storage and i had various was away the point is thursday march twenty third nineteen ninety five about legislative newsletters phones in the legislature a new rides home a joke and you have been a couple of records in the house democrat was one calls state house notes montana democrat calls a newsletter i call mine from here to here and i'd like to address specific constituents with specific issues here are some excerpts that will probably get our car tax break a conference committee but in the same bill would governor graves

is favored tax reductions the repeal of sales that's our labor in new construction and on utilities use in manufacturing i'd like to see ordinary can get more of a break maybe a repeal of the four point nine percent tax on labor for a home remodeling but that and all those house tax cut from early in the session why not make the final no mabel beemer i remember you were pretty excited when you're low income nice the girl scout leader ran her car into her own home after the pta meeting last week but almost tax breaks or only bargaining chips to use with the senate term limits this bill failed to pass the house the bill would have forced house members quit after six term it's on the dead by van which at one time the term limit but i voted no sense i won my seat last november by one vote thank you the best

way i know they're already a number of you out there who want to limit my car death penalty costolo backed down something few politicians do these days she was surprised that extending the death penalty to sixteen and seventeen year olds was controversy all said she'd take that section out in exchange for another clarification she wants letters me to vote yes if the bill gets out of the judiciary committee iowa overturn the speech he wanted to deliver in the house i'll save your best line a minor execution is a major mistake i hope i don't have to use that education after the republicans had a rhetorical slugfest with two ba they left it alone except to make sure that good job on abstinence as harry burns is on the same absence makes the heart grow fonder we got six million dollars from the region's budget that voted no will

vote on a thirty dollar increase per pupil in the public school finance formula which was more liquor governor graves ran on the slogan stack em high and tight the senate must not abate attention because they left our house bill allowing sunday sales and credit card purchases of alcohol high and dry good news for claude anderson who won't have to open to go up on sundays to compete for beer sales with harvey o'connell near here gathered and into the museum lottery it's a voluntary attacks and the state is more addictive than a gambler to read all the money goes to businesses and corporate welfare of oatmeal and i'll quote elmo peterson square block i know we passed a resolution that will put instantly on it now but why anyone would want them to know that the investor

that tommy burns calls the numbers oh god no that divide the end of being fifty two objects do so long to win my own hand rouse after supper the family's settling for the twins phil go for name that tune or c hunter lloyd bridges sausage to do is tied rubber suit but as i matured i acquired a cushion a feeling that intellectual usually advanced toward tv rock contempt elisa houston has shown more originality after spending twenty five career scrutinizing you mentioned that elites regards the black old childhood consciousness she finds potential for good is glowing pixels during her recent inaugural

lecture is a k u distinguished professor of human development she took on several myths about kids and tv here's what she said one young children dont to stare blankly the spring they check it see whether they're interested local employee look back the average length of look at the strangest three seconds kids and visual billy mix their samplers to modesty be watching dozen kids' grades in fact the school's highest achievers watch an average of ten hours a week three watching doesn't biden the homework a south african studies fifth through twelfth graders show there was no difference in the time they spend on homework before and after the introduction of tb in that country before watching doesn't mosul and other pursuits are creative activity so much as it fills a void if there are no piano lessons her shopping trips in a little league then tv beckons it's a plan c in those boards versus

it were plan and twenty have for what to do then ruled out it sounds is what it doesn't do but what it can accomplish this important houston medical evidence that have just finished a study affirming that kids who watch sesame street and other educational tv from ages to have to find a better prepared for school than kids who don't watch houston writes that suggested a twenty five minute a daily exposure to make exquisite forty six points higher on one hundred point tests in the area of reading and math is data were presented earlier this week at a meeting of the society for research and talk about them now are quite aware of the twenty twenty five violent incidents per hour on saturday morning general what has four hours of tv a day that the ideal one point four three hours of the best tunes watch and their wild by the twenties commercial programs used to market set prices little girl dolls and strawberry shortcake or female adventures like she rocked the good things are

happening houston says pbs is ghost writer actively involved child viewers on reading rainbow books are actually read troubles were talking pbs hear it broadcast ten times as much educational programming is the commercial stations with er the federal budget choppers come round at last potential golden age for educational tv may never shines