Join us for this hour long interview with Tom “Smitty” Smith of Public Citizen. The program will be repeated for 24 hours and then again on the weekend. "Smitty" has served as state director of Public Citizen since 1985. He has received the 2001 Austin Chronicles critics choice award for Best Peoples Lobbyist as well as a U.S. EPAs Environmental Excellence Award. Mr. Smith served on four commissions that looked at the future of the utility industry in Texas and helped to pass laws requiring Texas to develop 5,000 MW of renewable energy. He also helped develop the City ...   more »

Join us for this hour long interview with David Utter, Executive Director of the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana (JJPL.org). The JJPL has just released a report entitled "Treated Like Trash: Juvenile Detention in New Orleans Before, During, and After Hurricane Katrina" The program will be repeated for 24 hours and then again on the weekend. The New York Times ran as story today about the JJPL and the report:

Teenage Prisoners Describe Hurricane Horrors

By ADAM NOSSITER | Published: May 10, 2006 |NY Times

NEW ORLEANS, May 9 More than 100 teenagers held in detention ...   more »