Funding Schools and Plugging the Oil Well

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Majorities in some affluent suburbs have voted to increase taxes for schools, but not by enough to meet the two-thirds requirement. In other places they've passed. What's in store for Measure E next month in Los Angeles?  Also, the Republican candidates for Attorney General. On our rebroadcast of To the Point, BP has begun to implement its new strategy for plugging the Gulf oil spill.  How is "Top Kill" supposed to work, and what if it doesn't?

Majorities in some affluent suburbs have voted to increase taxes for schools, but not by enough to meet the two-thirds requirement. In other places they've passed. What's in store for Measure E next month in Los Angeles?  Also, the Republican candidates for Attorney General. Is LA District Attorney General Steve Cooley too liberal?  On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, BP has begun implementing "Top Kill" to plug its broken oil well.  We hear how it's supposed to work, what survivors said today about the cause of the oil-rig explosion and how far oil has seeped into the bayous of Louisiana.

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Credits

Host:

Warren Olney

Producers:

Christian Bordal, Karen Radziner, Andrea Brody