Friday, September 26, 2008

AMERICA'S HOSTS: Steve Inskeep and Linda Wertheimer; NEWSCASTS: Giles Snyder, Jean Cochran
CALIFORNIA/NEVADA HOST: Donna Apidone; NEWSCASTS: Steve Shadley

Here are some highlights of today's show:

More passenger rail into Placer County would help clean the air and unclog the freewayd.  Is Union Pacific Railroad in the way?  Ginger Rutland has the Sacramento Bee commentary at 5:33 and 7:33.

A cabaret-style theater is comint to downtown Sacramento, with a restaurant next door and a nightclub upstairs.  Jeff Hudson visited the venue and saw a show. His report at 6:35 and 8:35.

Washington Mutual -- the nation's largest savings and loan -- was seized by the government yesterday. Its assets were sold to JP Morgan. It's the largest federal bank failure in US history. That story airs at 6:10 and 8:10.

Five years ago, California voters recalled Gov. Gray Davis and replaced him with Arnold Schwarzenegger. The former Hollywood actor had promised to cut up the state's credit card and get the budget balanced. Now the politically powerful prison guards union has initiated a recall campaign against Schwarzenegger. More at 5:21 and 7:21

Then something lighter:  In this week's installment of Storycorps, we hear from New York City cab drivers Oleg Roitman and Jerry Tierstein. Roitman is known as the human computer. Tierstein remembers taking a cat for a ride around the city.  That's at 5:25 and 7:25.

Thanks for listening.  Have a good weekend.