WQAM with Gino Torretta and Steve White interview
McMahon gives his thoughts on BYU’s honor code:
They explain it to you. They say Oh we have this honor code. People will probably talk to you about the religion and this and that. They said All you have to do is tell them I’m not interested.’ But I have to say I’m not interested for five years before I get out. It was everyday you get hounded by it.
Into the Night interview
Fredette comments on a possible NBA career:
Yeah definitely. That’s been a goal of mine ever since I was a young child. Now that it’s starting to come up pretty quickly, hopefully those dreams will come true. Just try to work as hard as I possibly can every single year and show everybody that I can play at any level and play against some of the best players. Hopefully a team will take a chance on me and I will be able to prove I can play well.
Proposes no-tax-raise budget
Faced with a $3.6 billion deficit, Walker proposes his first State budget promising to fill in the gap without raising taxes. His budget reduces spending by $4.2 billion cutting more than $1.25 billion in aid to schools and local governments. He emphasizes that if the legislature passes his budget repair bill, then the aid will not be missed because governments will be able to cut contributions to employees’ health and pension plans. He is also cutting $500 million from Medicaid, $250 million from higher education, and eliminating 21,325 full-time state jobs.
We need a leaner and cleaner state government. As we decrease spending, we also increase flexibility so local government and state government have the tools to deal with reduced revenue.
Tatler UK cover
Jones and Westwick appear on the cover of the March 2011 issue of Tatler magazine.
GQ cover
Tatum appears on the cover of the March 2011 issue of GQ magazine. He talks about his ambitions, his future as an actor, and where he gets his craziness.
I think people pay money to see the actor go through a wall. I want to be like, ‘Holy s**t, Johnny Depp actually jumped off that building. That guy’s f**king crazy. I want to be him.’
Elle Canada cover
Blunt appears on the cover of the March 2011 issue of Elle Canada magazine. She talks about chance encounters, Oreo binges, and her popeye crush.
Cineplex cover
Blunt appears on the cover of the March 2011 issue of Cineplex magazine. She talks about love, fate, and the driving in LA.
Marie Claire cover
Cyrus appears on the cover of the March 2011 issue of Marie Claire magazine. She talks about the video of herself smoking salvia.
Obviously, college kids are smoking bongs with a lot more than salvia in them ,but they’re not Miley Cyrus. They’re not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for.
In Style cover
Moore appears on the cover of the March 2011 issue of In Style magazine. She talks about when she feels sexy and what her 50th birthday meant to her.
One thing a 50th birthday does is say, All right, time is marching. You have these things you’re happy with and proud of. But if there’s something you haven’t done that you’ve been waiting to do, then by all means, don’t want any longer. Do it!
Allure cover
Beckham appears on the cover of the March 2011 issue of Allure magazine. She talks about her fitness routine and living in America.
Living in America was the happiest I think I’ve ever been. It was much more accepting for a woman to have a career, as well as a man.
Seventeen cover
Cosgrove appears on the cover of the March 2011 issue of Seventeen magazine. She talks about judging the cover contest and the Pretty Amazing program.
I think it is an amazing opportunity for Seventeen readers to have the chance to be on the cover of such an iconic magazine. I am thrilled to be a part of the Pretty Amazing program that acknowledges the accomplishments of young girls around the country.
Teen Vogue cover
Greene appears on the cover of the March 2011 issue of Teen Vogue magazine. She talks about how she met Joe Jonas, working with Miley Cyrus, and growing up in the spotlight.
Plenty of Disney kids are perfectly normal and love what they do. But you always hear about the people who aren’t doing well. It’s kind of like the squeaky wheel.
Maxim cover
Trachtenberg appears on the cover of the March 2011 issue of Maxim magazine. In the magazine, she talks about how it feels to be on the cover and the results of the photo shoot.
Oh, goodness! It’s exciting. I know that everyone at my high school who used to torture me and bully me is going to get a copy of it, so I’m thrilled! That’s going to be really exciting.
Glamour UK cover
Michele appears on the cover of the March 2011 issue of Glamour UK magazine. She talks about going from an unknown to a star and about rumours about herself.
If a man is strong and opinionated, he’s considered powerful, but if you’re a woman, it’s regarded negatively.
Thomas Gibson interview
Williams interviews Thomas Gibson, and questions him on family, career, and his seven years acting on TV show Criminal Minds.
My wife and I about seven or eight years ago decided to move to her home town which is San Antonio Texas. And of course nothing will get you a job back in LA faster than leaving. So upon leaving, so now I go back and forth pretty much every week. You know its great cause my kids grow up with their cousins around and you know there family.
Entrepreneur interview
Graham tells the magazine that startup ideas are often bad, and investing in them is investing in people. He says knowing the business and being concise also help. The most important quality Y Combinator looks for:
If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.
XX Sports Radio interview
Fisher speaks about the logic of national rankings:
You listen to all the people talk about why these teams that lost should either or hold the position they’re in, from Duke — who did not lose — to Kansas, who was there, who last at K-State, to Texas, who lost at Nebraska, to Ohio State, who’s lost two now, but at places where both teams are undefeated at home … to Pittsburgh, who lost to St. John’s.
Heritage Foundation interview
In an interview with The Heritage Foundation, Walker discusses his reasons for reducing union employee benefits and abolishing their collective bargaining rights because governments are broke and can’t afford to continue subsidizing unions.
When the private sector is paying . . . twice what we’re talking about for health care . . . it’s realistic that at a tough time, when the private sector . . . has been making sacrifices to keep people working, we should expect the same from government. . . . I saw it first hand as a county official when I tried to do things like ask for a little more from pensions . . . or even tried to do a thirty-five hour work week, as in a way to avoid layoffs, the union leadership basically said, ‘forget it, go lay five, six hundred people off, we don’t care.’ They know the power of collective bargaining forces local governments not to be able to make those sorts of reasonable decisions.
No compromise
Unions agree to concessions on their benefits if Walker agrees not to take away their collective bargaining rights. A union director:
We are prepared to implement the financial concessions proposed to help bring our state’s budget into balance, but we will not be denied our God-given right to join a real union . . . we will not – I repeat we will not – be denied our rights to collectively bargain.
Walker refuses to compromise because collective bargaining prevents the flexibility governments need to manage their budgets.
It doesn’t work. My goal all along has been to give all these folks – I asked for it in the past – the tools to control their own budgets . . . I know as a (former) local official, collective bargaining time and time again was the thing that stood in the way of local governments and school districts being able to manage their budgets. Let’s not kid ourselves. The reality is, it’s about the money.
Tells Democrats to return
Democratic senators flee to Illinois so the Senate does not have a quorum to vote on Walker’s budget repair bill saying they need more time to debate and understand the bill. Senate minority leader Miller:
This is a watershed moment unlike any that we have experienced in our political lifetimes. The people have shown that the government has gone too far. . . . We are prepared to do what is necessary to make sure that this bill gets the consideration it needs.
Walker tells the Democrats to return to the state and
do the job they’re paid to do. It’s either a matter of making reductions and making modest requests of our government employees or making massive layoffs at a time when we don’t need anyone else laid off.