《Insight: State Budget Breakdown / New Heart Surgery / The Infinite Tides / Chris Nakamura》 - 免费有声读物

California Budget Breakdown - Sacramento Bee columnist Dan Walters joins us to analyze the $92 billion spending plan California legislators sent to Governor Jerry Brown late last week. New Heart Surgery - The federal Food and Drug Administration has recently approved a new kind of heart surgery where the chest doesn't need to be opened - instead, a team of doctors threads a catheter up the femoral artery (at your hip) and into your heart, then they push an artificial valve up that same path and use a balloon to open up the failing valve and replace it with another. All this without opening the chest. We'll talk about it with two doctors who've done the first cases in our region to find out how the technique works and how effective it is. Christian Kiefer - Local professor, poet and musician Christian Kiefer is releasing his debut novel "The Infinite Tides." The book tells the story of star astronaut who returns to earth to learn he's been abandoned by his family. Chris Nakamura - Chris Nakamura is young, blind pianist who has just graduated from Woodland High School and has been composing music since he was four years old.