ANALYSIS OF THE SAMUEL ALITO HEARINGS; HOME DEPOT OPENS DAY LABORER CENTER IN BURBANK; IRAN RESUMES NUCLEAR PROGRAM; THE BLACK DAHLIA
ANALYSIS OF THE SAMUEL ALITO HEARINGS
Larry Mantle talks with Vik Amar, professor of Law at University of California Hastings College of the Law, and Douglas Kmiec, Professor of Constitutional Law and Caruso Family Chair of Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University School of Law.
HOME DEPOT OPENS DAY LABORER CENTER IN BURBANK
A new Home Depot store and an adjacent hiring center for day laborers opened today in Burbank. Catholic Charities will run the site. The City Council required the home-improvement retail chain to construct the hiring center in order to open a store, and the City of Los Angeles may soon require all large home improvement stores to build similar centers for day laborers. But some anti-immigration groups oppose the trend, and a pending bill in congress could prohibit such mandates. Larry Mantle talks with Burbank Mayor Jef VanderBorght, Juan Rodriguez of the Catholic Charities of Los Angeles and Rick Oberlink, spokesman for Californians for Population Stabilization.
IRAN RESUMES NUCLEAR PROGRAM
Iran has broken the seals at a uranium enrichment plant and said it was resuming nuclear research after a two-year freeze. Enriched uranium can be used as a fuel for both nuclear energy and nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is only for fuel, but leaders in Germany, France and Great Britain are skeptical, and want the UN Security Council to take up the matter. The Security Council has the power to impose sanctions. Larry Mantle talks with Jim Walsh, Executive Director of Harvard’s Managing the Atom Project and Najm Meshkati, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at USC.
THE BLACK DAHLIA
In January, 1947 a young woman named Elizabeth Short was found brutally murdered in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. Short became known as the Black Dahlia and the case made national headlines. Recently writer Donald Wolfe was allowed access to the LA District Attorney’s files on the murder from which he developed theories including a police cover up of the crime and efforts to mislead the press. Larry talks with Wolfe about his new book, The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder that Transfixed Los Angeles.