Los Angeles City Council to Expand Living Wage; Saving the Salton Sea; Andrew Sullivan; The Power of Film
Los Angeles City Council to Expand Living Wage
The City Council is poised this week to grant the wish of the hotel workers, and for the first time apply the city's living wage ordinance to private companies that have no business relationship with the local government. The proposal, the first-of-its-kind, calls for the expansion of the city's decade-old living wage ordinance to hotels near Los Angeles International Airport. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has indicated his support.
Saving the Salton Sea
The state of California has recently released 10 proposals for restoring the shrinking Salton Sea, a large body of salty water in Southeastern California created by a levee break in 1905. Although the Sea is man-made and fed mainly by irrigation runoff, millions of migrating birds have come to rely on its habitat, as farming, population growth, and development have swallowed up the wetlands they had used for millions of years. The Department of Water Resources is now accepting public input on the proposals, which range in cost from roughly 2 to 6 billion dollars, before presenting a final recommendation to the state legislature. Larry Mantle talks about the alternatives with Sandy Cooney of California's Resource Agency, Rick Daniels of the Salton Sea Authority, Michael Cohen of the Salton Sea Coalition and Michael Morgan of the Imperial Group.
Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan has been a major conservative voice in U.S. politics for 15 years. In his new book, The Conservative Soul, he attempts to rescue conservatism from the excesses of the Republican far right which, Sullivan says, risk making the GOP the first fundamentally religious party in American history. Larry talks with Sullivan about his argument that conservatives cannot continue to support a party that believes in its own God-given mission to change people's souls, instead of protecting their liberties.
The Power of Film
UCLA film professor Howard Suber's new book, "The Power of Film," provides an A to Z course on the intricacies of motion pictures and examines the patterns and principles that make films popular and memorable. Larry talks with Suber about the power of film in our lives.