State Laws Signed And Vetoed; King/Drew: Now What?; Should Mammoth Go Upscale?; Poverty And Race In New Orleans; Julius Shulman
State Laws Signed And Vetoed
On Friday Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger acted on the 961 bills sent to him by the California Legislature this year, signing 729 into law and vetoing 232. Tamara Keith, KPCC State Capital Reporter, joins Larry Mantle to examine some of the most important bills signed or vetoed by the Governor.
King/Drew: Now What?
Los Angeles County health officials Friday scrapped their proposal to close the obstetric, pediatric and neonatal wards at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center after belatedly discovering that the move would have cost them $29 million in government funding. Larry Mantle and guests Charles Ornstein, Los Angeles Times staff writer, and Zev Yaroslavsky, LA County Supervisor 3rd District discuss the future of King/Drew and likelihood that the hospital will close.
Should Mammoth Go Upscale?
The Mammoth Mountain Ski Area will sell a $365 million controlling interest to Starwood Capital Group, which plans to develop some 60 acres around Mammoth Lakes along with Canadian resort operator Intrawest Corp. Some locals welcome the future development. Others fear it will destroy the charm of the area. Larry talks to Rusty Gregory, Chairman and Chief Executive for Mammoth Mountain, Rick Wood, Mayor of Mammoth Lakes, and Therese Hankel, Mammoth Lakes attorney and former planning commissioner about this coming transformation.
Poverty And Race In New Orleans
In a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece, American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray advanced the theory that the lawlessness seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was caused by the failure of government to address root problems. He argues that without a family support structure, no amount of funding can possibly fix poverty or decrease criminality in the long term. Larry Mantle explores this argument with Baton Rouge NAACP President Kwame Asante and Joe Hicks, a social critic and vice president of Community Advocates, a non-traditional human and civil rights organization.
Julius Shulman
Larry Mantle talks with internationally renowned Los Angeles photographer Julius Shulman, whose iconic images helped to define modern architecture. Julius Shulman’s professional career began in late 1930’s when he developed a partnership with Richard Neutra. He went on to photograph the works of many other visionary mid-century modern architects like Rudolph Schindler, Ray Lautner and Pierre Koenig. The Getty Museum acquired the archive of over 260 thousand of Shulman’s photographs this summer, and an exhibition of some of his finest images opens at the Getty today. Larry also talks with the exhibition’s curator Wim de Wit. The exhibition, called Julius Shulman, Modernity and the Metropolis, opens today at the Getty Center and runs through January 22nd.