Patt Morrison for Friday, July 22, 2011

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Friday, July 22, 2011

1-3 p.m.

 

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KPCC REPORTER FRANK STOLTZE SITS IN FOR PATT MORRISON

 

1:06 – 1:19

OPEN

 

 

 

1:21:30 – 1:39

NFL lockout is over: are you ready for a downtown L.A. football stadium?

Now that the NFL lockout is over, with a new collective bargaining agreement in place and players ready to take the field for training camps almost immediately, all eyes in Los Angeles will turn toward…downtown.  In a city without a football team the end of the lockout means the resumption of hope, that a major deal to build a stadium in downtown L.A. (as well as a competing proposal to put a stadium in the City of Industry) is back on track.  In fact, the succession of events on AEG’s proposal to build Farmers Field downtown, right next to the Staples Center, will move at an accelerated pace over the next week and the L.A. City Council could be voting on a stadium deal by next Friday.  An AEG-sponsored report out on Wednesday estimated that a $1-billion stadium and a new wing of the Convention Center would generate $22 million annually for the city.  Meanwhile both AEG and the City Council are repeating promises and demands, respectively, that no taxpayer money goes into the construction of the stadium, although the details of any potential deal are largely unknown.  A debate in front of the full City Council is scheduled for July 29 and Farmers Field itself, if all goes according to plan, would open in 2016.  Could the end of the NFL lockout mark the beginning of the return of football in L.A.?

 

Guests:

Paul Krekorian, Los Angeles City Councilman representing the 2^nd District

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UNCONFIRMED

Representative from AEG

 

 

 

1:41:30 – 1:58:30

New York City leaves a lump of coal in the coal industry’s stocking—is L.A. next?

When your city launches an effort to implement a major and complicated policy change, it helps when your mayor is a billionaire.  New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has been moving the Big Apple away from fossil fuel-generated energy and toward alternative energy sources, made a donation yesterday of $50 million to the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign.  The goal is to shut down coal-fired power plants across the country and cut energy production from coal by 30% by 2020.  Mayor Bloomberg’s donation of $50 million was called a “game changer” by the Sierra Club in the fight against coal.  Right here in Los Angeles there is a long-range goal to end the city’s reliance on coal-fired power plants, also by 2020, but just like in the rest of the country it will be an uphill battle.  Coal provides nearly half of the nation’s electricity and accounts for roughly a third of its output of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses.  At the same time electricity from alternative sources, from solar to wind to biofuels is soaring, providing almost 12% of the nation’s production, representing a big jump from just a few years ago.  The coal industry calls the Beyond Coal campaign “beyond jobs” and says that warnings about the health risks of coal are overblown.  Is there life beyond fossil fuels and can $50 million really change the game?

 

Guests:

Molly Peterson, KPCC environment reporter

IN STUDIO

 

UNCONFIRMED

Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal campaign

Los Angeles Department of Water & Power

Representative of America’s Power

 

 

 

2:06 – 2:19

OPEN

 

 

 

2:21:30 – 2:39

Ask the Chief – with LAPD’s top cop, Charlie Beck

Why did violent crime in the city decrease by 10% in the first six months of 2011, while attacks on officers increased by more than 40%? What does he think of L.A. County Sheriff Baca’s proposal to oversee criminals on probation? These are just two of the issues facing LAPD Chief Charlie Beck since we last talked with him. He answers your questions…and a few of guest host Frank Stoltze… like why do we need tighter regulations of toy guns. Join us for another sit-down conversation in our ongoing series with one of L.A.’s finest.

 

Guest:

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck

IN STUDIO

 

 

 

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