Patt Morrison for Monday, August 15, 2011

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Monday, August 15, 2011

1-3 p.m.

 

CALL-IN @ 866-893-5722, 866-893-KPCC; OR JOIN THE CONVERSATION ONLINE ON THE PATT MORRISON BLOG AT KPCC-DOT-ORG

 

KPCC’S MANAGING EDITOR, NICK ROMAN, IS GUEST HOST.

 

1:00 – 1:40

OPEN

 

 

1:40 – 2:00

USC’s claim on Coliseum could send NFL team to the Rose Bowl

There’s little doubt that an NFL stadium and team are coming to downtown LA in the not-so-distant future, and while that pie is on the horizon everyone’s angling for a piece of it. The city of Los Angeles hopes to raise some revenue by hosting the NFL team at the Coliseum during the three or four years it will take to complete the proposed downtown football stadium. But USC could block those efforts and prevent the city from squeezing out something extra; the school’s lease gives the Trojans veto power over the NFL returning to the stadium. They’re using that as leverage to try to negotiate a long-sought new “master lease,” which would give the school near-total control over the stadium. The Coliseum commission is hesitant to turn a public stadium over to private university hands, but if USC doesn’t get their way and chooses to block the NFL from playing in the Coliseum, the team would likely go to the Pasadena Rose Bowl. Is USC being selfish? Who has civic responsibility here? Does Pasadena want 90,000 fans coming regularly to the Rose Bowl?

 

Guests:

Bernard Parks, City Councilman whose district includes the Coliseum; he also sits on the Coliseum's governing commission

ON TAPE

 

UNCONFIRMED – DO NOT PROMOTE THE FOLLOWING GUESTS:

Darryl Dunn, general manager of the Rose Bowl

626-255-2927; Mary Henderson 626-577-3116 mhenderson@rosebowlstadium.com

 

Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles County Supervisor who sits on the Coliseum's governing Commission

OR

David Israel, president of the Coliseum Commission

626-255-2927; Mary Henderson 626-577-3116 mhenderson@rosebowlstadium.com

 

John Sayles, spokesman, University of Southern California

Eddie North-Hager, Associate Director of Media Relations, University of Southern California / Office: 213-740-9335  / Cell or text 213-220-1806 / 24/7: 213-740-2215 

 

 

Web Links:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-812-nfl-stadium-20110812,0,7713817,print.story

Coliseum Commission: http://lacoliseumlive.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=71

 

 

2:00 – 2:30

Record-low housing mortgage rates: time to refinance or buy?
Amid a flood of bad economic news, there’s one piece of good news: mortgage rates are at a record low. Last week, 15-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 3.5%, a record low, while 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 4.32%, the lowest in nine months. In response, refinance applications went up 30% as of the first week of August—the highest level this year. And yet, even with rates so low, people are not buying homes. What is it that’s keeping people from buying homes? And will the uptick in refinanced homes improve the situation? Is it a good idea to buy now?

 

Guests:

Greg McBride, senior financial analyst at Bankrate.com

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Elizabeth Weintraub, home buying/selling guide for About.com; full-time broker-associate in the Sacramento office of Lyon Real Estate

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2:30 – 2:40

KPCC’S Sacramento reporter Julie Small tours the Secure Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison

 

Guest:

Julie Small, KPCC reporter covering Sacramento

 

 

2:40– 3:00
Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists
On March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves disguised as police officers entered Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and stole thirteen works of art, including paintings by Vermeer, Degas, Manet, three by Rembrandt, and others. It is the largest single property theft in recorded history, with an estimated total value of $500 million. To this day, none of the works have been recovered, and the case remains a top priority of the FBI Art Recovery Squad. Of the $6 billion dollars worth of art that museums and collectors lose to theft annually, Rembrandt holds the record of the most stolen work of all time. With the “Takeaway Rembrandt,” Jacob de Gheyn (1932), having been stolen four times alone, why is it that Rembrandt is so popular among the thieves? Reporters Anthony Amore, who is also head of security and art investigative recovery at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Tom Mashberg, who was taken by car to an undisclosed warehouse and shown what appeared to be Gardner’s stolen Rembrandt’s The Storm on the Sea of Galilee, join Patt to describe the most shocking and intricately-worked out robberies of the world’s most tightly-guarded museums.

 

Guests:
Tom Mashberg, co-author of Stealing Rembrandts

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Anthony M. Amore, co-author of Stealing Rembrandts; head of security at the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston that has an unsolved Rembrandt heist

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