Encino Residents Fight to Save Local Barnes & Noble
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For years, book lovers have been devastated because big chains were squeezing independent bookstores out of business. Now Barnes & Noble is being squeezed out of Encino. The big chain says property owner Rick Caruso raised the rent. Caruso says Barns & Noble wasn't making enough money. We hear from outraged neighborhood readers and browsers, as well as others who mourn the passing of another cultural resource. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, for some years, climate scientists avoided public debate on global warming. Now, so many Republican non-believers have been elected to Congress that the scientists are back in the conversation. We hear that the US is going its own way when it comes to global warming.
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Encino Residents Fight to Save Local Barnes & Noble ()
Barnes & Noble is one of the big chains that have pushed independent bookstores out of many neighborhoods. But Barnes & Noble tries to be different, with author readings and other events that provide a similar sense of community. It may be hard to escape the irony, but now Barnes & Noble is being pushed out of the San Fernando Valley community of Encino. Recently, a group of angry readers formed Save Our Encino Barnes & Noble.
Guests:
- Robin Permaul: Encino resident
- Mark Lacter: Business Writer, LA Observed
- D.J. Waldie: Essayist, poet and historian of Los Angeles
- Kerry Slattery: Co-owner, Skylight Books
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Climate Change: The US versus the Rest of the World ()
"Climate is gone." Those are the words of political strategist Karl Rove reassuring shale-gas developers there is no longer a need to worry about new laws against greenhouse pollution. That's because with Rove's help so many Republican climate-change deniers were elected to Congress last week. One observer sees the GOP "stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science."
Guests:
- Ron Brownstein: National Political Reporter, Los Angeles Times, @RonBrownstein
- Frank Newport: Editor in Chief, Gallup Poll, @galluppoll
- Andrew Dessler: former Senior Policy Analyst, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
- James M. Taylor: Senior Fellow, Heartland Institute
- John Vidal: Environment Editor, Guardian newspaper
Links:
- Brownstein on GOP, climate science
- Gallup on global warming concerns
- Pew Research Center on partisan divide over climate change
- Dessler's 'The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate'
- Taylor on alarmist scientists, shameful political offensive
- Institute of Coastal Research on climate scientists' perspectives on climate science, climate change
- UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun (Nov 29 – Dec 10)
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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.
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