Which Way, L.A.?
For Obama, Job One; In Southern California, Art and Pot
The LA City Council debates a question other cities answered long ago: how to regulate medical marijuana. Also, Eli Broad's massive collection of contemporary art could mean prestige and money for Beverly Hills or Santa Monica. On our rebroadcast of To the Point, in the "jobless recovery," the President says "Job One" is creating jobs. What can he do? Can he do it before the mid-term elections?
By Warren Olney • • 1h 0m ListenThe LA City Council is taking another stab at controlling 1000 dispensaries of medical marijuana. Why can't it act like West Hollywood? Meantime, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills are competing for Eli Broad's collection of contemporary art. On our rebroadcasts of today's To the Point, in the "jobless recovery," the President says "Job One" is creating jobs. What can he do? Can he do it before the mid-term elections?
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3 stories'Job One' for the President: Creating Jobs
In America's "jobless" economic recovery, unemployment is setting records. The Obama Administration has adopted a long-term approach to creating new jobs . But the President has now conceded that "our friends, neighbors and family members are desperately searching for jobs." He's called for a Jobs Summit at the White House next month.
Read the story27 minProgress on the Medical Marijuana Ordinance
Oakland and San Francisco tightly regulate sales of medical marijuana. So does West Hollywood, where the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department says four legal dispensaries are free of crime and neighbors are not complaining.
Read the story19 minCities Vie for New Broad Museum
Tomorrow night, the Santa Monica City Council will take up a proposal to house billionaire Eli Broad's collection of nearly 2000 pieces of contemporary art on city land next to the Civic Auditorium.
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