Thursday, January 17, 2008

Jan 17, 2008 by Midday Metro

First, my apologies for getting today's podcasts up so late. But I do have a good reason -- I had to blast out of the studio right after the show to moderate a legislative preview at the Hinckley Institute of Politics. Click here for a podcast of that event.

On to today's show: 

Every Thursday, pretty much without fail, SLC Police Chief Chris Burbank comes in to talk with Midday Metro. Today, we covered current police cases in the news, but what was more interesting to me was the Chief's consistent stance against cross-deputization of law enforcement to nail illegal immigrants. The Chief says he takes heat for it from lawmakers, but he feels that immigration policing is not the job of local law enforcement. That's not to say SLCPD doesn't call ICE when appropriate. Chief Burbank feels that cross-deputization also would threaten law enforcement's ability to build trust within ethnic communities. If mugged/raped/burgled, would you call law enforcement if you're here illegally or someone in your house is an illegal immigrant? 

Check out HB 237, sponsored by Rep. Glenn Donnelson, R-North Ogden. What do you think?

Another great edition of Poetry is Wanted Here on today's show. Every third Thursday of the month, Ken Sanders and Alex Caldiero come in and we talk about poetry. This edition focused on the snobbery of poetry -- snobbery from the audience, snobbery of poetry circle, yada, yada, yada. It was a spirited discussion with great selections from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Charles Bukowski (a poet, I must admit, I have a snobbish attitude against -- but Ken's selections are making me rethink that). Click here for the poetry podcast.

Also, check out poetry around town:

There's a poetry slam at Cup of Joe, 353 W 200 S, SLC, this Saturday

Poetry at Cafe Marmalade, 361 N 300 W, SLC, Tuesday nights at 9:30

Rumi Poetry Club meets Feb. 6, 7-8pm, at the Anderson Foothill branch of the City Library, 1135 S 2100 E, SLC

The Westminster College Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series hosts Nance Van Winckel Thursday, January 24, at the Dumke Student Theatre, located inside the Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory at 7 p.m. 

Ken Sanders Rare Books, 268 S 200 E, SLC, hosts A Nite of Kerouac: Singing & Scrolling Off the Road, featuring word sonosopher Alex Caldiero and saxophonist John Flanders, on Saturday, January 19th at 7:30 pm.

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