Los Angeles Walks
Founder of Los Angeles Walks and chair of the City of Los Angeles' Pedestrian Advisory Committee; urban designer with Deborah Murphy Urban Design + Planning, consultant at Melendrez Design Partners, professor at the University of Southern California and urban design consultant to the City of West Hollywood
Will Your Car Become Just Another Mobile Device? Forget about speed, power, gas mileage and green technology. This year's Los Angeles Auto Show is about connecting the car to the Cloud. And, in LA's increasingly connected car culture, do pedestrians stand a chance? KCRW's Saul Gonzalez reports on what's on view at the Convention Center.
Can LA Be Turned into a City of Walkers? To call somebody "pedestrian" is condescending, but walking is the means of locomotion that human beings were designed for. Why do Americans walk less than people anywhere else in the world? Because they drive more. Before the obesity epidemic, there was a national movement already get us out of our cars and on to the sidewalk — even here in Los Angeles, the car capital of the world. The City Council might push the Department of Transportation in that direction. Urban designer Deborah Murphy is the founder of Los Angeles Walks and chair of the City of LA's Pedestrian Advisory Committee .
Trump's new look at civil rights and global warming President Trump is reportedly ready to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We look at the possible consequences. On the second half of the program, we hear about cuts in Obama-Era civil rights programs called for by the Trump Administration's first budget plan.
Human Rights in the era of Donald Trump President Trump’s UN Ambassador, Nikki Haley, said today the US might pull out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council. Serious violators of human rights are members of the Council itself–and a US resignation could make things worse. Later on today’s show, now that he’s into his second term, comedian turned US Senator Al Franken is telling jokes again.
White House budget proposal slashes and burns President Trump's first budget request is considered dead on arrival in Congress — a familiar development in Capitol Hill. We hear what it reveals about the priorities of the new administration. What's likely to die… and what might survive?
The longest US war: Will Trump send more troops to Afghanistan? The Trump White House is divided over the Pentagon's request for more troops in Afghanistan—where the US has been fighting for the past 16 years. Is there a formula -- either for "victory" or a political settlement? Is there an end in sight for America's longest war?