City of Redondo Beach
Treasurer and former city councilman of the City of Redondo Beach, former president of the League of California Cities, Los Angeles Division
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Steve Diels
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FROM Steve Diels
Which Way, L.A.?
What Will the Looming Austerity Cuts Mean for Los Angeles? At the moment there does not seem to be an alternative to the deep federal budget cuts, known as the " sequester ," going into effect on Friday. It looks like $85 billion in cuts to discretionary programs this year, and $1.2 trillion over the next decade. No one is precisely sure how this will affect California, the City of Los Angeles and you .
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Trump's 'America First' goes missing abroad In the Middle East, President Trump is changing some policies of the Obama Administration—and reversing his own campaign attacks on Islam as a religion that "hates us." We hear about his visit to Saudi Arabia and what's at stake for the rest of his foreign excursion.
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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.
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What happens when America retreats from the world? Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.