New Plan For Trucks On The Alameda Corridor; NFL Comes To Rose Bowl?; What Do Vets Think About John Kerry's War Record?; How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream
New Plan For Trucks On The Alameda Corridor
Transportation planners are seeking to build new highways exclusively for trucks that would stretch from Southern California's booming ports to as far away as the Inland Empire. The focus on so-called dedicated roads for trucks is a sharp departure from long-standing plans to use trains to haul more cargo from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and is an acknowledgment that the 2-year-old Alameda Corridor rail line, built in part to alleviate truck traffic, might never attract the share of the freight it was designed to transport. Patt Morrison talks with KPCC reporter Rachael Myrow who is at a news conference at the Port in Long Beach.
NFL Comes To Rose Bowl?
Darryl Dunn, General Manager of the Rose Bowl
What Do Vets Think About John Kerry's War Record?
What are veterans and active duty service men and women thinking about Senator John Kerry’s war record and the controversial campaign ads attacking and defending his experience in Vietnam and his post-Vietnam anti-war activities. Guest Host Patt Morrison opens the phones to hear specifically from military personal and vets about the campaign to smear the Democratic presidential candidate.
How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream
In his new book The European Dream, author Jeremy Rifkin, claims that the American Dream is losing its vitality because Americans are increasingly overworked, underpaid, squeezed for time and unsure of their prospects for a better life. Rifkin contrasts the American approach of “live to work” with the European “work to live” ethic and uses statistical and anecdotal evidence to show that the European Dream with its more humane approach to capitalism, its risk-sensitive foreign policy, its secularism and its social democracy, is a more appropriate and desirable model for the U.S. to follow.