A look at some political cartoons but they Donald Trump Oval Office and another told new york city mayor that there is a reallife homeless family living. Next we will take a look at a discussion about what inspires political cartoonists and how technology has changed their profession. This is an hour and a half. Welcome to the above and annual William Mcgowan Communications Technology and government. With president ial elections forever percolating and candidates juxtaposition, this is an appropriate time to discuss freedom of speech, communications and political cartoons. How do political cartoons make a difference . We can probably agree a picture is worth a thousand words and the pen is mightier than the sword. Political cartoons by articulating a memorable, visual image was scanned or zero words powerfully advance the argument and expand the conversation. As far back as 1754, ben franklin published his timeless political cartoons, join or die. It was a sneak cut into segments repre
Think that we would be a lot more successful by now and for us they are doing it at the local level using the county stakeholders and we are very fortunate that we have the counties support to allow us to tap into these different resources but we have to replicate that acceptability in every county and in every city if it doesnt come topdown. Typically at the end of the four runs people leave more depressed than when they came. At times we have been accused of designing before in the floor in the program to make people more worried. I dont know about everybody else, but i at least am more optimistic and hopeful and i think that we should end this on an upbeat note so please join me in thanking our speakers and i look forward to seeing you again and i can promise you that it will be less optimistic. Plus a live picture from the Brookings Institution as we bring you a discussion this morning on the military Health Care System we hear from a number of Defense Department officials as well
Consensus among the speakers that future Business Needs to be done on a different basis. And and that part of this introspection process is looking ahead with that in mind. Could we get a little more particular around, a little more concrete into what actually would you see as the essential changes in practices, in coordinating mechanisms, in planning and creating incentives . Julie. One thing i think we would all agree on is that companies crave predictability. So we would like to have the i confidence that if we start something, we can move it to completion. We would like to have the confidence that, for example, if we have a government partnership, that partnership is good for the duration of whatever does were trying to do and that something is going going to go away with the next election or the next sequestration of the next challenging circumstances in anybodys government. I think thats one aspect of it is come under the confidence that if were going to make an investment in the
Begin. Stuart yes, the markets are closed. But oil is trading, and look at it now, 47. 93. Okay. Big news on money. Its the price of gasoline still falling over this holiday weekend. Will you look at this . The national alleger for regular down to 2. 06 a gallon 3. 28 a year ago. Do the math. Were saving 1. 22 a gallon. Look at this, perhaps just as important, 25 states are in the 1 club. The average for regular is below 2 a gallon half the country. The cheapest gas is [laughter] i might even drive there for this doctor 1. 35 for regular at the murphy usa in texas. Steve moore is with us this monday morning, chief economist at heritage. Steve, look, weve said this before massive stimulus from cheap gas. But now along comes the president , and he wants to take it away with tax hikes. What do you say . By the way, stuart im old enough to remember back in the late 90s paying 89 cents a gallon stuart hold on a second, steve. When i first came to america i remember gas wars. It was 25 at on
Weekend closure by walking straight through it. Lombard has been turned essentially into a pedestrian path. Brian . The road is back open to cars now finally after being closed all afternoon. The residents we talked to took it all in stride making it a nice, leisurely walk along the legendary walk instead. It was high noon. Signs went up. Traffic control went in blocking cars on the street unless you lived up there and had the proper permit. The blockade happened because residents had it up to here, traffic getting worse by the weekend got so bad they could hardly make it home without a half hour delay. Instead of turning tourists away, the tourists turned the red brick road into a winding walk way making the crookedest street in america seem more creek yed than ever. If this was in a less lower income residential area and they had this amount of people and cars on it, they would be in an up. All right. So this give and take will last for three more weeks. Saturdays and sundays from no