Foreign language] thank you supervisors for taking time to listen. I appreciate you show compassion for the people in the city. The city is becoming increasingly expensive and there is a divide between disparity in the city. Seniors rely on government for ssi and assistance. We have a fixed income. For example in china town a room cost upwards of 500. This is over rent for example is over 50 percent of seniors income. Its a great hardship. As we get older a lot of Seniors Health declines and this comes from frequency of doctors visits and rely on muni and go out to get groceries. Muni is our primary mode. A lot of seniors who want to be socially active, muni is the way to go. Muni does take a large portion of our budget. So we ask that supervisors and the mta in the budget give what you can to seniors for people with disabilities so they can have good lives in San Francisco. We know there are models out there like in cities that provide transportation to seniors. We hope to see that yo
Unlike a lot of fears about a National Media culture that obliterates the local or obliterates these other kinds of cultures someone like shepard you can see some sort of pushback and some sort of hybrid culture that wasnt necessarily going to take everything that National Cultures offered up. Host the radio industry from the start in advertising based industry. Guest there was a fair amount of skepticism around radio advertising in the 1920s hoover actually decried what advertising would do to radio and the secretary of commerce but it quickly became supported by advertising and there were educational stations and, but they did not have very powerful signals. There were a number that were quite popular specially around agricultural universities that survived but there werent all that many nonprofit stations. My colleague here at catholic will have a book on that for you host where the nbcs and the abcs fattened by these local networks . Guest i dont know if they were necessarily threa
Now for 15 years, the only Television Network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2, created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. Watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Alexander russo sat down with booktv at the Catholic University of america to discuss his book, points on the dial golden age radio beyond the networks. This 25minute interview is part of booktvs college series. Host and youre watching booktv on cspan2. We are at Catholic University in washington, d. C. Interviewing some of the professors who are also authors. And now joining us is Alexander Russo who is the author of this book, points on the dial the golden age of radio beyond the networks. Alexander russo, who invented radio . Well, thats a complicated answer, and, you know, the march coney often gets credit for it, but like many of these stories, there were lots of Different Actors operating and lots of different times. And that kind of instit
The inmate is now behind bars. But who is this courageous customer . Patriotic doubletake. From George Washington to ben franklin. Is that your real name . Whats it like to be a normal american with a largerthanlife name . Good morning, everyone. Dan harris is taking welldeserved time off this Holiday Weekend. Were happy to have abcs new nightline and abc legal anchor, dan abrams. A busy man, dan. Its great to be here. And seems to be the case on most Holiday Weekend, its another busy one when it comes to news. I say good morning to everyone, on this january sorry. July 6th. Not january. Breaking news. Its january. Its a Holiday Weekend. Yeah. January 1. Seems like im the guy thats here january 1, july 4th. The holidays. Exactly. Theres a lot going on. We start this morning with breaking news overnight in egypt, where the violence has escalated after the military ousted that countrys first democraticallyelected president , mohamed morsi. His backers are in deadly clashes with opponents
To ride a bike. He would rather ride muni and complain about it. There is a big untapped market of people who can be enticed out of their cars and can reduce their living expenses, can reduce all the negative effects of driving. If you are spending more on paper than bike lanes, i think there is still a lot of opportunity to shift around some of the funds. Even though im not an expert in that area. I guess thats it. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. [speaking foreign language] thank you supervisors for taking time to listen. I appreciate you show compassion for the people in the city. The city is becoming increasingly expensive and there is a divide between disparity in the city. Seniors rely on government for ssi and assistance. We have a fixed income. For example in china town a room cost upwards of 500. This is over rent for example is over 50 percent of seniors income. Its a great hardship. As we get older a lot of Seniors Health declines and this comes from fre