Patt Morrison for Thursday, 2-18-10

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Thursday, February 18, 2010

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:06 – 1:19

Obama seats his debt commission—is a balanced U.S. budget in the offing?

 

Guests:

UNCONFIRMED

Sen. Alan Simpson, Retired Republican from Wyoming; Co-Chairman of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform

 

 

1:30 – 1:58:30

Supporting the Arts in LA, and in a recession

LA's arts have soldiered on through thin and thinner, but with the city threatening more arts funding cutbacks, what will be lost?  Where will the money come from?  Patt sits down with some of L.A.'s leading cultural philanthropists—they’ve supported the arts for decades, both personally and through their institutional leadership, through good times and bad, with innovative approaches to economic and artistic survival.  But now with the fiscal state of the arts looking especially dismal, what can be done? They still have some ideas.

 

Guests:

David Bohnett, chairman of the board, LA Philharmonic

IN STUDIO

 

Alan M. Schwartz, President of the Board of Royce Center Circle, the philanthropic support group for UCLA Live

IN STUDIO

 

Maria Bell, co-chair of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)

SHE CALLS US

 

2:06 – 2:19

Can a few research errors spoil an entire climate change debate?

 

Guests:

UNCONFIRMED

Robert Stavins, director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program; director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements

 

Richard Moss, senior staff scientist at the Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland; former managing director for climate change at the World Wildlife Fund

 

 

 

2:21 – 2:30

OPEN

 

 

2:30 – 2:58:30

Wheels of Change – Zero to 600 m.p.h.

It’s not possible to imagine California without cars; today we’re known for our vast network of freeways and bumper-to-bumper traffic, all of which is well documented. But Kevin Nelson, in his new book “Wheels of Change: From Zero to 600 m.p.h.,” Kevin Nelson brings to life the personalities that helped shape the car culture in California, from engineering wizards to rebels without a cause, and tells how California changed cars irrevocably and cars changed California forever.

 

Guest:

Kevin Nelson, author of Wheels of Change: From Zero to 600 m.p.h. - The Amazing Story of California and the Automobile

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Jonathan Serviss

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