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Jon Elliott
Jon Elliott is an American liberal talk radio personality, formerly featured on Air America Radio. Business experience Prior to his radio, TV, and film career, Elliott was the chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of multiple companies. During his 35 years in business he has worked in all phases of corporate management, holding executive positions with corporations in the health, hospitality and food industries. He has also was CEO and president of Capitol Television Network and Royal Casino Group, both publicly traded companies. The company was eventually renamed Baymark Technologies and Jon was President, CEO and CFO of Baymark Technologies until January 2006, at which time he resigned from the company as the company was restructured and renamed Implantable Vision. Radio work In October 2004, ''The Jon Elliott Show'' began airing for two hours on Sunday afternoons on KLSD radio in San Diego, California. After he filled in for Air America hosts, Jon' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Liberalism In The United States
Modern liberalism, often referred to simply as liberalism, is the dominant version of liberalism in the United States. It combines ideas of civil liberty and Social equality, equality with support for social justice and a mixed economy. Modern liberalism is one of two major political ideologies in the United States, with the other being Conservatism in the United States, conservatism. According to American philosopher Ian Adams, all major American parties are "Liberalism, liberal and always have been. Essentially they espouse classical liberalism, that is a form of democratized Whig constitutionalism plus the free market. The point of difference comes with the influence of social liberalism." Economically, modern liberalism supports government regulation on private industry, opposes corporate monopolies, and supports labor rights. Its fiscal policy supports sufficient funding for a social safety net, while simultaneously promoting income-proportional tax reform policies to reduce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (baseball), National League (NL) National League West, West Division. Founded in 1883 in Brooklyn, New York, the team joined the NL in 1890 as the Brooklyn Bridegrooms and used other monikers before settling as the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1932. From the 1940s through the mid-1950s, the Dodgers developed a fierce crosstown Dodgers-Yankees rivalry, rivalry with the New York Yankees as the two clubs faced each other in the World Series seven times, with the Dodgers losing the first five matchups before defeating them to win the franchise's first title in 1955 World Series, 1955. The Dodgers made history by breaking the baseball color line in 1947 with the debut of Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play in the Major Leagues since 1884. Another major milestone was reached in 1956 when Don Newcombe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Chief Executives
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randi Rhodes
Randi Joyce Robertson (née Bueten; born January 28, 1958), better known by her Stage name#Reasons for use, air name Randi Rhodes, is an American progressivism, progressive political commentator, activist and talk radio host. ''The Randi Rhodes Show'' is live streamed having been previously broadcast nationally on Air America (radio network), Air America Radio, Nova M Radio, and Premiere Networks, Premiere Radio Networks. Early life Rhodes was born Randi Joyce Bueten in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York, to a Jews, Jewish family. Randi grew up in the Brooklyn and Queens boroughs of New York City, her father was a mechanical engineer and World War II veteran and her mother was a dress shop worker; they divorced by the time Rhodes was 15 years old. Rhodes has described her adolescence as mischievous and cites it as why she enlisted in the United States Air Force. Her married name is Randi Robertson. Rhodes is a radio name chosen to honor Ozzy Osbourne's guitar player Randy Rhoads, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Douglas
Jennifer Colleen Douglas (born 1964) is an American writer/producer and activist. She has worked in film, video, television, radio, print and Internet projects. She is the writer and co-producer of the 2012 documentary film, '' Save KLSD: Media Consolidation & Local Radio.'' Biography Douglas graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School in Saginaw Township, Michigan, and graduated with a degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan and pursued graduate coursework in public health at Hunter College in New York City. She and her engineer/CEO husband Joe Vettel and their daughter Genevieve and son Joel live in San Diego. Previously she lived in New York City and Washington, D.C. Selected media work In Washington, D.C., Douglas was a staff news writer/field producer at WTTG-TV, and a freelance writer at CNN and WUSA-TV (CBS). She is the co-editor of ''Cooking with the Stars: Healthy, Delicious Recipes from Celebrities' Own Kitchens'', with Michael J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Monday
Jon Monday (born 1947) is an American producer and distributor of CDs and DVDs across an eclectic range of material such as Swami Prabhavananda, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Huston Smith, and Chalmers Johnson. In 1980 Monday filmed what turned out to be the very last live poetry reading Charles Bukowski gave, at the Sweetwater in Redondo Beach, which was released as '' The Last Straw'' on DVD.IMDB The Last Str/Ref> Monday directed and co-produced with Jennifer Douglas the feature-length documentary '' Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Local Radio''. He is also President of Benchmark Recordings, which owns and distributes the early catalog of The Fabulous Thunderbirds CDs and a live recording of Mike Bloomfield. After retiring, his work with Huston Smith and the Vedanta Society of Southern California has created audio and video commercial releases as well as establishing free online archives of the historic material. Music business Monday got his start in multimedia thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Save KLSD
''Save KLSD'' is a 2012 documentary film about the history and effects of media consolidation on democracy in the United States. Over the course of four and a half years, the producers attended media reform conferences, conducted research, and filmed interviews and presentations by leading media reform experts and commentators. In 2015 a one-hour version was posted on YouTube. Those involved in the film include: Bill Moyers, Robert Reich, Van Jones, Phil Donahue, Ed Schultz, David Shuster, Cenk Uygur, Amy Goodman, Thom Hartmann, Stacy Taylor, John Nichols, Richard Wolffe, Randi Rhodes, Congressman Bob Filner, Jon Adelstein, Robert McChesney, Bob Edgar, Mike Aguirre, Marjorie Cohn, Michael Krasny, J.W. August, Andrew Donohue, Marti Emerald, and author Eric Klinenberg. Save KLSD is narrated by Bree Walker and Jon Elliott. It is produced by Jennifer Douglas and Jon Monday, and directed by Jon Monday for distribution by mondayMEDIA. It was released on DVD in April 2012. The film's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bree Walker
Bree Walker (born Patricia Lynn Nelson; February 26, 1953) is an American radio talk show host, actress, and disability-rights activist. She gained fame as the first on-air American television network news anchor with ectrodactyly. Walker worked as a news anchor and reporter in San Diego, New York City, and Los Angeles. Early life Walker was born in Oakland, California, and raised in Austin, Minnesota. She inherited ectrodactyly, a rare genetic condition which causes missing digits and syndactyly, which causes fused digits. TV and radio After graduating from the University of Minnesota, Walker worked as a disc jockey in Kansas City, New York City and San Diego, where she went by Bree Bushaw, her first husband's name. She started her television career in 1980 at KGTV in San Diego as a consumer advocacy reporter. Established and well into her career at KGTV, Walker decided to go public with her ectrodactyly after previously keeping her hands hidden inside a pair of glove-like p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Buss
Gerald Hatten Buss (January 27, 1933 – February 18, 2013) was an American businessman, investor, chemist, and philanthropist. He was the majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning 10 league championships that were highlighted by the team's Showtime era during the 1980s. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor. Buss owned other professional sports franchises in Southern California. Early life and business career Born in Salt Lake City, Buss and his three younger siblings were raised by their divorced mother, Jessie, who worked as a waitress. His father, Lydus, was an accountant who went on to teach statistics at Berkeley, who abandoned Buss after his first birthday and never returned. When he was nine years old, Buss moved with his mother to Los Angeles; three years later when she remarried, they then moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming and lived in a six-room home with his half-brothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Lakers
The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Pacific Division (NBA), Pacific Division of the Western Conference (NBA), Western Conference. The Lakers play their home games at Crypto.com Arena, an arena they share with the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Lakers are one of the most successful teams in the history of the NBA with 17 championships, the second most in the league behind the Boston Celtics. The franchise began in 1946 as the Detroit Gems of the National Basketball League (United States), National Basketball League (NBL). After one season, a new ownership relocated the team to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and renamed the team as the ''Minneapolis Lakers''. The Lakers won the 1948 NBL championship before joining the rival Basketball Association ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Dionne
Marcel Elphège Dionne (born August 3, 1951) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre (ice hockey), centre. He played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers between 1971 and 1989. A prolific scorer, he won the Art Ross Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer in 1979–80 NHL season, 1979–80, and recorded List of NHL players with 50-goal seasons, 50 goals or more in a season six times, and List of NHL players with 100-point seasons, 100 points or more in a season 8 times during his career. Internationally Dionne played for the Canada men's national ice hockey team, Canadian national team at two Canada Cups and three Ice Hockey World Championships, World Championships. Dionne was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1992. In 2017 Dionne was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history. Early life Dionne was born on August 3, 1951, in Drummondville, Quebec, Canada to Gilbert Sr. and Laur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
