TriMet is proposing cuts in transit services for September of this year including a 5 percent administrative cut, a salary and hiring freeze, reductions to bus and MAX service and a five-cent fare increase. They are also exploring WES frequency reductions of up to 15 minutes and/or reducing hours of operation.

Today on More Talk Radio Cecil Prescod and Celeste Carey speak with Mary Fetsch, TriMet Communications Director and Kerry Ayres-Palanuk from the TriMet service planning staff about the proposed cuts. Call in with your questions.

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An interview with Ethan Watters, author of "Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche."    Not only is America exporting Mc Donald's, strip malls and the latest movie blockbuster,  according to Watters we are also exporting Western ideas about mental illness.  Learn why Watters says: "We should worry about the loss of diversity in the world's differing conceptions for mental illness in the same way we worry about the loss of biodiversity in nature."