Since the Carter Administration, the government has been trying to improve the nation's fuel economy. But the average miles per gallon are still around 27 mpg more than two decades after the effort began. What went wrong. We talk with Brookings Institution Scholar Pietro Nivola about the long and winding road to fuel economy in the United States.

Joe Cada became the youngest man to ever win the World Series of Poker. Within a few hours, the Gaming Control Board put out figures showing that the money taken in by the state's casinos had dropped by 9% from September 2008. We talk about Cada's big win and the state's faltering economy.

The Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival is coming to Las Vegas. It will be playing at the Springs Preserve tonight. We talk with the Jules Dervais - he has taken local food to an extreme. He grows three tons of organic food in the family's yard in Pasadena. And he's made a movie about it.

So public schools aren't really mediocre. There's a subtle elitism in the way they promote book learning over other kinds of knowledge and lock many people out of real education. So says, UCLA professor of education, Mike Rose in his latest book, Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us. In a town, where the preponderance of jobs are unskilled and certainly don't require a college degree this might be a rethinking about education we should look at.