Something is blossoming in the mud of the meadowlands: a rich, colorful culture of indepently produced and published magazines, purveyors of journalism you won't find anywhere else: "Reforming the American School System with The Rock," "A Conversation With Yoko Ono," and "I'm not from New Jersey, My hair Isn't Big Enough." Also on the show, Gifford Miller, now available live on the web.
A Bicycle Built for... 8 Million
Matthew Sweeney, staff reporter for the Sun www.nysun.com, on the possible MTA strike
Gifford Differed
Gifford Miller, City Council Speaker (D-5th district), on transit worker contact negotiations and taxes, taxes, taxes
Every School Board Left Behind
Arlene Fleishman, president for School District 25 in Queens and Skip Roseboro, vice president of New York ACORN www.acorn.org, on reforming the community school boards and the No Child Left Behind Act
Slim Jim
Bob Hennelly, WNYC New Jersey correspondent, on the hapless but happy New Jersey Governor James McGreevey
Strom in a Teacup
Listeners’ comments on Senator Trent Lott’s prediction that had Strom been president “we wouldn’t have had all these problems” with a drop-in by Burt Case, a reporter
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