War in the Middle East, a schizophrenic stock market and a humongous budget gap. That was the view from New York in the early 1970s. Veteran purse-mender Felix Rohatyn, chairman of the New York Municipal Assistance Corporation at the time, has suggestions for getting the Empire City out of its rut. Later, New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson says cutting recycling didn't help the budget. We'll also talk to the former CEO of IBM and find out how audiences are reacting to a new all-Asian production of "Flower Drum Song."
Cup Of Joe
David Lightman, Hartford Courant Washington Bureau Chief on US Senator Joe Lieberman's possible run for president
Show Me the Money
New York City Comptroller William Thompson on the city's loose finances
Tuning Up Big Blue
Louis Gerstner, Jr., current chairman of IBM, former CEO of IBM, and author of Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround (HarperBusiness, 2002), on the transformation of IBM from a computer manufacturer to one of the largest Internet companies around.
New York Poorhouse
Felix Rohatyn, former governor of the New York Stock Exchange, and chairman of the former New York Municipal Assistance Corporation, on what the New York city and state government could learn from the 1970s.
Une Nuit Blanche
WNYC’s Amy Eddings on the round-the-clock negotiations between the MTA and the transit union and the union rally this evening.
It's All Chop Suey to Me
Jack Tchen, associate professor of history and director of Asian/ Pacific/ American Studies at New York University www.apa.nyu.edu and founder of the Museum of Chinese in the Americas on the critics’ reviews of David Henry Hwang’s Flower Drum Song, currently on Broadway
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