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Friday, December 02, 2005

Most basic cable TV packages come with dozens of channels, but some consumers want smaller packages for less money. Should consumers get to pick the channels they pay for? Cable companies say it will end up costing them more, but the FCC chairman says it might be cheaper. Hear two views on the debate.

Island Hopping

Andrew Beveridge, sociology professor at Queens College
and
Carrie Gallagher, program director for the Long Island Index funded by the Rauch Foundation, an organization that gathers and publishes data on the Long Island region

- why young adults are moving out of Long Island, and young ...

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Cable Manners

Steve Effros, president of Ephros Communications, former president of the Cable Television Communications Association
- says consumers will end up paying more with mandatory a la carte cable
and
Kenneth Degraff, policy analyst for Consumers Union
- says consumers should be able to pick their own ...

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Commissioner on a Mission

John Mattingly, commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services
- on foster care and the deaths of Sierra Roberts and Dahquay Gillians

ยป The Administration for Children's Services

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Parental Control

Denise Gaines, parent advocate with the Center for Family Representation
- on her experience getting her child back from foster care and her work as a parent advocate
and
Andrew White, director of the Center for New York City Affairs at the Milano Graduate School of Management ...

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Put on a Happy Face

Tom DeLay got a lot of attention for the beaming face he showed to the Harris County (Texas) sheriff's office when he appeared for a photo op a few weeks ago...


(courtesy of The Smoking Gun)

but while leafing ...

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Why Does this Man Look so happy?

Lobbyist Michael Scanlon flashes a freakishly happy grin after his guilty plea. How does bilking Indian tribes out of $80 million make anyone this happy?

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Exposing the News Behind the Ads

Public radio producers are troublemakers, and nothing gives us more joy than to bring you page 3 of am New York when the free daily sells pages 1 and 2 to advertisers.

Page 3 news: fans will be barred from tossing trash at sports events

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