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Empire State Agenda

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Wednesday, January 05, 2005

George Pataki gives his 11th State of the State address today. High on the agenda will be health care, education, and trimming the perennially late budget.

New York State of Mind

Jamal E. Watson, executive editor of the Amsterdam News
» Amsterdam News
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Andrea Bernstein Senior Reporter, WNYC
» WNYC
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Gerson Borrero, Columnist for El Diario/La Prensa on the state of the State and City of New York

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Birthday on Baker Street

Otto Penzler, proprietor of the Mysterious Bookshop (129 West 56th St.), member of the Baker Street Irregulars and series editor, The Best American Mystery Stories 2004 (Houghton Mifflin, 2004)on celebrating the 150th birthday of Sherlock Holmes
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The Perils of Privilege

Tim Wise, activist director of Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE) in Nashville and author, White Like Me: Reflections on Race froma Privileged Son(Soft Skull Press, 2004), on the costs of racial privilege for blacks and whites
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Recount Update

David Cobb, Green Party candidate for President, is urging Congress to reject Ohio's electoral college votes
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Recount Update

Today's installment of our Recount Update Series will hear from Green Party Presidential candidate, David Cobb.

In the meantime, read the relevant letters from Congressman John Conyers:

Dec 20 letter on Conyers’ request for support to object the Ohio electoral college (addressed to Senator Barbara Boxer)

Dec 2 letter

Dec 14 letter

All Congressional letters from the Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee

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Read the letter Michael Moore entitled "Just One Senator" on his site today.

Hear past segments in the series.

By the way, today's temporary call-in number is 212-227-7606

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