In 2002 the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority completed an assessment of potential threats to the city’s transportation infrastructure. Over two years later only about $30 million of the $600 million dollars committed to the project has actually been spent. Less than a week after the attacks on the London transportation system New Yorkers are questioning whether their subway system is next.
Security Underground
Beth Fertig WNYC reporter
-on securing New York's transit system following the London bombings
» WNYC News
and
Richard Brodsky Assemblyman (D-86th District-Westchester County)
- discusses security in the New York City mass transit sustem
» Assemblyman Brodsky
-on securing New York's transit system following the London bombings
» WNYC News
and
Richard Brodsky Assemblyman (D-86th District-Westchester County)
- discusses security in the New York City mass transit sustem
» Assemblyman Brodsky
Space Mom
listeners tell us what they think about Eileen Collins, who is commanding the Discovery mission.
Democracy Wonk: Episode 4
Listeners call in on the topic of the day
Judy Bench
Richard Cohen, syndicated columnist for the Washington Post,
-says Judy Sheindlin would be an excellent Supreme Court Justice
» "The Judge for Me" (The Washington Post, 7/7/05)
-says Judy Sheindlin would be an excellent Supreme Court Justice
» "The Judge for Me" (The Washington Post, 7/7/05)
Open Phones
Listners comment on whether the press is AWOL on issues and whether PBS should have competing documentaries.
Feedback:
Subject: 4 SCJ = Christine Todd Whitman
After hearing her on NPR, she sounds reasonable, sane and articulate. She's a republican who has explicitly rejected a social and political order emerging out of "biblical truth." All interpretations, however attentive to textual meanings must also integrate both the context of the writer[s] as well as the context of us, the readers.
-JF
I am a militant moderate: be reasonable or else! Some elements of the militant moderate philosphy:
Liberals exist to keep the neanderthals from ruling the world. conservatives exist to keep the pointy-heads from ruling the world.
The liberals have the arts, the media, and education. The conservatives have business and the military. Sounds fair and balanced to me.
-JM