As gas prices continue to rise, drivers are hit hard at the pump while the profits of oil companies are soaring. Are the oil industry’s billions fair on consumers? Also: when to tuck your tail and give up on the New York dream, how NYC principals are being put to the test and your phone calls on what Easter, Passover and Maulid mean to you.
Oil Be Damned
Tyson Slocum, research director with Public Citizen's energy program
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Myron Ebell, director of energy policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a market-oriented think tank
- debate the rising price of oil and who ultimately pays
» Tyson Slocum's testimony before the Senate ...
and
Myron Ebell, director of energy policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a market-oriented think tank
- debate the rising price of oil and who ultimately pays
» Tyson Slocum's testimony before the Senate ...
Knowing When to Quit Is Half of Winning
Rachel Hutton
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Christina Amini, co-editors of Before the Mortgage: Real Stories of Brazen Loves, Broken Leases and the Perplexing Pursuit of Adulthood (Simon and Schuster, 2006)
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Rachel Jacobson, director of Film Streams in Omaha, Nebraska and former WNYC employee
- on knowing when to wake-up ...
and
Christina Amini, co-editors of Before the Mortgage: Real Stories of Brazen Loves, Broken Leases and the Perplexing Pursuit of Adulthood (Simon and Schuster, 2006)
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Rachel Jacobson, director of Film Streams in Omaha, Nebraska and former WNYC employee
- on knowing when to wake-up ...
Grading the Graders
Jill Levy, President of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, New York City's union for principals
- on the Department of Education's plan to grade principals as well as students
» Council of School Supervisors and Administrators
- on the Department of Education's plan to grade principals as well as students
» Council of School Supervisors and Administrators
Open Phones
-listeners' calls on what the rebirth of Christ, the birth of Mohammed and the flight from the Paraoh means for them.
McCain Pander?: 3 Views
Weisberg in Slate: the literal-minded left has McCain all wrong. He's trying to win over enough of his party's conservative base to win, for sure. But this is a stratagemâ€â€the only one, in fact, that gives him a shot at surviving a Republican presidential primary. Discount his repositioning a ...
Required Reading: April 13, 2006
In which the scary transcripts of United flight 93 are released, Schumer and Clinton call for benefits for Ground Zero workers' families, New Yorkers say they want Bloomberg, but not Corzine or Pataki, involved in rebuilding Ground Zero, more generals call for Rumsfeld's ouster, Democrats struggle to retake the House, ...