The Brian Lehrer Show: Kalikow On A Hot Tin Roof

The Brian Lehrer Show

Kalikow On A Hot Tin Roof

Friday, June 23, 2006

MTA chair Peter S. Kalikow ((STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images))

Now in his last months of office, Governor Pataki is busy appointing people to positions that will far outlast his own term. But Eliot Spitzer wants to put the brakes on one of the governor’s more controversial choices: Peter Kalikow as head of the MTA for another six years. Also: ethnicity and casting at the Public Theater, a look at whether President Bush is overreaching his Constitutional role while keeping oversight at arm's lengths and a domestic terror plot to bomb the Sears Tower.

Kalikow On A Hot Tin Roof

Errol Louis, columnist for the New York Daily News
and
Gene Russianoff, staff attorney for the NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign
and
Tom Robbins, columnist from the Village Voice
- on Pataki's 11th hour re-appointment of Peter Kalikow as head of the MTA

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Public Relations

Diana Son, playwright of "Stop Kiss" and "Satellites," now running at the Public Theater
and
Oskar Eustis, artistic director of the Public Theater
- discuss nontraditional casting and the Public's summer season.

» Satellites
» Shakespeare in ...

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Bush Almighty?

Elizabeth Drew, journalist and author of 12 books, most recently with Russell Baker, Fear and Loathing in George W. Bush's Washington (New York Review of Books, 2004)
and
Bruce Fein, constitutional scholar and former Associate Deputy Attorney General in the Reagan administration
- says the Bush administration is ...

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