From a $6 billion property tax cut to a constitutional amendment for stem cell research, Gov. Spitzer’s State of the State address was long on big ideas. We’ll look at the details and get listeners’ reactions. Also, the state of New York real estate prices; obsolescence and electronic waste: Where do your old computers and cell phones go to die and what does it mean for the environment?
Troop Surge
Ralph Peters, retired Army Lieutenant Colonel, New York Post columnist and author, Never Quit the Fight (Stackpole, 2006)
- believes that there should be a surge in troops in Iraq
Never Quit the Fight is available for purchase at Amazon.com
- believes that there should be a surge in troops in Iraq
Never Quit the Fight is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Part Two: Troop Surge
Katrina Vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation
- makes the case against a troop surge
- makes the case against a troop surge
Real Estate Vertigo
Gregory J. Heym, senior vice president of research and communications, and chief economist for Halstead Property
- discusses the forces currently shaping the NYC real estate market and how they differ from the national climate
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Brad Lander, director of the Pratt ...
- discusses the forces currently shaping the NYC real estate market and how they differ from the national climate
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Brad Lander, director of the Pratt ...
State of the State of the State
James Parrott, deputy director and chief economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute
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Matt Maguire, director of communications for the New York State Business Council
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Kevin Parker, New York State Senator (D-21, Brooklyn)
- on Governor Spitzer's plans for ...
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Matt Maguire, director of communications for the New York State Business Council
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Kevin Parker, New York State Senator (D-21, Brooklyn)
- on Governor Spitzer's plans for ...
Electronic Left-Overs
Christine Datz-Romero, executive director of the Lower East Side Ecology Center
- on recycling electronic waste in New York City
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Giles Slade, author, Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America (Harvard University Press, 2006)
- explains the development of disposable ...
- on recycling electronic waste in New York City
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Giles Slade, author, Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America (Harvard University Press, 2006)
- explains the development of disposable ...
The Problem of E-Waste
Today on the Brian Lehrer Show we discussed the issue of electronic waste and the proper ways to recycle your computers, cell phones and other electronics. We were joined by Christine Datz-Romero, executive director of the Lower East Side Ecology Center, who are holding their Electronic Waste Recycling Drop-Off Event ...
E-Waste
Verizon suggests that its customers turn in their old phones upon receiving replacement phones so that their old phones can be donated to women who are victims of domestic violence so that they can have phones to use in emergencies. There are drop-off boxes at most Verizon stores in NYC. ...
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