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Storycorps
The StoryCorps project captures the nation’s history through individual stories. Hear excerpts from StoryCorps Griot, a new initiative gathering the stories of African Americans. Plus: New York's new budget agreement; the People's Hall of Fame; following up on the NYPD surveillance; and why is DirecTV upsetting out-of-town fans of Major League Baseball -- like Senator John Kerry?
What They Watched
Bob Hennelly, WNYC Reporter discusses the scope of the NYPD surveillance activities.
Baseball Confidential
Rich Thomaselli, reporter for Advertising Age magazine, tells us about the negotiations between Major League Baseball and DirecTV which would give DirecTV exclusive rights to air all baseball games.
Another Story
Dave Isay, public radio producer and founder of the StoryCorps oral history project, talks about their new project gathering the life stories of African American families across the country; along with Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & ...
Deal Makers
Tom Duane, state senator (D-29th district-Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen, Upper West Side, Union Square, Stuyvesant) and E.J. McMahon, senior fellow for Tax and Budgetary Studies, at the Manhattan Institute, look at the budget deal struck in Albany.
Sub Prime Time
Juan Gonzalez, Daily News columnist and Mark Winston Griffith , Co-Director of NEDAP, Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, on the impact in New York of default on sub prime mortgages.
People's Hall of Fame
Peter Sokolow, legendary klezmer pianist, will talk about how he feels about being inducted into City Lore's People's Hall of Fame.
Listen to the other Hall of Fame inductees we’ve interviewed this week:
Pete Benfaremo, the Lemon Ice King of Corona
Renee “Juice” Flowers
Nobuko ...
Listen to the other Hall of Fame inductees we’ve interviewed this week:
Pete Benfaremo, the Lemon Ice King of Corona
Renee “Juice” Flowers
Nobuko ...
Klezmer Legend: Peter Sokolow
Peter Sokolow, the legendary klezmer pianist, talks about his music career and on being inducted into City Lore's People's Hall of Fame. The ...
John Kerry talks ball on The Brian Lehrer Show
Sen. John Kerry joined us on The Brian Lehrer Show to discuss his plan to investigate the deal between DirectTV and Major League ...
Required Reading: March 28, 2007
Senate Backs Pullout Proposal (Washington Post)
Standoff Over Britons Held in Iran Escalates (NY Times)
Govt. Eyes Changes in Species Protection (Washington Post/AP)
With Local Figures on the Ballot, Others May Shun an Early Primary (NY Times)