David King, state government editor at Gotham Gazette, looks at how Gov. Cuomo negotiated the choice between losing jobs upstate and separating families downstate in picking which under-utilized prisons to close. Plus, where are prisoners being counted when it comes to redistricting?

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With lawmakers calling for investigations into News Corporation here in the US, Jake Bernstein, business and financial reporter for ProPublica, and Jeff Jarvis, the man behind buzzmachine.com, professor at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and author of What Would Google Do?, look at what laws Murdoch may have violated here.

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Chief digital officer for New York City Rachel Sterne discusses the MTA app competition and other tech projects in the works to make the city function better.

Richard Hamburg, deputy director of Trust for America's Health, discusses his organization's recent report on obesity in America. 

As Moroccans continue to protest, Laila Lalami, associate professor of creative writing at the University of California at Riverside, author of the novel Secret Son and regular writer about Morocco for The Nation and Foreign Policy, discusses the difference between unrest in Morocco and the protests across North Africa and the Middle East.

Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti, founders of the Trampoline Hall amateur lecture series and co-authors of The Chairs Are Where the People Go: How to Live, Work, and Play in the City, offer an off-beat self-help book based on Globerman's collected wisdom as an improvisation teacher.

Event: Misha Glouberman and Sheila Heti's Trampoline Hall lecture series comes to Brooklyn tonight.