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The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, May 13, 2003
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    The City Council approved a $1.7 billion tax plan to raise revenues for the city; now, on to wrangling over how to spend it. Council Speaker Gifford Miller discusses what can stay and what has to go. Also: schools chancellor Joel Klein, second thoughts on the Second Avenue subway, blacks in film, and former Wall Street insider R. Foster Winans on a billion-dollar settlement deal with brokerage firms that was supposed to put Wall Street on an straighter path.

Joel In One

Joel Klein, New York City schools chancellor, has a lot to contend with

Bidness In Albany

City Council Speaker Gifford Miller (D-5th district), is raising taxes and advocating for tenants

The Big Dig New York Style

Gene Russianoff, staff attorney for Straphangers Campaign, on the 2nd Avenue subway line

Fostering a New Ethic

Foster Winans, former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, convicted of insider trading and author of Trading Secrets/Seduction and Scandal at the Wall Street Journal (St. Martin's Press, 1986), on why the latest settlements will not change the culture on Wall Street

Black To The Future

George Alexander, author of Why We Make Movies (Harlem Moon, 2003), on black people and film

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John Burns, London bureau chief for the New York Times, reflects on his work in China, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Iraq.

Chief of Technology

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Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, talks about the potential presidential cabinet position of Chief Technology Officer. Who's in your fantasy cabinet? Visit our Fab Cab page and let us know.

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