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The Brian Lehrer Show / April 11, 2005

The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, April 11, 2005
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  • In My Backyard

    "Desperate Housewives" is just the latest to offer up a depiction of the "seamy" side of suburban life. Writer D.J. Waldie takes issue with that view in his memoir of the California working class tract development where he grew up, and lives to this day.

Filibusting

Glenn Reynolds, Writes the blog, Instapundit and is a law professor at the University of Tennessee
- on the continuing senate fight over judicial nominations, progress in Iraq
» Instapundit
and
Dante Chinni, Political Columnist for the Christian Science Monitor and senior associate at the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism, on the continuing senate fight over judicial nominations, progress in Iraq
» More on Dante Chinni

Open Phones

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In My Backyard

D. J. Waldie, writer, Public Information Officer of the city of Lakewood since 1978 and author of the soon-to-be reissued, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir (W.W.Norton, April 18, 2005)
- on his memoir of his working class suburb
» More on D.J. Waldie
and
Rosalyn Baxandall Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair of American Studies at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury and co-author with Elizabeth Ewen, Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened (Basic Books, 2001)
- on Long Island suburban development
and
Robert Beuka, Assistant professor of English at Bronx Community College, City University of New York and author, SuburbiaNation : Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
» More on SuburbiaNation
and
Tom Suozzi Nassau County Executive (D)
- on his vision for a "new suburbia"
» Tom Suozzi

Housing Crunch

Julia Vitullo-Martin Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and Director of the Center for Rethinking Development at the Manhattan Insitute
- on budget cuts to HUD that will decrease day-to day operations of urban housing authorities
» Julia Vitullo-Martin
and
Alyssa Katz Editor of City Limits
- on budget cuts to HUD which will decrease day-to-day operations of urban housing authorities
» City Limits

A person dressed as a bear to represent a bear market performs outside the New York Stock Exchange on October 6, 200 in New York. Wall Street tumbled after the opening bell as fallout from the credit crisis triggered concerns about the economy and the Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years.

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Cast your vote for our video contest semi-finalists.

Ray Young, General Motors Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

The Rocky Road Ahead

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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.

Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.

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Tweet If You Use Twitter

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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.

What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexerde/80417539/">alexerde</a>/flickr)

Don't Say That, Literally

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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")

What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!

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From Denmark with Love

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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.

Judge Sotomayor

Squatting, Then and Now

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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.

Video Picks

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