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Monday Morning Politics
The Senate will weigh in on competing immigration measures this week bringing the issue to a boil in an election year. Brian talks Monday Morning Politics with NPR’s Juan Williams and The Christian Science Monitor's Dante Chinni and later asks two State lawmakers if they can pass an on-time budget. Plus: Tom Tomorrow with a new collection of anti-Republican cartoons, the New York state budget, and your calls
Monday Morning Politics
Dante Chinni, political columnist for The Christian Science Monitor
and
Juan Williams, senior correspondent for National Public Radio
- on the politics of the day
» Dante Chinni's CSM columns
» Juan Williams' bio and links to his recent NPR pieces
» Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Devil You Know
Tom Tomorrow, cartoonist and author,
Hell in a Handbasket: Dispatches from the Country Formerly Known as America (Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2006)
- on his new compilation of political cartoons
» Tom Tomorrow's blog
What's the ETA on the B-U-D-G-E-T?
Dean Skelos, New York state senator (R-9th District-Southwest Nassau County) and deputy majority leader,
and
Keith Wright, New York state assembly member (D-70th district-Central Harlem), chair of the committee on election law
- give their predictions on whether New York can deliver a second-straight on-time budget
» Keith Wright
» Dean Skelos
and
Errol Cockfield, Albany Bureau Chief for Newsday
- on the negotiations over the New York State budget
» Errol Cockfield (The National Association of Black Journalists)
» "Silver: Not enough for schools" by Errol Cockfield in Newsday
Open Phones
Your calls on proposals to change immigration laws and enforcement
» Paul Krugman's 3/27/2006 NYT column [Times Select]
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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!- Comments [172]
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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.
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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.
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