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Let A Thousand Permits Bloom
Mayor Bloomberg is trying new approaches in fighting homelessness, garbage and protesters. The Times’ Diane Cardwell joins guest host Errol Louis of the Daily News to talk about running the city, Bloomberg-style. Also, closing New York’s digital divide, your calls on the Queens blackout, and who had more influence on your psyche – Mom & Dad or your siblings?
One's Company, Two's a Protest
Bob Hardt, executive producer and political director at New York 1
and
Diane Cardwell, city hall bureau chief for The New York Times,
- on hauling trash, limiting protests, and getting the homeless housed
» NY1 Top Stories
» "City to Clear Homeless Encampments" by Diane Cardwell in The New York Times
Dis-content
Andrew Rasiej, former candidate for public advocate and entrepreneur
and
Walter Fields, vice president of Political Development at the Community Services Society of New York
-on why some people can't take advantage of wi-fi
» Advocates for Rasiej
» "Calling All Luddites" in the New York Times
» Walter Field's bio
Family Ties
Susan McHale, professor of Human Development at Penn State University
and
Jeanne Safer, Ph.D psychotherapist, supervisor and faculty member at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies and author,
Forgiving and Not Forgiving: Why Sometimes It's Better Not to Forgive (Quill 2000) and The Normal
One : Life with a Difficult or Damaged Sibling (Delta 2003)
- on sibling relationships
» Jeanne Safer's website
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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.- Comments [40]
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!- Comments [15]
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]
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.
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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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