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Friday, July 21, 2006
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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

Open Phones

Your calls on the Queens brown and blackout.

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.

Just Launched! The Uncommon Economic Indicators Video Contest. All the details here!

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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