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(flickr/glynnish)The Sheriff of Wall Street
A son of the Bronx, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer made his name prosecuting brokerages that inflated their stock value artificially. Now he’s running for Governor. A Spitzer biographer says family scrabble games early in life made young Eliot competitive. Plus, Monday Morning Politics, the power outage and outrage in Queens and investigating suspicious fires.
Monday Morning Politics
Mike Hirsh, senior editor, Newsweek and author,
At War With Ourselves (Oxford University Press 2003)
- reviews the news from the Middle East
» Newsweek
Primary Concerns
Steve Clemons, director of foreign affairs at the New America Foundation
and publisher of the thewashingtonnote.com
- on Lieberman, Clinton and the change in national primary dates
» thewashingtonnote.com
Fired Up
Shelly Reuben, private fire investigator and author, The Skirt Man (Harcourt, 2006),
-on being an arson investigator and a novelist
» Shelly Reuben (personal website)
» The Skirt Man (Harcourt)
Spit Fire
Brooke Masters, reporter for The Washington Post and author,
Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer (Times Books)
- on the man who would be governor.
Powerless
Eric Gioia, councilmember (D-Queens)
- on day eight of the blackout in Queens
» Councilmember Gioia’s webpage
Call Councilmember Gioia's office at 718-383-9566
Call 1-800-75CONED to report individual outages to Con Edison
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