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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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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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