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Frank RichRich Material
We continue our 2006 election series, “30 Issues in 30 Days” with Issue Two: Are New Yorkers Overtaxed? Also, New York Times columnist Frank Rich and his new book, “The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina.”
Rich Material
Frank Rich, New York Times columnist, author
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth from 9/11 to Katrina (Penguin, 2006)
- why he thinks the White House obscures reality
The Case for Spinach
Marion Nestle, professor of Nutrition Food Studies and Public Health at New York University and author, What to Eat (FSG, 2006)
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Joan Gussow, Emeritus professor of Nutrition and Education at Teacher's, College-Columbia University and author, This Organic Life: Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader (Chelsea Green 2001)
-discuss the tainted spinach epidemic and what it means for spinach lovers
Marion Nestle's website Food Politics
30 Issues in 30 Days: Are New Yorkers Over Taxed?
Frank Mauro, executive director Fiscal Policy Institute
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Matt Guilbault, executive director of the New York State Tax Union
- on why New Yorkers and taxed and how it can be remedied
Fiscal Policy Institute
New York State Tax Union
Sky High, Rock Bottom: Real Estate in New York
Jhoanna Robledo, contributing editor at New York Magazine
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Anonymous or Mr. Brownstoner, blogger for Brownstoner.com a real estate blog
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talk about housing prices stagnating and whether home owners should buy, sell or hold
Jhoanna Robledo's article in New York Magazine
Brownstoner.com
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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]
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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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