The Brian Lehrer Show

Count Me In!

Thursday, October 19, 2006

We continue our election year series 30 Issues in 30 Days with Issue 19: Will My Vote Count? -- two views on access to, suppression of, casting and counting ballots. Plus, The Subway Chronicles.

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30 Issues in 30 Days: Does Your Vote Count

Michael Waldman , executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and former speechwriter for President Bill Clinton
and
Dr. Tony Minor, pastor for Community of Faith in Cleveland Ohio
and
Robert Pollock, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board member
-discuss whether voter suppression is a problem in the United States

Underneath It All

Jacquelin Cangro, founder of thesubwaychronicles.com and editor of the book of essays, The Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York (Penguin/Plume, 2006)
and
Amy Holman, poet and author of An Insider's Guide to Creative Writing Programs (Perigee, 2006) and the poetry collection, Wait For Me, I'm Gone (Dream Horse Press) and contributor to The Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York (Penguin/Plume, 2006)
and
Daniels Parseliti, writer and contributor to The Subway Chronicles: Scenes from Life in New York (Penguin/Plume, 2006)
-share their stories and take calls from listeners with their one-minute tales from New York's subways

The Subway Chronicles is available for purchase at Amazon.com