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The Brian Lehrer Show / December 19, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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  • <em>Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit</em>
    Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit

    Underground Art

    Have you noticed the art museum underground? Works by world famous artists in the subways, there for you to enjoy while you commute? We’ll speak with four contributors to a new subway art collection, and ask what’s your favorite. Also, with twelve days to go until he leaves office, we take a look at Governor Pataki’s legacy.

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Pataki Legacy

Frank Mauro, executive director Fiscal Policy Institute
and
Steve Malanga, contributing editor at the Manhattan Institute's City Journal and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute
- discuss George Pataki's legacy in New York State

Weird Science

Matthew LaClair, a student at Kearny High School in New Jersey
and
Paul LaClair, Matthew's father and a lawyer in New York
-on Matthew's science teacher prostelytizing during class

Back on Track

Jeremy Soffin, vice president for public affairs at the Regional Plan Association
- talks about new funds for extending the LIRR to Grand Central and developing the Second Avenue Subway

Underground Art

William Ayres, chief curator at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook, NY and co-author
and
Sandra Bloodworth, director, Arts in Transit and co-author
and
Mary Miss, sculptor and installation artist whose "Framing Union Square" is part of the 14th Street-Union Square subway station
and
Bing Lee, China born artist whose ceramic tile artwork, "Empress Voyage 2.22 1794" decorates the Canal Street Subway Station
-on the new book Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit and the art gallery that is the New York subway system

Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit is available for purchase at Amazon.com

Mary Miss' work online
Bing Lee's "Empress Voyage 2.22 1794"

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.

Cast your vote for our video contest semi-finalists.

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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Check out some recent video clips of interviews with guests and Brian Lehrer's weekly Web video picks.