The Brian Lehrer Show

Justice Talking

Monday, March 12, 2007

Chief Judge of the State of New York Judith Kaye has just been reconfirmed by the State Senate after 14 years on the job, and she’s about to launch a pilot program to make divorce cheaper and less acrimonious, at least in court. Kaye joins us to discuss this program and some of her other proposed judicial reforms. Also, Eduardo Geraldo from the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Queens speaks about immigrant entrepreneurship in the 21st century.

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Firefighters vs. Giuliani

Peter Gorman, president of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association of New York, Local 854, on why his union is unhappy with Rudolph Giuliani's handling of how firefighters' bodies were retrieved from the World Trade Center rubble.

Monday Morning Politics

Michel Martin, NPR host, on the Democratic division over Iraq, Republican reaction to the Libby verdict, and the latest in the 2008 presidential race.

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Rob Walsh, commissioner of the New York City Department of Small Business Services, Eduardo Giraldo, president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Queens, and Jonathan Bowles, director of the Center for an Urban Future, talk about how important immigrant entrepreneurs are to New York's economy and what the city can and should do to support them.

Justice Talking

Judge Judith Kaye, Chief Judge of the State of New York, explains why she and Governor Spitzer want to restructure the New York State court system.

Crowded Houses

Ingrid Gould Ellen, co-director of NYU's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy and associate professor at NYU's Wagner School, and Glenn Corbett professor of fire science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice discuss the issue of overcrowding in homes and apartments in response to last week's fire in the Bronx.