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Justice Talking
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.
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.
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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 [41]
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.
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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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