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Fire Hazard

Michael Isikoff, investigative reporter at Newsweek and author of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War (Crown, 2006), on the firing of federal prosecutors and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's refusal to resign.

View documents pertaining to the Department of Justice firings at the House Judiciary Committee’s website.

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Halliburton Goes to Dubai

Brett Clanton, business reporter at The Houston Chronicle, on the political and economic ramifications of Halliburton's move to Dubai.

Houston Chronicle: "Democrats Question Halliburton motive"

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Tough Love

Herman Badillo, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute; former U.S. congressman, Bronx borough president, deputy mayor of New York City, and chairman of the board of the City University of New York, and the author of One Nation, One Standard:An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups (Sentinel, 2007), says Hispanics need to value education more.

One Nation, One Standard is available for purchase at Amazon.com

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Ah, Rats!

Joshua Brustein, an editor at Gotham Gazette and E. Charles Hunt, executive vice president of the New York City Chapters of the New York State Restaurant Association, discuss restaurant health inspections and the recent spate of closings in the wake of the rat sightings at a Greenwich Village fast food restaurant. We also heard from Michael Frank, manager of John's Pizzeria and Charles Milite, co-owner of Union Square's Coffee Shop.

The Gotham Gazette article rounding up recent restaurant news
NYC Dept. of Health restaurant inspection results

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Open Phones

Listeners weigh in on the MTA's ban on alcohol on LIRR and Metro North trains this St. Patrick's Day.

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