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Friday morning on the downtown number 4 trainDoes Not Commute
New Yorkers have the highest average commute time than other Americans, but they also enjoy it more, according to an article in this week's New Yorker. Find out how traveling to work changes your life. Plus: Conservative author Christopher Buckley on his satirical novel about aging boomers and their kids. Also, we discuss New York's carbon rating, Bernie Kerik, the rent vs. buy debate and hear from playwright Edith I. Freni.
Carbon Rating
James F. Gennaro, New York City Council Member (D-24), chair of the Environmental Protection Committee, discusses New York's first carbon emissions inventory.
Skeletons In the Closet
Peter Baker, White House reporter for the Washington Post, talks about the investigation into Bernard Kerik and what the White House knew about him when he was nominated as Secretary for Homeland Security.
Baker's Washington Post article on Kerik and Giuliani
The Boom's Boom
Christopher Buckley, satirist, author of the novel, Boomsday (Warner Twelve, 2007), on the intergenerational warfare between aging boomers and their kids.
Boomsday is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Does Not Commute
Nick Paumgarten, staff writer for the New Yorker, looks at the what happens when we spend so much of our lives traveling back and forth to work.
Nick Paumgarten's New Yorker article on communting
Time to Rent?
David Leonhardt, Economix columnist for the New York Times, and Dan Jester, economist at Moody's Economy.com, look at an analysis suggesting it has been better to rent than to buy.
New York Times' interactive feature: "Is it Better to Buy or To Rent?"
B.O.B.: Queens
Playwright Edith I. Freni represents Queens in P.S.122's Best of the Boroughs (B.O.B.) Festival with "Momma" a dark comic take on American family life.
This week's other B.O.B. representatives on The Brian Lehrer Show:
Monday - Sara Valentine
Tuesday - Okwui Okpokwasili
Thursday - Nia Love
Friday - Kwikstep
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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 [40]
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!- Comments [15]
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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