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Suze OrmanSpeaking of Taxes
Christine Quinn wants renters to have the same tax rebate that homeowners get. Find out what else the City Council speaker is looking for in next year's budget. Plus: Financial advisor Suze Orman answers last-minute tax-day questions; Jackie Mason's comments on Barack Obama; Virginia gun laws; and What's On Your News Radar.
Judging Comments
Emily Bazelon, senior editor of Slate magazine, looks at charges that a book co-written by a state judicial official and the comedian Jackie Mason is offensive, and discusses Mason's comments about Barack Obama.
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Speaking of Taxes
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn outlines her plan to give renters a tax rebate as well as her other proposals for next year's city budget.
Guns and Virginia
New York Daily News columnist Michael Daly, takes Virginia to task for its lax gun laws in today’s column. He is joined by Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, the organizers of the Bloomberg Gun GiveAway.
Wealth of Knowledge
Suze Orman, CNBC host and author of Women and Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny (Spiegel & Grau 2007) talks about her five month financial plan for women.
Women and Money is available for purchase at Amazon.com
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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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