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The Brian Lehrer Show / May 02, 2007

The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, May 02, 2007
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    New York City traffic

    Making Congestion Pricing Palatable

    It’s easy to see why most of the people opposed to Mayor Bloomberg’s congestion pricing plan live outside Manhattan. Daily News columnist Sam Schwartz, aka Gridlock Sam, tells us how to make the plan palatable in the boroughs and the ‘burbs. Plus: the President and Congress square-off, the Critical Mass riders speak, the safety of food imports, and DJ Spooky remixes the movie, “Birth of a Nation.”

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Working Against Time

Jodi Schneider, chief economic editor for Congressional Quarterly, talks about the negotiations that will have to take place between Congress and the White House on an Iraq War spending bill.

Unlocking Gridlock

Sam Schwartz, president and CEO of Sam Schwartz LLC, a traffic planning and engineering firm and columnist for the Daily News explains why congestion pricing will work in New York.

Open Phones

Listeners discuss why they attend Critical Mass bike rides and what they hope to achieve through the protests.

All Along the Food Chain

Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition food studies and public health at New York University and the author of What to Eat (North Point Press, 2007), just out in paperback, discusses the issue of melamine in Chinese food imports and the FDA.

Rebirth of a Movie

DJ Spooky (aka Paul Miller), DJ and conceptual artist talks about his film and performance piece, "Rebirth of a Nation," which is a remix of the controversial early film classic, "Birth of a Nation."

DJ Spooky will perform live at the Tribeca Film Festival on Friday May 4, & Saturday May 5, 9:00pm at the Winter Garden.

Read More about DJ Spooky at the Tribeca Film Festival
Watch an excerpt of "Rebirth of a Nation"

A person dressed as a bear to represent a bear market performs outside the New York Stock Exchange on October 6, 200 in New York. Wall Street tumbled after the opening bell as fallout from the credit crisis triggered concerns about the economy and the Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years.

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Cast your vote for our video contest semi-finalists.

Ray Young, General Motors Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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.

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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!

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexerde/80417539/">alexerde</a>/flickr)

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!

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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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