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Reviving Democracy
Larry Sabato, founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virgina, believes that it is time to rewrite the American Constitution. We find out why. Plus, a plan to abolish the St. Patrick's Day parade in its current form, the future of the city's streetscape, New Jersey's stem-cell research proposition, and defying stereotypes in the NYPD.
Should the St. Patrick's Day Parade Be Abolished?
Niall O'Dowd, publisher of the Irish Voice newspaper, outlines why he wants to abolish the St. Patrick's Day parade in its current form. Also, Christine Quinn, Speaker of the New York City Council, and Bruce Morrison, former Congressman from Connecticut, on what other immigrant groups can learn from the Irish.
The NYC Streets Renaissance
Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation, and Mark Gorton, president and founder of the Open Planning Project, discuss the future of New York City's streetscape.
The New York City Streets Renaissance Campaign
Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan's biography
Reviving Democracy
Larry Sabato, founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virgina and author of A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country (Walker & Company, 2007) believes that we should rewrite the American Constitution.
A More Perfect Constitution is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Open Phones: Stem Cell Research
Listeners from New Jersey participate in an unofficial, thoroughly unscientific poll on how they will vote on proposition 2, otherwise known as the New Jersey Stem Cell Research Bond Act.
Defying Stereotypes in the NYPD
In the documentary Tea & Justice, producer/director Ermena Vinluan, examines stereotypical views of Asian women and of the NYPD and how three Asian immigrant policewomen dealt with them. She’s joined by one of the women featured in the film, the NYPD's first Asian American female officer, Agnes Chan.
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Tea & Justice premieres Saturday, November 10th at the Queens International Film Festival.
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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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