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Felicia Pearson from HBO's "The Wire"Missed Connections
Since 2002, New York City has paid $500 million to settle civil claims against the NYPD—everything from car accidents to police brutality. We’ll examine those payouts and see if any policies change after cops are found liable. Also: actress Felicia Pearson connects the HBO series “The Wire” to real life, and personal finance expert Alvin Hall. And, what are you and your kids saying about steroid use in Major League Baseball.
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Money for Nothing
Each year New York City pays tens of millions of dollars to settle civil claims against the NYPD--but do those payouts change police practices? WNYC reporter Bob Hennelly talks about his investigation. Eugene O'Donnell, professor of law and police science at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and personal injury attorney Sanford Rubenstein share their experiences. And the commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Department's risk management group, Stuart Maislin, discusses how that city makes connections between civil claims and police behavior.
Wrapping Up Finances
Alvin Hall, personal finance expert and author of You and Your Money: It's More Than Just the Numbers (Atria, 2007), talks about end of year financial decisions you need to make.
When Art Mirrors Life
Felicia "Snoop" Pearson, actress on The Wire, connects her life to the HBO series and talks about her new memoir.
Grace After Midnight: A Memoir is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Open Phones: Mitchell Report on Steroids and Baseball
Jim Bouton, former Yankee pitcher and author of the books, Ball Four, (Wiley, John & Sons, 1970) and Foul Ball: MY Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old Ballpark (Bulldog Publishing, 2003)and Robert Kheel, partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, on the use of steroids in Major League Baseball and if there is any legal weight to the Mitchell Report.
Then, listeners tell us what conversations they have had with their kids about the Mitchell Report on steroid use in Baseball.
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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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