The Brian Lehrer Show

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Out of the Shadows

Monday, May 12, 2008

Thanks to television, most of us know what the inside of a therapist’s office looks like. But millions of real-life Americans with depression never seek treatment. Terrie Williams, author of Black Pain, shares her own experience with depression and her thoughts on why African Americans resist therapy. Plus, venture capital and rent stabilization.

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Rent Destabilized

Gretchen Morgenson, assistant business and financial editor and columnist at The New York Times, and Ben Dulchin, deputy director of the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, discuss the impact of investment companies on New York’s rent stabilized housing stock.

Then, Frank Ricci of the Rent Stabilization Association, representing landlords of rent-regulated buildings, and Rob McCreanor, director of legal services at the Immigrant Tenant Advocacy Project of the Catholic Migration Office in Sunnyside, Queens.

Open Phones: Eric Gioia, Queens Councilmember (D-26), is holding hearings on this issue. Do you live in a building that’s recently been bought with venture capital, with landlords such as Vantage, Normandy Partners, The Dermot Company, Westbrook Partners or the Dawny Day Group? Talk to Councilman Gioia about your experience.

"As Investment Firms Buy Up Buildings, Tenants See Bullies" NYT, 5/9/2008

Out of the Shadows

Terrie Williams, author of Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting talks about her book, and PBS's upcoming special Depression: Out of the Shadows.

EVENT: Terrie Williams will be participating in a panel discussion alongside Larkin McPhee, director of Depression: Out of the Shadows, this Thursday at 7:30 at The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater at the West Side YMCA (5 West 63rd Street). Event is free - for more information call 212-981-5298.

Broadcast Schedule for Depression: Out of The Shadows

In Vito Veritas

Representative Vito Fossella faces an uncertain future. We discuss the latest and the larger question of private life and public performance with Richard M. Flanagan, Associate Professor of Political Science at College of Staten Island.

A New Day for Newsday?

Rick Edmonds, media business analyst for the Poynter Institute, a non-profit school for journalists, and Vishesh Kumar, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, talk about Cablevision's purchase of Newsday.