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Health Care Bill Perspectives

T.R. Reid, veteran foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and the author of The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper and Fairer Health Care, discusses what's in the current health care bill and puts it in a global perspective.

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Bear Stearns On Trial

WNYC reporter Lisa Chow recaps the Bear Stearns trial and analyzes its impact.

Lisa Chow: Blogging the Bear Stearns Trial

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Tweeting Tragedy

Tweets from inside Fort Hood were used in news reports about the shooting there last week. But some of the tweets turned out to detail false information. Paul Carr, columnist for TechCrunch and author of Bringing Nothing To The Party, and Jeff Jarvis, professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and author of the blog BuzzMachine.com, discuss the role of 'citizen journalists' and the line between constructive and destructive uses of social media.

Read Paul Carr's column on TechCrunch

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Drilling, Dredging and New York’s Water

Two issues pertaining to water in New York are coming to a head. Riverkeeper president Alex Matthiessen, discusses natural gas drilling in the watershed and the cleanup of PCB's in the Hudson River. ProPublica reporter Abrahm Lustgarten has been covering the drilling issue and his latest report is on radioactivity in the wastewater. Then journalist David Gargill writes about the dredging operation in an article called "The General Electric Superfraud" in the December issue of Harper’s Magazine.

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Stroller Recall

Maclaren USA is recalling a million strollers due to 12 reports of amputation that have occurred when children got their fingers stuck in the strollers. Don Mays, the senior director of Product Safety Planning and Technical Administration at Consumers Union has the details.

Information on the Recall at the Maclaren Website

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