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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
LINDA PERLMAN GORDON and SUSAN MORRIS SHAFFER talk about their new book about mother and daughter relationships called, "Too Close for Comfort." Listen to the mp3
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Iran's nuclear ambitions
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Negotiations between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council begin on Thursday in Geneva. In the wake of last week's announcement of a second uranium enrichment facility in Iran, world leaders will make the case for increased sanctions against Iran. In this hour of Radio Times, guest host TRACEY MATISAK talks [...]
More »National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
This October the Department of Veterans Affairs will open the National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans in University City. Its purpose will be to develop national policy, conduct research, and educate the operators of VA programs on effective methods for reducing homelessness. We talk to DENNIS CULHANE, professor of Social Policy at the University of [...]
More »Swine Flu update
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Penn infectious disease specialist NEIL FISHMAN talks with Tracey Matisak about swine flu – what we know and don't know and what we can expect in the coming months. Listen to the mp3
More »Author Mike Sielski and his new book Fading Echoes
Monday, September 28th, 2009
In his new book, "Fading Echoes," sports columnist MIKE SIELSKI tells the story of two local high school football players who met each other as rivals on the field. Ten years later they followed similar paths to the battlefields of Iraq. Tracey Matisak fills in for Marty. Listen to the mp3
More »The Pennsylvania Senate campaign
Monday, September 28th, 2009
We take the pulse of the Pennsylvania Senate campaign, and what it is telling us, and has told us, about the national and PA political climate. New Yorker writer PETER J. BOYER and Muhlenberg College political scientist CHRISTOPHER BORICK will discuss with guest-host TRACEY MATISAK the matchup of Arlen Specter vs. Joe Sestak in the [...]
More »Why we lie and is it ever okay?
Friday, September 25th, 2009
According to our first guest, psychologist ROBERT FELDMAN, when two people are first getting acquainted, each of them lies an average of three times in 10 minutes. That's a lot of lying. So why do we tell lies? Then, New York times ethicist RANDY COHEN answers the question – is it ever OK to lie? [...]
More »New Jersey gubernatorial race
Friday, September 25th, 2009
In opinion polls of likely voters, New Jersey governor Jon Corzine has been trailing his Republican challenger Chris Christie for months. But the Democratic incumbent has taken refuge behind the political cliché, that there's only one opinion poll that matters, and that's on Election Day. But the candidates are filling the airwaves in North and [...]
More »Foster children and the Arise Academy
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
There are almost 21 thousand foster children in Pennsylvania, and more than 5 thousand in Philadelphia. But they're not staying in school: Between 2000 and 2004, more than 75 percent of Philadelphia students in foster care dropped out of school. To those shattering statistics, a novel response is being tried: A new charter school has [...]
More »Reaction to the President's speech to the UN
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
In his first address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama challenged world leaders to live up to their responsibilities while acknowledging the failings of U.S. foreign policy. Guest host Dave Davies talks to the Inquirer's DICK POLMAN and TRUDY RUBIN about the vision Obama articulated as well as other foreign policy issues he [...]
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