Hour 1 For more than a week, public employee union members have been protesting in Wisconsin over Republican Governor Scott Walker’s budget bill that would increase their benefit contribution and cut their collective bargaining power.  The labor protests have spread to other states like Indiana, Iowa, and Ohio and mobilized union supporters and opponents around [...]

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Hour 2 A new report from Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Pathways to Prosperity, has ignited a contentious debate about if we should be preparing all high school students to go to college or providing alternative routes to job-preparedness including technical training, apprenticeship programs and work-based learning, for example.  ROBERT SCHWARTZ, author of the report, [...]

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Hour 2 A new report from Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Pathways to Prosperity, has ignited a contentious debate about whether all students should go to college or if we should be providing alternative routes to careers including technical training, apprenticeship programs and work-based learning, for example.  ROBERT SCHWARTZ, author of the report, joins [...]

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Earlier this month, the Philadelphia District Attorney's office released it's second grand jury report in a decade regarding abuse by priests in the Philadelphia Archdiocese.  The new report resulted in charges against three priests, a parochial school teacher and Monsignor William Lynn, secretary of the clergy and one of the top officials in the Philadelphia Archdiocese [...]

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Hour 2 [Enjoy this archive. There's a Live Radio moment towards the beginning.] You’ve seen New Jersey-born actor TOM McCARTHY as an actor in roles in films such as Palmer Williams in “Good Night and Good Luck” and on TV as Scott Templeton in HBO's “The Wire.” He’s also written and directed “The Station Agent” and [...]

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Hour 1 Anti-government protests continue to spread across the Middle East. After uprisings toppled governments in Tunisia and Egypt, protests, some violent, are growing in Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and even Iran.  What all these countries have in common is a large and growing population under the age of 30 with a high [...]

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Hour 2 The Academy Awards are coming up this Sunday night.  The King’s Speech, The Social Network, 127 Hours, Black Swan, The Fighter and The Kid’s Are All Right are all vying for best picture.  Best actor nominees include Colin Firth, Jesse Eisenberg, and James Franco.  And for best actress — Nicole Kidman, Annette Bening, [...]

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Hour 1 In the first part of our 2-part look at the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, we’ll interview STANLEY MEISLER, author of the new book, When The World Calls: The Inside Story Of The Peace Corps And Its First Fifty Years. Meisler was deputy director of the Peace Corps’ Office of Evaluation and [...]

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Hour 2 In this second part of our 2-part look at the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, we’ll interview three Peace Corps alumni who served in three different parts of the world and three different decades about their experiences, and what their service has meant to them in the years since. JULIA ZAGAR, artist [...]

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Hour 1 As part of the Administration’s proposed 2012 budget the Department of Defense loses $78 billion in spending over the next five years.  Fiscal conservatives say the cuts are not deep enough given the pressure to reduce the federal deficit.  Defense hawks, on the other hand, say the cuts  threaten our national security.  Our [...]

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