NWT Full Show, Jan. 18, 2012

Tom MacDonald joins us for a live update on Governor Christie’s town hall meeting on his tax cut proposal.  Elizabeth Fiedler reports on the formal appeals coming in from Catholic schools in the Philadelphia Archdiocese slated for closure.  Dave Heller speaks with Drexel University Professor Robert Field about the HIPPA regulations barring Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia from discussing a dispute with parents who say the hospital denied their daughter a kidney transplant because of her intellectual disability.  Therese Madden reports on why kids are less likely to like veggies than adults.  And our producer, Stephanie Marudas, tells us why “grit” is a quality we’ll all be hearing about in 2012.