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Local Politics with National Impact
With the last national election twelve months ago and the next one twelve months away, the political world is focused on state contests less than two weeks from now. What will races for Governor in New Jersey and Virginia mean for President Obama and Democrats in Congress? Will Maine change the momentum on same-sex marriage? Also, the 'Pay Czar' cuts executive pay, and Twitter and Facebook are what they are but, even in the age of the Internet, television still rules.
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenWith the last national election twelve months ago and the next one twelve months away, the political world is focused on state contests less than two weeks from now. What will races for Governor in New Jersey and Virginia mean for President Obama and Democrats in Congress? Will Maine change the momentum on same-sex marriage? Also, President Obama's 'Pay Czar' cuts executive pay, and in the age of Facebook and Twitter, television may still be the world's most powerful agent for social change.
Banner image: US President Barack Obama clasps hands with New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine after speaking yesterday during a rally for Corzine at the Rothman Center of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Hackensack, New Jersey. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
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3 storiesPay Czar Cuts Executive Pay
Executives at seven companies bailed out with taxpayer money got the word today. Kenneth Feinberg, the President's so-called "Pay Czar," cut their salaries and changed their compensation to try to prevent excessive risks in the future. Columnist David Weidner covers Wall Street for MarketWatch and the Wall Street Journal .
Read the story8 minLocal Politics with National Impact
Twelve months after the US chose Barack Obama as the first black president, there is widespread disillusionment with politics in general. In two states that helped him win the Electoral College, Republicans are all fired up and Democrats don't care the way they did when Obama was on the ballot.
Read the story34 minTelevision, a Power for Good or Cultural Suicide?
Since the first broadcast in 1928, television "has been as reviled as it has been welcomed." In 1953, science fiction writer Ray Bradbury called it "that insidious beast…that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little." But is TV really responsible for "poor health, ignorance and moral decline?"
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