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Mortgage Fraud Crackdown

Brian Albritton, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida

TAMPA (2009-11-05) Thirty people in the Tampa area were charged Tuesday with mortgage...

Mass Transit Tax Rolls On

Coming Soon to Tampa?

TAMPA (2009-11-05) A move to place a one-cent sales tax to create a mass transit system...

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Florida Matters is a weekly television and radio program for Floridians.

The program tackles tough issues, highlights little-known stories from our part of the world and provides a greater perspective of what it means to live in the Sunshine State. Leveraging all our platforms: Web, radio and television, Florida Matters covers the important challenges facing our community and our state. Join us each week as we journey across the state to explore the issues important to Floridians. Along the way, we'll stop to seek out some of the fascinating untold Florida Stories that may be happening right in your backyard. Support for Florida Matters is provide by The Mosaic Company.

News & Views

All Things Considered

Marketplace

11/06/09 Marketplace

Job losses keep going and going . . .; Every penny counts in online retail wars; Would Russian bonds be worth the risk?; Need work? Trying making your own.; The Weekly Wrap; Oprah deciding about show on her OWN; Tracks hope jockeys can whip up fans; Small Talk: News you haven't heard

Marketplace Money

Dad, daughter reflect on money lessons

Curtis Larson and his daughter Erin Anderson look back at the way he let the kids in the family take responsibility for their own money, even if they made mistakes.

Morning Edition

On Point

The Swell Season

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Oscar-winning duo behind the hit film "Once," on their creative partnership and new album, "Strict Joy."

On the Media

A Higher Power (On The Media: Friday, 06 November 2009)

While there were only a handful of U.S. unmanned aerial drones in 2003, there are now some 7,000 that the military relies on for many of its objectives in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But P.W. Singer, author of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century explains that these robots are hardly risk-free and have a profound impact both at home and abroad.

Talk of the Nation

Building A Better Lightbulb

The U.S. Department of Energy is offering $10 million to the first individual or company to develop an energy-efficient LED replacement for the standard 60-watt incandescent bulb. DOE lighting program manager James Brodrick discusses the L Prize, and what makes a better bulb.

Tell Me More

The Diane Rehm Show

The Tavis Smiley Show

No Place Like Home Special - Oct. 2009

Urban Revitalization * New Orleans * Project Home Again * Eve Abrams * Will Bradshaw * Alan Mallach

To the Point

Stress in the Military

Two of the biggest issues faced by soldiers and combat veterans are stress and mental health. At Walter Reed Hospital, doctors have enlisted psychiatric service dogs to help treat soldiers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. What role does man's best friend play in healing? What can be done to catch signs of an impending breakdown before it's too late? Guest host Sara Terry gets an update on yesterday's shootings at Fort Hood, looks at the role stress might have played and learns about the evolving role of psychiatric service dogs.

Weekend Edition (Saturday)

NFL Fashions A Plan To Dress Up Female Fans

For nearly 90 years, the NFL has sold hats, jerseys and other gear for male fans, but the game is changing. Realizing that women — who make up more than 40 percent of the NFL's 200 million fans — are an untapped market, the NFL is rolling out downsized apparel, from jerseys to handbags to a dress signed by the Arizona Cardinals.

Weekend Edition (Sunday)

N.Y. Harbor School Seeks Sea Change In Education

Murray Fisher had a dream: Take the 600 miles of New York City's coastline and all the water surrounding it, and start a maritime high school that would teach inner-city kids about their watery world. His school, the New York Harbor School, is housed in the heart of Brooklyn. But soon, it will move to Governors Island, a tree-covered jewel 800 yards off the coast of Manhattan.

Entertainment

Car Talk

Car Talk 0945 November 7, 2009

Only on Planet Magliozzi would two dreadful diagnoses constitute good news for a Caravan owner. Also, on Stump the Chumps, did Tom and Ray successfully solve Simon's wibbly-wobblies, a Saab turns into a sullen teenager, a Dad wonders if there's a "Hey guys, watch this" gene, and a few things you never heard your mother say.

Studio 360

Hockney, In Verse, Paper Airplanes (Studio 360)

Studio 360 waits for David Hockney. The artist returns to the English countryside where he grew up, to paint some of the most vivid landscapes of his career. In the documentary "Waiting for David Hockney" outsider artist Billy Pappas hopes his idol, Hockney, will come to see a single drawing Pappas has been working on for eight years. And we'll meet the struggling single moms of Troy, NY through the eyes of a poet and a photographer.

This American Life

#393: Infidelity

Stories of cheating, cheaters and the cheated. Writer James Braly with a story about temptation, Dani Shapiro on being the mistress, and more.

Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me!

Prediction: Stimulus Surprise?

Our panelists predict what the big surprise will be in the next stimulus program report.

Whad'Ya Know?

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? for October 31, 2009

This week on Whad'Ya Know?, we land in East Lansing, Michigan for a close-up of ALL THE MICHIGAN NEWS THAT ISN'T. Also, bird expert, Pamela Rasmussen doesn't eat crow when talking about the birds of South Asia. Then scientist Brad Sherrill raps about rare isotope research, Joe Bristol serves up some deep-fried chicken gizzards, and the music of Flatfoot. Throw in the quiz and you get the the idea that this is a Spartan, not a spartan, program.

World Cafe

Phoenix: Jagged Pop For Francophiles

The four friends in Phoenix started out playing Hank Williams and Prince covers in area bars, but eventually landed a slot as a backing band for Air. Nearly a decade later, Phoenix has propelled itself into international renown. Its latest album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, blends catchy pop songwriting with a heavier rock sound.

International

BBC Newshour

NewsPod: 06 Nov 09

Brown defends Afghan mission / Texas massacre / Sesame Street is 40

BBC World Service News

Amazon road trip

BBC journalist Ben Sutherland has travelled along the BR-319 route. See some of the sights and sounds from his journey.

BBC's World Have Your Say

Is the Catholic church a force for good in the world ?

The one billion plus Catholics in the world would presumably say “yes”- but what about the rest of the world? Is the Catholic Church a force for good? That was the motion for an Intelligence Squared debate , held recently in London, which will be broadcast on BBC World News this coming weekend. Arguing in favour of the [...]

The Changing World

The Changing World: The Crash: A History

The BBC's Louise Hidalgo provides background on events leading up to the 2008 financial markets crash.

World Vision Report

Six days a week, Susanna Asamoah sells snapper and mackerel at the Ketejia market in Ghana, one of the busiest in all of Africa. Despite having to raise her prices, she's managed to retain her customers. Anna Boiko-Weyrauch has the latest installment of our street vendor series. Music for this show ...

Culture

Fresh Air

Latino USA

Two Villages Bridged by Immigrants

Living on Earth

Living on Earth: November 6, 2009

God’s Green Earth / Climate Bill Numbers / Downeast Conservation / Chemicals and Cholesterol / Squatting the Berlin Wall

Only A Game

Saturday, November 7, 2009

This week on Only A Game, will the Duke Blue Devils finally earn respectability? Hint: we're not talking about their basketball teams. Also, remembering Sheboygan's one and only NBA season 50 years ago, and ESPN columnist Bill Simmons joins me to geek out on basketball stats. And oh yeah, New York celebrates the Yankees' 27th World Series title.

Selected Shorts

Tales from the Great Epics

This program features powerful narratives drawn from Homer's Iliad and the "Inferno" section of Dante Aleghieri's Divine Comedy. First, Stephen Lang reads "The Death of Hector," followed by Phylicia Rashad's rendering of Cantos IV and V of the "Inferno," in which the poet/guide Virgil leads Dante through the outer circles of Hell, and introduces him to the tragic lovers Paolo and Francesca. The third story is derived from Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Paul West's "Captain Ahab, A Novel by the White Whale," is a short but compelling meditation in the voice of the great whale, voiced by Diane Venora.

Speaking of Faith

The Freelance Monotheism of Karen Armstrong (November 5, 2009)

Karen Armstrong speaks about her progression from a disillusioned and damaged young nun into, in her words, a "freelance monotheist." She's a formidable thinker and scholar, but as a theologian she calls herself an amateur -- noting that the Latin root of the word "amateur" means a love of one's subject. Seven years in a strict religious order nearly snuffed out her ability to think about faith at all. Here, we hear the story behind Armstrong's developing ideas about God.

The People's Pharmacy

Beware Breast Tenderness with HRT

Q. I took bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) to handle my horrible hot flashes. After taking it for three months, I started having pains in my breasts. A mammogram did not show any problems, but the recommendation was made that...

The Splendid Table

Nov. 7, 2009: The Splendid Table

This week it's a show of American iconoclasts starting with winemaker Randall Grahm of Bonny Doon Vineyard. His latest book is Been Doon So Long, A Randall Grahm Vinthology. And we meet the true originator of the no-knead bread technique, Jim Lehey of New York City's famed Sullivan Street Bakery. His book is My Bread, The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method.

The World

Entire program – November 6, 2009

Download audio file (110609full.mp3) Download MP3 Today on The World: A look at military mental health caregivers in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings; A hotel in Berlin today offers the creature comforts of a 1970s Eastern Bloc guesthouse; and mixing it up with British songwriter Gemma Ray.

To the Best of Our Knowledge

TTBOOK: Coming of Age Through Music

Lavinia Greenlaw explains how music helped her as she grew up. Ralph Stanley talks about his family, his music and his concern with death. Nick Hornby reveals his knowledge of obsessive music fan-dom in his new book, "Juliet, Naked." Geraint Watkins is a rock and roll pianist and accordionist who's doing his best work as he nears sixty.

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