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Sarasota Chief Suspended, Officer Fired

Sarasota Chief Peter Abbott

SARASOTA (2009-11-20) Sarasota's police chief was suspended and a police officer fired...

Hillsborough Schools $100 Million Richer

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

TAMPA (2009-11-19) Hillsborough County Public Schools will receive a $100 million grant...

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Florida Matters

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

11/20/09 Marketplace

New asset bubbles may be growing; Bill would allow Congress to audit Fed; Change in cancer-screening guidelines; Weekly Wrap: Trouble in housing?; Beckham's era in L.A. may pay off; U.S. green biz seen as risky investment; Thrift stores find a place in retail space; Small talk: Rich cow, waffles, marijuana

Marketplace Money

A personal bailout party, L.A. style

Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch talks with Tess Vigeland about L.A.'s entertainment industry helping out a friend who has defaulted on her mortgage.

Morning Edition

On Point

Week in the News

Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

On the Media

Online and Isolated? (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)

Social scientists have long suspected that the internet contributes to our growing isolation. But Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, set out to test that assumption. He says they found that Americans aren't as isolated as we thought and that being active on the internet might actually help prevent social isolation.

Talk of the Nation

Real-Life Physics Problems Star On TV

The stars of The Big Bang Theory are two fictional Caltech physicists, but the physics problems they study are real. Bill Prady, the program's co-creator and executive producer, talks about including real-world science in the script, from dark matter to magnetic monopoles.

Tell Me More

The Diane Rehm Show

The Tavis Smiley Show

Show, Nov. 20th, 2009

Hunger in America * Ag. Secretary Tom Vilsack * LA Food Bank's Michael Flood * Ethicist Jonathon Walton * Rep. Steny Hoyer * NAACP's Hilary Shelton * Comedian Paul Mooney * Singer Amerie

To the Point

Religion and Warfare: Does God Choose Sides?

The Fort Hood shootings have raised disturbing questions about Islamic radicalism in the US military. What about Evangelical Christianity? Does it pose its own kind of dangers, especially with US troops on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan? Also, the first EU president, and Oprah Winfrey calls it quits ? at the same time she plans for the future.

Weekend Edition (Saturday)

Expect Senate Health Bill To Change, Durbin Says

The historic health care overhaul plan proposed by Congressional Democrats makes its way to the Senate for a test vote tonight. The sweeping legislation sets the stage for a showdown between Republicans and a fragmented Democratic majority. Sixty votes are required to advance the bill toward full debate. Host Scott Simon speaks with Sen. Dick Durbin, the majority whip of the Senate.

Weekend Edition (Sunday)

Your Letters: Hawaii's Diversity And Tension

Host Liane Hansen shares listener responses to last week's show, including thoughts on the discussion of racial and ethnic tensions in Hawaii.

Entertainment

Car Talk

Car Talk 0947 November 21, 2009

Bad news comes in three's for two callers: Rick, who's had three differentials burst into flames while driving, and Jonathan, who's seen three sparkplugs jump out of his engine. Also, is an open invitation to a car thief the best deterrent, a road-trip turns into a real blowout, and Ray delivers a mea culpa on the now infamous football Puzzler.

Studio 360

This American Life

#369: Poultry Slam 2008

Stories about the powerful combination of chickens, faith and God in our not-quite-annual, all new for 2008, Poultry Slam. (Special note to chicken enthusiasts: the show's name is a pun on Chicago's Poetry Slam.)

Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me!

Actor Jason Schwartzman Plays 'Not My Job'

Jason will play a game called: "Turns out, Mr. President, the Chinese DO have a phrase for it, but you wouldn't have wanted to say it." Three questions about idioms that Obama might find useful on his next trip to Asia.

Whad'Ya Know?

Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? for November 14, 2009

This week on Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?... Michael goes rogue with All the News that Isn't... author Michael Chabon learns how to be a man... it's an Aerosmith audition for our hotline... and two -- count 'em, TWO! -- rounds of the Whad'Ya Know? Quiz. From Wisconsin Public Radio and PRI, Public Radio International.

World Cafe

Brandi Carlile: 'Ghost' Stories

At times, Carlile's most recent album, Give Up the Ghost, explores a surprising amount of raw, stripped-down territory. At others, she uses heavy layers of rich harmonies, awash in piano, guitar and strings.

International

BBC Newshour

NewsPod: 20 Nov 09

EU unknowns take top jobs / Flooding in Cumbria / Nepal food shortages / Killing for fat in Peru .

BBC World Service News

Andy Hayman tells Carrie Gracie the inside story of a terrorist investigation in Britain.

BBC's World Have Your Say

On air: Should the match be replayed?

This is rapidly becoming one of the biggest sports stories in years. Where to start? In the last few minutes Thierry Henry has said, “Of course the fairest solution would be to replay the game but it is not in my control”. Not everyone, including his President, agrees. And this, lest we forget, this man is a [...]

The Changing World

The Changing World: "Rebranding" Nigeria, Part 2

Nigeria is struggling to overcome its reputation for corruption, crime and poverty. The BBC's Henry Bonsu reports from the nation's largest city, Lagos, where some positive changes are being felt. But are they enough, and will Nigeria's rebranding effort work?

World Vision Report

In Azerbaijan, guests are welcomed at any time of day and always offered the best food, seating, or sleeping quarters. Carla Seidl remembers that hospitality well. She spent 27 months in Azerbaijan as a Peace Corps volunteer and brings us this Aid Worker Diary. Music for this show ...

Culture

Fresh Air

Latino USA

Muslims, Jews and Latinos…

Living on Earth

Living on Earth: November 20, 2009

Carbon Saturated Ocean / Coastal Carbon Sink / Art of Synthetic Biology / Slow City / Big City, Big Impact / Harnessing the Severn / The Language of Landscape / Wild Turkey

Only A Game

Saturday, November 21, 2009

This week on Only A Game, we celebrate a half century of mask making and some of the goalies who have benefitted from that craft. Also, generations of women come together on the hardwood, and a history of the Spartak Moscow soccer team.

Selected Shorts

Rebel Yiddish Writers

The first two stories are by Yiddish writers who rebelled against the traditional description of much of modern Yiddish literature—realistic, sentimental, and nostalgic elegies of the European shtetl and passions of the immigrant-filled Lower East Side. Moishe Nadir was a Greenwich Village bohemian and modernist, though "My First Love," read by John Shea, is a fairly realistic picture of lovelorn youth in a small Russian village. Sholem Asch was considered scandalous for writing a novel about Jesus. This less radical tale, "A Quiet Garden Spot," reflects on the erosion of memory and affection in one family. The reader is Laura Esterman. In the third story, "Job's Jobs," Amy Bender uses a biblical reference to frame her tale of an artist's vexing struggles. The reader is Anjelica Huston.

Speaking of Faith

Learning, Doing, Being - A New Science of Education (November 19, 2009)

Neuroscientist Adele Diamond is helping to bring unfolding knowledge about the brain into classrooms and educational systems, and in the process she's challenging fundamental modern notions about education and life. Activities like reflection and play, music and sports, it turns out, not only nourish the many aspects of human spirit and personality, but also hone our minds.

The People's Pharmacy

Side Effects of Blood Pressure Pills Add Stress

Q. My husband is fed up with his blood pressure medications and is threatening to stop the four drugs he is on. The diuretic has him getting up at night to urinate. Some of the other drugs have had a...

The Splendid Table

Nov. 14, 2009: The Splendid Table

(Repeat Episode) We talk to Paul Roberts author of "The End of Food," about global food prices. Jane and Michael Stern are at Famous Fourth Street Delicatessen in Philadelphia, PA, and Shirley Corriher brings us some practical baking advice as we head into high baking season.

The World

Entire program – November 20, 2009

Download audio file (112009full.mp3) Download MP3 Today on The World What if the US loses in Afghanistan? Also, a visit to one of many rural town in Mexico caught in the crossfire of that country's drug war; And how India's power companies are battling widespread electricity theft.

To the Best of Our Knowledge

TTBOOK: Channeling Creativity

Cartoonist Lynda Barry believes that everyone is an artist and has stories to tell. James Othmer describes life in that center of American creativity, the advertising agency. Pattie Boyd was the woman who inspired three of the most famous rock songs of all time. Geoffrey Colvin says great performance is within the grasp of anyone who's willing to put in the right kind of practice.

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