The White House threatens to go over the fiscal cliff. Tough chemical warfare warnings for Syria. Big bank layoffs. A royal baby bump. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
The L.A.P.D. released the autopsy report on rapper Notorious B.I.G. this month, hoping it will lead to new leads in the case. Check out this archived show on the life and death of Biggie Smalls.
On October 24, we aired a show about iPads in the classroom. One of our guests, Janet Frazier, made some assertions about the Lexington County School District One. Mary Beth Hill, the chief communications officer for the district, sent us this response to comments made during the show.
Shehla Anjum — an Anchorage-based writer who was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan — called into our show today to talk about her visit to Pakistan earlier this year when she visited Malala Yousafzai and her family. She asked if we could post this profile she wrote about Malala so our listeners could check it out.
Relying on memory–weak reed!–for two weeks in a row, I said that The Economist had endorsed Bush in 2000 and 2004. The magazine did in 2000, but backed John Kerry in 2004. I apologize to our listeners.