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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1985 November 29
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- a62b8f3f0380f1ab8c3943903e2ce8ce
- Description:
- 1) Leslie Brokaw reports on Mansfield Company's settlement. In New York thousands of people are qualified for the money, but are not able to claim it due to a three year statue of limitations on toxic torts. Senator Anderson comments on the inability of the senate and governor to agree on policy changes. 2) Bill Gralty talks with Tom Miner, director of the Catskill Center, about the change from a farm community to a second home community and the lack of state government's sensitivity to rural areas. 3) Interview with Gordon Ambach, Education Commissioner, about Comprehensive Assessment Reports (CAR) used to access and compare a school's performance and strengthening standards. 4) Bill Gralty and Alan Chartock talk about Governor Cuomo's nomination of Stewart F. Hancock, Jr. as the new appointment to state's Court of Appeals.
- Subject:
- Toxic torts and Education
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- Type:
- Audio
- Date Created:
- 1985 May 10
- Collection:
- WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection
- Collecting Area:
- New York State Modern Political Archive
- Collection ID:
- apap138
- Parent Record(s):
- a62b8f3f0380f1ab8c3943903e2ce8ce
- Description:
- 1) Rick Lapkowski reports on the Toxic Tort Bill. Ed Cleary, President of New York State AFLCIO, says the number one goal is to give toxic exposure victims exposure in the courts. Senator Ronald Stafford introduced a compromise bill that extends the statute of limitations. Assemblyman Mel Miller wants to include a one year window for prior discoveries. 2) Bill Gralty reports on the inability of New York companies to meet the deadline for low level radioactive waste disposal. 3) Lee Maringoff, of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, comments on voter preferences for 1988 presidential elections and Governor Cuomo's suspended presidential aspirations. 4) Interview with Gordon Ambach, Education Commissioner, discusses the Education budget, Regents standards, the Board of Regents decision to outlaw corporal punishment in schools and handicap education.
- Subject:
- Public opinion polls, Radioactive waste disposal, Toxic torts, and Education
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- Type:
- Image
- Date Created:
- 1984
- Collection:
- University Photograph Collection
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua390
- Description:
- A portrait of Albert Shanker (1928-1997), a visiting speaker to the university. Shanker was president of the American Federation of Teachers and became known as a strong and courageous advocate for labor. He was known as an "iconoclastic thinker," "champion of children," and "educational statesman."
- Subject:
- Campus visits, Shanker, Albert, Orators, Labor, Portraits, Education, American Federation of Teachers, and University Archives Photographs