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.

Date created

• 1985 May 10

Type

• Audio

Creator

• Alan Chartock

Original Medium

• Audiocassette

Duration

• 5:51:00

Date Digitized

• 2012 September 11

Master Format

• MP3

Identifier

• nam_apap_138_lg_1985_05_10

Subject

• Public opinion polls
• Radioactive waste disposal
• Toxic torts
• Education

Digitization Specifications

• Encoding: 24bit/48khz; Software: Pro Tools LE 8.0.3 ; Hardware: Marantz PMD500 Stereo Double Cassette Deck, Mac OS X with a 2.66 Ghz Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor.

License

• Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International

  
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ITEM CONTEXT

Part of

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Scope and Contents

Collection

WAMC Northeast Public Radio Collection

Scope and Contents

Collecting area

• This collection is part of the New York State Modern Political Archive