Oregon holds its primary on May 20. Find out which issues matter most to voters in the Beaver State, how Senator Gordon Smith’s re-election campaign is going, and why the candidates in one House race are using personal attacks against each other. Also: why some are already saying that Oregon will be a battleground state in the fall campaign. David Steves is political reporter for The Register-Guard in Eugene, Ore. He works in the paper’s Salem bureau and also writes a blog . States of the Union fact of the week: Oregon is one of four major world hazelnut growing regions. It produces 95% of the domestic hazelnuts in the United States.
The U.S. economy seems to be in big trouble. Economist Jared Bernstein explains what that means in concrete terms - from how credit card interest rates are being affected, to whether Social Security is really going bust, and what the next president can do to help turn things around. Bernstein’s new book is Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries) . Event : Jared Bernstein will be speaking and signing books Wednesday, May 14 at 7:00 pm Upper West Side Barnes & Noble 2289 Broadway (between 82nd and 83rd Streets) Weigh in: What have you always wanted to ask an economist?
When Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) was a young woman, her grandmother’s career advice for her was to get married. Now Rep. Maloney says that gender inequality is still a big problem in the U.S. Her new book is Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Why Women's Lives Aren't Getting Any Easier--And How We Can Make Real Progress For Ourselves and Our Daughters . Event : Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney will be speaking and signing books Monday, May 19 at 6 pm Barnes & Noble 555 5th Avenue (at East 46th Street)
Kentucky holds its primary on May 20. Find out what’s on the minds of voters in the Bluegrass State. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is up for re-election; we look at the Democrats who hoping to challenge him in the fall. Al Cross is Director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky . He also writes a weekly column for the Courier-Journal . States of the Union fact of the week: Kentucky has more farms per square mile than any other state.
JFK called his advisor Ted Sorensen his “intellectual blood bank.” Ted Sorensen looks back on their work together, and tells us what he thinks JFK’s true legacy is. His new memoir is Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History . Event : Ted Sorensen will be interviewed by James Mustich Monday, May 12 at 7 pm Barnes & Noble Union Square 33 East 17th Street If you can't see the video click here var so = new SWFObject("http://www.youtube.com/v/h9sqp1GrMvo", "mymovie", "390", "321", "7", "#FFFFFF");so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");connect(window, 'onload', function() {so.write("ytcontent");});