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Money, Power and Wall Street” is a new PBS Frontline miniseries, investigating the global financial crisis.  The four hour documentary, airing in two segments,  depicts the inside story of the struggles to rescue and repair a shattered economy, as presented by veteran financial and political producers Martin Smith (College Inc.The Madoff Affair) and Michael Kirk (Inside the Meltdown, The Warning),

Award winning Frontline Writer/Producer Martin Smith,  describes the documentary that premiers on April 24th  on WGCU and all PBS stations.   Smith has won every major award in television including four Emmys, and was three time recipient of the George Polk Award for investigative journalism,  and four time winner of the Writers’ Guild Award..

Later, author and freelance journalist Florence Williams talks about her article in Mother Jones, titled “The Few. The Proud. The Afflicted.” - on male breast cancer among men who lived at Camp Lejeune.  The article poses the question if a “bunch of scrappy, tough-talking ex-Marines just might hold the key to what causes breast cancer”.

Williams is a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for the New York Times,  New Republic and numerous other publications. She has received many awards, including six magazine awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the John Hersey Prize at Yale.

She is author of the newly published book “Breasts ,  a natural – and – unnatural history”

 
Florida’s Long Term Care Ombudsman program directs more than 300 volunteers throughout the state who act as an independent voice for the 160 thousand residents in Florida’s long term care facilities. The program’s become a center of controversy over the recent ouster of its director Brian Lee. Now an investigation is underway to determine if Lee’s forced resignation was legal and as WGCU’s John Davis reports it could have national repercussions.

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Gov. Rick Scott appointed two physicians to the Florida Board of Medicine this month – one of them is Dr. James Orr of Fort Myers. For Healthy State dot org, WGCU’s Farah Dosani reports.

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Republican State Representative Trudi Williams spoke to members of the Fort Myers Republican Women's Club Tuesday afternoon about her impressions of this spring's legislative session.  Representative Williams of Fort Myers says despite the state legislature's failure to pass measures including immigration reform and an energy bill, she's happy with the healthcare and education measures that did pass.  Williams praised the legislature's decision to overhaul Medicaid by moving 2.8 million Floridians into private networks.

"Certainly the Medicaid reform that hasn't been reformed since 1964," Williams said.  "The teacher tenure bill I think is great.  I mean finally you're going to be able to reward good teachers for good works.  There was a lot of really good legislation that passed out."  READ MORE

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Following last year’s decennial census, legislators will soon sit down to redraw Florida’s legislative and congressional district boundaries adding two new districts to the state.  As public input meetings on redistricting come to Southwest Florida this week, we’ll discuss the process and the politics behind redistricting.  Amendments were added to Florida’s constitution in the last election intended to prevent partisan gerrymandering, but two of Florida’s U.S. Representatives are challenging those amendments in Federal court saying they could silence the voices of minority voters.


GUESTS:
Dan Gelber with the FairDistricts Now, Inc., Counsel  
Dr. Peter Bergerson, FGCU Political Science Professor
Scott Maxwell, "Taking Names" Columnist, The Orlando Sentinel
Dr. Jeffrey Weber, Director of the Donald Adam Comprehensive Melanoma Research Center at Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute 

 
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