2009 Federal Budget Deficit Projected to Skyrocket
Small Businesses Struggle to Provide Insurance
Former Presidents, Obama Gather at White House
Sculptor Andy Goldsworthy creates works using natural settings and materials, including leaves, rocks, sticks and ice as well as the natural forces of time and weather. He recently completed a new work in San Francisco — his tallest ever in North America — a 100-foot cypress spire in Presidio National Park. Read more and listen to an interviewhere.
One of Eartha Kitt’s last interviews was conducted by Washington Week’s Gwen Ifill for the Historymakers program “An Evening With Eartha Kitt” (airs on Thirteen in March 2009). You can listen to an mp3 of the interview at Newshour, or see a video excerpt. Ms. Kitt passed away on Christmas, 2008.
On December 17, 1989, the longest-running American sitcom “The Simpsons” had its prime-time debut on Fox. See interview with The Simpsons creator Matt Groening and more…
Reports emerged this week that the president-elect has decided to tap Nobel prize winner Steven Chu as his energy secretary, Democratic sources told several media organizations.
The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of chemistry, physics, medicine, literature and peace, on the 5th anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, December 10, 1901. Nobel, who was a Swedish chemist and the inventor of dynamite, created a fund for the prizes in his will.
The Emmy Awards for Business & Financial Reporting recognize outstanding achievement in business & financial reporting telecast or webcast. Watch some of the Emmy-nominated programs, online now.
A day after Democrat Barack Obama’s decisive presidential win, world leaders expressed their congratulations, calling the results “historic”, and laying out their hopes for resolutions of problems around the globe. Read.
Journalist and historian Louis “Studs” Terkel, who is credited with popularizing oral histories, which he called “guerrilla journalism,” died Friday, October 31, 2008, at his Chicago home at age 96. See interviews with Terkel from around PBS; read more…
Last week, NewsHour aired five special reports on the state of infrastructure in America. You can now watch them online:
* The Price of Decay: Bridges in PA
* Return to Sender: America’s Clogged Ports
* Nowhere to Grow: Buckeye, AZ stresses the system
* Flying Blind: America’s airports in need
* Solutions: Update on Boston’s Big Dig
