The Money Show April 24, 2008
This week it’s all about the Benjamins on North Gate Radio. For “The Money Show,” Laurie Burkitt learns how some motorists get out of paying tolls and what the state is going to do about it. Brett Wilkison tells us about one local project where pork never tasted so good. Jessica Meyers talks to Bob Blattner, a long-time education consultant and lobbyist in Sacramento, about California’s education funding. Abbie Swanson does the math to see if time spent behind bars really equals street cred and cash for rappers. And David Gelles reports on the resilient Bay Area business scene.
Credits: The Money Show was produced by Robert Lewis. Assistant producer was Cynthia Dizikes. Ben Hubbard and Angelica Marin are our engineers. Our Webmaster is Kevin Jones. Ben Manilla is the executive producer. And our anchors were Anrica Deb and Rina Palta. The songs you heard were:
“No Money, No Luck Blues” by B.B. King
“Ain’t Too Proud to Beg” by The Temptations
“The Money Song” by Monty Python
“Low Budget” by The Kinks
“I Got Money” by 50 Cent
“Gangsta Bop” by Akon
“Reasons” by Ise Lyfe
“Act I, T.I.P” by T.I.
“You Know What It Is” by T.I.
“Body Rock” by Messy Marv
“Ruffneck” by MC Lyte
“I Love The Dough” by Biggie Smalls
“Dear Mama” by Tupac Shakur
“Mhondoro” by Thomas Mapfumo
“Jesus Was A Communist” by Reagan Youth
Bridge Toll Bandits
Laurie Burkitt reports on begging for bridge tolls.
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For more information on California bridge tolls, check out the Bay Area Toll Authority.
To see how some people are avoiding tolls, look at Strange New Products.
The Edible Earmark
When Congresswoman Barbara Lee steered nearly $250,000 to the Chez Panisse Foundation for its Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, Alice Waters’ famous restaurant and the model education program were dragged into the national debate about earmarks. Brett Wilkison reports.
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Web Exclusive: Carolyn Federman, development director of the Chez Panisse Foundation talks about the mission and goals of the Edible Schoolyard, and the challenges behind funding the program.
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Web Exclusive: Join Edible Schoolyard coordinator Kyle Cornforth and sixth graders Augustine Strange and Grace Connolly on a radio tour of the garden at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School.
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To become your own earmark investigator, visit Earmark Watch.
For a downloadable database of earmarks, visit Taxpayers For Commonsense here.
For more on the Sunlight Foundation, click here.
And to learn more about the Edible Schoolyard Program, a project of the Chez Panisse Foundation, click here.
California’s Empty Pockets
Jessica Meyers speaks with a lobbyist fighting to save funding for education.
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For more information on Proposition 98 go here.
To learn more about Blattner & Associates go to www.blatnerandassociates.com.
Hip-Hop’s Outlaw Image
Abbie Swanson learns what a thug persona really gets you in the hip-hop world.
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For videos and music from East Oakland rapper Ise Lyfe, go to his MySpace page. Look out too for Ise’s new album, Prince Cometh, and book, Pistols and Prayers, coming out this summer.
Veteran hip-hop journalist Eric Arnold is a freelance writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly and East Bay Express, among others.
Check out some recently-published stories of his below.
The Demise of Hyphy.
Too $hort, Career Counselor.
The African Pulse in S.F.
To learn more about Messy Marv, who put his new album together from jail, visit the SMC Recordings Web site. Marv was recently nominated for Best Rap Act of 2007 for the San Francisco Weekly Music Awards, taking place October 18th. His next project, Draped Up and Chipped Out 2 is slated for release November 20th on Scalen LLC/SMC Recordings/Fontana.
Click on the picture above to see photos of Ise Lyfe, Messy Marv and Eric Arnold.
The Upside of the Falling Dollar
David Gelles reports on the Bay Area’s booming business scene.
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