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Friday, March 6 2015

  • BL Weekend: Love Songs, 'Rasheeda Speaking' & Jeffrey Sachs March 6, 2015

    Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them:&nbsp;A History of Love Songs&nbsp;(First) |&nbsp;'Rasheeda Speaking'&nbsp;(Starts at 18:35) |&nbsp;Jeffrey Sachs&nbsp;(Starts at 31:02) (article)

  • Raising Wages; Cuomo Admin's Emails; Comedian Maz Jobrani March 6, 2015

    The&nbsp;Cuomo administration is now deleting employees' emails after three months; is NYC's "tech boom" translating into jobs?; Generation X writer Douglas Coupland; &amp; comedian&nbsp;Maz Jobrani. (episode)

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    • Can Business Owners Handle Paying $13 an Hour? March 6, 2015

      After&nbsp;Mayor de Blasio pleaded with business owners yesterday to voluntarily pay employees $13/hour, we heard from local&nbsp;business owners about whether they could make that happen.

    • The Cuomo Administration Purges Employee Inboxes March 6, 2015

      The Cuomo administration has a new policy to delete state employees' emails after 90 days. Capital New York's Jimmy Vielkind and NYS Assemblymember Daniel O'Donnell discuss the policy.

    • NYC's 'Tech Boom' Doesn't Ignite Job Growth March 6, 2015

      New York is supposedly in the midst of a tech boom - but&nbsp;do the jobs numbers reflect that?

    • The Future Is Now March 6, 2015

      Generation X&nbsp;novelist&nbsp;Douglas Coupland and Shumon Basar&nbsp;talk about their new book, modeled on&nbsp;The Medium is the Massage.

    • Finding Funny Between Iran and America March 6, 2015

      Iranian-American comedian Maz Jobrani won't play a terrorist on TV, but he finds the laughs, even in the nuclear talks stand-off.