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Season 2
State of Education

Domenick DeLucia, President, Canadian American Transportation Systems

Dale Petroskey, President, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

Charles "Chip" Groat, Director, U.S. Geological Survey

William Johnson, Mayor, Rochester, New York

Regina Eaton, Executive Director, Alliance for Quality Education

The State of Reading

Monroe County Economic Summit

State of the State

Joanne Giuffrida, President, Rochester School Board

Deborah Oppenheimer, Academy Award-winning producer

Look Ahead, Look Back 2001/2002

The Best of "Perfectly Clear"

Walter Shapiro, USA Today columnist

Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Jeane Kirkpatrick, former U.N. Ambassador

Jack Ham, Hall of Fame linebacker

Lawrence Kudlow, CNBC economist

John Zogby, prominent pollster

Ernie Harwell, Hall of Fame announcer

Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator

Norman Mineta, Transportation Secretary

Season 1
Debut Show - President George Bush

HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo

New York Governor George Pataki

Nora Bredes, Director, Susan B. Anthony Center, University of Rochester

Howard Relin, Monroe County (NY) District Attorney

Jack Valenti, CEO, Motion Picture Association of America

Panel Discussion on Leadership

Panel Discussion on Religion in Politics

Panel Discussion - Election Preview

Panel Discussion - Election Review

Special Guest Garth Fagan

Sports Culture USA

2000 Election Panel Discussion

Monroe County (NY) Executive Jack Doyle

Panel Discussion - Religion in Education

Congresswoman Louise Slaughter

Year 2000 Review

Year 2001 Preview

The Inaugural

Sports 'R' Us

Julian Bond, President, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

William Johnson, Mayor, Rochester, NY

Key New York State Issues

Impact of the Arts on the Rochester Economy

Western New York's Utility and Economic State

The Week's Leading Global, National, and Local Issues

Congressman John LaFalce

Howard Relin, Monroe County (NY) District Attorney

Russia

Thomas H. Jackson, President, University of Rochester

The Holocaust

Our Children, Ourselves

Robert Pierpoint, Former CBS Television White House Correspondent

Panel Discussion - Current Issues


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Sunday, March 24 (11 a.m.)
Upstate New York's highest-rated local public affairs program is sponsored by the University of Rochester, Messenger-Post Newspapers, and WROC Television, Rochester's CBS-TV affiliate.

Guest:
Clifford Janey, Superintendent, Rochester City School District, will discuss its funding crisis.

Topic:
Curt and the panelists will discuss the district's education, funding deficit and other issues.

  • The Rochester district surplus was once $34 million. It eventually became a nearly $30 million deficit. What happened?
  • Critics charge the district overestimated state aid from Albany and overspent its local budget. Are they correct?
  • What are the prospects for Mayor William Johnson's proposal for countywide school district consolidation?
  • How has Clifford Janey handled the funding crisis?
  • Will Janey resign as Superintendent in the next year?
  • Janey blames the state legislature for belatedly passingan education budget. How can the legislature avoid that problem this year?

Panelists:

  • Dan Hall, Editorial Page Editor, Messenger-Post Newspapers
  • Ted O'Brien, Chairman, Monroe County Democratic Party
  • Richard Ryan, Professor of Clinical and Social Psychology, University of Rochester

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