Search results for

in determining Presidential candidates.

Jacki reports on the turmoil in the Canadian province of Ontario over budget cutbacks. The Conservative government of Premier Mike Harris has cut about 8-million dollars in spending so far in an effort to curb a 100-million dollar debt. On Friday and Saturday, tens of thousands of union workers rallied in Hamilton, Ontario to protest government policies. The province faces a strike by members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) at 12:01 Monday morning. Union offices warned the walk-outs would escalate, with as many as 55-thousand of the province's 81-thousand union workers off the job by mid-week.The chief issue in contract talks between the union and the government is job security. On Friday, the government announced an 18-percent cut in provincial hospitals and as many as 20-thousand layoffs of hospital workers during the next year.

OUR LATEST INSTALLMENT OF JULIUS KNIPL: REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHER. THIS WEEK --- THE SIREN QUERY BRIGADE.

OUR LETTERS SEGMENT THIS WEEK DEALS ENTIRELY WITH LISTENER RESPONSES TO AN AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY POLL ASKING FOR LINGUITICAL PET PEEVES, NEW WORDS AND REGIONAL EXPRESSIONS.

NPR's Brian Naylor reports that the eight men seeking the Republican presidential nomination spent the last day before New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary at a series of media events, speeches and rallies. Public opinion polls show that Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, commentator Pat Buchanan and former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander are in a close race for the state's sixteen delegates.

On this last day before the New Hampshiore primary, we hear from candidates in their last appeals for votes. Bob Dole is for the little guy, Buchanan is for the unborn, Lugar is for clean campaign ads, Forbes is for a flat tax and Alexander is for fresh ideas.

There has been much criticism of Pat Buchanan's rise within the republican Party, but commentator David Brooks believes Buchanan's appeal is transitory. Brooks notes populist figures elsewhere in the world also attract angry voters, but in the long run they rarely withstand scrutiny.

author of >Undaunted Courage, a profile of the Lewis and Clark expedition across the North American continent to the Pacific and back. In the second part of the interview, Ambrose talks about Merriwether Lewis, who returned a hero but whose life ended with manic depression and alcoholism.

A commentary of folk singer's David Olney's third album High, Wide and Lonesome. Commentary Ann Williams syas the album is a success because of Olney's crafty blues style mixed with distinctive story telling. Tteh album is produced by Philo Records. Music reviewer Ann Williams hosts a radio program on affliate WYSO in Yellow Springs, Ohio. (5:00) [Philo Records....1-800-443-4727: Cambridg

2: Interview with HUSTON SMITH continued.