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Wednesday, January 14
1:00-2:00 pm EST
In less than a week, President-elect Barack Obama will take the oath of office and become our 44th President. Obama will inherit a collapsing economy, two wars, government agencies that shirk their responsibilities and other problems left by the Bush Administration. We'll talk with Bill Buzenberg, Executive Director of the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity.  He'll share with us his plans for repairing a broken government.

Noon-1:00 pm EST
Former Sun education reporter Mike Bowler takes a look at a project in Kalamazoo, Michigan that promises free college tuition to anyone who graduates from the city's public high schools, regardless of whether the graduate is wealthy or poor, black, Hispanic or white. Could such a deal increase home ownership and advance public education in Baltimore? We'll talk about connecting higher education to community development, increasing property values and reversing years of white flight from Baltimore and other cities.