Consuelo Mack WealthTrack provides trustworthy, understandable advice about building and protecting wealth over the long-term from the best minds in the business world. The series remains the only program on television devoted to long-term diversified investing as it enters its tenth season.
Season 10 premieres Friday, June 28 at 7:30 p.m. on WLIW21.
A post-broadcast online conversation on THIRTEEN’s Google+ page with Live Town Hall panelist John Boulé, Vice President, Parsons Brinckerhoff, and Retired Colonel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Superstorm Sandy: A Live Town Hall
What worked. What didn’t. What’s next.
Also see a post-broadcast online conversation on THIRTEEN’s Google+ page with Live Town Hall panelist John Boulé, Vice President, Parsons Brinckerhoff, and Retired Colonel, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
More than six months after Superstorm Sandy caused $50 billion in damage, questions still remain regarding the region’s infrastructure, its disaster response capabilities, and what the future holds.
Seeking answers and conversation about the storm and recovery efforts, New Jersey and New York public broadcasting stations teamed up to broadcast a special multi-platform live Town Hall event. Hosted by Mike Schneider, managing editor of the NJTV’s news program NJ Today with Mike Schneider, expert panelists fielded questions before live studio audiences at Monmouth University’s Pollak Theatre in West Long Branch, NJ and the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Superstorm Sandy: A Live Town Hall aired and streamed live on Thursday, May 16 at 8:00 p.m. on NJTV, New Jersey’s public television network, THIRTEEN in New York City, WLIW21 on Long Island, WHYY TV in Philadelphia, and their websites, in collaboration with media outlets WNYC at 93.9FM and AM820, New Jersey Public Radio, The Star-Ledger and NJ.com, NJ Spotlight, NJ News Commons and The New York Times.
Topics of discussion included: infrastructure: maintenance, parameters for the future and how New York and New Jersey’s infrastructure compares to other regions; building codes in the post-Sandy era; the storm’s environmental consequences: what can we fix, what may not be reparable; storm response: the effectiveness of Sandy response by FEMA, the government, the utility companies and the region overall; economic ramifications: who is paying the debt the storm left behind, government funds versus constituent responsibilities, and looking to the future: the region’s ability to plan ahead for extreme weather.
Guest panelists included experts in an array of fields, from infrastructure and engineering to climatology and charities. The live program featured reporting from various locations across New Jersey, New York City, and Long Island. Lauren Wanko from NJ Today with Mike Schneider, MetroFocus’ Rafael Pi Roman, and Long Island Business Report’s Jim Paymar revisited communities and individuals that they covered when the storm hit in November, continuing their in-depth reporting from the worst hit towns and cities. Other special reports came from WHYY, The Star-Ledger and WNYC.
Panelists at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey
• Richard Constable, Commissioner, New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
• Nicole Gelinas, Searle Freedom Trust Fellow, Manhattan Institute
• Vivien Gornitz, Special Research Scientist, Columbia University
• Ralph LaRossa, President & COO, PSE&G
• Mayor Matt Doherty, Belmar, NJ
• Patrick Murray, Director, Monmouth University Polling Institute
• Peter Reinhart, Director, Kislak Real Estate Institute, Monmouth University
• Bill Ulfelder, Executive Director, The Nature Conservancy of New York
• Mayor Dawn Zimmer, Hoboken, NJ
Panelists at the Tisch WNET Studios at Lincoln Center in Manhattan
• John Boulé, VP, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Ret. Col. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• John Cameron, Chair, Long Island Regional Planning Council
• Bud Griffis, Professor of Civil Engineering and Construction, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
• Joe Nocera, Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times
• Richard Ravitch, Former Lieutenant Governor, New York
• Sheena Wright, President & CEO, United Way of New York City
Questions for the panelists were gathered from the public prior and during the program in the comments field of station web sites, and via Twitter #sandytownhall.
See the Storify feed below for questions, comments and images posted with the hashtag #SandyTownHall on Twitter.
Superstorm Sandy: A Live Town Hall is made possible by the New Jersey Recovery Fund at the Community Foundation of New Jersey, The General Contractors Association of New York, New York Building Congress and New York Building Foundation, Bernard and Irene Schwartz, AECOM, New Jersey Manufacturers, Parsons Brinckerhoff, STV, Tishman – an AECOM Company and the American Council of Engineering Companies of New York. [View the story "Superstorm Sandy: A Live Town Hall" on Storify]
This week, Bill Miller, Legg Mason’s legendary value investor, returns to Consuelo Mack WealthTrack in an exclusive TV interview. The Legg Mason Capital Management Opportunity Trust mutual fund portfolio manager tells WealthTrack Anchor and Managing Editor Consuelo Mack where he is investing now and remains bullish on the stock market for 2013, as he was, correctly, for 2012.
This episode of Consuelo Mack WealthTrack premieres Friday, February 8 at 7:30 p.m. on WLIW21.
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(View full post to see video)Hosted by Rafael Pi Roman, this episode of Treasures of New York recounts the untimely demise and rebuilding of the New York State Capitol building, a landmark that took 32 years, 25 million dollars, five architects and 11 state governors to create.
The New York State Capitol premieres December 5 at 7 p.m. on WLIW2. Watch a preview:
(View full post to see video)This November, Treasures of New York features the series’ very first Long Island “treasure,” the Amagansett Life-Saving Station, which has been a unique centerpiece of Long Island history since it was built in 1902. Ocean Keeper journeys through the station’s extraordinary 100-year-plus history and arrives at its present day incarnation on Atlantic Avenue.
Treasures of New York: Ocean Keeper premieres November 10 at 9:30 p.m. on WLIW21. Go behind the scenes with our slideshow, read a Q&A with the filmmaker, and watch a preview here:
Stay tuned to WLIW on Facebook and Twitter for up-to-the-minute updates on the storm in our viewing area. For more extensive coverage of the storm, visit MetroFocus and watch our broadcast special online.
We are very disappointed that PBS became a political target in the Presidential debate last night. Governor Romney does not understand the value the American people place on public broadcasting and the outstanding return on investment the system delivers to our nation. We think it is important to set the record straight and let the facts speak for themselves.
The federal investment in public broadcasting equals about one one-hundredth of one percent of the federal budget. Elimination of funding would have virtually no impact on the nation’s debt. Yet the loss to the American public would be devastating.
A national survey by the bipartisan research firms of Hart Research and American Viewpoint in 2011 in found that over two-thirds of American voters (69%) oppose proposals to eliminate government funding of public broadcasting, with Americans across the political spectrum against such a cut.
As a stated supporter of education, Governor Romney should be a champion of public broadcasting, yet he is willing to wipe out services that reach the vast majority of Americans, including underserved audiences, such as children who cannot attend preschool and citizens living in rural areas.
For more than 40 years Big Bird has embodied the public broadcasting mission – harnessing the power of media for the good of every citizen, regardless of where they live or their ability to pay. Our system serves as a universally accessible resource for education, history, science, arts and civil discourse.
Over the course of a year, 91% of all U.S. television households tune into their local PBS station. In fact, our service is watched by 81% of all children between the ages of 2-8.
Each day, the American public receives an enduring and daily return on investment that is heard, seen, read and experienced in public broadcasting broadcasts, apps, podcasts, and online – all for the cost of about $1.35 per person per year.
Earlier in 2012, a Harris Interactive poll confirmed that Americans consider PBS the most trusted public institution and the second most valuable use of public funds, behind only national defense, for the 9th consecutive year.
A key thing to remember is that public television and radio stations are locally owned and community focused and they are experts in working efficiently to make limited resources produce results. In fact, for every $1.00 of federal funding invested, they raise an additional $6.00 on their own – a highly effective public-private partnership.
Numerous studies — including one requested by Congress earlier this year — have stated categorically that while the federal investment in public broadcasting is relatively modest, the absence of this critical seed money would cripple the system and bring its services to an end.
Norah Jones performs at the historic Green Building in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens. Photo by Adam Macchia.
On Saturday, October 6 at 10 p.m., Live from the Artists Den returns to WLIW with a new season, featuring artists Norah Jones, The Wallflowers, Rufus Wainwright, and Mayer Hawthorne.
October 5: Grammy Award-winner Norah Jones at the Green Building in Brooklyn, NY.
October 12: Multiplatinum rockers The Wallflowers at Bimbo’s 365 Club in San Francisco.
October 19: Vocal virtuoso Rufus Wainwright at the Church of the Ascension on New York’s Fifth Avenue.
October 26: Soul phenomenon Mayer Hawthorne at the historic Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.
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Premiering tonight at 7:30 p.m., anchor and managing editor Consuelo Mack and influential financial historian James Grant (Grant’s Interest Rate Observer) discuss why the Federal Reserve’s policies of zero interest rates and massive purchases of U.S. Treasury and mortgage-backed bonds are dangerous to the economy and damaging to savers.
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This month, our Community Stories campaign highlights Min Ying Cao and Dolma Lhamo, who discuss the experience of growing up outside of their home countries and interacting with other cultures in NYC.
Learn more about the campaign and view previous videos here.
(View full post to see video)Check out related stories on THIRTEEN’s local news and culture site, MetroFocus.
