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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Earth Day & Pope Packet

Tanya Burnett

EARTH DAY

Profile: Pamela Lippe, green consultant and director of Earth Day New York. Lippe has 30 years of experience with environmental projects in New York.

News Item w/ Visuals: Earth Fair at Grand Central (Friday April 18th 12-7pm & Saturday April 19th 11-5pm)

Investigative Piece: How Green is Mayor Bloomberg? His proposed Congestion Pricing Plan to increase environmental intiatives will cost cars traveling in the city during the workday $8 and $21 for trucks. Does Mayor Bloomberg, contribute to congestion?

POPE VISITS THE U.S.

Profile: Vatican Ambassador to the USA Pietro Sambi or Archbishop of Washington Donald Wuel. It would be interesting to see exactly what relations the ambassador and archbishop would have with such a secular nation as the U.S.

News Item w/ Visual: The Pope's Day in New York April 18-20th(taking pictures of the places that the Pope visits and things that he does while NY. Maybe he'll eat a hot dog.)

Investigative Piece: Why is the vatican so important historically and how did it become an icon for Christianity?

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