Host Michel Martin and digital media producer Lee Hill talk about the stories that had TMM listeners commenting this week. Today, the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Gates, racial profiling and the minimum wage increase.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us Read more about Gates' Arrest Stirs Blogosphere...

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I’ve been half-heartedly looking at bicycles lately. Part of me pines for a new city bike, but the rational side of my brain knows that I have two decent bikes already. Still, I’ve killed a lot of time by paging through the Craigslist bike ads. At the top of every ad is the following warning about ...

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Within the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, I found a great distillation of the requirements for a satisfying job. Whenever I think of times when I have been unhappy, at least one of these things was missing. Autonomy. You get a role in deciding what you do every day. Even if ...

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Join Jim and me this afternoon for the 15th episode of The Personal Finance Hour. Today we’ll be interviewing Trent Hamm, author of The Simple Dollar. Trent’s primary focus is frugality, and that will be our primary topic of discussion. But the three of us are all full-time bloggers, and many folks on Twitter have asked ...

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Tens of thousands of people gathered at hundreds of rallies across the country on Saturday to celebrate Independence Day, but also to protest federal government spending and taxes. The rallies were called "tea (aka "taxed-enough already") parties" and were organized on the Internet. One of the biggest events was near Dallas.» E-Mail This     » Add ...

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