Radio Smart Talk -- Friday, February 5: Eighty-three employees connected to the state legislature pulled in six-figure salaries last year. We'll take a closer look at the numbers with reporter Jan Murphy of the Patriot-News and learn more about a statewide effort to get middle-schoolers into shape, and the latest from WITF's Capitol Reporter Scott Detrow on the corruption trial of former State Representative Mike Veon...on the next Radio Smart Talk.

Radio Smart Talk for Wednesday, February 3: It’s been called “one of the last bastions of serious journalism on TV” by the Austin American-Statesman. Tom Brokaw said it’s “fearless about challenging conventional wisdom.” It’s an Emmy award-winning weekly newsmagazine – and it’s been cancelled.  NOW on PBS will leave public television airwaves on April 30th, the same night Bill Moyers’ Journal ends its run. (Moyers is retiring).

Is there a place anymore on television for the sort of tough investigative journalism NOW offers each week? On Wednesday's Radio Smart Talk, we’ll discuss the state of investigative journalism on television, and across America, with David Brancaccio, the host of NOW. We’ll also listen to highlights from the series’ eight-plus year run.

“Just don’t do IT!”  That’s the mantra repeated by most parents to their teenagers when the “it” refers to sex.  Oh, if we could just wave a magic wand and keep them all celibate until marriage or at least adulthood!  Real life … and raging hormones … don’t seem to work that way.  The evidence is all around us.  As the Harrisburg Patriot News reported in December, nearly three dozen Harrisburg High School students have become pregnant since the first day of school.   At least 60 girls are in the same condition in the Reading School District.  And for the first time in 14 years, the trajectories of teen pregnancy, birth rates and abortions are rising.  Friday night at 8:30 on Smart Talk, we’ll examine a controversial new legislative proposal that would mandate sex-education in all Pennsylvania schools.

Radio Smart Talk for Tuesday, February 2: Concussions are hard to diagnose and treat, and awful to experience. Athletes, leagues, even lawmakers are trying to address their growing prevalence in our games. We’ll discuss the long-term effects of concussions, how they're being treated, and how they're impacting the games we play, from youth sports to college to the pros.  What we know, and what we have yet to learn about concussions, on Radio Smart Talk Tuesday.  The Sunday Patriot-News in Harrisburg published an extensive series of articles on concussions this past weekend. Read the articles here.

Radio Smart Talk, Monday, February 1: There are 27 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The first ten, of course, are the Bill of Rights. The other seventeen Amendments address matters ranging from the abolition of slavery to voting rights to Prohibition (and its eventual repeal). The last Constitutional Amendment was ratified in 1992.  If you could wave a magic wand, and personally ratify a "28th Amendment" – what would it say?