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Radio Smart Talk is a daily, live, interactive program featuring conversations with newsmakers and experts in a variety of fields and exploring a wide range of issues and ideas, including the economy, politics, health care, education, culture, and the environment. Radio Smart Talk airs live every week day at 9 a.m. on WITF’s 89.5 and 93.3.
Hosted by: Scott LaMar
TV Smart Talk: From politics to economy, from health care to the environment, WITF's TV Smart Talk covers the issues and ideas that matter to you. It's never been easier to discover and share the news and information of your world and ours.
Hosted by: Nell McCormack Abom
Radio Smart Talk for Friday, February 3: Legendary former Penn State football Coach Joe Paterno died Sunday morning, January 22 from lung cancer. The tributes to Paterno culminated with a memorial service witnessed by 12,000 at the Bryce Jordan Center on the Penn State campus and millions more on television last Thursday. The death of college football's winningest coach and…
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Thursday, 02 February 2012 11:37
What are You Wearing? Make it Red! Smart Talk TV, Tonight at 8, witf TV
Written by Nell McCormack Abom
Are you wearing red? Even better, are you doing something positive TODAY to keep your heart strong? February is Heart Health Month and we'll show you ways to love yourself by eating, exercising and living healthier to reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease and stroke, two of the leading killers in America. Join Smart Talk tonight at 8 on witf…
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 14:28
PA's Independent Fiscal Office on the economy
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Radio Smart Talk for Thursday, February 2: Here's the good news -- credit balances have stopped declining and appear to be increasing slowly, banks are lending again, corporations are making profits and consumers are showing signs of gaining confidence in the economy. All this is contained in a report released two weeks ago by Pennsylvania's new Independent Fiscal Office, which concluded…
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Wednesday, 01 February 2012 10:26
How Do We Save Our Schools? Smart Talk TV, Tonight at 8, on witf TV
Written by Nell McCormack Abom
Pennsylvania's schools feel the triple pinch of rising health care and employee pension costs, and a stagnant economy. Revenue growth from real estate taxes -- the main funding source for public schools -- is virtually non-existent, yet schools' operating costs and pension obligations are rising at double-digit rates. How do we save our schools? Join the conversation on Smart Talk,…
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Radio Smart Talk for Wednesday, February 1: The only sure way to reduce healthcare costs is to use the system less. So says Steve Jacob, the author of the new book Health Care in 2020: Where Uncertain Reform, Bad Habits, Too Few Doctors, and Skyrocketing Costs Are Taking Us. Jacob writes that much of the blame for the increasing costs…
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Radio Smart Talk for Tuesday, January 31: From 1905 to the mid-'60s, the Pennsylvania General Assembly enacted five clean water laws and coal companies were exempted from complying with each one. During that time, runoff from mines polluted many of the state's waterways. When legislation finally did pass that required coal companies to abide by the law, an incumbent lawmaker from Northumberland County…
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Radio Smart Talk for Monday, January 30: TEDxEnola is all-day education reform event scheduled for Wednesday. According to the organizers, TEDxEnola will focus on cutting edge brain research topics and strategies. They say national experts from the field will share ideas and research about the critical need for brain centered learning environments in today's schools. The event promises to show…
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Radio Smart Talk for Friday, January 27: Radio Smart Talk features a Facing Cancer Together discussion with Barbara Jackson, the founder of the Central Coalition United to Fight Cancer or Catalyst -- an organization that provides health education for minorities. Also, non-profit organizations are doing more with less resources and their board of directors have more responsibility. We'll talk about…
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Radio Smart Talk for Thursday, January 26: More than half the people surveyed in a recent poll say they're concerned about the effect the new health care law will have on the quality of care they receive. Almost one third engage in no planned exercise and 85% say waiting time at their doctor's office is important to them. These are…
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