NEWBERY
WINNER
We speak with Laura Amy Schlitz, a Baltimore school librarian who
was just named the Newbery Medal Winner for her book: "Good Masters!
Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village." Laura originally
wrote the collection of monologues and dialogues to teach the children
at her school about life in the Middle Ages.
FLORIDA
PRIMARY It's the largest and most diverse
state to vote so far. We'll discuss today's Florida
primary with Juan Vasquez, deputy editorial page editor at the
Miami Herald.
VOTING
MACHINES Voters in some Florida counties
will be casting their ballots on electronic voting machines
that caused problems in a 2006 election. And voters in all or
part of 20 states will be using computer touchscreen machines
that don't generate a paper record of each vote cast. We
speak with elections expert, Doug Chapin of the Pew Center's
Electionline.org,
about the state of election reform, six years after Congress
passed the Help America Vote Act.
FUTURE
TELEVISION Holy technology, Batman! Remember
rabbit ears and when color television was the state of the art
for home viewing? Then came cable television, satellite dishes,
and flat screens, plasmas and LCD sets invaded our homes with
screens so big that you had to have a separate room just to
set them up. Now television technology is about to change again
with the coming of high definition signals that will redefine
how and what we watch on television. Our guest is Dylan Tweney,
senior editor at Wired.
