Photo: Reading, Vermont: See Third Hour: Wall Street $100 Million Man Makes Vermont Downton Abbey  By Max Abelson Andrew J. Hall, the former Citigroup (C) Inc. oil trader whose pay package of about $100 million ensnared him in the fight over compensation at bailed- out banks in 2009, is selling handmade lavender soap and grass- fed Angus beef from a farm in Reading, Vermont. Hall’s impact on the 251-year-old town, a four-and-a-half- hour drive from New York City, shows what Wall Street pay that attracts Washington’s attention can buy. While Mitchell called Hall’s work in Reading “wonderful,” more than a dozen other residents said they were less sure, citing razed homes, the lower tax rate Hall pays on some of his land and a dispute with a next-door neighbor over power lines. Full story: http://bloom.bg/16or8fg.

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Hour One

Friday  1 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Margaret Collins, Bloomberg. With professional golfers and hedge fund managers talking about moving to lower-tax enclaves, states are stepping up audits on top earners who flee. Several states including California and Maryland raised taxes on high earners last year, and Congress boosted federal levies on them. Families who look to change their domicile to a state with no income taxes such as Florida or Nevada open themselves up to years of scrutiny and possible litigation as local governments search for revenue. Full story: 

Friday  1 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block B:"Balanced budgets" are wrongly equated with small government by a media and political class totally clueless about basic economics. Particularly in a U.S. full of the world's most productive individuals, a balanced budget means massive growth in the burden that is government. Paul Ryan should know better, and surely insults the intelligence of his devoted base with his proposal to 'balance' the federal budget. RealClearMarkets. There's Nothing 'Limited Government' In Paul Ryan's Balanced Budget

Friday  1 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block C: .Universities Pile on Faculty Perks as Student Costs Grow  By John Hechinger & Michael McDonald The University of Chicago paid James Madara $2.5 million in severance when he stepped down in 2009 as medical dean and hospital chief. Madara, who remained on the faculty, later joined the American Medical Association. Congress is taking a look at such payments following disclosures that Jacob Lew, the new U.S. Treasury secretary, received a $685,000 bonus when he left New York University and had $1.5 million in housing loans from the school. Harvard and Stanford universities also offer real-estate loans with sweet terms, records show. While the amounts are small relative to university budgets, the perks insulate faculty and administrators from the costs upsetting many middle-class families, said Jonathan Robe, a research fellow at the Center for College Affordability and Productivity in Washington. Full story:http://bloom.bg/16osBSN

Friday  1 March 2013 / Hour 1, Block D:  CARRIZO SPRINGS — In this South Texas stretch of mesquite trees and cactus, where the land is sometimes too dry to grow crops, the local aquifer is being strained in the search for oil. The reason is hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a drilling process that requires massive amounts of water.  “We just can’t sustain it,” Hugh Fitzsimons, a Dimmit County bison rancher who serves on the board of his local groundwater district, said last month as he drove his pickup down a dusty road.

Hour Two

Friday  1 March 2013 / Hour 2, Block A:  Asperger Love | A Byliner Original Story Asperger Love, an original Byliner story by Amy Harmon. ... Browse Stories. Subscribe to Byliner Plus! Writers · Just Added · Anthologies ...  The first night he slept with her, entwined with her on his futon, Jack Robison regarded Kirsten Lindsmith with undisguised tenderness. She was the only girl to have ever asked questions about his obsessive interests—chemistry, libertarian politics, the small drone aircraft he was building in his kitchen—as though she actually cared to hear his answer. To Jack, who was 19 and has a form of autism sometimes called Asperger syndrome, her mind was uncannily like his. She was also, he thought, beautiful.  So far, they had only cuddled; Jack had hopes for something more. Yet when she smiled at him the next morning, her lips seeking his, he turned away.

Friday  1 March 2013 / Hour 2, Block B:  Amy Harmon continued. “I don’t really like kissing,” he said.
Kirsten drew back. If he knew she was disappointed, he showed no sign.
On that fall day, Kirsten, an 18-year-old college freshman, did not know that someone as intelligent and articulate as Jack might be unable to read the feelings of others, or gauge the impact of his words. Only later would she recognize that her own lifelong troubles—bullying by fellow students, anger from teachers and emotional meltdowns beyond her power to control—were clues that she, too, occupied a spot on what is known as the autism spectrum.

Friday  1 March 2013 / Hour 2, Block C:  Would you be interested in speaking with NYT science reporter Dennis Overbye on the human story before search for the Higgs Boson? Here is the story: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/science/chasing-the-higgs-boson-how-2-teams-of-rivals-at-CERN-searched-for-physics-most-elusive-particle.html

Friday  1 March 2013 / Hour 2, Block D:  Overbye continued.  Would you be interested in speaking with NYT science reporter Dennis Overbye on the human story before search for the Higgs Boson? Here is the story: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/science/chasing-the-higgs-boson-how-2-teams-of-rivals-at-CERN-searched-for-physics-most-elusive-particle.html

Hour Three

Friday  1 March 2013 / Hour 3, Block A:  A Billion Years of Time and Toil Are Etched in These Old Hills  MUSIC  Life’s Very Fine Lines  By ANDREW C. REVKIN  A song about the very fine lines in life.

Friday  1 March 2013 / Hour 3, Block B:  . Wall Street $100 Million Man Makes Vermont Downton Abbey

By Max Abelson Andrew J. Hall, the former Citigroup (C) Inc. oil trader whose pay package of about $100 million ensnared him in the fight over compensation at bailed- out banks in 2009, is selling handmade lavender soap and grass- fed Angus beef from a farm in Reading, Vermont. Hall’s impact on the 251-year-old town, a four-and-a-half- hour drive from New York City, shows what Wall Street pay that attracts Washington’s attention can buy. While Mitchell called Hall’s work in Reading “wonderful,” more than a dozen other residents said they were less sure, citing razed homes, the lower tax rate Hall pays on some of his land and a dispute with a next-door neighbor over power lines. Full story: http://bloom.bg/16or8fg.

Friday  1 March 2013 / Hour 3, Block C:  At 51, a Kennedy Joins Family Business  By MARK LEIBOVICH  Ted Kennedy Jr. has finally received the calling. But does the name still matter?

Friday  1 March 2013 / Hour 3, Block D: American Tax Cheats Picked Off After Swiss Adviser Goes Postal  By David Voreacos and Patricia Hurtado  Swiss financial adviser Beda Singenberger accidentally mailed a list of his U.S. clients and incriminating details regarding the secret offshore counts he allegedly helped them hide $184 million in to the wrong address. The list, which included client names and details about the colorful names of the secret offshore accounts like Real Cool Investments Ltd and Wanderlust Foundation, is now somehow in the hands of federal authorities who appear to be picking off the clients one-by-one.  Singenberger’s goof has already ensnared Jacques Wajsfelner, an 83-year-old exile from Nazi Germany and Michael Canale, a retired U.S. Army surgeon. Full story:   http://bloom.bg/YZDIgN

Hour Four

Friday  1 March 2013 / Hour 4, Block A: More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy [Hardcover] Thai Jones

"Jobless, homeless, hungry, desperate.  Remarkable how those words resonate through the years in the richest and most powerful country in world history.  Their significance is dramatically highlighted in this compelling and vivid portrayal of the currents that swept the country a century ago, and have come back to haunt and inspire us once again today.  More Powerful Than Dynamite is an impressive piece of work."—Noam Chomsky

"Almost exactly a century before Occupy Wall Street launched a cause and gripped a nation, a different kind of radical movement in New York City was stirring, stunning, and scaring the country. Thai Jones, a brilliant historian and breathtaking writer, tells this compelling story in MORE POWERFUL THAN DYNAMITE. In his hands, the past is indeed prologue."—Samuel G. Freedman, author of Jew Vs. Jew

"New York was as divided by class, race, and ideology a century ago as it is in our own time.  That the city actually exploded in 1914 is not surprising.  What is surprising is how subtly, persuasively, and imaginatively Thai Jones has interpreted the period and brought a rich cast of characters to life.  More Powerful Than  Dynamite is an exciting book."—Kenneth T. Jackson, Columbia University, editor of The Encyclopedia of New York City

"Thai Jones brings into vivid life a period of American history when the haves and the have nots were close to civil war, a fascinating recreation of people we have forgotten at our own peril.  An enjoyable and enlightening read."—Marge Piercy, poet, novelist, memoirist

"A compelling and layered portrait of a year, a nation, and a people on the verge, More Powerful Than Dynamite is filled with echoes that clamor in contemporary America. The writing itself is so rich and powerful, the selection of scenes so smart, the details so telling, that it reads like an epic novel."—Bill Ayers, co-founder of the Weather Underground and author of Fugitive Day

Praise for A Radical Line: "[T]his book begins with an intensely dramatic scene, and continues to fascinate the reader right through to the end. We follow a group of people—especially the notorious "Weather" people—who are at the center of the extraordinary events of the Sixties. Abstractions like "radicalism", "pacifism" "violence" are given a human face, as we see the characters in this book struggle, often in troubling ways, for a world free of war and injustice." —Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States

More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy [Hardcover] Thai Jones

Friday  1 March 2013 / Hour 4, Block B:   More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy [Hardcover] Thai Jones

Friday  1 March 2013 / Hour 4, Block C:   More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy [Hardcover] Thai Jones

Friday  1 March 2013 / Hour 4, Block D:    More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York's Year of Anarchy [Hardcover] Thai Jones

Hour 1: Downton Abbey