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Transportation and immigration are among the issues that Virginia voters will keep in mind as they head to the polls on June 12. Join Kojo to find out what's at stake in next week's primaries, and what off-year races for State Senate, House of Delegates, County Treasurer and District Supervisor can tell us about the American electorate.
Bob Gibson, Reporter, Charlottesville Daily Progress
Seth McLaughlin, Reporter, The Washington Times
Bill Turque, Reporter, The Washington Post
Robert Puentes, Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution
Brian Moran, Virginia State Delegate (D- 46th District, Alexandria); Chairman, House Democratic Caucus
David Albo, Virginia State Delegate (R- 42nd District, Springfield)
The trial of a former president and warlord began this week in the Hague, but the accused -- Liberia's Charles Taylor -- boycotted the proceedings. We look at the charges against Taylor and explore how the trial will affect stability in West Africa.
Sebastiaan Gottlieb, International Law Reporter, Radio Netherlands
James A. Goldston, Executive Director, Open Society Justice Initiative
He's been called a riveting poet and a rollicking storyteller. Award-winning writer and sometime stand-up comic Sherman Alexie joins Kojo to discuss his life, his work, and his role as one of America's best-known Native American authors.
Sherman Alexie, screenwriter and author most recently of "Flight" (Grove/Atlantic)