Every Monday, we look ahead to the week's news in our regular "Agenda" conversation. Next week, we're trying something different: We want you to tell us what to focus on. Out of this list of news items, what do you think is the most important? And what do you think we are missing? Let us know in the comments.
SATURDAY, MAY 1ST: May Day. Kentucky Derby. President Obama attends the WH Correspondents’ Association annual dinner. He also delivers commencement address at University of Michigan.
SUNDAY, MAY 2ND: Appearing on 60 Minutes, Conan O’Brien speaks out for the first time since he left NBC.
MONDAY, MAY 3RD: “Jihad Jane” goes on trial in Pennsylvania court. Verdict expected in Mumbai terror trial. Hillary Clinton hosts UN Review conference to discuss renewing the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Metropolitan Museum of Art costume gala.
TUESDAY, MAY 4TH :. Primary day in Indiana, Ohio, and North Carolina. 40th Anniversary of the Kent State shootings. 1st Anniversary of first US swine flu death: 33-year-old Texas schoolteacher, Judy Trunnell. Former First Lady Laura Bush’s memoir, Spoken from the Heart, is published. Tony nominees announced – the winners of the “Webbys” are announced, too. The Court Yard Hounds (2/3 of the Dixie Chicks) release their first album.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 5TH : “Cinco de Mayo” celebrated in Mexico, and world-wide. Vice President Biden visits Belgium and Spain.
THURSDAY, MAY 6TH : UK general election. House Commerce subcommittee holds their latest hearing on Toyota recalls. Gallop releases their annual study of Interfaith relations.
FRIDAY, MAY 7TH : Monthly unemployment rate released at 8:30 AM. UK election results expected. Carole King and James Taylor launch a reunion tour. Movies: “Babies” (documentary which follows one year in the life of four babies from around the world) and “Iron Man 2”.
OVER THE WEEKEND: SATURDAY: 30th Anniversary of the eradication of smallpox. Michelle Obama delivers the commencement address at University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff – when it was founded, it was the only state-sponsored university for African Americans in Arkansas. 40th Anniversary of “Let it Be”, the final album released by the Beatles. Betty White hosts ‘SNL’ following Facebook campaign..
SUNDAY: Mother’s Day. 50th Anniversary of the FDA approving the birth control pill.
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Celeste,
You should stick around, Motor City Vaudeville Revue at Russell Industrial Center, closing show this Saturday. Big fun. You really were here, did you see it? Did you see the inner good? Detroit is one of the greatest towns in the country!!! I lived in LA, and I came back here to regain my soul.
Whatever you learned here, come back, learn more. You'll see, it is real, it is good.
Thanks for coming by!
Definitely the Kent State story; Cinco de Mayo makes for a great jumping off point for several stories; the interfaith relations study; Betty White/SNL/Facebook; and I'd love to hear more about a campaign among Orthodox Jews to lighten the sentence for the man at the center of the Iowa meat processing plant controversy (Rubashkin). Not sure the timing on it, but I'd love to hear more.
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