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Bill Moyers to Leave Weekly TelevisionBy ELIZABETH JENSEN; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF Published: November 20, 2009 The PBS mainstay Bill Moyers, left, said he was retiring from weekly television and would end his Friday night public affairs show, “Bill Moyers Journal,” on April 30, 2010. That date will also be the last for “Now on PBS,” which has been canceled. Mr. Moyers said he had been planning for some time to retire the program on Dec. 25 but was asked by PBS to raise the funds to continue through April, which he did. “I am 75 years old,” he said...

The State Treasurer's Office has denied an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request filed Republican members of the Assembly Transportation and Public Works Committee. Yesterday, the trio sent a joint, second letter to Governor Jon Corzine asking him to compel Treasury to release an $800,000 consulting report on the proposed sale of New Jersey toll road assets for public review. "Late Friday, we received word from treasury that this report would not be made public," says Assemblyman Sean Kean. He warns, "We are prepared to take legal action against the Administration if they refuse to turn over the results of...

What is relevant is that he was a drug addict,’ says talk show host. An online publication is alleging that Frey's best-selling memoir about substance abuse, "A Million Little Pieces," wildly exaggerates his past, with inflated claims about his criminal record and about his involvement in an accident that killed two high school students. James Frey and the publishing world can relax a little: Oprah isn’t angry. For days, Frey has been intensely criticized — and defended — over allegations that his best-selling memoir of addiction, “A Million Little Pieces,” was far from the candid self-portrait that he, his publisher...