LIPS & TRANSCRIPTS OF RECENT Y2K STORIES from PBS and NPR

The Year 2000 Problem: An Online NewsHour Focus http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/cyberspace/jan-june99/y2k_index.html

September 22, 1999: RealAudio: Listen to Senators Robert Bennett and Christopher Dodd discuss the findings of their committee's report.

August 5, 1999: Y2K Emergency (Hospital Readiness)

July 27, 1999: Five Months and Counting

June 1, 1999: The Liability Issue

I, Cringley (Opinion) http://www.pbs.org/cringely/

May 13, 1999 - Y2K, That is the Question: Another Visit to Microsoft's Millenium Strategy

March 11, 1999 - Windows 2000, Users Zilch: The Y2K Disaster Parading as Microsoft's Windows NT Marketing Plan

Dec. 31, 1998 - The Perils of Pauline: Y2K Minus One and Relief is Nowhere in Sight

National Public Radio The following stories require the RealAudio Player.

Y2K Bug, September 1999 (All Things Considered) NPR's Margot Adler reports the chairman of the President's Council on Year 2000 conversion has been holding town meetings across the country, and this week arrived in New York City. Town officials often attend the meetings, and ordinary citizens can pose questions to experts. But there has been little publicity for them, because of a desire to avoid undue Y2K panic. (5:30)

Y2K and Women, August 18, 1999 (All Things Considered) -- When people first got an inkling that computers might hiccup on December 31, 1999, so-called "information technology" experts figured the repair job would be a low-status job. At least that's one theory on why so many women are now the Y2K experts in corporate America. In any case, NPR's Margot Adler reports that with Y2K now a high-profile problem, the high number of women in charge of fixing it has made a dent in the glass ceiling. (7:00)

Cities - Y2K, August 12, 1999 (All Things Considered) -- Some of the largest American cities won't be Y2K-ready until after October. But in Prescott, Arizona, the city government says it's well ahead of the millennium bug. From member station KNAU, Mike Lamp has a report. (6:00)

Y2K Update, August 5, 1999 (All ThIngs Considered) -- The President's council on Y2K planning says many local governments may not be ready for possible crises related to computer programs that don't recognize the year 2000. The report says that while major gas, electric, telecommunications and other systems are ready, many counties and local school systems have done no planning at all. NPR's Larry Abramson reports that the federal government is trying to raise Y2K awareness and get state and local governments to head off problems. (4:00)

Y2K Neighbors, May 17, 1999 (Morning Edition) -- NPR's Margot Adler reports from Boulder, Colorado on a group of people who are helping their neighbors calmly plan and prepare, so that they have necessities on hand on January 1st, in case there are shortages that result from the so-called "Y2K" computer problem. The group in Boulder is one of 300 such groups across the country, which are part of the "Cassandra Project." They recommend that people have at least two weeks worth of heat, water, and food for their families. (8:40)

-- Anonymous, September 24, 1999