ray suarez has two video postcards from ann arbor, michigan.ne on zingerman's deli and the other on the rise of digital media. and on jeffrey brown's art beat blog our correspondents pick their favorite books, movies and performances of 2009. all of that, and our new blog of news and insight it's called 'the rundown', and we update it throughout the day. you can find it all at newshour.pbs.org. judy. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. jim. >> lehrer: thanks, judy. we'll see you on-line and again here tomorrow evening. i'm jim lehrer. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: >> this is the engine that connects abundant grain from the american heartland to haran's best selling whole wheat, while keeping 60 billion pounds of carbon out of the atmosphere every year. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> what makes us an engine for the economy? plants across america. nearly 200,000 jobs created. we see beyond cars. monsanto. producing more. conserving more. improving farmers' live

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. >> lehrer: tomorrow night ray reports from ann arbor, michigan, a college town prospering in an economic depressed state >> ifill: jim, we turn our attention now to this week's big meeting in copenhagen on climate change, and a new decision from the obama administration. newshour correspondent kwame holman begins with more about the meeting in denmark. . >> reporter: diplomats from 192 nation its gathered in copenhagen today for the largest and potentially most important u.n. climate change conference ever. their goal to shift away from fossil fuels and get rich countries to send billions of dollars to poorer ones to help them adapt. organizers warned this could be the critical last chance to curb global warming. >> the science has never been clearer. the solutions have never been more abundant. political will has never been stronger. and let me warn you, political will will never be

but the people i spoke to during the week whether it is the partners at zingerman's deli in ann arbor or the farmers in iowa or the storekeepers in lincoln city, oregon, they had a very strong connection to the place where they lived, where they had done business, where they had a sense of community. so there wasn't this feeling oh, boy, if i could just kick off the dust of this town and go somewhere else. people are really rooted in the places where they live. >> lehrer: now speaking of traveling, you are about to do some more. you are off to copenhagen to the climate conference. you will be reporting were from there next week. what is going to be the focus of your reporting? >>. >> suarez: well, they have a draft document now. and that's created a tremendous upsurge in interest in the deliberations next week when a lot of heads of state are going to be coming to copenhagen to put the finishing touches on some sort of document that they want to end the conference with. originally when we had planned to goback brahm -- barack obama was going to be there this week and not next week whe

mark hodish, who is an owner of an ann arbor store has seen his premiums going up -- go up 300% since 1997. in 1997 he paid $300 a month for premiums per employee. this year regular premium increases have led him to pay upwards of $375 per month for each employee. so a 300% increase. he said i have been in small business -- i've been in small business for 40 years, and my conclusion is that without health care health care reform, these increasing costs will put me out of business. that's the reality for businesses across this country. i do believe that health care reform is directly tied to jobs, whether it's large businesses, competing internationally who make a determination to move their facility because of health care costs, whether it's small businesses going out of business or having to decide do i keep people working or do i pay for health insurance, and whether it's a self-employed person out on their own, in their own enterprise. maybe it's a local realtor who we know realtors have struggled for years because they haven't been able to buy through a large insurance pool. that'

it was during the campaign on the college campus in ann arbor. all the sudden the students started chanting. they kept saying end the fed. it was a spontaneous outburst. it gave me the idea that maybe we could follow up with a book. but it to me is a very important subject. because of the significance of it. it's becoming more important all the time. now the book was written with the intent of explaining to my best ability the role of the federal reserve, and our financial system. but there's a lot more to it than just that. the bottom line really becomes the nature of money itself. and the book is sort of in certain -- broken down into certain groups. and in certain parts. i start off by talking about when i first started thinking about money as a very young person. i thought at the time that i had mixed feeling about talking about my personal experience even as a small child about my first job earning pennies. and recognizing the value of the money and saving coins. and yet when i sent it to publisher, i said maybe you want to strike that. at t