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IE: Inside Europe, 5/31/2024

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW

Elections 101: with just one week to go before EU Parliament elections, DW’s Jack Parrock tells you all you need to know Breaking the news: the in...

Scrappy Ohio Pride Survives

From: Christopher Beale
Series: Stereotypes

A pair of conservative small towns hosted their first LGBTQIA pride in 2023 to much success, then local residents tried to shut it down.

A federal monument to Iraq and Afghanistan vets is years away, but states are erecting their own

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Army veteran David Vieira, President of the Afghanistan Iraq Veterans War Memorial Fund, attends a dedication ceremony for Connecticut's new monument to Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans. Viera's non-profit raised money to build the memorial in Danbury., Credit: Desiree D'Iorio / American Homefront

While the national memorial goes through a lengthy planning and fundraising process, veterans are working with state and local governments to build...

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When troops' remains are identified from long-ago wars, it's getting harder to find family members

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Following a funeral ceremony in New Bern, N.C., Patriot Guard Riders member John Conner kneels to pay his respects to Barbara Weiss, the niece of Staff Sgt. Robert J. Ferris Jr. Ferris died in 1942 in World War II, before Weiss was born. She was the next , Credit: Jay Price / American Homefront

Scientific advances have allowed the Army to identify about 200 sets of remains each year - dating back to World War II. But the passage of time ha...

Bought by WRFA-LP, North Country Public Radio, and WHRV

Why Women Don't Tell, Part 4: What the Media Leaves Out

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Exclusion by the Media of facts about the nature of the exploitation at the center of the Trump trial, and the $130,000 paid to an adult film actr...

92,000 Transgender People Took This Survey. Here’s What We Learned

From: Tradeoffs

As lawmakers around the country take aim at transgender rights, we dig into findings from the largest survey ever of trans Americans.

Unveiling Consumer Trends and Producer Problems

From: Mark Lenzi

The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW) Episode 263 In this episode, hosts Kim Simone and Mark Lenzi explore all things wine with you! The Wonderful ...

Eleven years after his arrest, 'Fat Leonard' faces sentencing in a massive Navy corruption scandal

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: A 2022 wanted poster issued by the U.S. Marshals Service shows Leonard Francis, also known as "Fat Leonard," who allegedly cut off his ankle monitor and fled the U.S. He was later arrested in Venezuela and now faces sentencing for masterminding a Navy bri, Credit: U.S. Marshals Service

Military contractor Leonard Glenn Francis bribed more than thirty Navy officials in one of the biggest military corruption cases in U.S. history.

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IE: Inside Europe, 5/10/2024

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW

It’s Eurovision Finals week so we’ve gone all out on a Euro-Culture special! Alongside the hottest-takes from Malmo 2024, we’ll be bringing you th...

Waiting for the Mockingbird: A Citizen's Guide to Protecting the Credibility of Those Who Speak Out

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

The possibility that we can all take part in finding out what is true, just by speaking up, can become very uncertain and maybe one day disappear b...

Bought by PRX Remix

"It's A Grand Night for Bailing, Updated" in the Dept. of Poetic Justice (and Reckoning). Lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook!

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: ... the story that belongs to everyone at some time in life- the times when crossing the river is very very difficult to do, no matter how big the boat., Credit: Susan Cook

We've been humming the tune from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "State Fair", again! "It's a Grand Night for Bailing, Updated! The Evangelical version" ...

New Navy ships are years behind schedule, because manufacturers can't find workers to build them

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Shipyard workers look on as the Navy unveils the USS Massachusetts nuclear submarine during its christening May 6, 2023., Credit: Steve Walsh / American Homefront

Shipbuilders are pursuing a variety of measures to find more workers, including a marketing partnership with Major League Baseball

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"It's A Grand Night for Bailing!" In the Department of Poetic Justice (some Lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook) !

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: ..And somewhere a Bird Who Is Bound he'll be heard is giving his lawyer a call,,,,.., Credit: Susan Cook

In The Department of Poetic Justice (with lyrics for The Great American Wrongbook ) , remembering another moment of ex, um disclosure!

Surprise! Plans To Resolve High Medical Bills Are Still a Mess

From: Tradeoffs

Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.

Vets who were exposed to chemicals in the Panama Canal Zone want to be included in the PACT Act

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Steven Price served in the Army in the Panama Canal Zone. He says he was exposed to Agent Orange, DDT, and other toxins. He later developed chronic B-cell leukemia., Credit: Courtesy Steven Price

People who served in the Canal Zone were left out of a law that made it easier to get care and benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Reproductive Rights, The Issue that Could Define the 2024 Election

From: Mateo Schimpf

The Dobbs Domino Effect

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The Marine Corps says its pandemic-related uniform shortage is easing and should end by mid-summer

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Marine Corps recruits get sized during their first uniform fitting at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, April 11, 2023., Credit: Jacob Hutchinson / U.S. Marine Corps

The Marine Corps says the private companies that make military uniforms fell behind because of inflation and COVID-related labor shortages.

Bought by KPBS, KUT, WRFA-LP, and KTEP

Which Came First?

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

Caption: An example of the classic 'butter chicken', Credit: Photo by Joe mon bkk, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

A new food fight has erupted in India. And it’s about one of the most famous dishes to come out of India, one that every other Indian restaurant in...

"A Sonnet for the Waterfall" Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Ruth Bader Ginsburg March 15, 1933 - September 18, 2020, Credit: Susan Cook

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at age 87. " When the spark had finally stopped, ending finally, the luscious waterfall, (the opulent deceit, the ple...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KFAI Minneapolis

The Falcon Teaches World Democracies about Intervening in Ukraine: An American Sonnet

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: The falcon may be the new symbol for our National Character..., Credit: Susan Cook

The conviction of the falcon, not the eagle, is the model for Democracies to call upon to Intervene in Ukraine. "An American Sonnet for the Falcon."

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Remembering September 11, 2001: "The Fall"

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets, Credit: Poems by Susan Cook

On the anniversary of September 11, In Memoriam , "The Fall" (submitted 9/16/2013 in "Blue: American Sonnets" to the Beatrice Hawley (now Alice Ja...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

Journalist Suppression and Fear for Democracy- Sonnet for the Journalist Who Said 'Wink, Wink'

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook

Sonnet for Wink, Wink -Susan Cook- There are places here on earth where a wink at the wro...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

Imagining where love came from: Sonnet for the Primordial Gravity Waves

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets (Bookshop.org), Credit: Susan Cook

The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to those who offered proof of the existence of Primordial Gravity Waves. Einstein theorized they were ...

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On the death of Stephen Hawking "Sonnet for The Black Hole" "Sonnet for A Loss"

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Stephen Hawking has died who brought us all to imagine what black holes are and to recognize ourselves in them and him.

Bought by KICI Iowa City

Sonnet for What Will Be Well

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: 'shipwrecked, lost everything, all's well...", Credit: Edgar Cook

Poems are solace in times of not knowing. Today, a Sonnet for What Will Be Well. "There are events that narrowly avoid crossing our paths, eve...

Bought by KICI Iowa City

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