03 May 2013
A New York State Senate Bill would ban the NYPD to stop using condoms as evidence of sex work, and a City Council bill would create a new NYPD oversight office. Activists for the bills gathered at City Hall to support the measures.
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03 May 2013
Reporter Matthew Vann is following the latest local, national and international headlines to bring you news at the half-hour of our show.
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03 May 2013
It’s spring, and the weather’s finally warm. Time for sunglasses, summer clothes, and long Saturdays in the park. For women, breaking out the sundresses can also mean more catcalls. Emily Jones reports on efforts to fight back against that kind of harassment.
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03 May 2013
Food stamp recipients face automatic cuts to their benefits in November. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand spoke out against potentially deeper cuts proposed in the new farm bill.
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03 May 2013
Half a million children with autism will reach adulthood in the next 10 years. And as they grow up, a new network of support is growing up alongside them.
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03 May 2013
Journalists from South America gathered on the campus of Columbia University today to debate one of the continent’s most heated disputes between a government and journalists. It pits Argentina’s left-wing government against a media conglomerate that opponents say has grown too big and too powerful.
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03 May 2013
Street musicians can be found almost anywhere in New York City. Classical musicians, however, are just a bit harder to find for reasons many believe have to do with the challenges the industry faces. But as Matthew Vann reports, one classical pianist is reviving this old art form, one note at a time.
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03 May 2013
Commentator Tenzin Shakya has been hearing stories about her family’s homeland, Tibet since she was a little girl. She says her grandfather’s stories have shaped how she thinks about Tibet -- and its occupation by China.
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26 April 2013
Sonia Paul reports on local New York City stories and beyond.
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26 April 2013
We spoke with Michael Cohen a fellow at The Century Foundation. He says that despite two years of war and thousands of deaths in Syria, the use of chemical weapons would be a dangerous new development.
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26 April 2013
Each day, 22 U-S veterans kill themselves - that’s according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Suicides have increased so much that last year, more active-duty troops killed themselves than troops who died in combat in Afghanistan. Alexandra Hall found some vets are turning to meditation to help.
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26 April 2013
Some Evangelical Christians have embraced comprehensive immigration reform in recent months. It’s a huge shift for the group, usually conservative in its politics. An influx of Latino congregants has pushed the church is changing its stance. Sonia Paul reports.
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26 April 2013
Last week a bipartisan group of 8 senators announced a deal on immigration reform. Days later, police identified two Chechen immigrants as suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. On the day the second bomber was caught, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa told the Senate Judiciary Committee the attacks in Boston should inform the immigration debate.
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26 April 2013
Commentator Anna Goldenberg is an Austrian Jew. In the 1950s, her grandparents - holocaust survivors - briefly lived in upstate New York. Now, that Anna is living in New York, she decided to visit the town where they lived to understand why they didn’t stay.
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26 April 2013
Mayor Bloomberg announced the largest expansion to the City’s recycling program in 25 years earlier this week. Now rigid plastics, such as yoghurt containers, shampoo bottles, old toys and plastic hangers can now be recycled along with your water and glass bottles. Bloomberg says the rules are easy to remember.
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26 April 2013
George Jones, the iconic and influential country star of the (nineteen sixties) 1960s and (seventies) 70s passed away today. He had a storied career, releasing 60 albums and piling up hundreds of hit songs like “He Stopped Loving Her Today.”
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26 April 2013
Amber Binion reports on the national and international news of the day.
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