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3 days ago · GBH, Frontline veteran named CEO for public media in RI. Pam Johnston, a veteran of television news and public media, will lead the recently merged Rhode Island PBS and The Public’s Radio. by Ian Donnis and Pamela Watts July 16, 2024July 17, 2024.
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our History. Originally launched as an outpost for WBUR in Boston in 1998, Rhode Island Public Radio (now dba as The Public’s Radio) became an independent, community-owned nonprofit in November of 2007. We are the only locally owned and operated public radio station in Rhode Island, dedicated to serving the state, as well as 400,000 people in ...
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The swing-state counties hit by Hurricane Helene mostly voted for Trump in 2020. The key presidential states of Georgia and North Carolina were hit particularly hard by Hurricane Helene. NPR compared which counties qualify for FEMA aid with 2020 election results. The area is largely Republican. by Domenico Montanaro 3 hours ago.
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Mosaic is a podcast about immigration and identity, with a focus on the true, personal, and often unbelievable stories of immigrants and migrants living in New England. Featured Episodes EP.1 // SEASON 1 Listen Omar Bah Flees Gambia Gambian journalist Omar Bah flees his country. EP.1 // SEASON 2 Listen Balancing Act The coronavirus pandemic […]
Eating less beef is a climate solution. Here's why that's hard for …
Sep 15, 2024 · Not all Americans eat beef equally. Research finds the nation’s biggest beef eaters are disproportionately men. (Jackie Lay/NPR) Climate change is affecting our food, and our food is affecting the climate.
The U.S. has had a long history of political violence, but experts …
Sep 17, 2024 · “It’s part of the larger atmospherics that we have in this country, where nearly anything you do could be perceived as having some kind of political connection, no matter the kind of position you may have,” said Jason Blazakis, director of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
South County Hospital defends against outcry from doctors, patients
Sep 13, 2024 · Pam Matteson, 66, a patient at South County Hospital, joins two doctors raising concerns about the hospital's management at a press conference on Sept. 12, 2024 Credit: Lynn Arditi/The Public's Radio. South County Hospital is losing money and some longtime clinicians – and its top administrators are at odds with a group of doctors about what ...
The possible origins of Friday the 13th and other unlucky days
Sep 13, 2024 · Some reasons why Friday the 13th is thought to be unlucky. Some speculate that Friday the 13th is unlucky because Judas was the 13th guest at the Last Supper, or that Knights Templar were condemned on a Friday the 13th. But Winick said experts don’t know if any of those things are true. The first references Winick has seen saying Friday the ...
NASA’s ‘Hidden Figures’ awarded Congressional Gold Medals for ...
Sep 19, 2024 · The Hidden Figures Congressional Gold Medal Act, introduced by late Texas Rep. Bernice Eddie Johnson in 2019 and signed into law the same year, directed Congress to honor each of the four women with a medal.It also authorized a fifth medal to recognize all women who served as computers, mathematicians and engineers at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and the National Aeronautics ...