Month: May 2022

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Ologies with Alie Ward - Acoustic Ecology (NATURE RECORDINGS) with Eddie Game

Insects humming. Birds squawking. Chainsaws buzzing? What does the rainforest sound like? Or the oceans outside of port cities? Is the world getting louder? And what can recording devices detect that our ears – especially mine, Alie’s – can’t? Acoustic Ecologist Dr. Eddie Game of the Nature Conservancy has asked conservation questions over decades of work in 20 countries, and even though his microphone for this interview sucked, his stories and wisdom are a pleasure to hear. Also: is it okay to talk to owls? How much of timber harvesting is legal? And how do communities come together to protect the lands around them? Also: the most elusive and coolest midnight parrot. 

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The Gist - What Progress Have We Seen Since The Murder Of George Floyd?

Jerrika Richardson, Senior Vice President for Equitable Justice & Strategic Initiatives at the National Urban League discusses the actual policing reforms that have been enacted since the protests of 2020. Plus, the best messages to convey on abortion, and a failed Amazon Union vote for a Staten Island warehouse got a lot less coverage than the one a month ago that was supposed to portend a new tide of labor momentum.

Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Chicago inches toward 200 homicides in 2022, and Anti-Semitic flyers left outside homes in Highland Park

Chicago had 178 homicides during the first four months of this year, according to a report from the city’s police department. Reset discusses how the data compares with previous years and gets the latest on CPD’s plan for addressing homicides and violent crime as we head into the summer. Plus, last week on Holocaust Remembrance Day, anti-Semitic leaflets were left outside homes in north suburban Highland Park and Glencoe. Experts say it’s not an isolated incident. Reset learns more about how officials are responding and digs into a new report that shows anti-Semitic incidents reached historic levels in 2021. For more Reset interviews, subscribe to this podcast. And please give us a rating, it helps other listeners find us. For more about Reset, go to wbez.org and follow us on Twitter @WBEZReset
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Consider This from NPR - Republicans In Michigan Have Replaced Election Officials Who Certified Biden’s Win

Bipartisan members who serve on state and county boards of canvassers in Michigan have an important job: certifying the results of elections, making them official.

In 2020, Former President Trump and his allies urged them not to certify as part of his campaign to undermine and overturn the presidential election, even though Joe Biden won Michigan by more than 154,000 votes.

Since then, local GOP leaders have replaced many of the Republican canvassers who upheld their oaths and voted to certify the results for Biden.

Michelle Voorheis, a Republican canvasser in Genessee County until last year, is one of them. She says she wasn't re-nominated because she pushed back against false allegations of election fraud.

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Federalist Radio Hour - How The Leaked Dobbs Opinion Would Change America

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Ryan Anderson, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and Alexandra DeSanctis, a staff writer for National Review, join Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how the leaked draft of the Supreme Court's Dobbs v. Jackson opinion would change the United States forever.

You can find DeSanctis and Anderson's book "Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing" here: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tearing-us-apart-ryan-t-anderson/1140948617
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Motley Fool Money - Starbucks Heats Up, Lyft Stalls

Ride-sharing stocks took a hit today, but don't assume they're the same. (0:20) Maria Gallagher discusses: - Uber's scale outweighing Lyft's - Prospects for Uber reaching profitability by the end of 2023 - Challenges in China contributing to Starbucks suspending guidance for the rest of the fiscal year - Starbucks 12% same-store sales growth in the U.S. - Match Group getting a new CEO

(15:03) Emily Flippen and Asit Sharma discuss the business of pets ownership and the prospects for small-cap Rover Group.

Stocks discussed: UBER, LYFT, SBUX, MTCH, BMBL, ROVR, CHWY, FRPT

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - BREAKDOWN: Crypto Politics Heats Up in Advance of the Midterm Elections

Politicians are starting to formalize their positions. 

This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io, NEAR and FTX US. 

Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at a set of stories relating to crypto’s place in the political discourse, including:

  • SEC increasing enforcement staff 
  • Bitcoin Mining Council letter to the EPA
  • Ohio’s entirely pro-crypto Senate primary 

 

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“The Breakdown” is written, produced by and features Nathaniel Whittemore aka NLW, with editing by Rob Mitchell, research by Scott Hill and additional production support by Eleanor Pahl. Jared Schwartz is our executive producer and our theme music is “Countdown” by Neon Beach. The music you heard today behind our sponsors is “Catnip” by Famous Cats and “I Don't Know How To Explain It” by Aaron Sprinkle. Image credit: Hill Street Studios/Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk. Join the discussion at discord.gg/VrKRrfKCz8. 



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