Month: September 2022

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Puerto Rico Without Power, Again

When Hurricane Maria hit in 2017, it destroyed Puerto Rico’s power grid, leaving vast swathes of the island in the dark and claiming almost 3,000 lives. $9.5 billion was set aside to rejuvenate the island’s power grid and the government-run utility company was taken over by a private one. But five years later, before Hurricane Fiona even hit, the island lost electricity. How could this happen—again? 


Guest: Gloria Gonzalez is the Deputy Energy Editor at POLITICO



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NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Daughter of Auschwitz’ tells the harrowing story of a child Holocaust survivor

Tova Friedman says she's telling her story of having survived the Holocaust in her memoir, Daughter of Auschwitz, to honor the victims' memories. In a profound conversation with Scott Simon, she recalls her childhood – from her tiny apartment in the Jewish ghetto to the crematorium in the concentration camp – and grapples with how such atrocities could have even happened.
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Short Wave - Working With Tribes To Co-Steward National Parks

In the final episode of Short Wave's Summer Road Trip series exploring the science happening in national parks and public lands, Aaron talks to National Park Service Director Charles Sams, who recently issued new policy guidance to strengthen the ways the park service collaborates with American Indian and Alaska Native Tribes, the Native Hawaiian Community, and other indigenous peoples. It's part of a push across the federal government to increase the level of tribal co-stewardship over public lands. Aaron talks with Sams, the first Tribal citizen to head the agency, about how he hopes this will change the way parks are managed, how the parks are already incorporating Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and what national parkland meant to him growing up as a member of the Cayuse and Walla Walla tribes on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in eastern Oregon.

Listen to more episodes about all the amazing research taking place on public lands, where we hike up sky islands and crawl into caves in search of fantastical creatures, by visiting the series website: https://www.npr.org/series/1120432990/road-trip-short-wave

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It Could Happen Here - Assassination Week #4: How a Moonie Victim Killed Shinzo Abe

Mia talks with Alisa Mahjoub, a former member of the Unification Church, about the Moonies and the man who killed Shinzo Abe.

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Planet Money - The Midnight Connection

Texas's energy grid is largely disconnected from the rest of the U.S. That led to disastrous consequences last year when the state's grid was overloaded during a winter storm. Back in the 1970s, one company attempted to change the system in a secret, middle-of-the-night operation.
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Focus on Africa - Regional concerns in the spotlight at UN General Assembly

Presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Buhari of Nigeria raise regional concerns and global fears at the United Nations General Assembly.

Also, massive floods across most of Nigeria.  In one town at least 500 graves and crops have been washed away.

Plus, Somali special forces - along with an armed local group - have reclaimed large swathes of territory from Al Shabaab.

And Zambia's President Hichilima on his first year in office.

More on those stories in this podcast presented by Audrey Brown.

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The Gist - Examining Putin’s Pivots

Angela Stent, Director of Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian & East European Studies and author of Putin's World: Russia Against The West And With The Rest analyzes Russia’s military losses and Putin’s strategic reactions. Plus, Susan Rogers, author of This Is What It Sounds Like: What The Music You Love Says About You, returns to discuss audio producing and the feeling that music isn’t real. Also, Trump earns a fraud charge, which is not surprising for an ignorer of all sorts of generally accepted principles of accounting and otherwise.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Why One Chicago Woman Is Showing Youth A Whole New World

Chicagoan Crystal Dyer wanted to help the young people in her Austin community be exposed to the beauty of the wide world. A travel agent herself, she knew what getting out of your environment and exploring the world could do to your perspective. So she began a program to do just that: connect at-risk youth—many of whom may have never been on a plane before, or owned a passport — with different countries, cultures and people. Reset talks to Dyer about why she chooses travel to connect with youth
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Librarians Are On The Front Lines Of A New Culture War

Efforts to ban books are on the rise, presenting challenges to schools and libraries across the country. And a new report from PEN America says challenges to library books are not just coming from concerned parents, but are actually part of an organized political effort. Reset checks in with Jonathan Friedman of PEN America and Susie An, WBEZ education reporter to learn more about the report and what’s at stake
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Consider This from NPR - An Unfinished Recovery From Hurricane Maria Left Puerto Rico Vulnerable to Fiona

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has allocated billions of dollars to Puerto Rico to help it rebuild from Hurricane Maria with more resilient infrastructure. Five years after the storm, only a tiny fraction of it has been spent, and Hurricane Fiona has again left much of the island in the dark.

NPR's Adrian Florido explains how Fiona has left some Puerto Ricans feeling like their recovery has gone "back to zero."

Sergio Marxuach, with The Center for a New Economy, a Puerto Rican think tank, explains why the island's power grid is so fragile, despite dedicated federal funding to improve it.

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