Month: March 2023

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Bay Curious - Renaming a State Park

Today we’re getting a little outside the Bay Area because we’re headed to Folsom, just east of Sacramento. There, you’ll find a state park whose name caught the attention of Pendarvis Harshaw, host of KQED's Rightnowish podcast. On a stretch of shoreline, where the northern end of Lake Natoma meets the American River, is Black Miners Bar. Before June 2022 this spot was called by a different name: Negro Bar. This week on Bay Curious, we're featuring an episode of Rightnowish from their series on land in Northern California, 'From the Soil.'

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This story originally aired on Rightnowish, whose team includes Pendarvis Harshaw, Marisol Medina-Cadena, Chris Hambrick, Ceil Muller and Ryce Stoughtenborough. Bay Curious is made by Olivia Allen-Price, Amanda Font, Brendan Willard and Katherine Monahan.

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White Lies - The Trial

In Episode 6, we sneak into the graveyard of the Atlanta federal penitentiary with a radical peace activist to learn more about what happened in the prison in late 1984. A peaceful protest by detainees held in the Atlanta pen resulted in a violent crackdown, and one of the detainees, a man named Jose Hernandez-Mesa, was charged in federal court with inciting a riot. We tell the story of his trial — and the surprising verdict that began reshaping public opinion about the Mariel Cubans who were being detained. Want to hear the next episode of White Lies a week before everyone else? Sign up for Embedded+ at plus.npr.org/embedded.
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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 3.2.23

Alabama

  • Sen. Tuberville says Joe Biden attending Bloody Sunday for photo op
  • Lawsuit claims director of Ethics commission awarded $ to his own kids
  • ADEM shuts down Cherokee landfill until waste levels are reduced
  • HB 28 filed to prohibit concealed carry at schools without license
  • Houston County schools begin Angel tax safety program on all busses

National

  • AG Merck Garland grilled in Senate over arrest of pro life activist in PA
  • State lawmakers in AZ skeptical of bribery claims made in recent hearing
  • Chicago mayor loses in Democratic primary, only going to serve one term
  • Professor at Johns Hopkins testifies to Congress about Lab leak of Covid
  • Daily Detail revisits covid convo with former bio safety director at UAB 
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Everything Everywhere Daily - Lysenkoism (Encore)

In the early 20th century, a Soviet agronomist named Trofim Lysenko developed some unique theories of biology and genetics. 

He rose to the top of the Soviet hierarchy in his field, and Stalin himself endorsed his theories. 

The result of the implementation of his ideas was nothing short of disastrous.

Learn more about Trofim Lysenko and Lysenkoism on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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Opening Arguments - OA699: Will Scumbag Payday Lenders Use the Supreme Court to Crush Liz Warren’s Dreams??

Today, Liz and Andrew take a deep dive into Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, a case that the Supreme Court just granted certiorari to review. Is the conservative Roberts court going to gut Liz Warren's signature accomplishment, the CFPB? Listen and find out!

(Yes, Andrew screwed up the numbering so you got episode #700 before #699... now everything should be good!)

Notes CFPB v. CFSAA cert petition and 5th Circuit opinion https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-448/246429/20221114155607407_No.%20CFPB%20et%20al.%20v.%20CFSA%20et%20al.pdf

Responsible lending https://www.responsiblelending.org/research-publication/fact-v-fiction-truth-about-payday-lending-industry-claims

The Victims of Payday Lending https://www.responsiblelending.org/issues/victims-payday

OA 126 https://openargs.com/oa126-mick-mulvaney-consumer-financial-protection-bureau/

12 C.F.R. § 1041.8 https://www.consumerfinance.gov/rules-policy/regulations/1041/8/

12 U.S.C. § 5511 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/12/5511

Seila Law, LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 591 U.S. 207 (2020) https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14557349188638541514

12 U.S.C. 5497 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/12/5497

OPM v. Richmond, 496 U.S. 414 (1990) https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1013607894853666546

Kate Stith, Congress’s Power of the Purse, 97 Yale L.J. 1343 (1988) https://openyls.law.yale.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.13051/16554/62_97YaleLJ1343_June1988_.pdf?sequence=2

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The NewsWorthy - Insulin Price Cut, Football Star Arrested & TikTok Limits Teens- Thursday, March 2, 2023

The news to know for Thursday, March 2, 2023!

We'll tell you about a major change the the price of a life-saving drug that millions of Americans use every day.

Also, what a new report says about the bizarre syndrome impacting American diplomats that no one has been able to figure out for years now. 

Plus, why the top NFL draft prospect is facing criminal charges, an update in the drama between Harry, Meghan, and the rest of the royal family, and new limits on TikTok for kids.

Those stories and more news to know in around 10 minutes!

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The Daily Signal - INTERVIEW | Why ‘Canceling Student Loan Debt Is Not Legal,’ Iowa Attorney General Explains

Iowa is one of six states suing the Biden administration over the president's plan to forgive billions in student loan debt.


“Canceling student loan debt is not legal,” Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird says. “In order for that to happen, something would have to pass the House, the Senate, [and] be signed by the president. It's basic constitutional law.”


Last year, President Joe Biden announced plans to forgive $10,000 of debt for individual student loan borrowers who make less than $125,000 per year ($250,000 for households) and $20,000 for borrowers who received a Pell Grant. 


Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and South Carolina sued the Biden administration over the loan forgiveness plan and on Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the legal challenge. 


Bird, Iowa's first Republican attorney general since 1979, was at the Supreme Court during the arguments and joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain her key takeaways and how she thinks the justices will rule on the case.


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Curious City - The Life and Legacy of Alice Hamilton

Scientist Alice Hamilton’s investigations into toxins in Chicago’s factories led to some of the first workplace safety laws in the country. She was known for her “shoe leather” epidemiology, wearing out the soles of her shoes from all the trips she made to Chicago homes, factories and even saloons to figure out what was making people sick. Reporter Edie Rubinowitz has her story.
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Curious City - The Life and Legacy of Alice Hamilton

Scientist Alice Hamilton’s investigations into toxins in Chicago’s factories led to some of the first workplace safety laws in the country. She was known for her “shoe leather” epidemiology, wearing out the soles of her shoes from all the trips she made to Chicago homes, factories and even saloons to figure out what was making people sick. Reporter Edie Rubinowitz has her story.
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NPR's Book of the Day - In ‘My Selma,’ Willie Mae Brown recalls growing up during the Civil Rights Movement

Willie Mae Brown was a little girl in Selma, Alabama in the 1960s. In her new YA book, My Selma, she recalls growing up during the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the South. As she tells Here & Now's Robin Young, those core childhood memories include going to church to see Martin Luther King, Jr. speak – which moved Brown's mother to tears as she held the author – and her siblings getting arrested for trying to accompany teachers who were planning to register to vote. But, she says, there was also a lot of joy and community as a child on the frontlines of justice.