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Mass School Closures Approved In Kansas City, Mo.
Facing potential bankruptcy, the board that governs the once flush-with-cash Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half its schools.
House Leaders Ban Earmarks To Corporations
With the mid-term elections approaching, Democrats and Republicans are battling to claim the clean-ethics crown. That's one reason why Rep. David Obey (D-WI), chairman of the Appropriations panel said he's killing off one of lawmakers' most lucrative perks: corporate earmarks. Most of the earmarks come from the subcommittee that oversees defense spending.
Letters To Haiti Provide A Different Kind Of Help
To show support for schoolchildren devastated by the earthquake, fifth-graders in Northridge, Calif., sent the kids letters that included poems, comic strips and stickers. The students in California and those in Haiti say they'd like to be pen pals for life.
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Desmond Tutu, Insisting We Are 'Made For Goodness'
The South African cleric and human-rights activist Desmond Tutu joins Renee Montagne to reflect on his long life and his lasting message about forgiveness and reconciliation. His new book, Made for Goodness, is an explanation of his personal sense of spirituality and an invitation to share in his beliefs about the basic goodness of humanity.
U.S. Returns Sarcophagus To Egypt
After a secret trip around the globe, a 3,000-year-old stolen sarcophagus is returning home to Egypt. On Wednesday, U.S. authorities sent the sarcophagus to Egypt. It was confiscated by customs officials at the Miami Airport in 2008. Zahi Hawass, secretary-general of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, offers his insight.
Los Amigos Invisibles: A 'Commercial' Breakthrough
The Venezuelan band has found huge success in its native country. But the group has also built a following in the U.S. with its unique blend of disco, jazz, funk and Latin rhythms. Here, host Michel Martin talks with the Latin Grammy-winning band, which recently stopped by NPR for a performance and conversation.
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Wildlife Rehabers Reverse Damage Caused on Highway
In the rural West, summer is roadkill season. But what happens to animals who live through their encounter with our cars, injured, but not dead? Fish and Wildlife agencies, the police, and most vets don’t take them in. That’s where wildlife rehabilitators come in -- the people who act as the emergency room doctors for injured critters. Jessica Robinson has this story.
Savage Rapids Lesson: Removing Dams No Easy Task
After two decades of conflict, crews are finally jackhammering the Savage Rapids Dam into oblivion. The southern Oregon dam on the Rogue River doesn't even produce electricity. Yet, removing it proved complicated and controversial. Efforts to return other rivers to free-flowing channels are getting more attention across the Northwest and in Congress. But what happened with the Savage Rapids Dam gives some indication of how difficult it can be to rip out these engineering feats of the last century. JPR’s Jessica Robinson has this story.
Oregon's Poetry Out Loud Finalist Signs Her Words
Today, a high school student from Oregon will appear in a competition in Washington D.C. called Poetry Out Loud. She’s eighteen-year-old Tiffany Hill of Eugene. Poetry Out Loud is a national recitation contest in which teens memorize and deliver classic poems. Only, Hill won’t be saying anything ... at least not out loud. Hill is the first deaf student to compete in the national competition -- she’ll deliver her poems in American Sign Language. JPR’s Jessica Robinson has this profile.To watch Hill signing "Inside Out" by Diane Wakoski in the state finals, click here.
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9th Annual Ashland Independent Film Festival
Seven Oscar Nominated films, William Hurt in The River Why, an Akira Kurosawa classic, the art and l
The acclaimed Ashland Independent Film Festival returns to the art-deco Varsity Theatre, the Historic Ashland Armory, and the Ashland Springs Hotel in the heart of the historic downtown, April 8–12 for its ninth annual, five-day showcase of independent film.
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General Sarnoff is Spinning in his Grave
David Sarnoff, or General Sarnoff as he preferred to be addressed following his service in World War II, was the principal force behind the founding and flowering of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and its subdivision, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
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Reflections from Land’s End
Since moving to Oregon almost a decade ago and spending my thirties here—easy come, easy go—I’ve adjusted to the differences ranging from language to landscape, plant-life to home-life, names, faces, and places.
Watching the sun go down over the Pacific ocean, tolerating inland fog (even the freezing kind) and trying to sort out berry-talk: salmon, huckle, thimble, goose—even cranberries float around parts of Oregon, and of course let us not forget one of Oregon’s newer immigrant berries, grapes.
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