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Copper State of Mind: public relations, media, and marketing in Arizona
HMA Public Relations | PHX.fm
Copper State of Mind is a public relations podcast for Arizona executives, business owners, and directors of marketing and communications who want to increase the effectiveness of their PR, media, and marketing campaigns. From messaging and media relations to content strategy and crisis management, the dollars your organization spends on integrated marketing communications are an investment that helps boost your brand, break through the noise, and drive business results. Join Abbie Fink, Pre ...
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Welcome to public words project, where amazing things happen. We will chat about communication, storytelling and life paths with a twist of color in modern times. Listen in and know you are not alone and it can be done.
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Hosted by Meghna Chakrabarti, On Point is a unique, curiosity-driven combination of original reporting, newsmaker interviews, first-person stories, and in-depth analysis, making the world more intelligible and humane. When the world is more complicated than ever, we aim to make sense of it together. On Point is produced by WBUR.
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Talk of the Towns | WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives
WERU-FM 89.9
Audio archives of spoken word broadcasts from Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill (weru.org)
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A comedy chat show hosted by award-winning comedian, author and accidental relationship guru Rosie Wilby. She and a rotating cast of her acclaimed performer pals look back at their best and worst romantic breakup stories. Tragedy plus time equals comedy, right? The Breakup Monologues was initially developed as part of a multi-platform project supported using public funding by Arts Council England. The music used in the series is Hackbeat Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creativ ...
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Strict Scrutiny is a podcast about the United States Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it. Hosted by three badass constitutional law professors-- Leah Litman, Kate Shaw, and Melissa Murray-- Strict Scrutiny provides in-depth, accessible, and irreverent analysis of the Supreme Court and its cases, culture, and personalities. Each week, Leah, Kate, and Melissa break down the latest headlines and biggest legal questions facing our country, emphasizing what it all means for our ...
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Bigger Than Me is a rapid-response audio blog from the Bigger Than Me Democracy Project. Hosted by Bonnie Ross, this blog helps listeners make sense of the moments that don’t just make news — they challenge democratic norms. Each episode breaks down what happened, why it matters, and how it fits into the authoritarian playbook described in On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder. Here are the 20 lessons we return to again and again: 1. Do not obey in advance. Authoritarianism thrives when people preemp ...
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We think of serial killers when we hear the word psychopath, but the vast majority are not in prison, but walking among us. Lacking a conscience, they leave a path of destruction and despair as they pass through life. There is no doubt that there is at least one psychopath in your life. You may not even yet know it, as psychopaths are very charming and persuasive. Your partner, your coworker, your boss, your neighbor – any one of them may be a psychopath. Psychopaths pursue their chosen vict ...
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Western New England is home to immigrants and refugees from around the globe, and their presence revitalizes the region and redefines its culture. Their journeys have involved fear, uprootedness, and isolation as well as perseverance, creativity, and hope. New England Public Radio (NEPR), in collaboration with Copeland Colloquium at Amherst College produced Words in Transit, an oral history project collected the personal stories of nearly thirty people who have made this area their new home.
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Laura Flanders and Friends: Talks with forward-thinking activists, artists, & changemakers building a more just, equitable, and democratic world.
Laura Flanders, Curious Communications
Award winning host, author and journalist Laura Flanders interviews forward-thinking people from the world of politics, business, culture and social movements. The show explores actionable models for creating a better world by reporting on the people and movements driving systemic change. We spotlight the solutions of tomorrow, today. The show airs on PBS stations in over 300 US markets, and airs on 50+ community radio stations, and is available on YouTube and here as a podcast. Online subsc ...
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Savvy, practical insights on where our Education Establishment went wrong and how most schools can be improved.LET'S FIX EDUCATION explains the many dysfunctional theories and methods operating within our schools. This podcast is intended for parents, teachers, and community leaders who want education reform. Each week, LET'S FIX EDUCATION examines another problem in our public schools, such as: Constructivism. Learning styles. Sight-words. No memorization. Cooperative learning. Prior knowle ...
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Professional Learnings for Educational Leaders is an initiative to support and inform NSWPPA members of the NSWPPA Professional Learning suite offerings. Our Professional Learning Suite is aligned to our values of Principal Well Being, Principals as Lead Learners as well as supporting Principals to lead School Operations. Our values are wrapped around support, empower, advovate and lead. This podcast discusses educational leadership and insights from Educational Leaders around the world . Ou ...
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OUR STREETS, OUR STORIES is a project of the Brooklyn Public Library's Department of Outreach Services that seeks to explore the Brooklyn that is and was, from the words of the community that lives here. Our hope is to create neighborhood-specific history archives based around interviews with Brooklyn residents. We seek to not only witness the change taking place all around us, but also to record and preserve the history of our neighborhoods before that history is forgotten. *Nominee, 2016 & ...
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A podcast for writers - by writers - creating community through words. WordCraft is a project created within the professional development branch of programming made available by the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick, a non-profit organization that aims to nurture a sense of community among New Brunswick writers, with a mandate to develop and sustain professional skills and opportunities for New Brunswick writers, while raising public awareness of and engagement in the unique culture of wr ...
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FavourEconomy is a collection of audio recordings shared by womxn* who work in the arts. The project operates as a platform for contributors to voice their experience, insights and skills and share it to the archive. The archive comprises of a series of volumes that develop over a one-year period coinciding with each financial year. * Terms womxn and femxle are used to enable identity to move beyond being defined in relation to a male norm, while being inclusive of transgender and non binary ...
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FavourEconomy is a collection of audio recordings shared by womxn* who work in the arts. The project operates as a platform for contributors to voice their experience, insights and skills and share it to the archive. The archive comprises of a series of volumes that develop over a one-year period coinciding with each financial year. * Terms womxn and femxle are used to enable identity to move beyond being defined in relation to a male norm, while being inclusive of transgender and non binary ...
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Listen to Interview about USPS on WZRD 88.3 fm radio Chicago Karen M. Nielsen USPS Employee Also see: UnemployDeJoy.com and google: Dominick VS Louis DeJoy (The Guardian). Also IWP DeJoy. Hi I'm KaRi. I started TPSradio in 1999, podcasting Feb 2005. The rage became "Live Internet TV" (mogulus, etc.) in 2008 and in 2012 TPS returned to cable access TV. TPS college radio was heard on campus at CSULB via the internet, live webcast with simultaneous audio broadcast over Community Television. TPS ...
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Baby Carl’s Happy Apocalypse podcast is a lighthearted and inspirational take on a very serious topic that includes interviews with interesting people, laughing children, happy cows, car-talk banter, a labyrinth, an outdoor classroom filled with conversations, and singing. Who is Baby Carl? Well, he’s just a little guy: a toddler with a big vocabulary, a hearty appetite for information, and an even bigger love for humanity. And he loves singing songs. He has a friend, Bill. Bill’s a philosop ...
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In this Fiftyfaces Focus - The Next Chapter series we are delighted to bring you insights from 17 investment professionals around the world whose expertise includes investment committee, director, trustee and Chair roles. A portfolio career is often what many executives pursue as their next chapter, but there is no guidebook, no rule book for what makes an effective non-executive director or board member. There is even less guidance as to what makes an effective chair. Join us in this tour d ...
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New York City’s Park Commissioner Sue Donoghue is stepping down at the end of the month, after leading the city’s parks department since the start of Mayor Adams administration. She talked with WNYC's Sean Carlson about her tenure and what’s next for her.
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How the Trump administration's defense policies are affecting women in service
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44:59As the U.S. military faces a recruiting crisis, women have been consistent enlistees into America’s armed forces. So why is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth canceling a program supporting them?By WBUR
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A cloud of uncertainty now hangs over the research projects that were disrupted and the researchers themselves. Academics who discussed their work with Gothamist said they worried about the incalculable loss of scholarship in fields touching lives around the globe. But they also are considering the next steps in their careers and how to pay the ren…
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Drop everything and read! This week, the hosts celebrate the release of Leah’s book, Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes. Just how did the vibes get so rancid? What is Sam Alito’s…whole deal? And where does Taylor Swift factor in? The answers to these questions (and more!) are in the book. T…
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Newark mayor Ras Baraka was arrested on Friday night by immigration officials during a chaotic confrontation at Delaney Hall, a newly reopened private prison contracted by the Department of Homeland Security as a holding facility for migrant detainees. He was joined by three U.S. members of Congress conducting an oversight tour of the jail. Rep. Bo…
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If you notice a lot of Orange and Blue around the city, that's because the New York Knicks are back at Madison Square Garden Saturday afternoon for game 3 of the conference semifinals against the Boston Celtics. New York unexpectedly has a two-nothing lead in the best-of-seven playoff series. They won two road games up in Boston, and will try to ta…
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Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor: Are We Entering “End Times Fascism”? [Full Uncut Conversation]
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48:43ARE YOU AUDACIOUS? SUPPORT OUR RESISTANCE REPORTING FUND! Help us continue fighting against the rise of authoritarianism in these times. Please support our Resistance Reporting Fund. Our goal is to raise $100K. We're at $35K! Become a sustaining member starting at $5 a month! Or make a one time donation at LauraFlanders.org/Donate DESCRIPTION: Toda…
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How closely is Trump following the Project 2025 blueprint?
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43:39The vast majority of Trump’s executive orders have come from The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, and the so-called "America First" plan. How the Trump administration is turning Project 2025 and the so-called 'America First' agenda into reality.By WBUR
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WORD FROM THE CURB: housing and cost of living are top issues for Sunset Park locals in this NYC mayoral election
While this is a local election, in a place as big as New York City, with 8.5 million people, more than 200 languages spoken, and income disparity and density that sees billionaires living down the street from public housing, there are many, many competing interests here that New York City’s mayor needs to balance. And what better way to get a sense…
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WORD FROM THE CURB: affordability and safety are top issues for these Sunset Park leaders in this NYC mayoral election
This election year, All Things Considered is traveling to neighborhoods around the five boroughs and exploring how New York City’s electorate is shifting. We’re calling it WORD FROM THE CURB. We’re talking with residents, community leaders and elected leaders about what issues matter to them locally. Our first stop is Sunset Park. David Estrada is …
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A Mountain Is Not a Beach: Media Rules on the Middle East [rewind :: commentary]
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2:42The following timely commentary by Laura Flanders aired on GritTV in the summer of 2014. At the same time as the Iraq Sinjar crisis, Gaza was experiencing the 2014 Gaza War (Operation Protective Edge), a 50-day conflict between Israel and Hamas that began in July 2014. The war involved intense Israeli airstrikes and a ground invasion in response to…
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The Jackpod: The past is a foreign country
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36:22On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on what President Trump does and doesn’t know about U.S. history and what that means for the country today.By WBUR
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Elise Stefanik is on a path that could lead her to Speaker of the House of Representatives. Is she going to blow all that up to run a long-shot bid for governor? Plus: The latest on Andrew Cuomo's new third-party ballot line in the NYC mayoral race. It's Politics Brief from WNYC.
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Feeding America's insatiable appetite for lumber
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46:21The Trump administration wants to expand the American lumber industry by logging more trees in national forests and raising tariffs on lumber imports. The impact that could have on the domestic timber industry.By WBUR
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If you're having spring allergies -- we are here! -- you might be one of the many people who look to the internet, or listen up when Morning Edition gives information on pollen levels. That information usually comes to us through a website, AAAAI.org, run by the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. And the one person doing the counting…
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Hurricane Helene devastated western North Carolina last year. President Donald Trump promised North Carolinians he wouldn’t forget them. But recently, Trump's FEMA rejected the state's request for extended relief funding.By WBUR
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Masha Gessen & Jason Stanley: Is it Doomsday for U.S. Democracy? [Broadcast Episode]
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29:34Synopsis: Is Authoritarianism Here?: Gessen and Stanley discuss the shift in America's self-understanding, from democratic ideals to a self-identity based on loving the US for its past greatness, and warn that this is not a democratic project, but rather a fascist one, similar to what Putin is doing in Russia. ARE YOU AUDACIOUS? SUPPORT OUR RESISTA…
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As journalism and political speech come under increasing scrutiny, one group of local student journalists and their advisor have been wrestling with tough decisions about journalistic freedom, personal safety, and the digital footprint. Debbi Porterfield is a former journalist, who now teaches at the Bronx River high school and serves as the adviso…
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Take Action If this concerns you, take action with those in this situation showing courage. Here's how you can make sure your elected officials and the public hear from you — and can't say they didn't know. 📧 Email Template Subject: Stop Forced Transfers to Libya - Take Action Now Dear [Representative/Senator/Official's Name], I am writing as your …
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City councilmembers in Summit, New Jersey, may be backing down from a controversial proposal to ban homeless encampments in public spaces, which critics say would have allowed police to jail homeless people.
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New York City on Monday will stop enrolling new families seeking child care vouchers, amid an escalating feud with the state over who should pay for the popular program that helps thousands of low-income New Yorkers. First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro said new families who qualify for child care subsidies based on their income will be put on a wait li…
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“They’re coming for everyone,” said Yaya, 44, who is a U.S. citizen. She gave birth to their son in April and said their recent stays at the homes of various friends and family members come ahead of what they see as an inevitable turn: voluntarily leaving the United States. Read the full story here.
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Starting May 7, you will have to have a REAL ID to board a U.S. domestic flight. But so much has changed in the 20 years since Real ID was first proposed, is REAL ID 20 years out-of-date?By WBUR
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More than 20 women say a man who went by Officer “Champagne” sexually assaulted them while they were held at the Rikers Island women's jail. Their allegations span decades and they are now suing the city for more than $500 million. But the Department of Correction says there was no one with that name who worked there during that time. WNYC spoke wi…
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An ongoing exhibit at Manhattan's Poster House museum is taking visitors on a trip to Puerto Rico. The museum has been running "Puerto Rico in Print: The Posters of Lorenzo Homar" since March. The exhibition aims to put a spotlight on the on its titular subject, who some art historians call the father of Puerto Rican printmaking. "The easiest thing…
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A yearslong collaboration has helped reduce gun violence in the neighborhood to its lowest level since 2019, city data shows.
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Did 'An Abundance of Caution' during COVID do more harm than good for America's students?
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46:22Millions of healthy children didn't set foot in a classroom for more than a year during the COVID pandemic. Journalist David Zweig says those school closures may have done more harm than good.By WBUR
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