NPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94 NPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94 Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:30:48 +0000 https://www.wshu.org/post/small-hydropower-plants-say-new-york-needs-help-keep-clean-power-competitive 103085 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 16:45:33 +0000 Small Hydropower Plants Say New York Needs To Help Keep Clean Power Competitive Kate Remington Tonight we'll enjoy Stravinsky's ballet The Fairy's Kiss , inspired by the iconic ballets of Tchaikovsky. https://www.wshu.org/post/classical-music-highlight-inspired-tchaikovsky-1 103010 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 16:00:00 +0000 Classical Music Highlight: Inspired By Tchaikovsky Editor The new education commissioner in Connecticut has a lot to manage. Keeping students safe at school, dealing with inequality and making sure the curriculum prepares students for life after school. We'll discuss education in Connecticut, with guests: Miguel Cardona, Ed.D., Connecticut commissioner of education Gwen Samuel, founder and president, Connecticut Parents Union Jeff Leake, president, and Donald Williams, executive director, Connecticut Education Association https://www.wshu.org/post/connecticuts-education-commissioner 103081 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:44:01 +0000 Connecticut's Education Commissioner Bill Chappell The Thomas Cook travel agency and airline abruptly collapsed Monday morning, putting tens of thousands of jobs at risk. More than 150,000 travelers are currently abroad, leaving the U.K. government to carry out what Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab calls the "biggest peacetime repatriation in U.K. history." It's a stark turn of events for a company with more than 170 years of history, whose roots stretch back to the height of the British Empire. For anyone who currently has a flight booked on the company's airline, Thomas Cook says, "please do not travel to your U.K. airport as your flight will not be operating and you will not be able to travel." The job of bringing Thomas Cook customers home falls to the United Kingdom's Civil Aviation Authority, which says the number of travelers who must be brought home from abroad is "unprecedented." The agency says it has "secured a fleet of aircraft from around the world" to bring passengers home. "We have launched, at very short notice, what is https://www.wshu.org/post/thomas-cook-airline-collapse-triggers-largest-peacetime-repatriation-uk-history 103083 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:38:00 +0000 Thomas Cook Airline Collapse Triggers Largest Peacetime Repatriation In U.K. History Bill Chappell YouTube Greta Thunberg has a message for world leaders at the United Nations this week: "We'll be watching you." Speaking at the Climate Action Summit in New York, Thunberg added, "This is all wrong. I shouldn't be up here. I should be back in school, on the other side of the ocean." But instead, Thunberg, 16, is trying to convince politicians to take climate change seriously, and to do something to stop a global warming trend that will affect the world's children more than it affects anyone who's currently in power. In an impassioned speech, Thunberg told those who hold office, "you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you? You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words, and yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing." Saying that the world is now in the early stages of a mass extinction, Thunberg criticized those who still speak of the crisis in terms of money and economic growth. "How dare you?" https://www.wshu.org/post/all-wrong-greta-thunberg-tells-world-leaders-un-climate-session 103082 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:25:00 +0000 'This Is All Wrong,' Greta Thunberg Tells World Leaders At U.N. Climate Session Megan Valle Southold lawmakers are considering expanding the Cross Sound Ferry on the Long Island side to include a stop at Plum Island. https://www.wshu.org/post/cross-sound-ferry-may-get-stop-plum-island 103080 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:14:21 +0000 Cross Sound Ferry May Get Stop On Plum Island Terry Sheridan The first debate between Democratic Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and his Republican opponent, County Comptroller John Kennedy, was held Saturday night. https://www.wshu.org/post/bellone-and-kennedy-debate-county-finances-first-debate 103079 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:07:48 +0000 Bellone And Kennedy Debate County Finances In First Debate J.D. Allen U.S. Representatives Lee Zeldin and Peter King of Long Island have asked the Department of Justice to weigh in on a controversial law in New York that would allow undocumented immigrants access to driver’s licenses. https://www.wshu.org/post/king-and-zeldin-ask-doj-review-driver-s-licenses-undocumented-immigrants 103077 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:35:14 +0000 King And Zeldin Ask DOJ To Review Driver’s Licenses For Undocumented Immigrants Kate Remington On Thursday, September 26 at 7:30pm, Alasdair Neale takes the podium for his first concert as the New Haven Symphony Orchestra' s new music director. Kate Remington talks with him about his vision for the orchestra, and the program, which includes two intriguing contemporary works, and Rachmaninoff's triumphant Symphony No. 2. https://www.wshu.org/post/music-interview-alasdair-neale-opens-his-first-nhso-season 102956 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:18:28 +0000 Music Interview: Alasdair Neale Opens His First NHSO Season Ebong Udoma Candidates in the 2020 presidential race have spent six times more on digital media than on TV ads since the beginning of the year. That’s the finding of a new study by the Wesleyan Media Project at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. https://www.wshu.org/post/who-s-winning-2020-race-so-far-digital-media-companies 103076 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 13:16:50 +0000 Who’s Winning The 2020 Race So Far? Digital Media Companies David Bouchier When the words “Autumnal Equinox” appear on the calendar they send a little chill through the heart as well as the body. Labor Day is one thing, but this is official. Summer is over. It should be more dramatic. But only the weather changes. When we were in the south of France two autumns ago, everything changed. The visitors and tourists went home. The roads north were jammed with millions of sun-worshippers, returning reluctantly to their damp and chilly everyday lives. Restaurants and shops cut down on their hours, or closed entirely. It was a true autumn – not just a date on the calendar but an economic, spiritual and social transformation. It must be much the same in the Hamptons or any seasonal resort that has this chameleon character – in season and out of season. But, for most of us out here in the suburbs of the temperate zone, autumn is a season of denial. A few sunbirds flutter off in the direction of Florida, unable or unwilling to face meteorological reality, but the rest https://www.wshu.org/post/david-bouchier-falling-towards-winter-0 103075 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 12:44:06 +0000 David Bouchier: Falling Towards Winter editor Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. https://www.wshu.org/post/unwelcomed-passenger-clings-roof-wonder-bread-delivery-truck 103074 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:46:00 +0000 Unwelcome Passenger Clings To Roof Of Wonder Bread Delivery Truck editor Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. https://www.wshu.org/post/members-congress-question-trumps-discussion-ukraines-president 103073 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:46:00 +0000 Members Of Congress Question Trump's Discussion With Ukraine's President Elizabeth Trovall Copyright 2019 Houston Public Media News 88.7. To see more, visit Houston Public Media News 88.7 . https://www.wshu.org/post/immigration-detention-facilities-can-be-breeding-ground-disease 103072 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:46:00 +0000 Immigration Detention Facilities Can Be A Breeding Ground For Disease Lourdes Garcia-Navarro In the near future, resources on Earth are limited, space pirates fight for control of the moon, and travel into deep space is possible. At least that's the future in Ad Astra , directed by James Gray and starring Brad Pitt. In the new sci-fi movie, Pitt plays astronaut Roy McBride, the son of space hero Clifford McBride, who commanded a mission called the Lima Project. That mission disappeared somewhere in the outer reaches of the solar system many years ago. But when he learns that his father may still be alive, the younger McBride sets out to find him. When we spoke with Pitt, now 55, he walked into the room stretching his back and quipping about his age. "I'm just an old guy sitting in chairs," he said. He wears his years lightly — same piercing eyes and slow smile — though it's been a rough few years for Pitt: a messy, public divorce (still ongoing) from Angelina Jolie; a custody battle over their six children; getting sober, with a stint in rehab. But Ad Astra has been a passion https://www.wshu.org/post/brad-pitt-making-ad-astra-processing-trauma-and-channeling-david-bowie 103071 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:07:31 +0000 Brad Pitt On Making 'Ad Astra,' Processing Trauma And Channeling David Bowie A.O. Scott On February 4, 1999, on Wheeler Avenue in the Soundview section of the Bronx, Amadou Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea, was killed by four plainclothes members of the New York Police Department's Street Crimes Unit. Diallo, who was unarmed, was standing on the front stoop of the building where he lived and reaching for his wallet when the officers started shooting. They fired forty-one bullets, nineteen of which hit Diallo. In response to the shooting, Bruce Springsteen released "American Skin (41 Shots)," a minor- key ballad, more anguished than angry, which applied the balms of empathy and narrative economy to a raw social wound. The central verse dramatizes what African American families call "the talk." As a mother, Lena, prepares her son, Charles, for school, she reminds him: "You've got to understand the rules / if an officer stops you, promise me, you'll always be polite / and that you'll never ever run away / and promise mama you'll keep your hands in sight." The following https://www.wshu.org/post/ties-bind-bruce-springsteen-and-wide-divide 103070 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 11:06:54 +0000 The Ties That Bind: Bruce Springsteen And The Wide Divide Emily Siner Maria Fonseca found her way to mortuary school the way a lot of people do: Someone died. "Unfortunately, three years ago, I lost a cousin," she says. The funeral director who helped her family grieve left an impression. Fonseca didn't know anyone in the funeral industry, and she asked to shadow him. Then she decided to follow in his footsteps. "I want to be there to support [families] whenever they're going through the worst moment in their life," she says. Like Fonseca, 83% of mortuary college graduates in 2018 had no family in the industry, according to the American Board of Funeral Service Education. They represent a major change in an industry that for decades was dominated by family businesses passed down through generations. "Nobody just walks in here by an accident," says Todd Van Beck, an administrator at John A. Gupton College in Nashville, Tenn., where Fonseca is working toward a degree. "I believe firmly people are called to be a funeral director." From legacy to calling Van https://www.wshu.org/post/called-be-funeral-director-most-mortuary-school-grads-are-first-family 103067 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:21:00 +0000 'Called To Be A Funeral Director': Most Mortuary School Grads Are First In The Family editor Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. https://www.wshu.org/post/sheila-pereira-gets-location-half-marathon-mixed 103069 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:03:00 +0000 Sheila Pereira Gets Location Of Half Marathon Mixed Up Annalisa Quinn Editor's note: This review includes graphic descriptions. Her name is Chanel Miller. For four years, she has been known publicly as Emily Doe, "an unconscious woman" or simply "Brock Turner's victim." In her memoir Know My Name , she wants to set the record straight: "I am a victim, I have no qualms with this word, only with the idea that it is all that I am," she writes. "However, I am not Brock Turner's victim. I am not his anything." In 2015, Miller was sexually assaulted by Turner on Stanford University's campus. Two Swedish graduate students were passing by on bikes and chased Turner off an unconscious Miller. Turner was convicted of three felonies but served only three months of a six-month sentence in county jail. The case became notorious for its illustration of the race and wealth gap in sentencing, and for the stinging eloquence of Miller's victim statement , which went instantly viral when it was published by BuzzFeed. Know My Name is a devastating, immersive memoir of her https://www.wshu.org/post/chanel-miller-says-know-my-name-she-reflects-her-assault-brock-turner 103084 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:31:00 +0000 Chanel Miller Says 'Know My Name' As She Reflects On Her Assault By Brock Turner Franco Ordoñez President Trump will return to the world's biggest stage this week to address heads of state at a time when U.S. global leadership is seen as waning. When he takes the stage at the United Nations General Assembly for the third time on Tuesday, Trump is expected to "affirm America's leadership role" and "underscore that America is a positive alternative to authoritarianism," said a senior administration official. Leaders will be closely watching how he addresses global concerns about the U.S. trade battle with China and insecurity over the Persian Gulf as confidence in his strategy falters. During last year's speech , many of those same leaders appeared to laugh when Trump boasted that his administration "has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country." John Feeley, who served as U.S. ambassador to Panama until last year, called it a painful moment that reflected America's decline from the "undisputed top dog" on the world stage. "What it means is https://www.wshu.org/post/trump-returns-un-week-facing-growing-unease-about-us-leadership 103068 as https://www.wshu.org Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:14:00 +0000 Trump Returns To The U.N. This Week Facing Growing Unease About U.S. Leadership