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A weekly excursion into this country's rich and diverse musical styles and traditions, American Routes also introduces the audience to the music makers with interviews and profiles of featured artists. The program is produced in New Orleans and hosted by Nick Spitzer.
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BBC World Service
For over 70 years, BBC World Service has been the globe's most comprehensive source for news. When news breaks -- anywhere, anytime -- BBC is there.
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BBC World Service
For over 70 years, BBC World Service has been the globe's most comprehensive source for news. When news breaks -- anywhere, anytime -- BBC is there.
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Inside Europe
Inside Europe provides listeners with the latest developments in Europe as a network of staff and freelance correspondents look beyond the headlines to provide analysis, background and color to make the European story relevant for American listeners.
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Living On Earth®
Steve Curwood hosts NPR's weekly environmental news and information program, offering features, interviews and commentary on a broad range of ecological issues.
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Weekend Edition®
WKSU Classical Channel
Classical Music With Bob Christiansen
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Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier: 1st Waltz Sequence (BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra)
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Isaac Albeniz: Spanish Suite: Cadiz (Pepe Romero, guitar)
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Hector Berlioz: Trojan March (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra)
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Arcangelo Corelli: Violin Sonata No. 4 (Chiara Banchini, violin)
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Get a 'Quick Bite' every Friday
Northeast Ohio has a history of making things. Today, along with liquid crystals and polymers, it’s salsa and artisan cheese. A hot new food scene is simmering among local growers, chefs, producers, educators and epicures, and from now on, every Friday, WKSU’s Vivian Goodman will sample new offerings in “Quick Bites”.
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Friday, February 3, 2012
| Troubled charter school closing early Cleveland's Marcus Garvey Academy will shut down Feb. 20th
A Cleveland charter school is closing sooner than expected after years of financial trouble. The state had scheduled to close Marcus Garvey Academy in June but the school voted instead tol shut down on February 20th,
The school had been hit with more than $350,000 in audit findings and also dealt with a cheating scandal where the answers on standardized tests were changed.
Stanley Miller, former director of the Cleveland NAACP who took over the school last summer, says Marcus Garvey was given no chance to survive.
Jo Ingles reports
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
| Both Ohio senators vote for STOCK Act But Sen. Brown pushes an amendment to to further
A bill banning insider trading by members of Congress got a “yes” vote from both of Ohio’s senators yesterday. But it got only qualified support from one of them.
Republican Sen. Rob Portman, praised the bill, saying it “ensures that those who abuse their access to inside information will be held accountable.”
Ohio’s other senator, Democrat Sherrod Brown, also voted for the Stock Act. But an amendment he offered would have gone much further by requiring lawmakers to sell stocks that could create conflicts of interest or to put the stock in a blind trust.
M.L. Schultze reports
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 | Timetable for Cleveland casino opening still not set Horseshoe still in training and hiring phase
Cleveland’s casino likely won’t know for a few more weeks just when it will open. But its owner, Rock Gaming, is interviewing for security, administrative and retail positions through Friday.
The invitation-only event at Quicken Loans Arena will choose 700 people from more than 24,000 applicants. The casino has committed to hiring at least 90 percent of its workforce from Northeast Ohio.
Recruiting for table game dealers began last fall, and about 600 candidates are currently in training.
Jennifer Kulczycki, spokeswoman for Horseshoe Cleveland, said more than 36,000 people in all have applied for casino jobs, ranging from dealers to security guards.
Vivian Goodman reports
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| State Rep. Slaby makes the final PUCO cut Governor will make his appointment in 30 days.
Akron-area Rep. Lynn Slaby is a step closer to leaving the Statehouse.
The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Nominating Council sent his name and three others to Gov. John Kasich today. Kasich will be appointing one of them to a five-year term on the commission beginning in April.
Slaby is in his first term in the Ohio House. A Republican, he’s also a retired prosecutor and judge.
Twenty people put their names in for the PUCO spot. The other Northeast Ohioan who made the final cut is Michael Verich of Warren, a Democrat who spent 12 years on the State Employment Relations Board, and whom Kasich appointed last year to the Ohio Lottery Commission.
M.L. Schultze reports
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
 | White-nose syndrome infects Summit County bats Biologists confirm the spread of the deadly disease to Northeast Ohio
White Nose Syndrome has been discovered among bats living in a Summit County park, the latest confirmation of a spreading disease that has wipe out more than five million bats in eastern North America.
Biologist with the metro parks system have confirmed the fungus among bats living in the caves and ledges of Liberty Park near Twinsburg.
The disease was first discovered in New York state in 2007, and the first case turned up in Ohio last year.
Ann Froschauer is the white-nose syndrome communications leader for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service. She says the concern about the fast-spreading killer is the variety of bat populations it can infect.
M.L. Schultze reports
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
 | Cutting the carp New study proposes three ways to keep Asian Carp out of the Great Lakes
The Great Lakes Commission says it has three ways to keep invasive and voracious Asian carp out of the Great Lakes – at a cost of up to $9.5 billion.
The group wants to separate the lakes from the Mississippi River watershed by installing barriers in the Chicago shipping channel. A study released today outlines three options: a single barrier, a system of four barriers and system of five.Tim Eder is director of the Great Lakes Commission. He says the cheapest and most flexible of the options for Chicago is the four-barrier plan.
Laura Fong reports
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Monday, January 30, 2012
| Ag secretary boosts Lorain County biodigester Waste-water plant will operate with energy from municipal waste
Clarification: Akron was among the earliest Ohio cities to adopt the technology. The Sheffield digester is the first in the region funded by USDA's REAP program.
A town in Lorain County is about to become one of the first communities in Northeast Ohio to power its waste-water treatment plant with another kind of waste.
The French Creek Waste Water treatment plant in Sheffield Village plans to bring a biodigester on line this spring. It uses bacteria in an environment devoid of oxygen to turn municipal waste into methane gas – and eventually into electricity that will run the treatment plant.
The biodigester is being built with the help of more than 2 million dollars in federal loans and grants. And in an interview this morning (Monday), U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the investment is worthwhile.
M.L. Schultze reports
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Meet Audie Cornish, New All Things Considered Co-host
Veteran reporter Audie Cornish has moved from her new position as host of NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday to co-host of All Things Considered during 2012.
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Vivian Goodman Travels with The Cleveland Orchestra
Beginning Nov. 15, listen to Here and Now and All Things Considered as WKSU's Vivian Goodman sends back reports from The Cleveland Orchestra's tour of Japan and Korea.
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Mean Kids: Bullying in School
Bullying is a bigger problem in Northeast Ohio than in the nation as a whole. It happens more often and it's reported less frequently. Our region has also been rocked by the suicides of bullying victims who saw no other way out. In this series, Mean Kids, WKSU's Vivian Goodman takes a closer look at the bullies, their targets and their weapons, as well as the tools Northeast Ohio is using to fight the problem.
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'Here and Now' Brings News to the Lunch Hour, Weekdays at Noon
WKSU welcomes Here and Now to the schedule weekdays at noon. The Program, hosted by WBUR's Robin Young, brings breaking news, in-depth reporting and a variety of interviews to the lunch hour five days a week.
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Kent State 1970: Hear it now
At the time of the events, WKSU reporters caught many of the key developments leading up to the shooting, the day of the tragedy and of the aftermath. The original audio, as well as photographs, reports and other text, has been gathered on a special web site: kentstate1970.org.
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May 4th Remembered
On May 4th, 1970, Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on Kent State students protesting the invasion of Cambodia, the escalation of the Vietnam War - and the presence of the guard on campus.
Four students died; nine were wounded.
The scene became an icon for the Baby Boom generation. And this year, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, as a site that contributed significantly to the understanding of the nation's history and culture.
But for many, the history is not national. It's personal. And while it's fading out of many textbooks and memories, it's fresh in the lives of many others. WKSU is taking a look at the personal stories and larger lessons that grew from May 4, 1970.
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Good Jobs In Bad Times
The WKSU newsroom dove into the murky waters of the current employment situation in Northeast Ohio with the 8-part series Good Jobs in Bad Times. With their reports, the award-winning news staff covered topics that include high-paying tech jobs, careers that don't need a 4-year degree, the re-growth of agriculture as industry, working part-time full-time, drastically changing career paths, the truth about healthcare, bridge jobs after graduation and the future of the NE Ohio employment outlook.
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Each Friday at 9 p.m. on PBS 45 & 49, NewsNight.akron gets beyond the hype to present viewers with a deeper understanding of local news that's impacting their lives.
Join a team of trusted journalists in a lively, in-depth roundtable discussion that often illuminates details missed by other headline-obsessed media sources. The half-hour broadcast covers breaking news and continuing stories from Akron, the region, Ohio and beyond.
For more information on this program, please visit PBS 45 & 49”s NewsNight.akron Web Site.
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