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Stephanie D. Wells previously worked as director of development for the Michelson Found Animals Foundation.

Award-winning journalist Patti Neighmond is NPR's health policy correspondent. Her reports air regularly on NPR newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition.

Bob Fass, Pioneer of Underground Radio, Dies at 87 His provocative “Radio Unnameable,” long a staple of the New York station WBAI, offered a home on the FM dial to everyone from Abbie Hoffman to Tiny Tim. Bob Fass on the air at the New York FM station WBAI in 1972. “I’d put anyone on,” he once said, “because the idea was if you didn’t like what I was doing, three minutes later I’d be doing something else.”Credit...Donal F. Holway/The New York Times April 25, 2021Updated 10:48...

Pacifica Radio: Let’s talk about the debt April 17, 2021 by Ann Garrison In early June, listener subscribers and staff of the Pacifica Radio Network’s five nonprofit metropolitan stations, KPFA-Berkeley, KPFK-Los Angeles, KPFT-Houston, WBAI-New York City, and WPFW-Washington D.C., will receive ballots to vote on yet another new set of bylaws that would largely do away with its democratic governance structure. The first attempt to do this was resoundingly defeated at the end of March o...

On March 29, Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz admitted to Fox News host Tucker Carlson that he was facing federal charges for underage-dating—aka, "trafficking a child." But as squeamish as the revelations are, Gaetz critics may be overreaching in their condemnation. While the "age of consent" in Florida is 18, a 17-year-old is not a child. (Florida actually has a "Romeo and Juliette Law" that allows 16-year-olds to "have sex with someone no older than 23 years." That wont he...

ACLJ Stands up for Student Speech Rights in Supreme Court Case By Walter M. Weber16153019400001615301940000 The ACLJ has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court defending the free speech rights of students while noting that the First Amendment does not give minors the right to broadcast foul language to other minors. The case,  ., involves a legal fight between a high school cheerleader and her school. The ACLJ filed its friend-of-the-court brief “in support of neither party”...

Posted on February 25, 2021 | 11:37 a.m. Source: David Glasgal Dr. Mortimer “Morty” Glasgal was a cultured artist and an intellectual with a love of theater, classical music, literature, politics, gardening and world travel. (Glasgal family photo) Dr. Mortimer “Morty” Glasgal always lived and loved life, including those he shared it with, from conception to his death, to the fullest. He passed away on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021, in Santa Barbara, after a fall from which he did not recover. A...

• Dec 17, 2020 Its supposed to be the happiest time of the year, but this year it doesnt really feel like it. With many of us hunkered down at home, some having lost jobs, others having lost friends and family members to COVID-19 or other illnesses, its tempting to give this holiday season a miss. But its important to find joy and meaning in the midst of this dark winter — and carrying on with favorite holiday traditions can help. NPR checked in with medical researchers to figur...

• Dec 17, 2020 Its supposed to be the happiest time of the year, but this year it doesnt really feel like it. With many of us hunkered down at home, some having lost jobs, others having lost friends and family members to COVID-19 or other illnesses, its tempting to give this holiday season a miss. But its important to find joy and meaning in the midst of this dark winter — and carrying on with favorite holiday traditions can help. NPR checked in with medical researchers to figur...