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Newton, Amana and the Hidden History of American Socialism
Last night, NPR Weekend Edition ran an economic story about the economic development of two communities in Iowa. Newton, Iowa was the home of Maytag appliances. Amana – as the story told it, was the...
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Irregular Times Is Not Cutting Its Staff
Mother Davis folds up this morning’s thin newspaper as she notes, National Public Radio is firing 7 percent of its staff. The Associated Press is laying off 10 percent of its workers. CBSNews and CNet...
View ArticleUntenable Selected Shorts
I finally put my finger on the reason why I can never stand to listen to the NPR radio show Selected Shorts for very long. I was in the kitchen with someone who said that she was really enjoying the...
View ArticleJuan Williams Should Have Been Gone From NPR Long Ago
The news came this morning that Juan Williams has been fired from his position as a news analyst for National Public Radio. His firing came after he made comments on the air with his other employer,...
View ArticlePrivate Homeland Detention: the Counter-Terrorism Unit at the Mall of America
“I think our name first of all, Mall of America, is attractive to people that want to hurt America.” — Maureen Bausch, Vice President of the Mall of America For once, corporate America has chosen a...
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NPR Audience Doesn’t Go With the Buddy Roemer Flow
As week after week after week passes, initial moderate flows of support to Americans Elect candidates have slowed to tepid streams and finally down to a meager trickle. This past Saturday, AE...
View ArticleTime For Diane Rehm To Retire
Yesterday, NPR talk show host Diane Rehm confronted U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders with something that could derail his 2016 presidential campaign. “You have dual citizenship with Israel,” Rehm said. It...
View ArticleIowan David Rock Exemplifies Republicans’ Irrational Fear Of Muslim Terrorists
This morning on NPR, reporter David Green played a clip from an interview he had with, David Rock, who Green described as a businessman in western Iowa. “I asked him if he agrees with Donald Trump that...
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