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State Capitol radio reporter Karen DeWitt to get national honor After 39 years covering NYS Capitol for public radio, Karen DeWitt will receive lifetime achievement award from Radio Television Digital News Association

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06.03.2025 12:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Baldwin: "Trump a little over a week ago said on Fox News, 'I'm not touching Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.' And he said it multiple times. The next morning he endorsed the Republican House budget which calls for nearly a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicaid."

03.03.2025 17:22 — 👍 8570 🔁 2815 💬 382 📌 166

James Dennehy, New York’s Top F.B.I. Agent, Forced Out After Defiant Email James E. Dennehy had told agents to “dig in” in the face of the Trump administration’s culling of officials who investigated the Jan. 6 attack.

Sad
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/n...

03.03.2025 23:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Medicaid covers...

-40% of births nationwide
-50% of kids with special needs
-72 million people in total

Remember this as Republicans move to gut the program to finance tax cuts that will overwhelmingly go to the richest 1% of Americans.

"Party of family values."

03.03.2025 01:01 — 👍 7689 🔁 2354 💬 178 📌 77

Conan: You know, Anora is having a good night. That's great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.

03.03.2025 03:08 — 👍 49557 🔁 7541 💬 349 📌 307

Cuomo Enters N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race, Upending Contest to Unseat Adams The comeback attempt, three years after Andrew M. Cuomo resigned as governor in scandal, will test New Yorkers’ appetite for second chances, and change.

Here we go
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/n...

01.03.2025 17:50 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

End of an era: WXXI News Director Randy Gorbman retiring after decades-long career He has been on the air in Rochester the past 30 years, delivering news, business reports and guiding coverage at WHAM-AM and, most recently, WXXI.

Truly the end of an era

www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...

27.02.2025 18:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by R.E.M. - Topic It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (Remastered 2006)

I have no idea why, but this song is resonating with me today

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OyB...

27.02.2025 17:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Legendary Washington Post Editor Slams Bezos for ‘Betraying’ Paper with MAGA Makeover Former executive editor Marty Baron told the Daily Beast there was “no doubt in my mind” that Bezos was prioritizing his business interests over The Washington Post.

So Marty Baron says it plain: “It was only weeks ago that The Post described itself as providing coverage for ‘all of America,’” Baron wrote in his statement. “Now its opinion pages will be open to only some of America, those who think exactly as he does.” www.thedailybeast.com//ex-wapo-edi...

26.02.2025 18:42 — 👍 2790 🔁 649 💬 132 📌 35

ProPublica Opens Application for Five New Local Partners for Its 50 State Initiative ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

COME WORK WITH ME!

Are you a local journalist looking to spend a year diving into an accountability project of importance to your community?

@propublica.org is accepting our next round of Local Reporting Network proposals.

Deadline: April 14

*Applying will be more fun than doing your taxes.

21.02.2025 23:05 — 👍 295 🔁 141 💬 1 📌 3