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  • 2 weeks ago | wng.org | Lynn Vincent |Anna Brown |Grace Snell

    SOUND: [NEW YORK CITY] ANNA JOHANSEN BROWN, HOST: It’s business as usual in America’s largest city. Skyscrapers overshadow teeming sidewalks. Yellow taxis zip by. Neon headlines crawl across billboards. Top story: The death of a brain-injured woman in Florida. Camera crews prowl the New York City streets, stopping passersby for reactions. BYSTANDER 1: She died? Yeah. Whoa, that they should have put the feeding tube in her. So she could live like a human being like you would be supposed to.

  • 2 weeks ago | wng.org | Lynn Vincent |Anna Brown |Grace Snell

    LYNN VINCENT: It’s March 28, 2005. The Monday after Easter. CARRIE: This afternoon, it’ll mark a full ten days since Terri Schiavo has had any food or water. VINCENT: A white stretch limousine cruises within a block or so of the hospice…then parks. A tall, distinguished-looking man climbs out—an icon of the Civil Rights era and a lightning rod of contemporary politics: The Reverend Jesse Jackson.

  • Jan 16, 2025 | wng.org | Anna Brown |Addie Offereins

    MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything In It, an immigration showdown. Most of the media attention over the past few years has focused on unlawful crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border. Issues related to legal immigration pathways don’t often make the headlines. MARY REICHARD, HOST: But last week, one of President-elect Donald Trump’s appointments ignited a debate among Trump supporters. It related to a guest worker program for high-skilled immigrants, called the H1-B visa.

  • Nov 21, 2024 | wng.org | Anna Brown

    MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: opioid deaths. For the in six years, deaths from drug overdose are declining in the US…, and experts aren’t sure exactly why. The most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows fatal overdoses are down almost 15 percent. That’s about 16,000 fewer deaths than the year before. And in some states, even fewer people are dying of drug overdose.

  • Oct 24, 2024 | wng.org | Anna Brown |Addie Offereins

    MYRNA BROWN, HOST: It’s Thursday the 24th of October. We’re so glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Myrna Brown. MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. Up first: A ballot measure to fight crime. California’s proponents of Proposition 36 say the measure puts teeth back into fighting crime. It would give local officials the ability to move more people into shelter and addiction treatment.

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