Micah Yason

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Producer at WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL)

Producer for @WBEZreset 🗣 || Formerly @WFYI @AllinIndiana 🎙@gocasted 🎧 || she/her 🇵🇭 || [email protected]

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Grant Park summer concerts are a chance at the spotlight for rising musicians

1 week ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

Reset sits down with a couple fellowship participants to hear more about their journeys. GUESTS: Maria Gabriela Mendez Martinez, Festival Fellow and violinistJoshua Thaver, Festival Fellow and violistAmelia Sie, fellowship manager
Chicago’s response to ICE raids and protests

1 week ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

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Half-million Cook County residents have their medical debt forgiven

2 weeks ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

In 2022, Cook County announced its partnership with Undue Medical Debt, a nonprofit that buys old uncollectable bills from hospitals and forgives it. Since then, over half a million people have had their medical debts erased totalling $664,744,470.53. Reset learns more about the relief program and the burden of medical debt on Cook County families.
Air quality, your health and what to do about it

2 weeks ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

Since then, the AQI has gotten a bit better, but this does beg a couple of questions: How do I keep myself safe during poor air quality days? How does poor air quality affect my health? Reset discusses. GUESTS: Brian Urbaszewski, director of Environmental Health Programs, Respiratory Health AssociationTrent Ford, Illinois state climatologist
Chicago-area transit riders share their hopes and concerns for future of CTA, Metra and Pace

3 weeks ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

Illinois lawmakers missed the deadline to vote on a bill to seal a $770 million budget gap for public transit next year. This has heightened concerns of service cuts of nearly 40% of CTA, Metra and Pace buses and trains. Reset turns to daily transit riders to hear their thoughts on the issue. GUESTS: Alex Nelson, daily CTA rider and strategic advisor for Better Streets ChicagoMaya Roberts, Chicago native and lifelong daily CTA rider
State budget but no transit deal: What results of Illinois’s legislative session mean for you

3 weeks ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

Illinois lawmakers passed a $55.2 billion state budget Saturday night, successfully filling a $1 billion gap by levying tax hikes on tobacco users, sports gamblers and out-of-state corporations with a footprint in Illinois. Reset spoke with a couple reporters to get the details. GUESTS: Alex Degman, WBEZ statehouse reporterMitchell Armentrout, Chicago Sun-Times reporter covering government and politics
How Chicago’s Vietnamese community was built

1 month ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

In 1975, the Vietnam War ended with the fall of Saigon. Afterward, a large wave of Vietnamese refugees fled the country and arrived in neighboring countries like Cambodia and the Philippines, but the United States as well. Many found community on the coasts like in California or New York, but others created enclaves in the Midwest and Chicago.
What could cuts to SNAP mean for Chicago?

1 month ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

Millions of people across the country rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP for food assistance, including nearly 2 million people in Illinois. The program is fully funded by the federal government with states helping pay for administrative costs. But that could change. House Republicans are proposing an estimated $300 billion in cuts to SNAP spending and looking to states to fill the financial gaps.
President Pritzker? President Emanuel? JB and Rahm may run in 2028

1 month ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason |Daniel P. Tucker

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Chicago’s Kānaka Maoli are reclaiming Native Hawaiian culture and heritage

1 month ago | wbez.org | Micah Yason

Before Hawaiʻi was annexed by the United States in 1898, the nation was led by a constitutional monarchy and was recognized as an independent kingdom. Before Hawai’i’s last monarch, Queen Lili’uokalani, was overthrown by non-native American businessmen in 1893, the queen sent a royally-charted Hula troupe to the World's Columbian Exposition to share the culture and stories of Kanaka Maoli, or Native Hawaiians. This is just the beginning of the community’s history in Chicago.