Mitch Teich

1 week ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Mitch Teich

This pile of cassettes may well have included my dub of the Moody Blues. Or it may not have. Photo: Mitch TeichI’m not sure I ever mentioned to my dad that his musical tastes inadvertently saved my high school career, such as it was. I was 17. It was sometime in the fall of my senior year, and I was listening to a cassette copy of the Moody Blues’ “Days of Future Passed,” the winner of the 1967 Grammy for Most Pretentious Album Title, made from my dad’s well-loved LP record of that same album.

2 weeks ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Mitch Teich |Ethan Shantie

Mitch TeichNorth Words: The quiet stories that outlive usNorth Words revisits an interview with Harry Mitchell this week, following the news that the 93-year-old Croghan native recently passed away. Mitchell’s death is a good reminder of the importance of both oral and written history - keeping stories alive that might not always find their way into a history book.

2 weeks ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Mitch Teich

Busy times outside the North Words International Communications Bunker these days. You can tell this is an important development, because I have employed the news cliché of starting this dispatch with a sentence fragment. Busy times outside the North Words International Communications Bunker. We have team coverage this morning. Let’s go to Muesli the Schnoodle...

3 weeks ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Mitch Teich |Ethan Shantie

Mitch TeichNorth Words: What this New York writer learned by driving an RV across the US ahead of the 2020 electionWhen the Covid pandemic changed the world in 2020, it caused a lot of hardship. But it also brought some unexpected opportunity. For Francis Barry, it meant an opportunity to embark on a project that had been simmering for some time. Barry is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and former speechwriter for Michael Bloomberg when he was mayor of New York and during his presidential campaign.

3 weeks ago | northcountrypublicradio.org | Mitch Teich

President Trump has sent a memo to Congress, officially calling for legislators to take back the money already allocated to public media for the next two years.  If it's passed by both the House and Senate, the so-called "rescission" would essentially defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in at least the 2026 and '27 fiscal years. For NCPR, that would mean a loss of approximately $315,000 each year (based on the FY25 appropriation).