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3 days ago | wrvo.org | Darian Woods |Wailin Wong |Paddy Hirsch |Corey Bridges

Today on the show – our crypto president. Just before President Donald Trump began his second administration in January, he and his business partners launched the $TRUMP coin. It's a memecoin that quickly raked in hundreds of millions of dollars. And there's a lot of earning potential still left on the table. Is that even legal? We bring you two stories from our daily show, The Indicator about President Trump and his ties to crypto. First, the Trump coin.

3 days ago | wrvo.org | Wailin Wong |Darian Woods |Cooper McKim |Kate Concannon

The U.S. government has tallied the economic impact of major natural disasters going back to 1980. State and local governments used this data for budgeting and planning. But last month, the administration retired its Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters disaster database. Today on the show, we speak to Adam Smith, the architect of the program, on the work he did and what might be next. Related episodes:How much is a weather forecast worth?

4 days ago | wrvo.org | Ellen Abbott

The groundbreaking of the $100 billion Micron project in central New York is being delayed by the release of an environmental impact statement, which won’t be released until later this month. Officials have had Micron’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on how the project will affect everything from wildlife to housing since late March. Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon said local and federal officials have been reviewing it since then and preparing it for public release.

4 days ago | wrvo.org | Jessica Cain

Environmental activists say “polluters should pay,” and that’s what they were chanting outside of the Syracuse offices for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Tuesday. About forty people from across the state chanted and held signs ahead of a public hearing about the state’s proposed air pollution regulations. Maggie Reilly from Indivisible Mohawk Valley said she’s seen firsthand how the climate crisis is affecting her community.

4 days ago | wrvo.org | Raina Douris |Miguel Perez |Miguel Pérez

Jasmine Cruickshank, who performs as Jasmine.4.t, walked away from a songwriting workshop — led by none other than Adrianne Lenker — with a key piece of wisdom: Creative endeavors must start from a place of acceptance. That's something the British singer-songwriter had been struggling with just before she came out as trans and began her gender-affirming transition. "As soon as I came out, all of these songs that are on the record ... started pouring out of me," she says.