Putting The Post-Deployment Family Back Together
When parents deploy to a war zone overseas, their absence can have ripple effects that are felt long after they return. Parents and their children often struggle to figure out how to be a family again after leading separate lives for months or years. Now, there’s an effort to make the transition from combat life [...]
The Beverages That Beguile Us, Through A Whole New Lens
What happens when you give an artist who is also a former bartender access to a camera mounted with a microscope? He takes pictures of drinks, of course. That’s exactly what Phoenix-based artist William “Bill” LeGoullon did in a series called Fingerprints of Drinkable Culture. He set out to capture the relationship between science and [...]
Inhale To The Chief: More Details Of Obama’s Pot-Smoking Youth Revealed
The first sneak peak a few weeks back inside journalist David Maraniss’ highly anticipated biography of President Obama served up glimpses of the president as a young man in romantic relationships, with information gleaned from early girlfriends. The latest preview of “Barack Obama: The Story” provides details on Obama’s days in high school and college [...]
Friday Night Fight In Wisconsin: First Debate Before Looming Recall
The divisive battle to recall Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker moves into its final phase in coming days with debates, a continuing flood of out-of-state ad money, and polls that suggest the incumbent is poised to fend off Democratic challenger Tom Barrett. Here’s a look at where things stand between the Republican Walker and Barrett, the [...]
It’s All Politics, May 24, 2012
This week, Ken Rudin and Ron Elving discuss Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker criticizing the president’s tactics on Bain Capital, the Tea Party’s goals in next week’s Texas Senate primary, and general dysfunction in D.C. In other words, it’s the Booker “Tea” Washington edition of the podcast. [Copyright 2012 National Public Radio]
Cleared Of Rape Conviction, California Man Aims To ‘Move On Strong’
Five years in prison. Then five years of probation and wearing an electronic monitoring device. The shame of being a registered sex offender. Not being able to get a job. His dream of playing in the NFL destroyed, possibly forever. Brian Banks, now 26, has gone through all that. Then Thursday, the California man’s rape [...]
Lost Bike Found After 41 Years; Then, The Story Gets Weird
In 1970 a young girl lost her banana-seat bike. Lisa Brown was riding it across a rickety bridge in Cape Cod, Mass., when she and the bike tumbled into a little river. The bike sank into the muck and was gone. Until, that is, the now adult Brown’s wife, Deirdre Oringer, came across a rusted [...]
Man At Center Of Federal Agency’s Las Vegas Scandal Leaves His Job
Jeff Neely, the regional official at the General Services Administration who hosted a 2010 taxpayer-funded conference in Las Vegas that became a scandal as details about excessive spending, gifts and lavish parties were revealed, has left his job at the agency. “GSA spokesman Adam Elkington would not say whether Neely resigned or was fired from [...]
Candidates Vying To Replace Giffords Debate In Ariz.
Voters in southern Arizona’s 8th Congressional District are deciding who will replace former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The injured Democrat resigned in January, a year after being shot in the head by a gunman at a district event in Tucson. Giffords’ resignation set in motion a special election to serve out the rest of her two-year [...]
The Day Taps Echoed Through Belgium’s Hills
During World War II, Harrison Wright served with the Army in Europe. And as he recalls during a visit to StoryCorps with his grandson Sean Guess, he was sent on a very special assignment to mark the end of the war. Wright was drafted in March 1943. “I was an 18-year-old boy,” he says. “I [...]
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