Poll Question – Do You Feel Like You Get Enough Sleep?

Written by: Sarah LaDuke    Filed under: Poll Question, The Roundtable     Comments: Comments Off   

Do you feel like you get enough sleep?

Brave New World

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In the beginning, the country’s public radio stations decided they needed an organization to provide them with world and national news. Probably based on As It Happen from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio (NPR)’s All Things Considered was started.  If the member stations all kicked in, it was theorized, together they could afford a formidable news-gathering operation.  Today, WAMC alone pays the network more than $800,000 a year. That’s a lot of money.  It’s worth it, but it’s a tremendous burden considering all the other things we do here. read more

Poll Question:

Written by: Sarah LaDuke    Filed under: Poll Question, The Roundtable     Comments: 2   

As the one year anniversary approaches, President Obama is trumpeting the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Critics, like Senator John McCain, are calling the approach a “pathetic, political act of self-congratulation.” What do you think?

Poll Question

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Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Edward Humes, joins us this morning to take us on a surprising tour of the world of garbage. His book is Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash.

What do you think we can do to make America less “trashy” and reduce the amount of garbage we produce?

Poll Question:

Written by: Sarah LaDuke    Filed under: Poll Question, The Roundtable     Comments: 1   

Do you think President Obama’s clear attention to college-aged Americans will pay political dividends?

Blair Horner – The Next Frontier in Tobacco Control

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Cigarettes cause cancer.  Each pack has a warning label that tells us that.  Tobacco smoke not only hurts the smoker, but the smoke also harms non-smokers.  That’s the reason why laws were passed banning smoking in all work places and public places. 

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