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Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show

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Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show
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Major news events throughout the world continue to be largely ignored until they reach tragic proportions. Underreported, a weekly feature on The Leonard Lopate Show, tackles these issues and gives an in-depth look into stories that are often relegated to the back pages.
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E-bike battery fires in NYC on track to double this year
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Kevin Noel spends his days selling electric bikes and scooters — and helping clients whose vehicles are misbehaving. He’s never had a problem with his own ride, a blue-and-white e-bike decorated with stickers, but he has heard the stories about electric-bike fires and seen his fair share of fried batteries. “I charge it inside my house,” Noel, who …
Get three New Yorkers in a room and you’ll get four opinions about alternate side parking. But what about a street sweeper’s eye view? WNYC’s Amy Pearl followed along. music:JOHANN STRAUSS: The Blue Danube - WaltzVienna Philharmonic OrchestraGeorg Szell, conductorRecorded June 23, 1934על ידי WNYC Radio
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The hip hop musical "Little Syria" tells a mostly forgotten New York City story
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Just below the World Trade Center and Liberty Park in Lower Manhattan, you’ll find Washington Street, a stretch of four relatively nondescript blocks – there’s a hotel, a Starbucks, a burger place. But from around 1880 to 1940, this street was the hub of a thriving neighborhood called Little Syria. And that neighborhood gives its name to a new show…
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NJ state trooper who shot and killed Black man won’t face charges
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A New Jersey State Police sergeant won’t face criminal charges after he fatally shot and killed a Black man on the Garden State Parkway two years ago. The state Attorney General’s Office said a state grand jury declined to charge Sgt. Randall Wetzel in the shooting death of 28-year-old Maurice Gordon. He died two days before George Floyd was killed…
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Mayor Adams makes last-minute push for mayoral control
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New York City Mayor Eric Adams hopped on an Amtrak train and headed north Tuesday – all in a last-minute attempt to convince Albany lawmakers to support the city’s agenda before they end their annual session in two weeks. Adams, a Democrat, worked the halls of the Legislative Office Building in Albany, darting from meeting to meeting with rank-and-…
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With Bomba and La Fonda, El Barrio Remembers Photographer and Activist Hiram Maristany
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Hundreds of people gathered at El Museo del Barrio this weekend to celebrate the life of the Black Puerto Rican photographer and activist Hiram Maristany, who passed away in March at the age of 76.על ידי WNYC Radio
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Court releases proposed House maps: What to know about NY’s messy primary season
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New York voters and candidates have a busy summer in store for them, with not just one but two primary dates. This is all the result of the redistricting process in which a Steuben County judge ruled the initially drawn maps were unconstitutional. WNYC's Jon Campbell and Brigid Bergin explain. Read more about the redistricting process and how this …
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Weekend Arts Planner: A new visual arts space in Chelsea and music from Sikh trumpeter and vocalist, Sonny Singh
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Once again WNYC's Culture and Arts Editor Steve Smith joins David Furst for our weekend arts planner. This week, it's a mix of new visual art and new music.1. Lauren Halsey's first solo exhibition in New York David Kordansky opened his first gallery in Los Angeles’s Chinatown in 2003, and rapidly developed a reputation for showcasing the city's mos…
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NJ deciding fate of 70-year-old environmental conservation school
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Nestled inside Stokes State Forest in New Jersey, about a half-dozen children are setting up insect traps, using vanilla cookies and tuna to see what six-legged creatures they snag. “Doing science is very easy, you can just go to the dollar store like I did,” Denise Manole, 24, said as she led a class on identifying insects on a spring morning. “It…
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New York won't say who got marijuana 'gifting' letters
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New York was trying to send a message. The state permitted marijuana possession last year, but recreational sales of the drug remain illegal until regulators can set up business licenses. This process has been slow — with the first legal sales still months away. But recreational dispensaries didn’t want to wait and began “gifting” their customers w…
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Mayor Adams Promises Universal Dyslexia Screening and More Intervention
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Next fall, educators will screen all public students for dyslexia. In a pilot program, teachers at 160 schools will get special training on how to support students with reading difficulties. And two public schools will launch dyslexia-specific programs. The goal is to have one in every borough by 2023.…
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How cannabis edibles get tested for THC levels in New York
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Opening a black shell case to display his wares on an early May afternoon, a marijuana dealer in Brooklyn began pulling out a wide variety of edibles that were nestled among vape pens and jars of flower. Some products were obviously homemade — but with packaging that appropriated popular brand names. Round, multi-colored “Skittles” gummies came in …
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New York eyes its own voting rights act after failure at the federal level
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Dozens of civil rights, labor and voting rights groups want New York to strengthen election protections. WNYC's Brigid Bergin reportsעל ידי WNYC Radio
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Rikers oversight board alleges officers failed to aid dying inmates
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An independent oversight board for the Rikers Island jail complex issued a damning report on Monday that found three inmates died this year after they fell ill and correction officers failed to render aid. One man was sick for days, vomiting and defecating on himself, but correction officers didn’t bring him to nine scheduled medical appointments, …
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New York to create $35M fund to expand abortion access, bolster security
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New York will direct $35 million to health care providers in an effort to expand access to abortion procedures and bolster security at clinics, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday. Hochul, the first woman to serve as governor, said the state will create a dedicated Abortion Provider Support Fund in the wake of the leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft op…
In the wake of last week’s leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning the constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy, the country has been thinking about, and planning for life in America if and when Roe is overturned, and considering the vast inequities that will exist between women who have access to legal and safe abortion, and those who …
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40 years of Jamel Shabazz street photography gets personal in new Bronx exhibit
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Photographer Jamel Shabazz is best known for his images of 1980s hip hop fashion worn by everyday New Yorkers on the streets. As a corrections officer, he also documented life in the prison system. Now a new exhibit at the Bronx Museum of the Arts takes stock of his work.על ידי WNYC Radio
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NJ Supreme Court orders parole for man convicted in 1973 state trooper murder
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New Jersey’s highest court has ordered the parole of Sundiata Acoli, a former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army who was convicted in the 1973 shooting death of a state trooper. The 3-2 ruling on Tuesday overturns a decision by the State Parole Board to deny parole for Acoli – who is now 85 and suffering from dementia – his…
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National Grid’s pivot to ‘renewable’ natural gas would require more pipelines, keep producing carbon
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National Grid, one of the largest investor-owned utility companies in the world, unveiled a plan last month to wean New York off natural gas by 2050. The process would call for the utility to slowly transition to renewable natural gas, also known as biogas and biomethane. It’s essentially the gas captured when methane is released from landfills, fa…
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NY lawmakers push to protect abortion clinics from facing out-of-state lawsuits
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Merle Hoffman has been providing abortions to both New Yorkers and out-of-state patients since she launched Choices Women’s Medical Center in Queens in 1971. The opening came in the brief window between when New York legalized abortion and when the Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court established abortion access as a constitutional right in 19…
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What a fight for abortion rights could mean for Hochul and New York Democrats
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A week after the Supreme Court draft opinion set to nullify abortion rights leaked into the public sphere, Democratic lawmakers look to galvanize voters around this moment. WNYC’s Brigid Bergin has the story. For more, go to gothamist.com.על ידי WNYC Radio
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Shinnecock Indian Nation discovers more ancestral graves under mansion in Southampton
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Members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation said they may have found more ancestral graves under a mansion on eastern Long Island. The house stands on a site called Sugar Loaf Hill in Southampton. By one estimate, there could be as many as 10,000 burials at the location. Tela Troge, a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and an Indigenous sovereignty…
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Weekend Arts Planner: Photos by Deana Lawson, a new look at an old David Lynch/Laura Dern film and Ron Carter at Carnegie Hall
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From an engrossing photography show to a bass player's birthday at Carnegie Hall, WNYC's Culture and Arts Editor Steve Smith joins Weekend Edition host David Furst for a preview of some upcoming arts highlights. Steve's picks: 1. Some of the words that came to mind over and over again when I visited the new Deana Lawson exhibition at MoMA PS1 in Lo…
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This Week in Politics: How the Supreme Court might affect midterm elections in New York
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The leak of a U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion, striking down Roe v. Wade, continues to reverberate. It sparked protests across the country - and vows from voters and politicians that it would upend the midterm elections this fall. WNYC's Senior Politics Reporter, Brigid Bergin, joins Weekend Edition host David Furst for a look at how the draft opi…