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WRFI Community Radio News Daily Brief – 6/19/2014

By WRFI News Staff

Local Local police begin gorge patrols | 870 AM 95.9FM News Talk WHCU Ithaca Residents Protest Cluster Development – Ithaca Times : News ‘No Question It’s Gotten Worse’: A Look Inside Ithaca’s Heroin Epidemic – Ithaca Times : News Ithaca Juneteenth Celebration: Fun and Entrepreneurship – Ithaca Times : News Tompkins seeks comprehensive plan input…

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NBC and Snowden: Brian Williams’ Interview Yields Praise and Criticism

By WRFI News Staff

Producer Katelyn Harrop covers the progress of the media’s coverage of Edward Snowden with a focus on NBC’s recent interview conducted by Brian Williams. This story originally aired on the June 6th edition of WRFI Community Radio News.

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An update on the Dryden and Middlefield home rule tracking cases – June 5th, 2014

By WRFI News Staff

Samuel Whitehead speaks with Helen Slottje, a recent winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize and a co-founder of the Community Environmental Defense Council, about the oral arguments before the New York Court of Appeals in the Dryden and Middlefield home rule tracking cases. This conversation originally aired on the June 5th edition of WRFI Community…

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Ithaca on Parade

By katrina

WRFI was well-represented in yesterday’s Ithaca Fest Parade, with our float: Growing People-Powered Radio!  If you were listening, you heard our great News Team deliver in-studio coverage with live reports from the parade sidelines!  Also, if you were listening, here are some photos of what we looked like (thanks to Michael Ludgate):

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