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Sandra Steingraber, ecologist and activist involved in the organization, We are Seneca Lake, speaks with WRFI’s Lori Sonken about Crestwood’s announcement that the Houston-based energy company is discontinuing plans to build the natural gas storage proposal, but moving forward with its project to store propane in salt caverns beneath Seneca Lake. This interview aired…
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We know our listeners value independent news, information, and music that they won’t hear anywhere else. And every day, WRFI delivers great content from around the world –and from around your hometown. The times are, to say the least, uncertain. Large media outlets are more and more consolidated and less and less trusted. Funding for…
Read MoreAaron Sachs, Professor of History at Cornell University, and organizer of the Conference on Academic Creative Writing, discusses how academics can enhance their writing on their research subject. He talks about innovative literary techniques that can be employed in writing non-fiction books for the general public. This interview originally aired on the May 12th, 2017…
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The ninth annual Izzy Award was presented April 12, 2017 to Mother Jones senior reporter SHANE BAUER (“My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard“) and SETH FREED WESSLER, a reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, who, working separately, exposed abuse and death inside U.S. for-profit prisons; and ARI BERMANof The…
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