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Effective Ways to Influence Trump, U.S. Congress

By WRFI News Staff

Learn how to influence Congress and the Trump Administration. Listen to this interview with John Lawrence. He is the former chief of staff to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  WRFI’s Lori Sonken interviewed him on January 31, 2017.

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Deborah C. Hoard, about the Documentary Re:Thinking- February 1st, 2017

By WRFI News Staff

Deborah C. Hoard, President of PhotoSynthesis productions, talks about the new documentary film, RE:Thinking.  She describes how three different schools used a concept called “systems thinking”, to help students build knowledge instead of consuming information.  This interview was aired during the February 1st, 2017 edition of WRFI Community Radio News.

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The Thom Hartmann Program Moves to WRFI

By Felix Teitelbaum

Beginning Wednesday, February 1, 2017, WRFI Community Radio will broadcast the Thom Hartmann Radio Program live every weekday from noon to 2:00 p.m., with the program’s third hour heard in the overnight beginning at 12:00 a.m. Hartmann hosts the nation’s most popular syndicated talk radio program with a progressive political perspective. The show airs on…

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Finger Lakes Climate Fund

By WRFI News Staff

Gay Nicholson, executive director of Sustainable Tompkins, explains how the Finger Lakes Climate Fund works. Use a calculator to estimate your carbon footprint when you fly across the country, drive downtown, or generate carbon another way. Then purchase an offset based on the carbon your activity emits. Funds raised by Sustainable Tompkins are funding energy…

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