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Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports  – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.
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Sports in America

Sports in America explores stories that shape athletes and fans alike. Each week, David Greene hosts in-depth conversations with people across the world of sports – from the star who hits the game winner to the millions of us whose lives are touched by the game.

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Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.'s headquarters stands  in Hunt Valley, Md.  (AP Photo/ Steve Ruark)
Radio Times
Business
Media

Sinclair and the news media landscape

Guests: Patrick Murray, John Nichols, Andy Kroll, Aaron Weiss Recently a video compilation of local news anchors ...

Air Date: April 5, 2018

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Tree branches and cars are tree branches are covered by heavy snow during a snowstorm last month in Jersey City, N.J. A Garden State lawmakers wants to make sure utility companies are held accountable for their response to power outages from such storms. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Energy
New Jersey
Politics

N.J. lawmaker wants utilities better prepared to handle storm-driven outages

Measure would establish standards for emergency preparation and restoration of service after a major power outage.

8 years ago

Mary Gay Scanlon, running to represent the newly redrawn 5th Congressional District, gets the endorsement of former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell.
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Rendell backs Scanlon for Congress in redrawn Delaware County district

Ed Rendell endorses Mary Gay Scanlon for Congress in the crowded Delco district field.

8 years ago

A member of the National Guard checks on his colleague inside a Border Patrol Skybox near the U.S.-Mexico border in Hidalgo, Texas, in this 2011 photo. President Trump is calling for troops on the southern border, something the last five presidents have all done.
(Delcia Lopez/AP)
NPR
International
Military

President Trump to sign proclamation to send National Guard troops to Mexican border

"We're going to do some things militarily," Trump said. "Until we can have a wall and proper security, we're going to be guarding our border with the military."

8 years ago

A U.S. soldier sits on an armored vehicle behind a sand barrier at a newly installed position near the tense front line between the U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. A week ago, there was just a single house where U.S. soldiers had hoisted a U.S. flag on a hill a little ways back from a tense front line in Syria. Now on Wednesday stood a growing outpost with a perimeter of large sand barriers and barbed wire, a new watch tower and half a dozen armored vehicles, The Associated Press found. (Hussein Malla/AP Photo)
International
Military

White House says Syria mission coming to ‘a rapid end’

There were clear signs the United States was narrowing its mission in Syria.

8 years ago

China currently buys nearly a third of the U.S. soybean crop — but the country plans to impose tariffs, in response to a Trump administration plan. Here, a worker takes a sample from a truckload of soybeans in Fargo, N.D., last December. (Dan Koeck/Reuters)
NPR
Business
International

China’s $50 billion tariff threat targets U.S. soybeans, cars, whiskey

China currently buys nearly a third of the U.S. soybean crop.

8 years ago

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
National Interest
History
Income Inequality
Race & Ethnicity

Martin Luther King’s final speech, ‘standing up for the best in the American dream’

Fifty years dead, Martin Luther King reminds us that we can still see the stars.

8 years ago

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is facing investigations into his use of taxpayer funds for security and travel along with scrutiny of his ties to industry lobbyists.
NPR
Environment
Government Accountability

EPA chief Pruitt faces mounting scrutiny for ethics violations

8 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Economy
Energy
Environment

While legislation stalls in Pennsylvania, West Virginia acts on natural gas royalties

8 years ago

Left to right: Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis, Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite and U.S. President Donald Trump, hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House Tuesday.
NPR
Immigration
International

Trump calls for military forces on U.S.-Mexico border

President Trump says he wants to use military troops to help secure the U.S. border with Mexico.

8 years ago

In this June 2, 2017 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo, file)
PBS
Environment
Government Accountability

Trump tells embattled EPA head: ‘We’ve got your back’

8 years ago

Protesters gather during a demonstration involving various labor union groups Monday, Feb. 26, 2018, in San Francisco. The Supreme Court is divided in a major organized labor case over
Elections
Pennsylvania

Pa. unions make game plans for upcoming elections

Democrat Conor Lamb’s victory over Republican Rick Saccone in last month’s special congressional election was a sign that labor unions still hold considerable sway.

8 years ago

 (Brennan Linsley/AP Photo, file)
Pennsylvania

State treasurers huddle on U.S. approach to marijuana industry

Four state treasurers, including Pennsylvania’s Joe Torsella, are trying to figure out where the federal government stands on legal marijuana.

8 years ago

Candidate Pennsylvania Sen. Scott Wagner, R-York County, seeking the Republican Party's nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf's re-election bid next year takes part in the Montgomery County Republican Committee gubernatorial forum in Blue Bell, Pa., Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017.
Elections
Pennsylvania

Is Pennsylvania swarming with illegal voters?

We explore the claim that there are 100,000 illegal voters in the commonwealth.

8 years ago

Listen 2:50
Gas is pumped into vehicles at a BP gas station in Hoboken, N.J. in 2016.The Obama administration moved to nearly double fuel-economy standards by 2025, but the EPA now is moving to weaken them.
NPR
Energy
Environment

EPA moves to weaken landmark fuel efficiency rules

The Trump Administration today moved to weaken fuel economy standards for automobiles, saying the current ones are inappropriate and wrong.

8 years ago

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