NewsWorks Tonight October 9, 2012 – Full Show

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    Dave Heller talks with Emilio Buitrago, co-founder of Casa de Venezuela about that country’s recent re-election of Hugo Chavez.   Elizabeth Fiedler explores a new crowd-funding operation that focuses on local businesses. Taunya English previews a series of food forums at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.  Peter Crimmins meets Iraqi-American poet Duny Mikhail, who will be reading her work at Bryn Mawr College. On this week’s That’s History, WHYY’s Chris Satullo and Jon Zimmerman, historian with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania consider a subject much in the news lately: blasphemy, and its history in the laws of American states.

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