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Robert Siegel, longtime senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered, will be retiring effective Jan. 5, 2018."This is a…
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Fifty years ago today, on Nov. 7, 1967, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act, legislation that created America’s public…
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After a 37-year run, Diane Rehm is retiring. She’d served notice to her legions of loyal listeners that she would see out the election and then step away…
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A new season, a new host for A Prairie Home Companion.After 42 years, Garrison Keillor has retired. He chose his first successor, who will bring us his…
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NPR photojournalist David Gilkey, who won wide acclaim for his work chronicling major conflicts and disasters around the world, died Sunday in Afghanistan…
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A few established Michigan musicians and public radio nerds have joined forces to start a new band called Public Access.They’re releasing an album today…
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Sad news for jazz lovers this weekend. Radio legend Hazen Schumacher died yesterday at the age of 88.The Michigan broadcaster was known nationally as host…
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NPR’s new president Jarl Mohn visited Michigan Radio this week. He joined us on the show.Before NPR, Mohn managed MTV, VH1, E! Entertainment Television…
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“NPR Conservative.” To some, that term might sound like an oxymoron straight from the writing staff of The Colbert Report.It happens to be me.For just…
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In my large Irish family, our stories get better with age. It’s not that we lie about what’s happened to us, but when we get together for holidays or…