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Conversation with Izzy Award winner David Sirota – April 22nd, 2015

By WRFI News Staff

Dan Apfel speaks with David Sirota, writer for the International Business Times and winner of a 2014 Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media — journalism crated outside traditional corporate structures. In the interview we discuss David’s work exposing the corruption in our country’s $3 trillion public pension system and the importance of independent…

Knowing J.R. Clairborne – April 20th, 2015

By WRFI News Staff

Samuel Whitehead speaks with J.R. Clairborne, Second Ward Alderperson for the City of Ithaca, about the recent development boom Downtown, the Commons rebuild, and community-police relations.   This conversation originally aired on the April 20th, 2015 edition of WRFI Community Radio News.

Resolving to Stop Domestic Violence – April 17th, 2015

By WRFI News Staff

Emma Rizzo speaks with Alex Kitson and Joanne Joseph of the Global Gender Justice Clinic about a resolution the group put before Tompkins County legislators to declare freedom from domestic violence as a human right.   This interview originally aired on the April 17th, 2015 edition of WRFI Community Radio News.

And still more thanks to share…

By katrina

We are proud to recognize some of the supporters who have given to WRFI this  past season, like Dan Cogan, Stephen Cope, Laurie Rubin, Ellen Baer, Charles Dunaway, Bill Carini & Chrys Gardener, Susan Kaplan, Jon Bosak, Della Herden and Seymour Smidt who gave in memory of Rita Smidt. Please visit our Support page to learn how to…

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