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The Struggle for Single-Payer Health Care in Vermont and New York – January 9th, 2015

By WRFI News Staff

A report on the struggle for health care as a human right in Vermont, the decision of Governor Shumlin to abandon his effort to find financing for the plan, and a comparison of Vermont’s path to single-payer health care and that in New York. Guests include: James Haslam, Executive Director of the Vermont Workers Center;…

Evaluating Mayor Myrick’s first three years – January 8th, 2014

By WRFI News Staff

Aryeal Jackson and Samuel Whitehead speak with the Ithaca Voice‘s Jeff Stein about Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick’s first three years in office.   This interview originally aired on the January 8th, 2015 edition of WRFI Community Radio News.

The political odd couple – January 7th, 2015.

By WRFI News Staff

Lori Sonken talks with Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Brookings Institution, about his book The Professor and the President, which tells the story of the relationship between President Richard Nixon and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.   This interview originally aired on the January 7th, 2015 edition of WRFI Community Radio News.

Overdue Marathon Results!

By katrina

Huge thanks go out to everybody who contributed to our 3rd Annual Fundraising Marathon! This past November, we raised $15,092 from some 193 wonderful donors — our best results yet!  Some of the generous supporters that we are proud to acknowledge here include (in no particular order): David Mazzarella Frances Helmstadter Gail & Naoki Sakai…

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