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Report: Washington System Lets College Students Down
The state’s consistent under-funding of colleges will mean 43-hundred fewer slots for new students this fall…and a new report says the ones who do enroll will be mostly from higher-income families.
Thanks to Washington News Service for this story.
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A Last-Minute Healthcare Plea to Washington Lawmakers
If the American Association of Retired Persons has its way, members of Congress won't be able to leave Capitol Hill for their summer recess without an in-person reminder that they'd better not forget about health care reform. The AARP has assembled volunteers from all 50 states for end-of-month meetings with lawmakers and their staffs. With more on Washington’s volunteers, we got to Larry Stoddard.
Thanks to Washington News Service for this story.
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Labor Neighbor Headlines
We now conclude this week’s Northwest news summary with reporter John Sandifer who brings us Labor Neighbor Radio, a roundup of Pacific Northwest news for working families. Good evening, John.
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Health Care Reform Advocates Rally in Downtown Seattle We now go from the halls of D.C. to the streets of the Washington we all know and love. While politicians negotiate over how to pay for health care legislation, reformers are looking at the grisly numbers: fourteen thousand people per day losing healthcare coverage, 930 thousand people per year declaring bankruptcy due to medical reasons, … and within those numbers are lives lost from a lack of quality healthcare. Health care reform advocates held a rally this past Tuesday to put faces and stories to those statistics. The organizers called the rally 'We Can't Afford To Wait' which happened at Seattle’s downtown Federal Building. Our own Jill Bolduc attended, and brought back this report.
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A Tale of Two Systems, A Personal Experience of Health Care
We have one more story to add to the discussion about healthcare access and reform. Longtime listeners to One World Report may remember journalist Tom Allen. He’s filed a number of stories on local and national conservation and environmental issues. You haven’t heard from him because he was on a bicycle trip throughout Europe and he had a terrible accident on that trip which resulted in a fractured hip. As a result of the injury, Tom was in a unique situation where he experienced Germany’s socialized healthcare and the U.S.’s privatized system. Here he reflects on his experience. Reporter: Tom Allen Download interview (right-click, save target as)
Green Acre Radio: Bees in the Northwest
Like those blueberries on your morning cereal? Then listen up, without honeybees, those berries simply wouldn’t be. Industrial food growers have been taking a hit because millions of hives have collapsed all over the U.S. The crisis has been so severe that growers are importing bees from Australia and transporting them to Florida, California and back again to pollinate crops. Smaller bee communities however, like those in the Northwest, are doing just fine. Martha Baskin with Green ACRE Radio finds out why. Reporter: Martha Baskin Download full story (right-click, save target as)
Seattle African American Elder Home Facing Closure
Last week, we brought you the story of the now closed King Street Collective. This week, we have another story of a Central District housing institution facing closure signs. To many residents of Seattle’s Central Area neighborhood, the The Cannon House is a treasure. It’s the only African-American owned facility on the West Coast that offers assisted-living for low-income residents.
Unfortunately, the building is currently under utilized, and is going though a series of financial difficulties. The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, owns the mortgage on the property which is several months behind in payments. Now HUD is raising the possibility of a sale or auction.
Recently a number of Central Area activists, who have been involved with Cannon House over the years, formed a group to save the institution. Reporter David Griffith talked to some of the people involved about how they plan to rescue this community landmark.
There will be a community-wide meeting about the future of Cannon House on Wednesday, August 5th at the Emerald City Community Seventh Day Adventist Church in the Central Area at 7pm. Reporter: David Griffith Download interview (right-click, save target as)
Military Spies on Northwest Peace Activists
On Tuesday’s episode of Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman and Anjali Kamat talked with Washington state peace activists who recently discovered a fellow activist had been spying on them while working for the U.S. military as an informant. The activists are members of the group Students for a Democratic Society and Port Militarization Resistance, which protests military shipments bound for Iraq and Afghanistan through the use of peaceful blockades and civil disobedience.
For about two years, the activists knew the informant as “John Jacob,” an active member of antiwar groups in the towns of Olympia and Tacoma. The groups regularly file public records requests as part of their activist strategy. They then learned that “John Jacob” is in fact John Towery, a member of the Force Protection Service at the nearby Fort Lewis military base.
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Credits Joaquin Uy is the executive producer. The news summary editor is Antonio Dileo. Special thanks to reporters Tom Allen Martha Baskin, Jacob Galfano, and Erica Jalil. The copy editors are Larry Stoddard and Toby Nelson. Jill Bolduc is the engineer. Tonight’s audio editor is Havens Tipps.
