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  • Listener Dan Franzen plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro.
  • Tenants in New York who continue to experience financial hardship as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic would be safe from eviction until the end of August…
  • ock Critic KEN TUCKER review''s Lou Reed''s new cd.Int 3:Editor of Consumer Reports Travel Letter (CRTL), ED PERKINS. He has spent 25 years in travel research and consulting He began editing CRTL, widely known for its objective consumer oriented research. He has a nationally syndicated travel column and has appeared as a travel expert on Good Morning America, The CBS Evening News With Dan Rather, and other TV and radio programs. He received ASTA''s Traveler''s Advocate Award for 1993, and is the co-author of "Best travel Deals, 1996 Edition." (Consumer Reports Books) Perkins talks with Terry Gross about how to get the best seat on an airplane.
  • Mary Barra will become the new leader of General Motors in January, the company announced Tuesday. The company veteran's tenure as CEO will begin after current leader Dan Akerson retires on Jan. 15.
  • Dan Akerson says asking new shareholders to pay back tax payers would be unfair, and would lead to shareholder lawsuits that would be "difficult to defend."
  • Chicago's notorious public housing high-rises — longstanding symbols of poverty, crime and neglect — are being torn down. It's part of an ambitious citywide initiative to improve the lives of Chicago's public housing residents. But for those who've only known life in the projects, the transition isn't always easy. Independent producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister follow the story of one family making the move.
  • One resolution directs all county agencies not to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Border Patrol. The other prohibits the use of public funds for airlines engaged in deportation flights.
  • The cultural highlights in our region in coming days include a concert by an all-star jazz lineup at MASS MoCA; a folk-rock legend at the Mahaiwe; an…
  • The former Talking Heads frontman has been busy lately. He's written a book, Bicycle Diaries, and designed whimsical bike racks in New York City. Now he's recorded a pop song cycle, Here Lies Love, about Imelda Marcos, the infamous wife of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
  • If you live in a big city, you may have noticed new buildings popping up — a high-rise here, a skyscraper there. The concrete jungles that we've built over the past century have allowed millions of us to live in close proximity, and modern economies to flourish. But what have we given up by moving away from the forest environments in which humans first evolved? This week, we revisit our 2018 conversation about the healing power of nature with psychologist Ming Kuo.
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