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http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-844423.mp3Albany, NY – Alan Chartock moderates a panel discussion on Juvenile Justice…

Hurricane Laura hit Louisiana last month, leaving a long trail of devastation. Public schools closed after the storm, but reopen this week with many buildings still damaged or destroyed.

All of the deaths that are blamed on the Category 4 storm were attributed to powerful winds, far from the shore.

Singer-songwriter Laura Veirs releases her first album produced without her ex-husband, who she divorced in 2019.

The current revival of “Merrily We Roll Along” is a sensation of this Broadway season - the production is actor, composer, writer and activist Krystal Joy Brown’s sixth Broadway show. She plays Gussie and her portrayal is stunning, sultry, and dimensional.

Cary Ginell (JINN-el) of member station K-C-L-U in Thousand Oaks, California, has written about the music of Texan Milton Brown. Brown invented a style known as Western Swing 65 years ago. Ginell explains the combination of musical styles that resulted in Brown's taste in music: basically a love of popular music of Tin Pan Alley and the flavor of Texas hoedowns. Brown died young and achieved fame only in his native state. A bandmember of Milton Brown and the Musical Brownies, Bob Wills, went on to enjoy great success with the style.

Bandleader Les Brown died of lung cancer this week at the age of 88. For almost 70 years, Les Brown and His Band of Renown entertained US troops and music fans worldwide. In 1940, with a 17-year-old Doris Day on vocals, Brown recorded Sentimental Journey -- the biggest hit of 1945. Brown later joined Bob Hope's weekly radio show and then made the transition to television with him. Host Lisa Simeone has this appreciation.

Frank Browning talks with some Kentucky farmers about the controversy over the growing of hemp.

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Laura Bix of Michigan State University explains efforts to increase the visibility of warning labels on medication.Laura…

The prominent voice in the news this past week was resident Clinton remembering his friend, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, who died n a plane crash in Croatia.