Kevin B
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Kevin B
@bootk.bsky.social
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Actually, I see NPR’s Ken Tucker was ahead of me by a year with his book review, when he stated, “What I was struck by over and over as I prepared this review was how much Newman's work, ever since his debut in 1968, anticipates the times we're living through today” www.npr.org/2024/10/25/g...
Singer/songwriter Randy Newman looks back on his decades-long music career
Ken Tucker reviews Robert Hilburn's biography of Newman, A Few Words in Defense of Our Country. Plus, we listen back to a 1998 archival interview with the Grammy Award-winning artist.
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August 22, 2025 at 4:46 AM
and Lonely at the Top, Suzanne(?!)
August 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
some room to minimize cuts to federal food-nutrition programs, thanks to language allowing the federal government to waive in that state and Hawaii a requirement that states to pay a portion of food benefits when their overpayment or underpayment rates certain thresholds
June 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
by requiring the federal government to make cost-of-living adjustments when reimbursing Alaska’s hospitals for overhead expenses like supplies and insurance.
It also gives Alaska...
June 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
It gives a more generous federal Medicaid matching rate to Alaska by factoring in the higher cost of living in both that state and Hawaii—the other noncontiguous state. It incorporates a proposal from Sullivan aimed at helping state hospitals at risk of closure …
June 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
As Colorado’s Sen. Hickenlooper expressed, "Our public lands are an heirloom — something to hand down to our children." As you’ll see in the video, I’m guessing the mother-calf humpback whales feel that way, too!
June 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Hopefully, all of the Tongass NF will continue to be part of America's wilderness, enjoyed by all, and not sold as part of pending SENR legislation - see map showing America's public lands to be sold, including big parts of the Tongass NF - tinyurl.com/3sye8dew.
250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR bill
The bill mandates disposal of over 2 million acres of BLM and National Forest lands; public lands eligible for sale in the bill encompass over 250 million acres, including local recreation areas, wild...
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June 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM