California Transgender Groups Poised To Fight Possible Trump Proposal
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October 23, 2018
Dana Johnson Explores The Complex Human History Of Los Angeles At Stories On Stage Sacramento
Prize-winning novelist and short story author Dana Johnson discusses work from her story collection “In The Not Quite Dark” before her appearance at Stories on Stage Sacramento.
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October 23, 2018
University Of The Pacific Hosts Clinics To Help Patients With Medicare Open Enrollment
The University of the Pacific is hosting 13 public events with their Mobile Medicare Clinics outreach program to help patients pick the right drug plan during the 2018 open enrollment period.
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October 23, 2018
McGeorge Law School Hosts California Initiative Forum 2018 To Explain Ballot Measures
McGeorge School of Law associate dean Mary-Beth Moylan joins to preview the California Initiative Forum where law professors, students and members of the public can learn more about measures on this year’s ballot.
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October 23, 2018
Understanding How Prop. 8 Would Affect The Dialysis Industry
California voter shave 11 ballot measures to decide on this November. CapRadio Health Care Reporter Sammy Caiola breaks down Prop. 8 ahead of Election Day.
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Thousands Of Employees Strike At UC Hospitals
Thousands of University of California medical workers are walking off the job in a contract dispute that has prompted rescheduling of surgeries and thousands of outpatient appointments. The three-day strike begins Tuesday.
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October 22, 2018
Enthusiasm Bump Not Reflected In Early California Voting
The percentage of Californians who have voted so far is similar to this time four years ago.
October 22, 2018
BBC Lookahead: Brazil's Presidential Election, Our Ocean Conference On Plastic Litter
Every Monday, CapRadio's Steve Milne gets a preview of the biggest global stories of the week from BBC reporters. Listen in at 10:37 a.m. during Here & Now.
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October 22, 2018
Celebrating The Public Square With Song
Italian tenor Pasquale Esposito is on tour to support his latest PBS concert special, “Pasquale Esposito Celebrates Italian Piazzas.” He returns to Insight to preview his Oct. 27 performance at the Crest and play some tracks from the show.
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October 22, 2018
UC Davis Planetary Scientist Dr. Sarah T. Stewart’s Research On Planet Formation Earns A MacArthur Fellowship
Dr. Sarah T. Stewart shares her research on how random collisions gave birth to planets and satellites like our Earth and Moon in the infancy of the solar system.
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October 22, 2018
California Voter Foundation Shares Tips On Final Day Of Registration
Kim Alexander from the California Voter Foundation goes over the essential details and changes to the process on the final day of voter registration in California.
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Law
California Judge Cuts Award To $78.5 Million In Monsanto Weedkiller Case
October 23, 2018
The jury had awarded $250 million in punitive damages and $39.25 million in compensatory damages to a groundskeeper who contracted cancer after spraying a powerful version of the weedkiller Roundup.
National Security
6 Questions About An Arms Control Treaty On The Rocks
October 23, 2018
Signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty eliminated an entire class of nuclear weapons. President Trump says he intends to withdraw.
World
Man Sentenced In Germany For Poisoned Baby Food Scheme
October 23, 2018
The 54-year-old got more than a dozen years after confessing to poisoning baby food with an antifreeze ingredient, putting the jars on store shelves and then trying to extort money from supermarkets.
Goats and Soda
A 24-Year-Old Midwife Was Taken Hostage In March — And Killed This Month
October 23, 2018
The International Committee of the Red Cross has announced this latest killing of one of their employees in the unsettled northeast of Nigeria.
Politics
Sandra Day O'Connor Says She Has Dementia, Withdraws From Public Life
October 23, 2018
O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, says she has been diagnosed with "the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer's disease."
Book Reviews
'Glimmer Of Hope' Provides A Blueprint For Launching Social Change
October 23, 2018
With a new collection of essays, the 25 founders of March For Our Lives return the subject of the Parkland shooting and gun violence to national consciousness just in time for midterms elections.
Middle East
Evidence Shows Khashoggi Was 'Brutally Murdered,' Turkish President Erdogan Says
October 23, 2018
Turkey's leader rejected Saudi Arabia's claim that the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was an accident. He said 18 suspects under arrest in Saudi Arabia should face justice in Turkey.
Religion
Museum Of The Bible Says 5 Of Its Most Famed Artifacts Are Fake
October 23, 2018
After independent analysis, the museum said on Monday that five of its famed Dead Sea Scrolls fragments were fake. They will be pulled from their exhibit. Other fragments will undergo further study.
KHN | Shots - Health News
Republican Gun Store Owner And Legislator Campaigns For Medicaid Expansion In Idaho
October 23, 2018
Idaho is one of three conservative states where voters will decide in November whether to buck the GOP's resistance to the Affordable Care Act and implement its Medicaid expansion for adults.
GPB | The Salt
Another Storm Victim — Pecan Groves In Southwest Georgia
October 23, 2018
Decades-old pecan trees in Georgia were among the victims when Hurricane Michael swept through the state last week. This year's harvest will be slim and it will take years to recover.
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Sammy Caiola fills us in on Prop. 8. The McGeorge Law School hosts a ballot proposition forum. University of the Pacific tells us about their Medicare clinics. Author Dana Johnson looks ahead to her appearance at Stories on Stage this Friday.
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