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Let Us Now Praise Famous Women

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Generally when somebody says to the editor of a radio program “I’m going to get a grant to do long-form multimedia reporting with a poet writing about the working poor,” the editor gets a look on his face. Poetry and poverty — not the most popular subjects in the rundown. But when that somebody is […]

Poetic Recycling

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Your Take: What Book Inspired You?

August 15, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Discovered Letters Inspire Readers at Troy Library

August 15, 2013Business, Economics and Jobs

In Verse: Women of Troy

August 14, 2013Conflict & Justice

American values: thrift

August 14, 2013Business, Economics and Jobs

Ben Franklin once said ‘a penny saved is a penny earned.’ In this era of advertising and prominently-placed product logos, though, can we say that thrift is still a fundamental American Value?

Jobs summits in DC, Cincinnati and on-air

August 14, 2013Global Politics

President Obama will host 130 business leaders at the White House today for a ‘Jobs Summit’ and The Takeaway decided to hold our own.

Obama goes to (community) college

August 14, 2013Global Politics

The president visits Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, New York, today for a speech on higher education and high tech jobs. We speak to Hudson Valley Community College Professor Rich Porter, department chair of Building Systems Technology.