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Planned Parenthood under attack PLUS alive! reunites

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Women’s reproductive options are once again under election-year attack, this time a vicious effort to defund Planned Parenthood.  We’ll survey the potential damage, and its controls.  PLUS: brilliant jazz band alive!, disbanded all too soon after 10+ years of delighting audiences, is staging a 40th reunion concert series.  We talk with Carolyn Brandy and Rhiannon.  … Continued

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Ella Fitzgerald: Quintessentially American

“The song has ended but the melody lingers on”—Irving Berlin When I heard the news of Ella Fitzgerald’s death, I took it very hard.  I knew it signaled more than the end of the greatest jazz singer of all time, whose remarkable career spanned six decades and whose  incomparable body of work is not humanly … Continued