Host Dave Schlom visits with best-selling author and award-winning anthropologist Meredith F. Small to talk about her new book, Here Begins The Dark Sea: Venice, a Medieval Monk and the Creation of the Most Accurate Map of The World.
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Cultivating Place: California Native Plant Week: CNPS Rare Plant Program & Inventory with Aaron SimsThe third week of April is California Native Plant week, this year being celebrated by the California Native Plant Society via 8 days of action in honor and protection of our native plant diversity.
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President Biden has issued a disaster declaration following a request from Gov. Gavin Newsom. It will reimburse 10 California counties, including Butte, Glenn, and Sutter, for disaster response and recovery costs. Also, the Redding Police Department is preparing to release footage after the first officer-involved shooting in Shasta County since its adoption of body cameras last year, and bus commuters in Redding this month can get a free bike ride pass.
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A California Republican’s bill would exempt low and middle income wildfire victims from solar panels requirements on rebuilt homes that didn’t have them when they burned down.
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A bill to ban homeless encampments statewide near parks, schools and transit hubs failed to get out of the same legislative committee as last year.
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Dillon Carroll pens Invisible Wounds: Mental Illness and Civil War Soldiers (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War), a book that examines the effects of military service, particularly combat, on the psyches and emotional well-being of Civil War soldiers.
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Butte County will hold 11 community meetings to get public input about updating evacuation maps for numerous communities. Also, the Feather River Nature Center in Oroville has been recognized as a ‘monarch waystation’ or a suitable pit stop for the butterfly’s migration, and next week a host of new improvements are slated to get underway for Bruce Road.
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Missouri Republicans are campaigning to make sure voters know they don't have to split their conscience on the abortion issue this November.
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Renée Elise Goldsberry won a Tony and Grammy for her role in Hamilton, and currently stars in Netflix's Girls5Eva. She may Goldsberry, but what does she know about buried gold?
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New Mexico is the twelfth state to require a waiting period for gun purchases. Safety experts say waiting periods can help reduce gun related suicides, but advocates say more needs to be done.
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We look at how one town in Colombia pays homage to the donkey at one of the country's most popular annual festivals.
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NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Bruce Japsen, senior healthcare contributor at Forbes, about a major healthcare provider getting hacked and what that means for patients.
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Food writer and editor Ruth Reichl's new book, "The Paris Novel," is a coming-of age story full of the author's favorite things: Art, fashion, literature, 1980s Paris, and - of course - oysters.
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