For federal research on gun safety under reported deal the spending bill side for House voted soon as tomorrow would provide 25000000 for gun violence research divided evenly between the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Here's N.P.R.'s Martin costy federal spending on gun violence research has been limited by Republican and Ari opposition to anything that looks like advocacy for gun control especially by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Jeffrey Swanson is a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for gun policy and research I think it sends a message it's the 1st time in 25 years that the c.d.c. Has been able to devote this amount of money specifically to gun violence without having to you know hide it under the radar the c.d.c. 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News I'm Joanna Allen Eagle County is suing Eastlink a red giant jewel and similar companies last week Boulder County became Colorado's 1st local government to take that step jewel says it will work to earn the public's trust and prevent under age use Eagle County has reported some of the highest teen of a ping rates in the country activists are fasting to protest new state overtime and minimum wage rules being discussed today at a public hearing in Denver rules taking effect next year will give extra protections to tens of thousands of workers except most agricultural workers Marilyn Winokur of Coloradans for the common good is fasting it just makes me more conscious by not eating of what it would be like to not have farm workers out there they're the ones who are providing the food and yet they don't get the minimum types of protections activists want the state Labor Department to require rest and meal breaks for farm workers given Apolo signed an executive order today updating a sustainability goals for state government we want to lead by example here in the state of Colorado and cut emissions from our state buildings our state fleet really to show that we can save money contribute to cleaner air and really lead the way for others to emulate bola says state agencies will buy more electric vehicles and install l.e.d. 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News I'm Audie Cornish and I'm Ari Shapiro moderate Democrats are split over how to vote on impeachment on one hand you have New Jersey Representative Jeff Van Drew he opposes impeachment and now plans to switch parties and become a Republican on the other hand there's Michigan Congresswoman Alyssa Slotkin she spent all weekend thinking about her vote then in an op ed published today in The Detroit Free Press she announced her choice she is now for impeachment now before we hear directly from the congresswoman let's hear how she explained her decision to voters reporter Abigail sense of have you k. a R. Was at Slatkin's town hall event earlier today. This is a community meeting in Rochester Michigan but inside the room it felt like 2 worlds as she shouted over protestors to announce how she'll vote on impeachment while we may not agree I hope you believe me when I tell you that I made this decision out of principle and out of a duty to protect and defend the Constitution I feel that in my bones and I will stick to that regardless of what it does to me politically because this is bigger than politics. So more spitting mad about her decision and there to let her know shouting 4 more years and deep state others were there to show their support for the 1st term congresswoman who represents a district that voted for President Trump in 2016 Tim Sawmiller is a retiree who says supporting impeachment will help Slotkin keep her seat next year well it's a brave decision in a swing district I think she'll definitely have Democrats or her corner and she voted No I think she would have ended her political career Steve Deane as a photographer who was holding an Impeach slot and sign did you watch those hearings the series where how did you know well everyone knows well how do you know do you have any evidence when the phone call you know Will someone else said when they get the guy who said he says oh it was speculation before the meeting Dean was waiting in line and got into an argument with Michelle Bryant she's a nurse. And veteran who supports thought can and says voters need to put country over party when I see individuals come and have signs that says Democrat hate. In our country and that you know it elicits should be impeach why for doing her job the only time the heckling quieted down was when she talked about things like prescription drug pricing or water quality then it appeared people were listening for n.p.r. News I'm Abigail sente in Rochester Michigan after Democratic congresswoman Alyssa slacken walked off the stage at her Rochester Michigan event she got on the phone with us and I asked her what she had noticed about the crowd's reaction when she spoke about her decision to support impeachment What really caught my attention today was how many folks there were in the audience Trump supporters people wearing hats and holding posters in support of the President who were actually listening and who were letting me talk and explain myself and to be honest with you all I can do as a member who's from a very mixed district is to make the most objective decision I can be transparent with my constituents and explain to them how I make decisions and I know that many of them aren't going to agree with me but my hope is that they at least understand that I made this decision based on a sense of personal integrity and my oath of office and I hope that they hear that I want to ask you about how you did come to your conclusion because Republicans have argued that what the president may have done was wrong but not impeachable on this 1st article specifically of abuse of power how did you reach the conclusion that you did that this deserves impeachment I actually just by chance had a holiday party for a bipartisan caucus that I'm a part of something called the Problem Solvers caucus that happened to be held at the National Archives and the National Archives houses the Constitution the Declaration of Independence I mean it's a it's a. Very weighty place and it reminded me of what I was doing and how important it was to go back to those original documents and when it comes to an article of impeachment on abuse of power for me it started with the fact that the president and in addition his lawyer said openly that they reached out to a foreigner and asked for an investigation of a political rival they were saying how's are things that are actually tipped to in this direction like was there inflection point it tipped me in Certainly I bet the reason I called for an impeachment inquiry and then throughout the testimony if you read the transcripts if you go through the tapes you see both 1st hand and 2nd hand accounts of people supporting that very basic idea of inviting a foreigner to participate in some way in an American democratic election and I can't stand by that I cannot let that just go because the president says a lot of things and does a lot of things there has to be some protection of our system and I felt my oath of office kick in my duty to protect and defend the Constitution and the evidence I believe confirmed that 1st initial statement or set of statements by the president and his lawyer I want to talk about then Drew he's the New Jersey representative who has consistently voted against the president and now he is switching parties What is your reaction to that as someone who is also in a mixed district. Well it sounds like a decision made almost exclusively on political expediency My understanding is that he was in a tough Democratic primary My understanding is he might not have won that primary and so in contrast everything I've ever heard from him he made the decision to go over to the Republican side and obviously he's free to do that I just think it reflects just such a cynical political way of looking at your job as a leader and as a representative What is your advice though to lawmakers in moderate districts who are facing similar tough decisions I mean you only narrowly beat a Republican incumbent last year in your district did go to trump in 2016 my advice is to make decisions that allow you to look in the mirror every morning my advice is to trust the voters that they would rather have a representative with integrity than one who agrees with them on every single issue people have to do things based on their oath of office or else they should find something else to do but you know the House speaker worked very hard to try to protect moderate Democrats from risking their seats through this process do you think that she could have done more. I think the the speaker and the leadership team as a whole has been very responsive to Democrats across the political spectrum including folks from tough districts but you have been here as a bad I've been told more times than I can count that the vote I'll be casting this week will mark the end of my short political career yes I have we've had articles written in our big papers about it. And that may be true that may be correct and and all I can do is is hope and put my faith in the voters that they'd rather have someone with a backbone and with integrity than someone who just puts a talking point or puts a position out there to make everybody happy but if it is the end of my political career and I hope it's not I It is the greatest honor of my life to be the representative of Michigan's 8th district but if the voters decide differently at least I can walk out of the job with my head held high and that is extremely important to me that's Michigan Congresswoman Alyssa Slotkin Democrat who plans to vote for impeachment in the House this week thank you for your time thanks so much already. Researchers say a cancer drug has cleared another hurdle as a potential treatment for Parkinson's disease if the drug succeeds it would be the 1st to slow down Parkinson's rather than just reducing its symptoms N.P.R.'s Jon Hamilton reports skeptics still have doubts about the unusual treatment the drug is called a lot and it's used for a type of leukemia but a team at Georgetown University Medical Center has been studying a lot in it as a way to treat Parkinson's and other brain diseases Dr Fernando pro-gun says it works like a garbage disposal to clear out toxic substances that build up in brain cells you turn on the garbage disposal daily and you're able to get rid of that accumulation and hopefully see better function preliminary results looked encouraging so the team launched a study of $75.00 Parkinson's patients some got relatively low doses of no law which is sold under the brand name to Cigna others got a placebo pro-gun says the results show that the drug is reasonably safe for these patients and may even be slowing down the disease this drug is still not ready for prime time I think there's still a lot more work to be done but we are seeing signals that this may be a potential treatment for Parkinson's patients patients who got the drug had lower levels of 2 toxic substances in their spinal fluid they also reported a better quality of life and Georgetown's charbroiled says the drug seemed to increase dopamine the brain chemical that is lacking in people with Parkinson's and a lot and it is seeing the f.a. Lability of the store I mean and the brains of the brain is now extract in its own in dozen stores of the opening the results appear in the Journal John mineralogy and they represent the latest exchange in an ugly scientific conflict over the use of know a lot in it for Parkinson's the Michael j. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's research has publicly critic. The Georgetown research even as it was conducting its own study of the drug and earlier this month the foundation announced that an allotment didn't help Parkinson's patients in their study even though the study results hadn't been published Mussa who holds a patent on the use of for treating brain diseases says patients should ignore the scientific in-fighting this may fail it's Ok but I think the concept is very feasible and if this drug doesn't work another drug will work but scientists including Dr Joe Perlmutter of Washington University in St Louis had doubts about the study they really didn't find anything convincing Perlmutter says some results look good at one time point but not another and he says it's not clear whether the dopamine changes were caused by a lot it's possible these are really statistical aberrations and are not really convincing evidence of a change and despite the drug but we don't know Perlmutter says he's also concerned about side effects which were more frequent in people who got the drug he says it will take a much larger study to show whether in the lot and it really can help people with Parkinson's John Hamilton n.p.r. 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News this is All Things Considered I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish do you compromise to get things done or do you stick to your principles and fight that dilemma has played out prominently in the Democratic race for president it was also central to a moment that helped make Senator Bernie Sanders a national figure Bernie Sanders fans know it simply as the speech in 2010 Sanders went to the Senate floor he was protesting a bipartisan agreement brokered by Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Mitch McConnell who was the minority leader then N.P.R.'s Scott Petro has more on this turning point in Sanders political career on December 10th 2010 President Barack Obama was facing a lot of pressure Democrats had just lost the House of Representatives and here was Obama about a month later asking his party for a major tax deal that would extend the Bush administration's tax cuts for the wealthy something Democrats had railed on for years the issue here is not whether I think that the tax cuts for the wealthy are a good or smart thing to do that morning Obama was on N.P.R.'s Morning Edition defending the deal the problem is is that this is the single issue that the Republicans are willing to. Scotch the entire deal for Obama had tapped Vice President Joe Biden to figure out a deal with Mitch McConnell they reached one relatively quickly in several phone calls over the course of a single week and Republicans got the tax cuts the Bush extensions plus a cut in a state taxes paid by the mega wealthy Democrats got an extension of unemployment benefits and a range of other broader tax cuts a few hours after Obama's interview aired Bernie Sanders walked onto the Senate floor I think we can do better. And I am here today to take a strong stand against this bill at this point Sanders had been in Congress for nearly 2 decades he had a long and consistent track record but he hadn't emerged as a national figure that would start to change over the course of the next 8 hours you can call what I'm doing today whatever you want you can call it a filibuster you can call it a very long speech I'm not here to set any great records I was sitting with him for the entire 8 hours that Bernie was doing his filibuster Warren gunnels has been on Sandor staff for decades that day on the Senate floor he was running point of standards needed notes gunnels handed them to him there was a sign or a chart that would help Sanders point gunnels would send another staffer to fetch it also sander speech notes were relatively minimal I would call it a refrain of about 3 or 4 pages of how he wanted to set it up Sanders kept returning to 2 points over and over 1st that public opinion was on his side the polls show us the American people do not believe millionaires and billionaires need more tax breaks Sanders also made a point to talk past the other lawmakers who he likely realized were mostly going to vote for the bipartisan deal he kept urging people to call Congress to complain if they make their voices heard and said enough is enough the rich of dotted all right now the clock kept ticking and Sanders kept secret he started trending on Twitter traffic surged on the Senate website at points the phone lines to Senate offices jammed up the speech was clearly hitting a nerve with progressives colonel says it was something else though that made them realize they were breaking through when the White House responded with a dramatic move over flown or various all over for the other guy I don't even know if they had a topic in mind but they just rolled out Bill Clinton while Bernie was speaking Obama had brought the former president into the White House briefing room to make his pitch for the compromise the agreement taken as a whole. Is I believe. The best bipartisan agreement we can reach to help the largest number of Americans meanwhile on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue Sanders kept going this is a transfer of wealth it's Robin Hood in reverse the Sanders wrapped after 8 hours and 30 minutes he could finally take a break so could gunnels I was exhausted I was mentally exhausted I can't say I was physically exhausted because I was sitting down the whole time but the filibuster failed the Senate voted overwhelmingly to approve the tax bill Sandor speech hadn't seemed to change any minds still very soon Gunnell saw things differently when you look back at that I think that might have been the spark that began to set things off the speech was quickly turned into a book which was a bestseller and Bernie Sanders was suddenly a much more prominent figure another longtime Sanders advisor Jeff Weaver agrees that brought Bernie Sanders to the notice of millions of Americans who didn't know who he was and I think that laid a lot of the groundwork for the success that he would see in the 20152016 election cycle the next year Joe Biden stood next to Mitch McConnell on the stage and defended the deal which we both believe has spurred the economic growth we've got a long way to go but it actually not only was a compromise music compromise that was useful for the economy Obama did get those top tier Bush tax cuts eliminated down the line still in the immediate wake of the filibuster Bernie Sanders told n.p.r. He was tired of compromises might we have to compromise yeah maybe we do but Chicago waged a fight before you compromise you got to take the case to the American people and we didn't do that compromise or fight nearly a decade later Sanderson Biden are battling for the Democratic presidential nomination in a contest that largely revolves around that same key question Scott Petro n.p.r. News Washington. Here's something Bernie Sanders is fighting for right now the future of baseball yesterday in Iowa he took a few minutes to take a few swings. It wasn't just a heartland photo op on the campaign trail baseball fans are worried about a new proposal it would get rid of a significant number of the country's minor league teams many of them in smaller cities and towns N.P.R.'s Tom Goldman reports before Bernie Sanders took his swings and he did connect a couple of times he met with a few people did discuss the proposed contraction Major League Baseball reportedly wants to cut more than a quarter of the current 162 minor league teams that are affiliated with major league clubs attorney Garrett brush house a former minor leaguer was one of those who met with Sanders you can imagine some of the personal issue to have the former mayor of a minor they find it outrageous Sanders recently wrote to Major League Commissioner Rob Manfred saying the proposal would quote destroy thousands of jobs and devastate local economies not to mention in many small towns minor league baseball is what you do to have fun in the summer time and they'll be says contraction would be a way to streamline a minor league system where there are inferior even unsafe stadiums and where Major League owners pay too much for minor league operations after contraction the argument goes the remaining minor league players could be paid more brush houses class action lawsuit against m.l. Be filed in 2014 claims that many minor leaguers aren't even paid minimum wage the current contract between the majors and minors ends after next season last week Commissioner Manfred said he's committed to resolving the issues through bargaining it is by no means a fait accompli as to what the agreements going to look like Major League Baseball has men and will remain flexible in its negotiating position he claims though that minor league leaders are not being flexible and the 2 sides have been battling publicly so much so that last Friday and they'll be released a statement essentially threatening to scuttle. The longstanding relationship between the majors and minors Tom Goldman n.p.r. News. This is n.p.r. 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Well in Atlanta a federal judge there is allowing election officials to move forward with a planned purge of more than 300000 inactive voter registration starting tonight later this week a hearing is scheduled to potentially reinstate some of those voters Georgia Public Broadcasting Stephen follower explains most of the people on Georgia's purge list either moved away or had mail marked undeliverable and federal law does require regular voter list maintenance but about 120000 of them are set to be purged because they haven't voted or made contact with elections officials sense 2012. Voting rights groups say a recent changes day long means those people should get 2 more years before the registrations are cancelled the judge is allowing the purge to continue but will hold another hearing on Thursday if the voting rights groups prevail then the state says it will immediately begin reinstating the registrations to the inactive list for n.p.r. News I'm Stephen Fowler at Atlanta ahead of a full House vote on whether to impeach the president a new n.p.r. P.b.s. News Hour Maris poll finds Americans remain divided 48 percent of the country opposes impeachment while 47 percent support it despite weeks of public hearings that is statistically unchanged from last month in our poll we found that 91 percent of Republicans approve of the job that President Trump is doing has a 42 percent job approval rating which is basically exactly where it's been for the entirety of his presidency Yes it's much lower or generally lower than what other presidents have had but that consistency if impeachment isn't going to change it I doubt anything else really will That's N.P.R.'s Dominican want to narrow in the 2020 Democratic presidential nominating contests the poll shows former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders leading you are listening to n.p.r. News in Culver City California. This is c.p.r. News I'm Joanna Allen Colorado could be the next day to allow human composting as an alternative to a conventional burial or cremation the process turns the body into soil in about a month C.P.R.'s Venter Berkland has more supporters say the process of turning a body into soil is cheaper than the average burial uses less energy than cremations and gives a little back to nurture the earth you can play it a tree or flowers you can put it in a pot inside or printed outside that's Democratic Representative Brianna tone of Arvada she's working on a bill for the coming legislative session to make it clear that Colorado allows body composting you could spread it out in a forest or your favorite park where you wouldn't even know it was even there but it was adding new trees of the soil a Seattle based company has a patent pending and a process that uses wood chips straw and alfalfa to decompose a body inside a vessel founder Katrina spade came up with the idea as a graduate student when she began to think about her own end of life wishes it's really a way to take what nature does anyway and all over the world and forests. And help it happen a little bit faster the timing for space company seems to be right between the burgeoning alternative death care industry and people's increasing environmental concerns so when you put those things together you start to think oh yeah this is pretty practical it's actually a pretty logical that a decade ago most Americans had a traditional burial but now a slim majority choose cremation and the alternatives to those 2 options are increasing I fight from birth death is literally the only experience that every single one of us will have Jamie star Shay's with the feldman mortuary in Denver most of their customers opt for natural burial which means minimal or no in Balmain and a by. Degradable casket she hopes a discussion at the state capital will encourage more people to give thought to their end of life options and we really ought to be talking about it and anything that we refuse to discuss just have way too much power human composting won't appeal to many of course and it will still cost several $1000.00 more than cremation but advocates say they want it to at least be one more option on the market and then to Birkeland c.p.r. . Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from t.i.a. Committed to the idea that while most things in life run out from clean shirts in the morning to a favorite dessert at night life time income in retirement shouldn't learn more it a dot org slash never run out and from c 3 dot a i c 3 dot a I's software enables organizations to use artificial intelligence that enterprise scale solving previously unsolvable business problems learn more it see 3 dot a I. From n.p.r. News this is All Things Considered I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish 52 people have died and more than 2000 have been hospitalized this year because of lung injuries caused by bathing the crisis has raised awareness about the larger problem of being Now while many of the worst cases have been linked to black market products that contain new evidence suggest something more that people who nicotine are more likely to get respiratory diseases including chronic bronchitis and emphysema N.P.R.'s Allison Aubrey reports early last year one of the most comprehensive studies ever done pointed to evidence that teens who vapor nicotine can experience increased coughing wheezing and other short term effects such as asthma exacerbations Now researchers are beginning to pin down the potential long term risks the new study finds that Eesa directs are linked to an increased risk of chronic lung disease Stan Glantz a professor of medicine at u.c. San Francisco and his collaborators assess data from a study of about $30000.00 people including smokers and people who've ate we started out with people who didn't have any diagnosis of respiratory disease and then we followed them forward in time for 3 years and we said is are an association between cigarette use and new respiratory disease during that time people who used combustible products such as cigarettes had more than doubled the risk of being diagnosed with a respiratory disease which is not surprising but the more novel finding is that isa Gretz had an independent effect people in the study who only used the cigarettes had about a 30 percent higher risk of developing chronic conditions such as chronic bronchitis and physio or asthma gland says the risks appear to be highest among adults who both the vapor and smoke which often happens when people turn to vaporing in an attempt to quit smoking but then aren't able to completely give up cigarettes. If you are a dual use that is if you're using cigarettes and he said rats at the same time these 2 risks multiply given that ease cigarettes are relatively new the long term effects of a ping are just beginning to be understood says Robert terrine of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill he says this study offers important evidence I think it's fair to say that the new study adds to the body of evidence saying they think the cigarette is harmful to the long it seems that easy carets can harm the longs in multiple ways the thing can lead to inflammation and tamp down immune defenses very thing can do a lot. Changing from actually processes and actually things causing you know suppression and leaves people more prone to infection he says it's not just the nicotine there are other ingredients including propylene glycol glycerin and flavoring compounds that may lead to harmful effects when heated and inhaled despite these risks many argue that Eesa Gretz still have a role to play in trying to help smokers reduce the risk of lung disease Amy Fairchild is dean of the College of Public Health at the Ohio State University there is no question that they the nicotine is not safe but it is safer than inhaling burning tobacco this remains the key argument in favor of a bank that it's less risky than smoking but at a time when one in 4 high school seniors report vaporing and are at risk of getting hooked on nicotine the authors of The New Paper argue the evidence pointing to the harms of East cigarettes is starting to pile up Allison Aubrey n.p.r. News m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m m. It's the season of giving So we've asked our international correspondents to give us the gift of tape something they recorded that never made it into a radio story that they haven't been able to forget today international correspondent Jane Arraf takes us to a place that she has visited many times and on this visit she ended up someplace on expected Hi Jane hi there so take us into the scene where were you so this was Mosul Iraq's 2nd biggest city and Mosul it was still emerging from the influence of ISIS it was under ISIS control for almost 3 years and almost everything was banned particularly drinking and smoking near the river that divides the city we went through this entrance through the steel door and then there were guys collecting weapons from people who had weapons and then quick body searches for the man and then we open the doors and there was this. What are we hearing it's being smoky room really smoky full of men with what looks like being go cards and they're drinking beer and drinking whiskey but they're mostly focusing on the bingo which isn't actually called bingo here what is the Arabic word for bingo it's called double if you want a gun but not. So happy that's engineer at their house and who opened the place in fact it's the 1st being no hole opened in Mosul since 1994 and the 1st bar to be opened there in maybe like a decade you mentioned it was full of men was this like a strictly male only space it was so strictly a male of Elise face we went there with her local producers. He's from Mosul and a friend from Swedish Radio who's also a woman and the owner who was our host told us we were the 1st 2 women who had ever been there and it's not about how in Baghdad apart from a very old staid social club where families go to play being known when electrical appliances women. Didn't go to these places and I said I think seen women go to them before in Baghdad and he said but but to him and. Bad women. But these were not bad men playing bingo in the hall where you were. Presumably not they were happy men the ones who were winning anyway because this isn't just this isn't bingo for like peanuts or electrical appliances it's for cash money up to $3000.00 a game up to 3000 dollars a game Whoa did they have the same kind of like big rolling cage in front that they would pull balls out of did it look like a bingo hall that we would see in America so it had a big blue ball but it was a lot more complicated than Big go because there are numbers and not letters and the numbers go from one to 90 and then the announcer would do this clever sort of thing where before almost every number he'd give some sort of reference that the Iraqis would get like he'd say war with Iran and everybody would know that was 88 because in 1988 was the year the war ended so James over the last year you have covered so many scenes of war of refugees of cities coming back to life after ISIS Why is this the scene that stuck with you that you wanted to bring to us today. I think because for all the time I've spent in Mosul you know that there was time spent under the restrictions of Saddam or with the u.s. Military or in and out quickly when ISIS were around and I kind of felt like I never got to know it so there I was sitting with remarkable people from Mosul who had been there all along this this young activist who has volunteer movement to help to rebuild the city with a musician and with people like I think are the businessman who opened it who said he wanted to change the mentality in Mosul but he wasn't to do with guns because then people would bring more guns he was going to do it by offering period and being go and I think most of all that it brought back a part of that Iraq that I had known and loved and that's now harder to find that tolerance where if you want to you can go to the mosque and pray or if you want to you can go and drink can play bingo and all of those things coexist N.P.R.'s general Africa gift from the international desk this one from Mosul Iraq thank you James thank you for. Your listening to All Things Considered. This is c.b.r. News I'm Joanna Allen blinding snow steep roads and lots of traffic driving in Colorado's mountains this time of year can be a dicey proposition and even if you get to your destination safely your car could take a beating along the way especially your windshield from debris on the road we had a Colorado Wonder's question asking if that problem could be fixed C.P.R.'s Nathaniel minor looks into it Mark Burgman of Edwards is a car guy were in his b.m.w. Driving down Interstate 70 in Eagle County I took care of my car is there not just tools of Transportation for me and that's why I could feel him start to get nervous as an 18 wheeler passes us the roads here are covered with sand and small rocks to help with traction when it's no way out the truck's a big tires kick up some of that and fling it backward right into Mark Bergman's windshield that's the small stuff Bergmann slows down to let the truck pass quickly has been Merc scapes unfazed today but in the 4 years since he moved here from the Northeast Bergmann says he's had 4 windshields replaced and one memory stands out it was a beautiful clear day in the late spring probably late May early June a stone came flying and hit the windshield on my Mazda Miata I'm just glad I have to top up what was your reaction a familiar with the 7 words George Carlin said you couldn't say on t.v. And radio I won't get into it here but they are not nice words insurance generally covers the cost of repairs and replacements but getting them done can be a hassle and so urgent called me because he wanted an answer to this question why it is. A very large aggregate or stones as I'll call them instead of sand for traction so I called seed out and talk to Kyle Laster see DOT's director of maintenance and operates. Since And he feels a marked Bergman's pain you have had your eye on one short cut Yes I believe it's cracked right now. Lester says see that uses an aggregate that's a little bigger than playground say and about a quarter inch at the largest any smaller than that and he says it would wash off the road too quickly and plug up nearby rivers and that's a big deal watersheds are very fragile and the state uses tens of thousands of tons of aggregate every winter and there's one more reason to see that mixes the aggregate with liquid to help it stick to the road better if the sand is too tiny it'll turn into mud if you have to find of a product that will be gone by and not leave the truck Lester admits that sometimes some bigger rocks will slip through he blames that on quality control issues and Lester says those issues are just a fact of life when you buy as much of this stuff as si dot does Eagle County Government uses a similar aggregate on local roads so I called Mark Burgman back and ran all of this by him he was not impressed Well I'd really like to see si dot improve their quality control and while I'm not on some long great crusade I'd like to try to activate our state representatives to have them take a look at it too in the meantime seems like this will probably remain very common what I'm going to start by doing is heating this up just in this small area Steve Moore with novus out a glass holds a tiny blowtorch Now you can get this at Home Depot for 30 bucks we're in a garage of a home in the Vail Valley Steve Moore is leaning over a Mercedes-Benz with a tiny chip in its windshield he says have chips aren't fixed at this stage they could likely spread into bigger cracks more of apparatus the moisture from the glass so the repair resin will hold tight next he attaches a tool with a big suction cup to the glass so basically I'm forcing glue into the damage and removing the or then he uses a u.v. Light to cure the resin and make it hard the whole thing takes about 20 to. 30 minutes Moore says he's done this repair $10.00 to $15.00 times per day in the winter since he started it now if it's franchise in the early eighties back then the industry was still young people didn't know when shields could even be repaired Novus is now a multinational conglomerate We're all over the world I think we're in $43.00 countries doing chip repairs and obviously Colorado is one of the biggest markets for it he's done this repair nearly 200000 times but he says he doesn't get bored I run into friends all day long it's pretty social and I'm helping people out and they're usually pretty happy when I'm there and happy when I leave it's not hard to see why because even if drivers here have to deal with little dings in cracks the view through that glass of the Colorado Rockies it makes it all worth it I'm nothing minor c.p.r. News. 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News I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish beautiful and crazy making the cries of a small child for another book as a parent it's the best thing if you love the book but if you don't Yikes So to help us build the best book shelves for youthful enjoyment and your family sanity we've asked Matt Taylor Pena to join us he's written lots of books for loads of ages including the Newberry Award winning last stop on Market Street Welcome back to the show thanks so much for having me so let's talk about some of your suggestions there's a book called Saturday that just came out this year tell us about the author and why this one hit home with you this comes to us from Game aura who wrote Thank you all move which one of tons of awards last year so my whole family love the book we were super excited for the new one what I love about this one it's very simple language but it's exploring a single parent it's exploring an African-American child's navigation through the world but it's not about that so this little girl and her mom are so excited for their one day they get together it was Saturday because as mother worked Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday Saturday was the day they cherished they go to the park but it's too crowded they get their hair done but then a bus comes and splashes a puddle and ruins their hair so all the things they set out to do they're not working out however when they forget their tickets to the puppet show they both look at each other and after sort of letting that sink in for a 2nd disappointment they decide they'll make their own puppet show so it's a really sweet ending and really it's about 2 people a mother and a daughter spending time together and I can imagine for the parent reading it especially if you do work a lot single parent or not there's something in there for you as well. Right because we can make those interactions very high stakes when we do have the time see that's the thing I travel a lot for work so when I'm home I try to be home and this book sort of hit home for me as a parent but my daughter loves the pictures. Another book this one is about summer actually saffron ice cream Why does this appeal to you and why do you think it makes sense for young readers so saffron ice cream is a book I don't think a lot of people know about it's by an Iranian artist name Russian and it's about a little girl who's an immigrant to America she's going to the beach for the very 1st time and is called Coney Island we're getting there by subway train which is filled with all sorts of people in Iran the Caspian scene looks endless blue and beautiful How will the scene look in Brooklyn when she sees an ice cream vendor she gets really excited because when she was at the Caspian Sea and Iran she would always get saffron ice cream so she gets up there she orders on for ice cream and they don't have it she cries because she's not just crying about the ice cream she's crying about being an outsider being in a place that's new and then a little girl in the back. Says you should try chocolate crunch and she does and she loves it and those 2 girls play together what about the idea of books for very young children that tackle really difficult topics I think about Lupita Nyong'o his book I think it's called Solway maybe it came out this year which is essentially about colorism Solway was born the color of midnight mama was the color of dawn Baba the color of dusk and meet her sister was the color of High Noon and introduces a small girl a child who wishes that her skin wasn't so dark. I have had mixed kind of responses from people about what parts of the book were appropriate depending on how old the child was I mean how do you suggest people go about having these talks in their own home here's my theory is there a safer place to explore the more challenging parts of life than in the lap of a loved one so and then my theory is you let the child take you where they want to in conversation around the book if they want to talk about the colorism aspect they will guide you into the conversation if they just want to talk about Vashti Harrison's amazing illustrations then you just kind of go with that but I think giving children an opportunity to sort of experience something. That they're going to find in the real world a world eventually and if they can experience it through a book 1st I just think that's it's a really great thing for parents and for the child. So you have 2 small children and I should have said very small children and one of them is like one and a half or so yes are you reading. To him or her at this age and what kind of books have you found of value. So this is interesting you know you kids don't come the same way even though they have the same parents write we know this my daughter will read anything she could read books all day and all night my son however not the biggest book then in fact one time I remember I was reading to them he closed the book knocked it out of my hands jumped off the couch and pushed it under the couch saws like Ok he's a challenge. There's not one there's one author illustrator that we have found he actually loves his name is Chris Houghton I believe is located in the u.k. And our favorite book that he's created that my wife and I share with Margo is a book called Oh no George and he loves this book he picks it off a shelf every night before bed George see something in the kitchen each cake I said I'd be good George thanks and I love cake there is another book you mention it's called the dead bird from Margaret Wise Brown who also wrote Goodnight Moon which everyone reads No one really reads this one. And it's probably because of the plot tell us more about it yes so the dead bird is possibly one of my favorite picture books ever. And I have the realist ration by Christian Robinson who somebody I've worked with before and I greatly admire and I think some people are scared off from this book because the word dead is in the title. Do you mind if I read you a couple of my favorite lines please do Ok so after they sing the song to this bird that they buried we get this line from our eyes brown she says around the stone they planted white violet plants and while draining arms only the dreamy ems faded and every day until they forgot they went and saying to their little dead bird and put fresh flowers on his grave. And I just love this line until they forgot because isn't that childhood you're living in the now you're trying on the adult sensibilities but really you're concerned with right this 2nd and I think that's such an amazing psychological element of childhood that you can share with them well Matt Pena thank you so much for bringing these these books to us old and new it's a lovely mix Thank you it's such a pleasure to talk to you that's Madeleine Pena kid's book writer by day and kids will read or by night to going to and Miguel his picture books include Carmela full of wishes love and last stop on Market Street and thanks to N.P.R.'s Lynn Neary for reading from some of my picks for us. You're listening to All Things Considered from n.p.r. News support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from the y.m.c.a. a Nonprofit working to fill gaps and bridge divides in 10000 u.s. Communities details about the impact of donations are available at y.m.c.a. Dot net slash giving the y. 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I'm Ari Shapiro And I'm Audie Cornish this hour the Supreme Court decides not to hear a case about the right of homeless people to pitch tents in cities cities hands are tied now by the 9th Circuit's decision because it effectively creates a constitutional right to camp in Wisconsin Democrats scramble to reregister voters after a court ruling removes more than 200000 people from the rolls and in Beijing facial recognition technology has become integrated into daily life I think surveillance cameras are of those things that if you start noticing them you can notice that the return of the scrunchy after these headlines. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Jack Speer the House Judiciary Committee is laying out its case for the impeachment of President Donald Trump you know sweeping 648 page document Democratic lawmakers accusing Trump of abusing the power of his office for personal political gain and of obstructing Congress House vote to impeach the president would set the stage for a Senate trial next year Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer calling into for fresh evidence and testimony from key White House officials including former national security advisor John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney I haven't seen a single good argument about why these witnesses shouldn't testify where these documents be produced unless the president has something to hide and his supporters want that information hidden if the House moves to impeach would be only the 3rd time in u.s. History such action has been taken against a u.s. President Boeing will temporarily stop production of at $737.00 Max jetliner next month as it waits for regulators to approve changes to the troubled plane all Max planes have been grounded since March after 2 deadly crashes N.P.R.'s David Schaper reports the Boeing $737.00 factory will go idle but the company does not expect to lay off employees in a statement announcing to suspend should a max production at its Renton Washington factory Boeing says it plans to have affected employees continue 730 so.
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