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  • Megan Sweeney
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    WAVE Transit officials met on Thursday to discuss plans to add shelters and benches at its transit stops. They also discussed reigniting an Adopt-An-Amenity policy from 2015, with added revisions. This discussion comes after a weeks-long debate over the removal of dozens of benches installed by the local Democratic Socialists of America chapter.
  • Shannon Greer
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    WHQR
    Paula Poundstone is a veteran comedian renowned for her observational humor and razor-sharp wit. As a frequent panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!, she’s no stranger to public media. WHQR’s Aaleah McConnell spoke with Poundstone about her longevity in comedy, and the comfort she’s found in hosting her own podcast, Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone.
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  • On this episode, WHQR's Benjamin Schachtman and Rachel Keith dig into the latest season of the Scene on Radio podcast. Co-hosts John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika took a long, hard look at why people are upset with the news, what’s really wrong with our media ecosystem, and how things might be different — and better.
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