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#OnPointListens: Talking Wildfires And A Changing Climate In Spokane

Tom Ashbrook is in Spokane, Washington for On Point’s national listening tour talking with locals about this tough wildfire season and our changing climate.

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48:32Sep 25, 2017

#OnPointListens: Listening To A Changing Portland, And Country

We are in Portland, Maine on our national listening tour talking about the president now, our divided U.S. economy, and how gentrification is playing out in Portland and beyond.

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48:12Aug 4, 2017

Jackson County, Colorado. (Kent Kanouse via Creative Commons)

#OnPointListens: Meet Betsy From Colorado

Betsy has been on the front lines of her rural community's struggle to plug into reliable, high-speed broadband internet.

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Aug 2, 2017

#OnPointListens: We're On The Road Again

We're hitting the road again next week! On Point's National Listening Tour is coming to Portland, Maine.

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Jul 28, 2017

Burts Bees co-founder Roxanne Quimbys foundation last August donated 87,000 acres to the federal government for the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine's North Woods. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)

Tallying The Economic Impact Of Our National Monuments

Our National Monuments are under review -- why does it matter?

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47:27May 19, 2017

#OnPointListens: Seeing The Real Milwaukee

Tom reflects after his visit to Milwaukee.

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Apr 21, 2017

#OnPointListens: Listening To A Divided Milwaukee

We are in majority minority Milwaukee on our national listening tour, talking about race in the age of Trump.

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48:41Apr 21, 2017

Demonstrators kneel for a moment of silence outside the JFK Federal Building, Monday, March 27, 2017, in Boston, as they protest the detention by federal immigration officials of two advocates for Vermont dairy farm workers, as well as an undocumented Vermont farm worker. (Elise Amendola/AP)

#OnPointListens: Meet Anne From Vermont

Meet Anne from Vermont, a listener who prompted another #OnPointListens broadcast!

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Apr 13, 2017

A milk cow stands in her stall at the Billings Farm & Museum in Woodstock, VT. (Lisa Rathke/AP)

Big Worries In Vermont’s Dairy Industry

Fears on the farm. How President Trump’s immigration crackdown could impact Vermont’s dairy industry.

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47:39Apr 13, 2017

#OnPointListens: Hello, Tampa

We are in Tampa, Florida on our national listening tour, asking Tampa citizens how they see this new administration—and America’s future—unfolding.

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47:51Mar 17, 2017

#OnPointListens: The View From A Tampa Sandwich Shop

We're in Tampa, Florida this week, visiting our friends at WUSF and talking with regular Floridians about the issues that matter to them in the early days of the new...

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Mar 16, 2017

People camp out on a sidewalk in the Kakaako neighborhood of Honolulu. A Hawaii lawmaker wants to classify homelessness as a medical condition so that people could use Medicaid money for rent payments. (Audrey McAvoy/AP)

Prescribing New Solutions To Homelessness

A radical proposal from Hawaii: Let doctors prescribe housing to cure homelessness. We’ll hear the case from Honolulu.

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47:12Mar 9, 2017

In this April 21, 2016 photo, affordable housing and homeless advocates rally outside the state capitol in Honolulu. Hawaii. (Cathy Bussewitz/AP)

#OnPointListens: Meet Shiwani From Honolulu

Meet another On Point listener on another stop on our (virtual) National Listening Tour -- this time, Honolulu!

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Mar 9, 2017

In this Feb. 12, 2017, photo, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn boards Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., as he return to Washington with President Donald Trump. (Susan Walsh/AP)

Week In The News: Flynn Fired, Puzder Backs Out, Oroville Dam

Michael Flynn fired. Calls to investigate Trump’s Russia ties. Netanyahu at the White House. California dam crisis. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.