Connections: Exploring "Ban The Box"
What's "The Box"? It's a box on a job application that asks "have you been convicted of a crime?". The "ban the box campaign" argues that former prison inmates have trouble finding steady jobs. One...
View ArticleComing up on Connections: Thursday, May 15th
First hour: All about food trucksSecond hour: Cancer care in western New York
View ArticleConnections: The Rochester Food Truck Scene
In this show, we look at the food truck scene in western New York. It's growing, but there is a near-constant debate over what is appropriate. Cities like Portland have a permanent food truck culture;...
View ArticleConnections: Cancer Research in Rochester
The Wilmot Cancer Institute is the creation of UR Medicine, complete with a $30 million campaign to support cancer research. Their growing network of satellite locations means that a patient in Geneva...
View ArticleConnections: Healthy Friday - MERS and Heart Health
It's Healthy Friday on Connections. In the first hour, Hélène Biandudi Hofer talks with Dr. Mark Shelly, an infection disease expert, about the MERS cases have popped up in the U.S. Later on, its a...
View ArticleConnections: Healthy Friday - Food Allergies
A discussion on food allergies takes place this hour on "Second Opinion LIVE!", a partnership with WXXI News the public television health series "Second Opinion". Our guest Dr. S. Shahzad Mustafa joins...
View ArticleConnections: Are Countywide School Districts the Answer?
How can urban schools finally raise graduation rates and send more kids to college? The answer could lie in Wake County, North Carolina, where the story goes that there are no bad schools in the city...
View ArticleConnections: What's Going On In Ukraine?
In this hour, we dive into the current events happening in Ukraine. There's a new president, elected Sunday, who happens to be the country's "chocolate king", but pro-Russian, eastern Ukrainian cities...
View ArticleComing up on Connections: Wednesday, May 28th
First hour: Mark AssiniSecond hour: Miracle kids
View ArticleConnections: A Conversation With Mark Assini
We sit down with Mark Assini, Gates town supervisor and the Republican candidate for Congress in the 25th district. Assini is hoping to defeat incumbent Louise Slaughter in November. We'll talk to him...
View ArticleConnections: Remembering Maya Angelou; Previewing Miracle Weekend
In the first part of the show, we remember the life and career of poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou, who died Wednesday at 86.Then, we preview Miracle Weekend for Golisano Children's Hospital...
View ArticleComing up on Connections: Thursday, May 29th
First hour: Helping adults learn to readSecond hour: Race in our daily lives
View ArticleConnections: LPGA Leaves Rochester; Eradicating Illiteracy
To start the show, we spend a few minutes with Linda Hampton, the longtime tournament organizer for the Wegmans LPGA Championship, to discuss the impact of the LPGA's announcement the event is moving...
View ArticleConnections: Racism and Prejudice
In this hour, we examine race in our daily lives as we preview the 2nd annual Community Summit on Race. From prejudice that rarely reaches the surface, to outright discrimination, we'll discuss what...
View ArticleConnections: Innovation Friday - Climate Change; Bringing Creativity and...
For the first part of the hour, we talk about climate change with Dale Jamison, professor at NYU and author of Reason in a Dark Time.Then, a discussion on how to bring creativity, innovation and...
View ArticleConnections: Innovation Friday - Innovations in Transportation; Repositioning...
In the first part of the hour, members of the Xerox Research Center tell us what innovations in transportation they are working on. Then, how can one organization reposition the arts? We talk with...
View ArticleConnections: The Science Roundtable
It's our monthly science roundtable. We take a look at the science of self-control and addiction with professors from the University of Rochester. On the roundtable today: Celeste Kidd and Benjamin...
View ArticleConnections: How Hillside is Helping Graduates
It's graduation season, but for Rochester city school students, that means more disappointment than success. Rochester retains a graduation rate below 50%. The at-risk student population needs, quite...
View ArticleComing up on Connections: Tuesday, June 3rd
First hour: TEDx Flour CitySecond hour: Green Party gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins
View ArticleConnections: Previewing TEDxFlourCity
In this hour, TED talks have caught fire, and we'll preview the upcoming TEDxFlourCity event. It's a one of the local spinoffs of the popular national talks. We'll have clips from past presentations,...
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