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Remembrances

1:17 pm

Fri April 26, 2013

A Conversation With Country Superstar George Jones

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TERRY GROSS, HOST:

This is FRESH AIR. The great country singer George Jones died today. He was 81. We're going to listen back to an excerpt of the interview I recorded with him.

1:04 pm

Fri April 26, 2013

Kalamazoo historic preservation awards announced

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The renovated Metropolitan Center, 105 East Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo

By Andrew Robins

Three homes, two commercial buildings and a prominent Kalamazoo business owner will get historic preservation awards next month. The city's Historic Preservation Commission announced the winners on Friday, April 26th.

1:04 pm

Fri April 26, 2013

Country Star George Jones Dies

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George Jones in the late 1980s.

By Mark Memmott

Originally published on Fri April 26, 2013 4:47 pm

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Country superstar George Jones, known for "He Stopped Loving Her Today" and a long string of other hits, has died.

He was 81.

According to Webster & Associates, the Nashville public relations firm that represented Jones, he died Friday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He was hospitalized there on April 18 for treatment of a fever and irregular blood pressure, the p.r. firm adds.

Portage Public Schools may adjust search process to ensure it complies with Open Meetings Act

By Gordon Evans

Lead in text:

Private meetings between school board members and candidate Greg Gray have raised questions about openness of search

Source: Mlive
| Via: Kalamazoo Gazette

PORTAGE, MI -- Officials with Portage Public Schools say they may adjust their superintendent search process in response to concerns that the school board recently violated the state Open Meetings Act. "At no time did our trustees believe they were violating the open meetings act and there was certainly no intent to violate or circumvent the act," said a written statement issued by acting Superintendent Rob Olsen.

12:24 pm

Fri April 26, 2013

State lawmakers question safety of Education Achievement Authority schools

By Gordon Evans

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Concerns about training of staff follow revelations about finances and discipline

Source: Detroitnews

Detroit - A day after a $6 million loan to the Education Achievement Authority from Detroit Public Schools was made public, two state lawmakers said they have concerns about student safety at EAA schools. State Sen. Coleman Young III, D-Detroit, said Friday morning he will introduce a measure that would mandate a higher level of training for contracted security workers in EAA schools.

Arts & Life

12:23 pm

Fri April 26, 2013

Listeners Tweet Flowers And Fruitfulness

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CELESTE HEADLEE, HOST:

And next, the latest in our series, Muses and Metaphor. We're celebrating National Poetry Month by hearing your tweet poems. Today's first poem is from artist and writer Susan Crane of Longmont, Colorado. Here she is.

12:23 pm

Fri April 26, 2013

Has Time Been Kind To 'Dubya?'

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CELESTE HEADLEE, HOST:

I'm Celeste Headlee, and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. Michel Martin is away. And it is time for a visit to the Barbershop. That's where the guys talk about what's in the news and what's on their minds.

Tanya Koonce is the News Director at Peoria Public Radio. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism from Eastern Illinois University, and a M.A. in Public Affairs Reporting from the University of Illinois Springfield.

Tanya started her news career in TV, managed two political campaigns after college, worked in state government and did some state association work before going back to school. Post masterââââ

12:09 pm

Fri April 26, 2013

Portage School Board to meet Monday to discuss next step in superintendent search

By Gordon Evans

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Only finalist for job Brighton Superintendent Greg Gary withdrew from the search earlier this week

Source: Mlive
| Via: Kalamazoo Gazette

PORTAGE, MI -- The Portage Public Schools Board of Education had planned to meet Monday, April 29, to vote on whether to offer Greg Gray a contract as superintendent. Gray withdrew his candidacy for the job earlier this week, but the meeting is still on: Now the board needs to talk about where to go from here in finding a leader to replace Ric Perry, who resigned in January.

Movie Interviews

12:03 pm

Fri April 26, 2013

'Guilt Trip': Streisand On Songs, Film And Family

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Barbra Streisand is Joyce Brewster in The Guilt Trip. The multitalented performer has won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and a Tony — a feat achieved by fewer than a dozen artists.

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Originally published on Mon May 6, 2013 8:04 am

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This interview was originally broadcast on Dec. 17, 2012.

If a good voice is genetic, it's likely Barbra Streisand got hers from her mother. Streisand's mother was too shy to ever perform professionally, but she had a lyric soprano and would sing at bar mitzvahs in their Brooklyn neighborhood when Streisand was a girl.

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