The Loosely Regulated Petrochemical Barge Industry is Commandeering a Texas River People who live on the San Jacinto fear chemical releases and explosions from the vessels. It’s unclear who’s policing the buildup.

From federal rulemakers all the way down to Kentucky lawmakers, 2025 was full of regulatory wins for mining companies. Meanwhile, health researchers confirm that deaths from black lung disease are rampant in the mine industry. www.lpm.org/news/2025-12...

My story on the decision of CBS Editor in Chief Bari Weiss to pull a 60 Minutes story on alleged abuses of Venezuelan migrants sent to notorious Salvadoran Center. Updated with this morning's remarks from Weiss: www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

Thread: Some thoughts about Rep. Elise Stefanik's departure - for now from the political stage in the US, NY, #ny21 and northern NY. First, I've written for more than a decade about Stefanik's political acumen. If she thinks it's time to jump ship, the GOP should take notice. 1/

Today, we had an all-day bargaining session with @propublica.org management. Unfortunately, they did not bring a counter proposal on AI or agree to any of the guardrails we've proposed.

A few Republicans are concerned that Trump is killing their constituents so coal operators can make a few more bucks. jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...

NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal 🤔 @justinelliott.bsky.social @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

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Why are so many people sick in a town where the dominant economic and political force is a hospital? @gingerthompson.bsky.social explores the deep contradictions of American healthcare in this magisterial series: projects.propublica.org/albany-georg...

Ski mountaineering will get its moment in the spotlight at the Olympics. Now, it's a question of who from North America will get to share that limelight.

Thank you @franklangfitt.bsky.social for reporting from Indian Country. @npr.org.

Jim Morris is the founder and executive director at Public Health Watch, and he's known Infante and followed his work since the 1990s. In this episode of Petrie Dish, we're sharing Morris's profile of Dr. Infante, The Scientist Who Refused To Be Intimidated. Read More👉 ebx.sh/JptYCk

In rural America, public radio saves lives

NEW from @publichealthwatch.bsky.social and @texaspublicradio.bsky.social A bonus episode of Fumed. The Scientist Who Refused to be Intimidated www.tpr.org/podcast/fume...

News: To settle NPR's lawsuit, CPB revives $36 million deal it killed after Trump’s pressure My story for NPR: www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n...

A surprisingly frank interview from @npr.org Scott Simon with the new head of the United Mine Workers Union. Pitched & produced by WV’s @davemistich.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/11/15/n...

The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m

As villages across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta clean up from remnants of Typhoon Halong, they face another loss. Public radio and television station KYUK has lost federal funding and plans to make cuts in January. My @npr.org story: www.npr.org/2025/11/14/n...

NEW: Across hundreds of Alaskan communities, public schools are often the safest buildings where people can take shelter during disasters. After decades of state neglect, however, some have become emergencies themselves.

Wildfires in the western U.S. have been growing larger in recent years. Volunteer firefighters in Wyoming, like T.J. Gideon, are doing what they can to fight back. n.pr/4oQF4u9

With Medicaid cutbacks on the horizon, millions in the U.S. are expected to go uninsured. In the Mississippi Delta region — one of the poorest places in the U.S. — people are stressed and mad.

The "Industrial Risk: Beyond the Blueprint" podcast with Jowanza Joseph features some of my reporting from Mount St Helens to Coal's Deadly Dust. "How investigative journalism uncovers the human cost of industrial failures." parakeetinc.substack.com/p/episode-8-...

NPR has lost a singular, distinctive radio journalist: Susan Stamberg, who died Thursday. She was the first woman to host a national news broadcast and set the tone, pace, and scope of the network. n.pr/3IR4JUn

From @alexcurley.bsky.social at Semipublic: public media jobs available now jobs.semipublic.co

This is how I will always remember Susan Stamberg. Union strong. Standing with her NPR colleagues and marshalling her considerable clout for the least powerful. NPR was a far better place with Susan in its orbit.

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died. n.pr/4qjVMDS

The 2018 state case involved a guided hunt for Trump Jr., where a bear was allegedly baited. The settlement reduced guide Wade Lemon’s felony charge to a wildlife violation infraction.

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Decades of progress on children’s health coverage is being slowly erased, with the U.S. rate now at a 10-year high. Texas still has the highest rate of uninsured kids, with a total of over 1 million. publichealthwatch.org/2025/10/14/u...

NEW from @publichealthwatch.bsky.social: A Community Burdened by Chemical Waste Is Demanding Cancer Data. Texas Health Officials Won’t Give It to Them. The data shows extraordinarily high rates of disease. publichealthwatch.org/2025/10/09/t...

The Center for Investigative Reporting—home to Mother Jones and Reveal—has a long track record of responsibly reporting sensitive stories and breaking high-impact news. We fact-check the hell out of our reporting, and we respect and protect our sources. Have a tip? Drop us a line, confidentially.

Terrific story from @kuer.org @macylip.bsky.social about a small town coming together for volleyball…and potatoes.

A conference on censorship was censored by Weber State U. WSU cited a UT law prohibiting discussion of "DEI" topics on state-funded campuses. That was signed into law by "Disagree Better" Gov Spencer Cox, who apparently believes some disagreement is unacceptable. www.sltrib.com/amplify-utah...

Video: Telling the Stories of the Uninsured Reporter Kim Krisberg talks about what she found in reporting a story about low-income Texans who have epilepsy but lack health insurance.

For People With Mental Illness, the Path to Disability Benefits Can Be Long and Difficult A shortage of mental-health providers and other barriers to proving a disabling condition can make qualifying for benefits especially challenging. Federal funding cuts could worsen the picture.

For those inclined to believe the “Disagree Better” hype from Utah Gov Spencer Cox, read this. Not all national media types failed to look under the hood. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We can’t produce fearless investigative journalism without job security and a fair contract. After almost two years of bargaining, we need your help. Show your support for @propublica.org workers by adding your name to our petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

NPR to trim $5 million as some public radio stations struggle to pay bills My story for NPR NPR cuts $5 million as public radio stations struggle to pay bills www.npr.org/2025/09/17/n...

“I'm upset. This is horrific. But I am not shocked.” I visited Tyler Robinson’s family home today to learn how the neighborhood is reacting to his arrest in the killing of Charlie Kirk. My latest from southern Utah for @kuer.org ⤵️ www.kuer.org/news/2025-09...

NPR wants to write about what makes travel difficult for people who use wheelchairs--with hotels. Tell us your stories. www.npr.org/2025/09/11/g...

Shot fired at right wing activist Charlie Kirk during speech at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Witnesses say he was hit and bleeding. www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...

The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes.

Hurricane Katrina flooded nearly every building in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans in 2005. Twenty years later, the community is still rebuilding and flood protections encouraged some to return.

Hurricane Katrina made landfall 20 years ago today, devastating the Gulf Coast. 250K evacuees were sent to Houston. 600 were put on planes to Utah. Pamela McCall @kuer.org used some of my reporting from 2005, and found an evacuee who stayed. www.kuer.org/news/2025-08...

NPR's coverage is here: www.npr.org/2025/08/27/n...

@scottdetrow.bsky.social replaces Ari Shapiro as a weekday host of @npr.org All Things Considered www.npr.org/2025/08/27/g...

BREAKING NEWS: Despite an executive order from President Trump, a judge will NOT dismiss a lawsuit filed by a pair of transgender girls against Utah's high school athletics org over the state's ban on them playing sports: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah #LGBTQ

It’s National Radio Day!

@ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social in Juneau Alaska is providing real time streaming video of glacial outburst flooding. This is the kind of public media public service in emergencies Congress and the Trump administration decided to defund. www.ktoo.org/glacial-outb...