"Several news organizations, including The New York Times, NPR and Newsmax, are refusing to sign a new set of restrictions on news gathering inside the Pentagon." www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

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Yesterday, Arkansas Secretary of Education Jacob Oliva sat before a Legislative Subcommittee to discuss the changes. It was during this meeting that he mentioned for the first time one reason for the rapid decision: the possibility of a federal government shutdown. www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-...

Sometimes you pitch a story and it takes four years to make it happen. This is that story for me. If you need some light funny radio, let this be your treat for the day. #PublicRadio #MinorLeagueBaseball www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-...

Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.

Sometimes you pitch a story and it takes four years to make it happen. This is that story for me. If you need some light funny radio, let this be your treat for the day. #PublicRadio #MinorLeagueBaseball www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-...

Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut Kicks 10 million off health insurance Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts

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The House has approved a Trump administration plan to rescind $9 billion in previously allocated funds, including $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) — a move that cuts all federal support for NPR, PBS and their member stations.

Not a fun AP headline to wake up to this morning. Many public radio stations, like the one I work for, are working hard to make sure this major loss in funding that was approved does not prevent us from doing the work our community needs.

Honored to have received my button from @thepressbox.bsky.social. Can we also take note of the amazing handwriting of @bryancurtis.bsky.social? Excited to put this on my radio kit bag and show it off!

Today is a good day to support your public radio station. www.npr.org/2025/06/12/g...

The Pentagon estimates that sending ~700 Marines and ~4,000 National Guardsmen to Los Angeles this week cost $134 million. The appropriation for public radio in CPB funding for the entire fiscal year 2025 is about $121 million.

Glad to see this segment from @matthewrmoore.bsky.social I’ve been worried about the omnipresence of sports betting for a little bit now www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-...

Trump orders an end to all federal funds for NPR and PBS. They say he can't. My updated story for NPR: www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

"This is not about balancing the federal budget. The appropriation for public broadcasting, including NPR and PBS, represents less than 0.0001% of the federal budget." www.npr.org/2025/05/02/g...

Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order seeking to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS, accusing them of producing biased coverage. Follow live updates.

As I'm looking through resumes of interns at the radio station, I'm suddenly nostalgic for the days when your resume was something you didn't have to create to be read by a robot. Remember when resumes had color? Columns? Less SEO buzzwords? I feel bad for students/job seekers these days...

BREAKING: U.S. Consumer confidence slides for the fifth straight month to levels not seen since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

NEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...

A summary of my interview with @horp.bsky.social: Arkansas GDP Growth 📈 Arkansas Personal Income Growth 📉 Tariffs 😳 Listen to the full conversation - www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-...

A summary of my interview with @horp.bsky.social: Arkansas GDP Growth 📈 Arkansas Personal Income Growth 📉 Tariffs 😳 Listen to the full conversation - www.kuaf.com/show/ozarks-...

Here's a non-paywall link archive.is/vnPIk

An executive order does not have the authority to do this

"I don't know anything about it."

NEW: The Supreme Court *will not* take up casino mogul Steve Wynn's bid to overturn the landmark free press ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan. The case, Wynn v. Associated Press, No. 24-829, was denied with no noted dissents or statements. #SCOTUS

@thepressbox.bsky.social Today's matchup between Arkansas and St. John's felt like the tournament's Old Guy's Still Got It™ Bowl

BREAKING: A federal judge blocks President Donald Trump's executive order banning transgender people from military service.

JUST IN: Thousands of probationary federal employees fired by the Trump administration must be offered job reinstatement within the next week, a district judge in San Francisco has ruled, because they were terminated unlawfully.

My worlds are colliding

It might be challenging to charge your $35,000 Tesla in Arkansas. Federal funding was revoked due to executive orders from President Trump that would providing charging stations across the state. katv.com/news/local/s...

Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants." In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.

Breaking: DOGE got access to the child-support database Sensitive system includes data on virtually all U.S. workers The career civil servant who objected to DOGE earlier this week is no longer at HHS Scoop with @jeffstein.bsky.social

President Trump’s 25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico could be felt particularly acutely by automakers — and car buyers — because of the number of vehicles and parts that come into the U.S. every day as they head to market. nyti.ms/4kteq9w

Who gets to define which protests are illegal? The Supreme Court? The Department of Education? Elon Musk?

If you didn’t see this coming you haven’t been paying attention

An unelected billionaire who aligns himself with the party of small government has an office in our federal government where he takes your social security data and "crawls" it through his personal "algorithms."

Trump to Zelenskyy: "Don't tell us what we're gonna feel. You're in no position to dictate that. You're in no position to dictate what we're gonna feel. We're gonna feel very good and very strong. You're right now not in a very good position. You're gambling with World War 3."

It seems as though I am partially responsible for this episode being created

ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about? VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media

"[Zelenskyy] disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace."

A proposal to require Arkansas public school students to be shown a human development video failed in committee Wednesday after an hour of discussion and bipartisan opposition. #arpx #arleg

Last week, DOGE posted an online “wall of receipts,” celebrating how much it had saved by canceling federal contracts. Now it has deleted all of the 5 biggest “savings” on that original list, after NYT and other outlets pointed out errors. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

Genuine question: how much is the federal government spending in the courts trying to defend all of these executive order that continue to be blocked by federal judges?

My latest @npr.org story: Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, Robert Santos confirms to NPR in his first published interview since resigning as the bureau's director

Arkansas Secretary of State Cole Jester gives voter registration in the state a B+. According to data from the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, Arkansas ranks dead last in voter registration. arkansasadvocate.com/2025/02/17/a...

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️