So...Day One is a wrap for me....just me....my co-hosts are still hanging out ...! I'm going to wash my face and call it a day ...

Ok so does anyone other than me (stil) eat stuff like this out here ?

Ok so we're on or way to our first event ....we clean up pretty well #GoldenGlobes

Ok so here's your first clue that this is not really my scene ..I remembered all my charging cables ..but not a steamer for my clothes #fishoutofwater#goldenglobes

Ok so we made it to LA for our Golden Globes journey ....

Almost forgot (!) It's #GivingTuesday ! But we're 24-7 so there's still time. If you can....and Thank You! Please Donate www.npr.org/donations/su...

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NPR's veteran Pentagon reporter warns new media policy stifles journalism www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

@baparker.bsky.social just pointed this out: why is the cough button next to the mono button?

I never do stuff like this but what the heck ... it's the start of a new era in public media ..

Happy Birthday Gwen --reposting this remembrance so we can remember how she lived A Friend's Tribute To Gwen Ifill, A 'Speaker Of Truth' With A 'Megawatt Smile' www.npr.org/2016/11/20/5...

Like I said ...excellent

My Saturday was excellent . How was yours ?

Springfield Illinois DID NOT PLAY when it came to celebrating the 50th anniversary of WUIS/NPR Illinois! Honored to be a part of it !

In New Orleans, memories of Katrina remain vivid 20 years later www.npr.org/2025/09/01/g...

Always stop for the historical site markers

One thing Trombone Shorty said to me on this reporting trip that will stay with me is that people in NOLA will find a way to find joy even in sadness. This hip hop theatre event by local playwright Anthony Bean, being performed Saturday, is a testament to that www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n...

What does it mean to be home, even after a catastrophe? For these sons and daughters of New Orleans it meant..everything www.npr.org/2025/08/29/n...

We're wrapping up our week of reporting in New Orleans with more Katrina stories to tell. This morning we'll tell you about a man who left NOLA because of the disaster and never went back as well as stories of some who went back right away and say they'll never leave again . Hope you'll tune in

New Orleans was hardest hit by Katrina but not the only place . Here's a story from Mississippi about a businessman who lost his home but found a new calling www.npr.org/2025/08/28/n...

It may sound strange but it's true : sometimes when you're immersed in one story--as we are here in NOLA reporting on the 20th anniversary of Katrina--you honestly don't hear about another for a time, so the horrible news of the school shooting in MN was slow to reach us. We're getting up to speed

Work hard , play hard ...I mean...New Orleans...it's research ....

Yup we were there in the studio ...Trombone Shorty drops a new album this week and we dropped by his studio to hear all about it. Photo by my colleague Lilly Quiroz

Surprise !!! New album from Trombone Shorty !! www.npr.org/2025/08/27/n...

A retired general recalls Hurricane Katrina and the need to prepare www.npr.org/2025/08/25/n...

Guess who has a new album ? and we just talked with him about it..in his very own studio ...hear about it tomorrow morning on @npr.org 's Morning Edition ...

Wherever I go I try to find the historical markers . They tell you a lot, not just about events of the past but who is empowered to claim the story and the space in the present.

Ten years ago I came to NOLA as part of our series of local conversations about national issues; we focused on the huge changes to schools after Hurricane Katrina . It's great to be back; this time with @npr.org's Morning Edition and we're talking memories, rebuilding & resilience (& schools...)

Yup , we're in New Orleans ...

On Morning Edition we come to work so early in the morning that most of us bring our own food because nothing is open.

Welllll..kind of rough week so...poundcake

How was your Independence Day? Mine was excellent

If you only heard a campaign ad or a shouty sound bite from election night you might not understand why so many people flocked to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 's campaign for NYC mayor. This interview with my colleague Leila Fadel gives you a sense of him and his ideas www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...

Analysts have been saying that Trump's tax bill will cause 12 million people to lose health insurance -But why? My guest today explained www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...

Weird thing about working an early morning show --you go to bed and sometimes when you wake up --everything's different . In that sense, despite the odd hours, it makes you like everybody else going about their lives

REST IN POWER Ngugi wa Thiong'o. My interview with him from 2013: Life's Traumas Won't Stop Kenyan Author Ngugi www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Yesterday , after the first "feed" of Morning Edition, I was on my way to an appointment when my phone started pinging like crazy. It seems that NPR had chosen to sue the Trump administration over its plan to end our funding . It was news to me! So today I spoke with one of the lawyers on the case

What should be done with the place George Floyd was murdered? Should it become a permanent memorial, open back up as a regular street ? Or something else ? We asked the people we met this week in and we'll tell you what they said tomorrow on Morning Edition

The thing about an early morning show-you go to sleep (or what approximates it) thinking you're going to talk about one thing and then you wake up and it's something else. I woke up to news of the killing of two Israeli embassy employees so our reporters, who were up all night , will have the latest

I'm here in Minneapolis reporting on what's changed and what hasn't since George Floyd was killed five years ago. Tomorrow, the former police chief's take. We've also asked a minister, a public health educator and a civil rights lawyer: what did it mean that we saw a man killed in real time?

Tomorrow on Morning Edition we start our coverage leading to a tragic anniversary : on May 25, 2020 George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis . We'll hear from a variety of voices reflecting on the events then and now . We start with a portrait of George Floyd by two award winning journalists

"People didn't take to the streets because a saint was killed, people took to the streets...because a man was killed." That's what Robert Samuels, co author of an award winning book about George Floyd told me. Floyd was killed 5 years ago Monday; worldwide reaction followed. Our reports start Wed

Gentle reminder: at NPR we're not here to tell you what to think (you have your own brain for that) ; we're here to tell what to think about.

Toy company CEO discusses how Trump's tariff policy swings impact business www.npr.org/2025/05/13/n...

Episcopal Church will not help resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition www.npr.org/2025/05/13/n...

ICYMI check out my conversation with Jay Foreman, CEO of Basic Fun! They sell toys you or your kids likely played with or gave as gifts -Lincoln Logs, Tonka Trucks , Care Bears 80% made in China (not the Lincoln Logs!) He was really afraid his business would go under with 145% tariffs what now?

GM . ICYMI check out my conversation with The Most Rev Sean Rowe, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the US, about why the church will not offer its services to the white South Africans fast tracked for resettlement in the US by Trump. I'll post audio as soon as it's ready