We take a look at the ongoing debate for immigration reform as we wait for news on the Senate bill; Deepa Fernandes reports on how library story times use puppets, rhymes to sow the seeds of literacy; Legal weed sends tourists flocking to Colorado and Washington for 4/20; LAX is now using therapy dogs to calm stressed passengers; How NASA imagined life in a space colony 40 years ago, plus much more.
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There are a lot of boxes to check before anyone can pursue that path to citizenship. KPCC's Leslie Berestein Rojas joins the show with more.
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• 9:31
If the immigration bill that is being discussed in the news today becomes law, it could change how we live and work here in Southern California.
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• 7:26
Over the past five years, a psychiatric hospital in Nevada has put more than 1500 mentally ill patients on Greyhound buses and sent them to cities across the country. About a third of those patients have wound up here in California, many with no one to take care of them once they arrive .
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• 5:56
Listening and speaking and thinking are foundations for reading and writing and very good librarians have a gift for making learning effortless.
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• 4:45
Now that pot is legal in the state of Colorado, this 420 is being considered almost a debutante ball of sorts for the drug. The city of Denver is readying itself for a massive celebration.
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• 6:14
Now it's time for Tuesday Reviewsday, our weekly new music segment. With us this week to talk about what's new in world music is critic Steve Hochman.
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• 6:54
It's been more than seven years since anyone was executed in California, but today in Northern California, an appeals court will hear arguments from the state about the death penalty. At issue is California's method of execution.
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• 7:57
Investigators are still trying to figure out what happened that night, and yesterday, Audrie's parents revealed new details to the press. Julia Produs Sulek has been following this case for the San Jose Mercury News, she joins the show with more.
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• 4:51
Back in the early 1970s, NASA funded a study about what life might be like on space colonies, complete with some amazing, futuristic illustrations.
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• 3:26
Rabbi Noah Farkas talks about Judaism and the environment for our series, "God is in the garden," exploring the relationship between faith and environmentalism.
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"Pets Unstressing People,"or PUP for short, brings therapy dogs and their handlers into the terminals to help calm stressed-out travelers.
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Hare is the director of the Canine Cognition Center at Duke University, he's also the co-author of the new book, "The Genius of Dogs: How Dogs Are Smarter Than You Think."