The Two-Way
11:21 am
Tue August 28, 2012

Reports: Obama Administration Will Unveil New Fuel-Efficiency Standards

Originally published on Tue August 28, 2012 1:02 pm

The Obama administration announced new fuel efficiency standards that require cars in the United States to average 54.5 miles per gallon by the year 2025.

As the Detroit Free-Press reports, President Obama got this process rolling in 2010, when he asked the EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to come up with standards that would lead to new and cleaner cars on the roads.

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Election 2012
11:17 am
Tue August 28, 2012

Foreclosures Leave Holes In Voter Outreach

Credit Amy Sancetta / AP
A home has a foreclosure auction sign displayed in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, in September 2010.

The nation's foreclosure crisis rarely is mentioned by the presidential candidates, but it looms large as their campaigns grapple with finding evicted voters in swing states.

Organizers are discovering scores of vacated homes in key battlegrounds that contributed strong turnouts in the 2008 election. In the past four years, more than 3.7 million homes have been lost to foreclosure, according to market research firm CoreLogic.

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Monkey See
11:12 am
Tue August 28, 2012

Nobody, Not Even Your Mom, Has Such Small Hands: 10 Other Products 'For Her'

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Originally published on Thu August 30, 2012 3:04 am

Okay, so Bic has been taking a lot of flack for selling this pen "for her." (As it says on its web site, it is "a ball pen essentially for women," although that seems to invite a caveat, such as, "although there may be certain men to whom it appeals and we don't judge.")

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Around the Nation
11:05 am
Tue August 28, 2012

New Orleans Braces For Isaac

Isaac is headed toward the Gulf Coast, and Louisiana's governor has declared a state of emergency. The storm is threatening to hit New Orleans as the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches. Host Michel Martin speaks with Lt. Col. Jerry Sneed of Homeland Security in New Orleans, about how they're preparing the city for the storm.

Election 2012
11:05 am
Tue August 28, 2012

LGBT Republicans Say Their Party Is Changing

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

I'm Michel Martin and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. Coming up, a storm threatens many of the same areas that were devastated by Hurricane Katrina seven years ago. We'll check in with the director of Homeland Security for New Orleans to find out how the city and its neighbors are getting ready. That's just ahead.

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It's All Politics
10:53 am
Tue August 28, 2012

Gov. Haley: Democrats's Attitude On Minorities Is Offensive

Credit Mark Memmott / NPR
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) after her sit-down with USA Today and Gannett editors in Tampa this morning.

Originally published on Tue August 28, 2012 1:35 pm

Saying that "it's offensive to me as a woman and as a minority" that Democrats portray the GOP as "the party that hates you" when they reach out to non-whites, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley made the case this morning that it's the Republican Party that minorities should be looking to join.

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The Record
10:21 am
Tue August 28, 2012

My American Dream Sounds Like The Jackson 5

Originally published on Tue September 11, 2012 9:45 am

Mountain Stage
10:06 am
Tue August 28, 2012

James McMurtry On Mountain Stage

Credit Brian Blauser / Mountain Stage
James McMurtry in his ninth appearance on Mountain Stage.

Texas singer-songwriter James McMurtry makes his ninth appearance on Mountain Stage. Drawing from his family's storytelling tradition — he's the son of novelist Larry McMurtry — he fuses wry, literate observations about the world he inhabits with the snarl of barroom rock. The result is at times sardonic, subversive and funny, but often vulnerable and always poignant.

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Music
9:35 am
Tue August 28, 2012

Night Train Jazz, August 21

Mellow Jazz 

The Two-Way
9:29 am
Tue August 28, 2012

Another Republican Senate Hopeful Walks Into Rape Controversy

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Republican Tom Smith is challenging incumbent Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey for his seat.

Originally published on Tue August 28, 2012 4:29 pm

With the Todd Akin controversy barely in the rear-view mirror, another Republican senatorial candidate is causing some waves of his own.

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