New Efforts Promise to Make Prescriptions Easier to Import

For years, seniors have traveled to Canada to benefit from lower drug costs and favorable exchange rates. Now, the internet offers new opportunities to get drugs from Canada - but perhaps not legal ones.

New Label Promotes Connecticut Music
Musicians in Connecticut have long felt overshadowed by bands in New York and Massachusetts. Now, a Stamford resident is making a move to push Connecticut bands into the spotlight.

Youth in Gun Sports
Connecticut sent fifty competitors to the National Rifle Association's National Shooting Championships in July. What may be surprising about the group is that twenty-six of them were juniors under the age of 20. Young shooters say they enjoy the challenge of gun sports, and that they'll leave the politics to the adults.

Long Island Feels the Impact of 9-11 The special impact that the World Trade Center attacks had on Long Island is becoming more dramatic as the death toll is finalized. Of the two-thousand-eight hundred now estimated to have died, Three-hundred-sixty-six - about 13 percent -- were Long Islanders. Hofstra University's Long Island Studies Department is archiving how Long Island was affected, and how it responded to the attacks.

War Propaganda: World War II & The War on Terror
This weekend, performers at the Quick Center for the Arts will reenact radio broadcasts from World War 2. Now that the country is in a different kind of war, these broadcasts point to how wartime propaganda has changed since then; And how it has stayed the same.

by Daphne Geismar co-producer, Life Stories

Young Playwrights Take the Stage

Children with Disabilities Find Hope in Horses Children with disabilities, and their parents, are finding tremendous physical, psychological and social progress can come from horseback riding.

Bridgeport Mayor Convicted on Federal Charges
The jury has ruled in the case of Bridgeport mayor Joseph Ganim who was charged with federal corruption charges. Yesterday, Ganim was found guilty.

Connecticut looks at Mental Health Response to 9-11
State agencies and other mental and behavioral health organizations in Connecticut have taken a critical look at the mental health community's response to the needs created by the attack on the World Trade Center; and decided it needs to change its approach to disaster response.

Gay Awareness Programs in Schools
Students at Murphy Junior High School in Stonybrook, New York have started a Gay Straight Alliance. GSAs have become common in high schools and colleges, but are just starting to have a presence in junior high and middle schools. Gay Awareness and tolerance programs have also become more common, even in elementary schools.

 

Special Programs

Life Stories: Essays by Teen Mothers (2001) I worked with artist and teacher Daphne Geismar to bring essays written by her students to radio. This was a nine part series that aired during local broadcasts of Morning Edition.

WSHU Listener Love Stories (2002) For Valentine's Day 2002, we recruited listeners to tell their love stories, and to discuss some of the things we associate with love: music, food, jewelry. This was my first experience producing a series on my own. And, the experience that allowed me to learn HTML (from WSHU's skilled production and engineering staff).

from WSHU's Housing Series (2002) When all of the stories for WSHU's Housing Series had been completed, we realized that there were many, many parts of the discussion we had not been able to explore. In this "vox pro," I spoke with professionals looking at housing from various perspectives. The piece was produced to be used at various lengths and in segments throughout the series. The entire piece is 4 minutes, 30 seconds.