Radio waves connect Mexicans in remote Tlaxiaco with family in the US

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Tlaxiaco has been inundated with international attention in recent months because it’s the hometown of Yalitza Aparicio, the star of the movie Roma, who emerged from obscurity to become an Oscar nominee. But Tlaxiaco is already well known in Fresno, California, and other cities throughout the US because of decades of migration from this region of Mexico. Those ties are fortified by La Hora Mixteca, or The Mixtec Hour, a bi-national radio program.

Monarch Butterfly Numbers Are Up

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The population of monarch butterflies that migrates through Indiana went up by 144 percent last year. That’s according to an annual report by the World Wildlife Fund. The report counts acres of the monarchs when they cluster together in trees in Mexico over the winter. Jonathan Neal is a professor of entomology at Purdue University. […]

Groups Push for Action on Huge Nat’l Park Maintenance Backlog

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Time is short in this session of Congress, and conservation and tourism groups are hoping for a vote on a bill to address the massive maintenance backlog in the national parks. The Restore Our Parks is a bipartisan proposal to direct up to six and a half billion dollars of revenue from offshore oil and […]

California Wildfire Victims May Get Some Tax Relief

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California Senators Dianne and Kamala Harris are co-sponsors of a new bill that will give tax breaks and other beneifts to victims of some California wildfires. Capitol Public Radio’s Drew Sandsor has the story.