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Kokomo Auto Workers Rush To Use Up Benefits Before They Expire

This week, health benefits ran out for many retired auto workers in Kokomo. Worse, some members of Kokomo's Local 292 were given just one week of notice that they'd have to make other arrangements.


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Surviving The Economy Part I: Stretching The Dollar
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This Week: Terre Haute Mayor Duke Bennett
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Arts & Culture

Ice Cream and Architecture at Zaharako’s

We met up with Tony Moravec, the man behind the mission of restoring Zaharako’s Ice Cream Parlor. He not only has experience renovation old buildings, but he worked in an ice cream parlor as a kid. “So I thought, ‘how could I go wrong?’”


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Satchmo, Take Two: Louis Armstrong at the Movies
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Red, White and Blue With A Bit Of Green: Hoosier Holiday Grilling
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Maxine Kumin - from Say This of Horses
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On The Ground As The Marines Take An Afghan Village

It's day three of the U.S.-led offensive in the Helmand river valley of south central Afghanistan. NPR's Graham Smith accompanied a squad of U.S. Marines involved in the major offensive now underway in the Helmand river valley of south central Afghanistan.

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Food Documentary Debate Misses Mainstream Farmers

Food Inc., a documentary film about the modern agricultural industry, is a hit with big-city movie reviewers, small organic farmers and vegetarians. The movie argues that large-scale agriculture produces inexpensive meat and vegetables, but imposes high costs on the environment and Americans' health. But ordinary farmers — the people who grow the lion's share of what America eats — have largely been left out of the mainstream media debate over Food Inc. Frank Morris, of member station KCUR in Kansas City, drove out to hear what farmers are saying.

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