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OTR May 8th, 2022: Leaked SCOTUS draft opinion re: Roe v. Wade - NY Attorney General Letitia James shares abortion story - Pro-Choice Foley Square protest - Abortion rights around the world - New legislation p protections in some US states
OTR May 1st, 2022: Family court lawyer shortage in NY - Biden backtracks on Student Loan Forgiveness - Dangerous heat wave in India and Pakistan - Reforestation efforts in Burundi
OTR April 24th, 2022: Accused subway shooter denied bond - Increase in deaths among the unhoused population in the US - Ukrainian refugees treated differently from non European refugees - Encouraging news about a key climate goal
OTR April 17th, 2022: NYS Lieutenant Governor resigns amid corruption arrest - Patrick Lyoya killed by police during traffic stop in MI - Boat carrying migrants capsizes off Libyan coast - Spain votes to grant lagoon personhood
OTR April 3rd, 2022: Staten Island Amazon Workers Vote to Unionize - Fetuses found in home of anti-abortion activist - Pope Francis apologizes for abuse of indigenous children in Canada - Methane used for plastic alternative
OTR March 27th, 2022: New Yorkers take on idling commercial vehicles - Confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson - School for girls canceled in Afghanistan - Discover of Ernest Shackleton's long lost ship
OTR March 20th, 2022: NYC Gender Pay Gap Rally at City Hall - Texas Ruling Against Abortion Providers - Russian Anti-war Protester Crashes News Broadcast - A Program to Reduce Food Waste in India
OTR March 13th, 2022: Interview with Chief Mann, Turtle Clan Chief of the Ramapough Lenape Nation and NYU's Dr. Judith Zelikoff - Opioid crisis victims confront Sacklers in court - Venezuela releases 2 American prisoners
OTR March 6th, 2022: NYC to end COVID contact tracing program - Mass shooting in Sacramento Church - Some background on Russia's invasion of Ukraine - Federal funding to fight wildfires
OTR February 27th, 2022: Homeless encampments in NYC subways to be dismantled - Texas Governor orders agencies to investigate gender affirming care as child abuse - Colombia decriminalized abortion - US Soccer team wins lawsuit
OTR February 20th, 2022: Christina Yuna Lee Murdered in Her Home - Funeral of Amir Locke, Killed During Execution of a No-Knock Warrant - Ottawa Trucker Protests - A NY Woman Cured of HIV
OTR February 13th, 2022: Unionizing Efforts at NYC Starbucks - Origins of St. Valentine's Day - Nestle to Give Ivorian Cocoa Farmers Cash to curb child labour - Tiger Population Bounces Back - Superbowl Chatter
OTR February 6th, 2022: Rogue NYC nurses tell pregnant people not to get COVID-19 vaccine - Recent bomb threats at Black Colleges and Universities - Plastic recycling in Senegal - Oil and gas leases blocked in Gulf of Mexico
OTR January 30th, 2022: Interview with NYU's Graham Dove about noise pollution - TN school board bans graphic novel about the Holocaust - Indian family freezes trying to reach Canada - A young boy donates prize money to help others
OTR January 23rd, 2022: Deadly fire in the Bronx - Sewage problems in Alabama's Black Belt - Landmine-sniffing rat dies - NYS Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act
OTR January 9th, 2022: NYC DOE staff shortages due to COVID - COVID-19 Home confinement and resignation of BOP director - Anti-feminist sentiment in S. Korea - Action against illegal timber schemes in Brazil
OTR January 2nd, 2022: Revisiting three stories from 2021 - ICE detention in NJ - Updates on the Jan 6th Commission - Suspects in President Moise assassination speak out - some positive COVID news
OTR December 19th, 2021: NYC ban on gas - KY candle factory workers sue employer over tornado protocol - suicide rates among housewives in India - how not to discuss climate change
OTR December 12th, 2021: New voting rights for NYC non-citizens - Racist texts scandal in Torrance, CA police department - Silent Strike in Myanmar - Wall of oysters vs NYC flooding
OTR December 5th, 2021: Safe injection sites in NYC - School shooting in Oxford, MI - Barbados becomes a republic - Good news about the Great Barrier Reef
OTR November 28th, 2021: Changes to Coney Island Boardwalk - Ahmaud Arbery's killers found guilty - Struggle over cobalt mining in Democratic Republic of Congo - River Thames no longer 'biologically dead'
OTR November 21th, 2021: Rats run amok in NYC - Julius Jones granted clemency in OK - UK bill to revoke citizenship privileges without warning - US and China climate pledge
OTR November 7th, 2021: NYC Dept of Sanitation workers vs NYC vaccine mandate - Howard University students protest living conditions - new Taliban gov't in Afghanistan threatened by ISIS
OTR October 31st, 2021 Halloween episode: The Myth of tainted Halloween candy - How many Americans believe in ghosts? - DNA analysis of mummies in NW China - Fauci gives trick or treaters the green light
OTR October 24th, 2021: NYC declares racism a public health crisis - Tragic shooting death on film set - UK to begin checking social media prior to issuing gun licenses - some positive climate news
OTR October 17th, 2021: Judge sides with NYS workers over vaccine mandates - lead contaminated water in Benton Harbor, Michigan - Spain takes a step to acknowledge fascist past - Environmental protections for nat'l monuments
OTR October 3rd, 2021: Interview with NYU's Dr. Maurizio Porfiri on gun violence - the US debt ceiling crisis - WHO employees accused of sex abuse in the DRC - rights for NYC delivery workers
OTR September 26th, 2021: Interview with Newtown Creek Alliance's Lisa Bloodgood - Haitian Migrants Expelled at Southern Border - Corruption in Local Honduran Politics
OTR September 19th, 2021: Protests outside the 2021 Met Gala - US Gymnasts testify on Capitol Hill - Aukus pact between US, UK and Australia - Carbon capture in Iceland
OTR September 12th, 2021: 20th anniversary of 9/11 - An indictment in the Ahmaud Arbery case - Free contraception for some women in France - A resilient affordable apartment building in New Orleans
OTR September 5th, 2021: Staffing crisis at Rikers - Voting rights for NC residents with felony convictions - an attack on a convoy in Burkina Faso - US Health Dept Office of Climate Change
OTR August 29th, 2021: Storm interrupts NYC comeback show - Pfizer seeks approval for booster shots - Nicole Kidman skirts Hong Kong quarantine rules - a good news roundup on IG
OTR August 22nd, 2021: ICE Detention in NJ continues - Biden admin vs classroom mask mandate bans - the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan - IPCC report
OTR August 8th, 2021: Unhoused NYers being pushed off the street - Rep. Cori Bush vs Eviction Moratorium - Mexico sues US gun makers - Denver, CO helps drivers with broken taillights
OTR August 1st, 2021: Sommelier Turned Arson Suspect - Amazon Workers vs Robots - Political Upheaval in Tunisia - Cleveland Baseball Team's New Name
OTR July 25th, 2021: Interview with NYU Professor George Thurston on air pollution - DACA challenged again by Texas judge - Migrants pushed back to sea in Europe - Good news on Indonesian rainforests
OTR July 18th, 2021: Gun violence spike in NYC - TX legislators leave state in protest - Unrest in South Africa - Positive climate news
OTR July 11th, 2021: NYC Primary election outcome - License to Discriminate Bill in Ohio - the Assassination of Jovenel Moïse - Climate optimism
OTR July 4th, 2021: BK Public Defenders Want Union - Moratorium on Federal Executions - Tokyo Man Displaced for Olympics - Free meals for CA schoolkids
OTR June 27th, 2021: Interviews with infectious disease expert Dr. Stephanie Sterling, and activist Natalie James from the Reclaim Pride Coalition
OTR June 20th, 2021: Ranked choice voting in NYC - US bishops go against Vatican - Gang violence and displacement in Haiti - Native American Tribe in Maine gets land back
OTR June 13th, 2021: NYC Pride march bans cops - VP Harris tells migrants 'do not come' - Spending on nuclear arms - Climate updates from Biden admin
OTR June 6th, 2021: Cops close WSP early - Voter Suppression in the US - 215 Indigenous children's remains found at Kamloops residential school:
OTR May 30th, 2021: Interview with NYU scientists re: subway air quality.- Nikole Hannah-Jones denied tenure - Belarusian journalist jailed - New leadership at the Louvre:
OTR May 23rd, 2021: Darlene McDay and Qualified Immunity - Rep. Tlaib talks to Biden about Palestinian rights - the COVID crisis in India - Retired circus elephants
OTR May 16th, 2021: Labor rights lawsuit in NJ - Liz Cheney speaks against Trump - Escalating violence in Israel/Palestine - Renewable Energy in CA
OTR May 9th, 2021: NYC vs Chipotle's working conditions - end of CDC eviction moratorium - Colombia Protests - Biden admin and the COVID vaccine patent
OTR May 2nd, 2021: NYPD lets go of Digidog - Supreme Court OKs life sentences for juveniles - the murder of Sarah Halimi
OTR April 25th, 2021: DA stops prosecuting sex work - Derek Chauvin verdict - Ma'Khia Bryant's death - France's latest anti-hijab vote
OTR April 18th, 2021: Interview with Anthony Buissereth and Dr. Judith Zelikoff - the murder of Daunte Wright - Global Disparities in COVID treatment + vaccines
OTR April 11th, 2021: Interview with Trisha Ocona - Trans rights under attack - the Melek Ipek case in Turkey
OTR April 4th, 2021: NYS legalizes marijuana use - the death of Sarah Everard - End of Qualified Immunity for NYPD
OTR March 28th, 2021: Homeless activist targeted - Shooting in CO - PTO for Pregnancy Loss in NZ - Debt relief for defrauded students
Eviction disparities in NYC - Mass Shooting in GA - New Immigration Bill - Tiffany Haddish's Grammy Win: OTR 3/21/21
Home health aides protest - Charges in George Floyd murder case - State repression in Senegal - Glow in the dark sharks: OTR 3-14-21
Attacks on Asian New Yorkers - GOP voter suppression efforts - Crop loss in Australia - less pollution in Mississippi River: OTR 3/7/21
Subway pollution - Cherokee Freedmen news - closure of LGBT+ center in Ghana - New Animal Clone: OTR 2/28/21
Gov. Cuomo and nursing home death stats - Texas blackouts - Biden's Town Hall - Free period products in NZ schools: OTR 2/21/21
Abuse in a NJ women's prison - reparations in the US - New Zealand parliament dress code change - Nigerian farmers v. Shell oil: OTR 2/14/21
Dilapidated luxury buildings - CA Human trafficking victims rescued - Haitian migrants left in Mexico - Walking While Trans Ban repealed : OTR 2/7/21
Racist remarks from NY Science Journalist - Impeachment updates - Caning in Indonesia - Climate News : OTR 1/31/21
Hunts Point Strike in BX - Inauguration recap - COVID vaccine rollout in India - Biden's executive orders: OTR 1/24/21
ICE hunger strikes in NJ - Impeachment Round 2 - New Cuba sanctions - Alaska oil drilling delayed : OTR 1/17/21
2021 Electoral College votes - Extremists storm US Capitol Building - Georgia Senate runoff results : OTR 1/10/21
Penn station upgrade - Nashville bomber's past - Rohingya refugees moved to island : OTR 1/3/21
Indoor dining in NYC, Biden's cabinet, farmers' protests in India, Cleveland MLB team name change: OTR 12/20/20
Local haunts lost in 2020, Brandon Bernard's execution, hunger in Venezuela: OTR 12/13/20
Food delivery workers, and the Abolition Amendment: OTR 12/6/20
MTA doomsday cuts, and COVID-19 updates: OTR 11/22/20
The Tigray conflict in Ethiopia, and Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine: OTR 11/15/20
Historic election win for Biden & Harris: OTR 11/8/20
Interview with filmmaker John Wellington Ennis: OTR 11/1/20
NYC's Election Observer Corps, and the Purdue Pharma settlement: OTR 10/25/20
Amy Coney Barrett, and #EndSARS: OTR 10/18/20
Lee Ziesche and the No North Brooklyn Pipeline project: OTR 10/11/20
Indoor dining and the U.S. Census: OTR 10/4/20
Breonna Taylor, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg: OTR 9/27/20
Unwanted sterilizations of women detained by ICE: OTR 9/20/20
Retaliation for an effort to unionize at Housing Works, and Bob Woodward's new book: OTR 9/13/20
The Met Council on Housing, and Russia's COVID-19 vaccine: OTR 9/6/20
The murder of two protesters in Kenosha, and the eradication of wild polio in Africa: OTR 8/30/20
The USPS, and a new California vehicle emissions deal: OTR 8/23/20
Kamala Harris, and the Israeli-UAE agreement: OTR 8/16/20
Interview with Abby Ehmann and Wylie Stecklow on the "Seating Not Eating" petition: OTR 8/9/20
Hong Kong's election postponed, and voting rights for ex-felons in the U.S.: OTR 8/2/20
The MTA budget crisis and federal agents in Portland: OTR 7/26/20
Vote-by-mail dysfunction, and Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights campaign: OTR 7/19/20
Tenant harassment in Brooklyn and an update on the Keystone Pipeline: OTR 7/12/20
Coronavirus in California prisons, and protests over the killing of Hachalu Hundessa: OTR 7/5/20
Asylum seekers and human trafficking: OTR 6/28/20
A landmark LGBTQ Supreme Court decision, and el Día de los Negros: OTR 6/21/20
Black Music Month and an interview with Lacey Tauber on the New York primaries: OTR 6/14/20
Interview with Oakland activist and musician, Ryan Nicole: OTR 6/7/20
The killing of George Floyd and the militarization of the police: OTR 5/31/30
NYC Mesh and some COVID-19 stories: OTR 5/24/20
Stories from quarantine: Interview with an epidemiologist in Vietnam: OTR 5/17/20
Stories from quarantine: Ahmaud Arbery, and cuts to CUNY funding: OTR 5/10/20
Stories from quarantine: recovered COVID-19 patient interview, and Tara Reade: OTR 5/3/20
Stories from quarantine: investigation into the DOE and a food delivery app lawsuit: OTR 4/19/20
Interview with Emily Gallagher + more COVID-19 stories: OTR 4/5/20
COVID-19 and prisons: OTR 3/29/20
A Special Coronavirus Episode: OTR 3/22/20
Byford leaves MTA - Executive Order 9066 apology - racist responses to COVID - Canadian railway protests: OTR 2/23/20
New laws to protect NYC tenants, and shellfish divers in Peru: OTR 2/9/20
UWS developers ordered to pull back - "School Colors" segment - ICE officers sent to sanctuary cities: OTR 2/9/20
Rally against "Walking while Trans" Ban - recognition for the Little Shell band - impeachment update: OTR 2/2/20
Vaccinations and Evictions: OTR 1/19/20
Coronavirus and the Subway Diversion Program: OTR 1/26/20
Australian fires and US prisons: OTR 1/12/20
Bail reform and Iran: OTR 1/5/20
Fair Fares expansion and increased competition for college applicants: OTR 12/22/19
A settlement for Jazmine Headley, and Medicaid work requirements in South Carolina: OTR 12/15/19
Scallops in trouble - Cuts to SNAP - Cop 'collar quotas' - Cockfighting in PR - Iran to Iraq weapons trading: OTR 12/1/2019
Protests against school segregation and domestic violence: OTR 11/24/19
Candida auris and facial recognition software: OTR 11/17/19
Native American Heritage Month and the Pink Tax: OTR 11/10/19
Early voting and inmates fighting wildfires: OTR 11/3/19
Interview with entrepreneur and social justice activist Jocelyn Walters: OTR 10/27/19
A new homeless shelter in Queens and Turkey's Operation Peace Spring: OTR 10/13/19
US unemployment and Johnson & Johnson settles with Ohio counties: OTR 10/06/19
Lead poisoning in NYC and an impeachment inquiry (!): OTR 9/29/19
The Climate Strike and guerilla MTA ads: OTR 9/22/19
Interview with entrepreneur Brandy Cochrane: OTR 9/8/19
Credit scores and the Cherokee Nation finally gets a delegate: OTR 8/25/19
The MTA budget and the New York Child Victim's Act: OTR 8/18/19
A ruling on bail arrangements and the Boeing 737 Max: OTR 8/4/19
From Stigma to Local Enterprise: Women Grow and the Business of Cannabis: OTR 7/28/2019
Rent regulation and ICE raids: OTR 7/21/19
A plan to close Rikers Island and Jeffrey Epstein: OTR 7/14/19
Protections for transgender people in custody and humanitarian migrant boat rescue: OTR 6/30/19
Decriminalizing sex work: OTR 6/2/19
Homelessness in NYC: OTR 5/5/19
Anti-Vax in NYC: OTR 4/14/19
Trump foiled on Healthcare, the Vatican Takes on Abuse, and a Plastic Bag Ban: OTR 3/31/19
Safe Passage for Immigrant Kids and Mueller at Last: OTR 3/24/19
Hampshire College In Peril: OTR 3/17/2019
Repubs Break Rank and Manafort Sentenced: OTR 3/10/19
Impact Ministry, Liberation and Storytelling for Justice with Theresa Robbinson: OTR 2/24/2019
Childcare and the Middle Class Squeeze: OTR 1-13-2019
Shutdown Again, L Train Surprise and Populism's Discontents: OTR 1-6-2019
Street Vendor Project: OTR 12/16/18
Forensic Psych, Justice Kennedy Retires, and Victory for Ocasio-Cortez: OTTR July 1, 2018
Elections 2018 with Zellnor Myrie and Larry Sharpe
Life at the Border: OTTR 6/24/18
Alienating Allies and Courting Enemies: OTTR 6/17/2018
Trade Wars, Elderly in NYC, & Welcome to Ellie: OTTR 6/10/18
What Rabbis Want: Objection to the Rule 6/3/18
American Jews and Israel - Objection to the Rule 2/4
What No One Tells You About Elder Care - Objection to the Rule 2/11
Tax Bill Takeoff - Objection to the Rule - 12/7
Sh*thole Countries - Objection to the Rule 12/14
Shutdown! - Objection to the Rule - 1/21
Life in Palestine - Objection to the Rule - 1/28
Tax Bill Madness - Objection to the Rule 12/31
Episode 109: Fair Fares, AntiFa & Post Charlottesville America
Episode 108: Charlottesville, North Korea and Kellyanne Conway
Episode 108: Scaramucci In
Episode 107: Spicey Out, Justine Damond
Episode 106: Elections, Dress Codes & The MTA
Episode 105: Post Independence Day Reax
Episode 104: Tweet Erasure, Healthcare & Trump Tower Activism
Episode 101: Intro to Objection
