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Mike McGrath explains why bug zappers aren't actually helping anything. Plus, pretty poppies, and your fabulous phone calls!
February 23 - March 1, 2026
Read about WDIY's progress and challenges in 2025, from our programming growth and local impact to our finances and 30th anniversary celebrations.
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On this episode of Your Financial Choices, Laurie Siebert dives deeper into tax-related topics as tax season approaches. Listener questions are also accepted.
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Inflation at 2.4% in January... Dr. Kamran Afshar takes a look at this and more in his synopsis of this week's economic news and trends across the Lehigh Valley and nation.
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Rachel Leon looks at the life of the "father of American mycology," who was born and died in Bethlehem, and who the 1741 Gemeinhaus gets its alternate name from.
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On the next Galactic Travels™, the month-long Special Focus on Dino Pacifici concludes. The Featured CD at Midnight will be 'Spaceman's Lament' by Dino Pacifici on Scorpio Rising Music.
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Jack McCallum talks about the manuscript he recently finished for a novel, and explains why writing the romantic scenes has been the most difficult part.
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After threatening to sever ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts, Defense Secretary Hegseth announced a 6-month reprieve
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In shaking up its Artemis lunar program, NASA's new moon plan looks more like the Apollo missions of the 1960s. Instead of landing on the surface on Artemis III, NASA hopes to do so on Artemis IV.
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Trump announced that Federal agencies would be cease using Anthropic's tools within six months.
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The rule would allow housing agencies and landlords to impose such requirements "to encourage self-sufficiency." Critics say most who can work already do, but their wages are low.
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The nearly $111 billion marriage would unite Paramount and Warner film studios, streamers and television properties — including CNN — under the control of the wealthy Ellison family.