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The Trailing Arbutus

By Rosemary Conroy on Friday, April 14, 2006.

This is the perfect time of year to enjoy the fragrance of this New England wildflower. At one point in the 19th century, it was near extinction because people liked to pick it. A Ladies Social club in Boston decided to step in and do something about it.

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Using Art for Social Change

By Shay Zeller on Friday, April 14, 2006.

Musicians have long been known to create songs that rally activists and provoke public awareness. We'll explore how other art forms can be used in to do the same. We'll meet the editor of a new book that collects poems about war and peace. Patricia Frisella is president of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. Her new anthology is called The Other side of Sorrow: Poets Speak Out about Conflict War and Peace.

Later in the show, we'll talk with sociologist James Jasper. He's editor of Contexts Magazine, a publication of the American Sociological Association, which just released a list of the essential American protest songs from the last 100 years.

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Massachusetts's Mandated Healthcare

By Jon Greenberg on Friday, April 14, 2006.

The Massachusetts legislature just overwhelmingly passed and Governor Mitt Romney has signed landmark legislation that would require almost 100% of residents to have health insurance coverage by 2007 or face penalties. We'll look at what this legislation aims to do and whether it will be financially sustainable in the long run. Jon Greenberg hosts. His guest is Senator Richard Moore, a Democrat representing Worcester and Norfolk Counties in Massachusetts and Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Healthcare Financing in the Massachusetts General Court. Moore also was a member of the Conference Committee to bridge the House and Senate versions of the healthcare bill. His other guest is Laura Tobler, Healthcare Policy Analyst at the National Conference of State Legislatures. We'll also hear from Martha Bebinger, Reporter for WBUR who has been covering this story, Mike Whidmer, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation and Charlie Arlinghaus, President of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy.

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