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Opinion: Why NPR Should Call for an End to Taxpayer Support

On Monday, National Public Radio's now-departed CEO Vivian Schiller made an impassioned plea for continued federal funding, saying that cutting taxpayer money would have "a profound impact" on public broadcasting. "Modest as it is," she said at the National Press Club, "government funding is critical because it allows...

Aspen Institute: 5 Facts About the Place Where NPR's Ron Schiller Won't Be Working

By now many people know that Ron Schiller, the public radio executive who called tea party supporters "seriously racist, racist people," is no longer the NPR Foundation's senior vice president for development. However, Schiller had plans to depart NPR before he made those inflammatory remarks; he'd previously accepted a...

NPR CEO Vivian Schiller's Ouster May Be Last Straw for Taxpayer Funding

WASHINGTON -- Republicans set on eliminating taxpayer funding of public broadcasting would be hard-pressed to write a better script than the recent comedy of errors that reached a dramatic climax today with NPR CEO Vivian Schiller's resignation. The public radio network survived efforts by conservative lawmakers in 1995...

Vivian Schiller Resigns: 3 NPR Debacles That Forced Her Out

Strike three. Coming off yet another fiasco, NPR's board of directors announced this morning that it has accepted Vivian Schiller's resignation as the organization's president and CEO, effective immediately. "The board accepted her resignation with understanding, genuine regret and great respect for her leadership of NPR...

NPR CEO Vivian Schiller Resigns

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of NPR's board of directors says the board asked chief executive Vivian Schiller to step down after another executive called the tea party racist. NPR chairman Dave Edwards said Wednesday that accepting Schiller's resignation was difficult. She stepped down a day after a conservative activist...

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05/03/12 EHS seniors take a step back in time with ELC time... Source: Effingham Daily News - Effingham IL For the past 12 years, approximately 40 time capsules have been stored away in the Early Learning Center's attic, waiting to be opened by Effingham High School seniors who were in Micki Hall's or Cheri Marten's kindergarten classes in 2000.
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