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Afternoon Shift: Fracking, parental fatigue and Bernard Sahlins
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn just signed the most restrictive legislation on fracking in the country into law. Author Jen Hatmaker gives insight on that burnout many parents get towards the school...
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Reporter's Notebook: How much of our electricity comes via fracking?
Curious Citizen Janice Thomson of Chicago’s North Center neighborhood says she simply wants to make responsible decisions and be informed about where her electicity comes from. When searching on her...
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Morning Shift: Is forgiveness the best medicine?
A recent Chicago Tribune article highlighted two parents who were able to forgive the young man who killed their daughter. Could you do the same? Also, Curious City addresses how much fracking really...
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Power struggle: Who’s your energy provider?
Curious City producers and reporters are usually hard at work answering your growing list of questions. But every now and then, an answer or even a listener comment stops us dead in our tracks, and...
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Behind the fracking boom, a sand mining rush
Sand mining is a largely-overlooked side effect of the fracking boom. “Frac sand” refers to the fine, white silica or quartz sand that is in high demand for use in hydraulic fracturing. The fracking...
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Chicago electricity and fracking: An update
Editor's note: this story has been updated with our question-asker's progress. A few weeks back, we looked at this question from Curious Citizen Janice Thomson:Now that Chicago has a new electricity...
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Morning Shift: Urban centers face big problems with transportation growth
An article in Salon argues that urban public transportation is doomed because politicians who could enact better policies don't use it. They drive or have drivers. How does metro Chicago's public...
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Morning Shift: Songs to ring in the holidays
WBEZ staff and listeners share their favorite holiday songs in a special holiday-themed "Music Thursday". Plus, we hear from both sides of the fracking debate in Illinois.[View the story "Morning...
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Morning Shift: Staying indie while being corporate
We discuss how local beer favorite Goose Island has transitioned into the corporate world since its acquisition by Anheuser-Busch InBev. Can smaller brands keep their indie cred while being corporate?...
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With quakes spiking, oil industry is under the microscope in Oklahoma
Out on Oklahoma's flat prairie, Medford, population about 900, is the kind of place where people give directions from the four-way stop in the middle of town.It seems pretty sedate, but it's not. "We...
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