Ten-year old Wins Essay Contest Writing About Her Grandmother

Charles Fishburne in News

The Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors has recognized 10-year old Ashley Nuckols, a student at Curtis Elementary School, as the grand prize winner of the annual essay contest for Older Americans Month.  As Charles Fishburne reports, Ashley won with an essay about her grandmother.
 

 

My Granny—My Inspiration

 

The Whiskey Trail

Thea Marshall in Essays

Northern Neck commentator Thea Marshall hits the Whiskey Trail and learns why Martha Washington loved toddies.

 

Meet Audie Cornish of All Things Considered

Dan Rosenthal in Community Events

All Things Considered co-host Audie Cornish tells WCVE’s Dan Rosenthal about the difference between reporting and hosting, how two journalists can live under one roof and how she developed near-perfect diction growing up outside Boston to Jamaican parents.

NPR's Audie Cornish Headlines WCVE's 25th Anniversary Bash

Audie Cornish, cohost of NPR's All Things Considered (Monday-Friday, 4 pm), visited Richmond May 2 to help WCVE Public Radio celebrate its 25th anniversary.  She spoke to assembled supporters at the Modlin Center for the Arts. WCVE's VP-GM Bill Miller presided.

 

USC Students Allege Racial Profiling By LAPD

The Los Angeles Police Department is under scrutiny again. This time it's for sending almost 80 officers to break up a college house party. Most of the partygoers were African-American students from the University of Southern California.

USC senior Nate Howard organized the party that was shut down by the police. At a protest on campus Monday he condemned the response.

"Seventy-plus officers?" he said. "What else was going on at that time in the community that you needed to be at a party of students getting ready to graduate?"

Officials Prepare For Another Flu Pandemic — Just In Case

There's been a buzz of activity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta since scientists got their first samples of a new bird flu virus from China four weeks ago.

Already they've prepared "seed strains" of the virus, called H7N9, and distributed them to vaccine manufacturers so the companies can grow them up and make them into experimental flu vaccine.

Will Tweaking Windows 8 Be Enough To Revive The PC?

When Microsoft introduced Windows 8 last year, the software giant billed the new operating system as one of the most critical releases in its history. The system would bridge the gap between personal computers and the fast-growing mobile world of tablets and smartphones.

But this week, the company sent signals that it might soon alter Windows 8 to address some early criticism of the operating system.

Congress Considers Patch To Keep Helium Supply Afloat

The Senate is considering legislation to prevent a global helium shortage from worsening in October. That's when one huge supply of helium in the U.S. is set to terminate. The House overwhelmingly passed its own bill last month to keep the Federal Helium Program going.

That was a relief to industries that can't get along without helium. The gas is used in MRI machines, semiconductors, aerospace equipment, lasers and of course balloons.

Rat 'Mutton' And Bird Flu: Strange Days For Meat Eaters In Shanghai

The past couple of months have been unsettling ones for meat eaters in Shanghai.

In March, more than 16,000 dead pigs showed up in a stretch of the Huangpu River — a main source of the city's drinking water.

Afghans Confront Sensitive Issue Of Ethnicity

In Afghanistan, where most people are illiterate and live in areas without paved roads or regular electricity, a state-of-the-art smart-chip ID card may seem extravagant. But the government believes it can help with everything from census data to voter registration to health care.

The format of the proposed card, however, is fueling debate over ethnicity and identity at a time when anxiety is already high over the drawdown of NATO troops.