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Listen to August 8, 2008 Edition with host Mark McLemore

Blood Donor Law - Deploy Peace - Nogales Colonia - Miner's Story #5: Lynn Taylor

Christopher Conover tells us about a new Arizona law that will make it possible for residents as young as 16 to donate blood...

The Arizona Blood Donor bill

Mark McLemore talks with Karen Gulino about her labor of love, the organization Deploy Peace. They use airplane scrap metal from Davis-Monthan to promote peace and benefit veterans in a unique way...

Deploy Peace's homepage

A new book published by UA Press documents the poverty that exists along the border, and looks at what life is like for those living in the impoverished settlements known as "colonias". Luis CarriĆ³n bring us the story...

The University of Arizona Press

Claudine LoMonaco introduces us to another storyteller from The Miner's Story Project, Lynn Taylor, who talks about the challenges she faced as one of the first women to be hired in the male-dominated world of mining...

The Miner's Story Projec

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