Megan Mack

Weekend Connections is a collection of some of the most noteworthy moments from the week on Connections with Evan Dawson. This episode includes conversations about:

• Comedian Larry Wilmore using a racial epithet when referring to President Obama at the White House Correspondents' Dinner;
• The Christian Educators Association and whether expressions of faith should be allowed in public schools;
• The effects of PTSD on veterans, and the Simpson Cup;
• Climate change in the context of faith;
• The Rochester food truck scene.
  

Weekend Connections is a collection of some of the most noteworthy moments from the week on Connections with Evan Dawson. This episode includes conversations about:

• The Flint water crisis with investigative journalist Curt Guyette;
• The presidential race and paid family leave with billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist Tom Golisano; 
• The debate over shipping garbage from New York City to a landfill in the Finger Lakes;
• Zombie properties in Rochester;
• The Rochester Cocktail Revival.
  

Weekend Connections is a collection of some of the most noteworthy moments from the week on Connections with Evan Dawson. This episode includes conversations about:

• The philosophy of climate change with Noam Chomsky;
• "I'm From Driftwood," a website that collections stories from the LGBTQ community; 
• If "farm-to-table" claims are a myth;
• Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren's controversial proposal to create a receivership district for the RCSD;
• The New York State primary and the presidential race.
  

Weekend Connections is a collection of some of the most noteworthy moments from the week on Connections with Evan Dawson. This episode includes conversations about:

• The deep divide in the Monroe County Democratic Party;
• The possible future of libel laws in the U.S.;
• The position Susan B. Anthony would take on abortion if she were alive today;
• The experiences of children in the foster care system.
  

Weekend Connections is a collection of some of the most noteworthy moments from the week on Connections with Evan Dawson. This episode includes conversations about:

• The unionization of contingent faculty members at colleges and universities;
• The impact of consolidated school districts on revitalizing downtown areas;
• Creating equal opportunities for students of different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds;
• The debate over state testing and the opt-out movement;
• Finding the roots of families with slave ancestry.
  

Weekend Connections is a collection of some of the most noteworthy moments from the week on Connections with Evan Dawson. This episode includes conversations about:

Weekend Connections is a collection of some of the most noteworthy moments from the week on Connections with Evan Dawson. This episode includes conversations about:

• The controversy surrounding the I-Square project in Irondequoit;
• "NIMBY" issues and the Open Door Mission's search for a facility to help homeless women and children;
• The debate over raising the minimum wage statewide;
• The impact of free trade and supply-side economics on workers;
• The state of solar energy in Western New York. 

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Weekend Connections is a collection of some of the most noteworthy moments from the week on Connections with Evan Dawson. This episode includes conversations about:

• Race and culture in America with Michele Norris, NPR journalist and creator of the Race Card Project;
• President Obama's 2008 speech, "A More Perfect Union," and how our country has improved and regressed, relative to the themes of the speech;
• How a plant-based diet can prevent and cure diseases;
• Psychological thrillers like Psycho, and how filmmakers use editing techniques to manipulate the emotions of moviegoers.
  

Weekend Connections is a collection of some of the most noteworthy moments from the week on Connections with Evan Dawson. This episode includes conversations about:

• How journalists cover politicians' personal scandals;
• The Republican presidential primaries and Donald Trump's candidacy with Gates Town Supervisor Mark Assini;
• For-profit education with author Kevin Connell;
• Local scientists' involvement in the detection of gravitational waves;
• The memoir, Queen of the Fall, and the power of words with author and Rochester native Sonja Livingston.

Weekend Connections is a collection of some of the most noteworthy moments from the week on Connections with Evan Dawson. This episode includes conversations about:

• Race in America and the Urban League's efforts to engage presidential candidates, with guest Marc Morial;
• Why we believe, or want to believe in hoaxes and spurious quotes;
• Rochester's transportation future, including the possible return of a streetcar system;
• Stereotyping of millennials;
• The compelling story behind Fuego Coffee Roasters.