NPR as a national organization might be fine, but regional stations have smaller operating budgets and also get funding, and their programming gets picked up. Member stations will suffer or fail under this update, and that will feed back to national programming when something like WAMC’s On the Media or WBEZ’s Wait Wait gets axed.
I know a few millennial homeowners, and almost every one falls into one of two categories: they were gifted the home (or down payment) from a family member; or they married a Gen-X doctor in 2007 and bought right after the market crashed in 2008 and they’ve watched their home value quadruple since then.
That’s it. Have family that’s well-off enough, or marry someone that had money at the right time to exploit a financial disaster.
We read very different books. I thought the first half was hilarious, but it lulled me into a comfort of the absurdity and the banality that set up an absolutely devastating second half.
I think it’s one of the greatest books I’ve ever read, but I don’t think it was a comedy.
Many states have closed primary elections prior to the general election. So three or four candidates from the same party are campaigning against each other for the right to be the candidate in the general election, and the only people that can vote in this preliminary election are registered party members.