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🗓️ 17 September 2024

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We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. Take the survey at wbur.org/survey. Schools are reopening in Springfield, Ohio, after bomb threats rocked the community. The city has become a center of anti-immigrant backlash after former President Donald Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance amplified racist falsehoods about Haitian immigrants. WYSO's Kathryn Mobley and Springfield NAACP chapter president Denise Williams give us a picture of Springfield. And, after losing everything in a climate-driven flash flood in 2022, screenwriter and actor Tony Calhoun took his own life. NPR's Rebecca Hersher joins us to remember Calhoun and explore how to prevent other deaths like his. Then, former President Jimmy Carter will turn 100 on Oct. 1. The Carter Center is organizing a concert to celebrate. Jimmy Carter's grandson Jason Carter talks about his grandfather's love for music and who will perform at the concert.

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0:21.0	Welcome to Hearin Now, any time, where we bring you a little news, a little something you weren't expecting, and always a fresh thoughtful perspective on the issues that matter to you.
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0:41.0	slash survey.
0:42.0	I'm looking forward to hearing from you and thanks. Now here's today's episode. getting the Haitian immigrants. My experience in Springfield is that I have met good people willing to work with the Haitian community here.
1:00.0	Springfield, Ohio is a town on edge after the Trump Vance campaign amplified racist lies
1:07.6	about Haitian migrants.
1:09.2	It's Tuesday, September 17th, and this is here and now any time from NPR and WBU are.
1:17.0	I'm Chris Bentley.
1:20.0	Today on the show, climate change wreaks havoc around the world,
1:24.8	turbocharging natural disasters like floods and heat waves.
1:28.7	So why has attributing individual deaths
1:31.6	to global warming been so difficult.
1:34.0	We'll try to get some answers and we'll remember one victim of climate change from Eastern
1:39.2	Kentucky.
1:41.1	Also... Also, Jimmy Carter's grandson on the former President's 100th birthday concert, which features
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