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From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Last week, five former directors of the National Weather Service released a joint letter warning about the impact of major funding cuts. They say we'll have less accurate

weather reports and the storm warning system could break down. But it's not just meteorology

that faces cuts. From NASA to the National Institutes of Health to the National Science Foundation,

public research institutions have taken massive blows. We look at what the Trump administration is

doing and how it could affect the future of science. It's all coming up next right after this news.

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I write these meditations on the Bay and we call this series one good thing.

Los Angeles has Hollywood and New York basically has the rest of the official media,

but there is no alternative media tradition more interesting or powerful than the Bay Area's

legacy of little magazines, radical publications,

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