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Evan Dawson talks about what matters to you on Connections. Do you have a story that needs to be shared? Pitch your story to Connections. For transcripts, please email our Move to Include team with a link to the episode.

2025 WXXI

Evan Dawson talks about what matters to you on Connections. Do you have a story that needs to be shared? Pitch your story to Connections. For transcripts, please email our Move to Include team with a link to the episode.

2025 WXXI
42hr 30min
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Thumbnail for "Veterans on local war memorials".
October 17, 202551min 25sec74.06 MB
Thumbnail for "Candidates for local judicial races".
October 17, 202550min 34sec72.84 MB
Thumbnail for "When should we lower the flag?".
October 16, 202551min 20sec73.95 MB
Thumbnail for "Concerns over weaponizing the Justice Department".
October 16, 202551min 1sec73.49 MB
Thumbnail for "Publication of private messages convulses American politics".
October 15, 202551min 20sec73.94 MB
Thumbnail for "Language, race, and accountability".
October 15, 202550min 55sec73.35 MB
Thumbnail for ""The Life of a Showgirl:" feat or flop?".
October 14, 202551min 18sec73.91 MB
Thumbnail for "What can save moviegoing?".
October 14, 202550min 47sec73.15 MB
Thumbnail for "Understanding breast cancer: risk, screening, and proposed legislation".
October 13, 202551min 25sec74.07 MB
Thumbnail for "Rochesterian talks space travel, a future beyond Earth, and weightlessness".
October 13, 202550min 53sec73.29 MB
Thumbnail for "CITY Magazine’s October issue: “Home”".
October 10, 202551min 7sec73.64 MB
Thumbnail for "Dr. Bill Valenti on 40 years of championing HIV care".
October 10, 202550min 35sec72.87 MB
Thumbnail for "Going behind the scenes of film music".
October 9, 202551min 8sec73.65 MB
Thumbnail for "Understanding the changes to Medicare Advantage plans".
October 9, 202551min 16sec73.85 MB
Thumbnail for "With tick bites on the rise, how to prevent Lyme disease and other illnesses".
October 8, 202552min74.9 MB
Thumbnail for "RCSD Superintendent Eric Jay Rosser".
October 8, 202550min 10sec72.27 MB
Thumbnail for "New AI literacy course aims to prepare high school students for a very different future".
October 7, 202551min 6sec73.61 MB
Thumbnail for "National Comedy Center director talks about the state of jokes in 2025".
October 7, 202550min 25sec72.63 MB
Thumbnail for "New AI “actor” causes an uproar".
October 6, 202551min 20sec73.95 MB
Thumbnail for "Fashion Week returns with an aim of addressing youth homelessness".
October 3, 202551min 20sec73.95 MB
Thumbnail for "Rochester moves forward with modular homes".
October 3, 202551min73.47 MB
Thumbnail for "The fight over the Syracuse airport's decision to reject a billboard advertising legal help in sexual harassment cases".
October 2, 202551min 25sec74.07 MB
Thumbnail for "Rochester Queer Arts Festival regroups after larger companies withdraw funding support for LGBTQ events".
October 2, 202550min 57sec73.39 MB
Thumbnail for "Bringing down the temperature in our over-heated country, state, and neighborhoods".
October 1, 202551min 20sec73.94 MB
Thumbnail for "What if all of Rochester read the same book?".
October 1, 202551min 1sec73.5 MB
Thumbnail for "Play therapy is having a moment".
September 30, 202551min 28sec74.14 MB
Thumbnail for "Making sense of the end of a high-profile vegan dining experiment".
September 30, 202551min 4sec73.57 MB
Thumbnail for "David Grann, one of the great modern journalists and author of "Killers of the Flower Moon"".
September 29, 202549min 39sec71.52 MB
Thumbnail for ""Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence" comes to Rochester".
September 29, 202551min 1sec73.48 MB
Thumbnail for "Addressing severe maternal morbidity".
September 26, 202551min 39sec74.39 MB
Thumbnail for "Can advanced practice providers fill gaps and improve outcomes in healthcare?".
September 26, 202551min 1sec73.48 MB
Thumbnail for "EV credits on the way out; what’s next for car buyers?".
September 25, 202551min 22sec74 MB
Thumbnail for "Is free speech under threat?".
September 25, 202550min 49sec73.2 MB
Thumbnail for "Experts and advocates react to misinformation from Trump on Tylenol and autism".
September 24, 202551min 20sec73.93 MB
Thumbnail for "Jeff VanderMeer on fiction, imagination and our uncertain future".
September 24, 202550min 28sec72.69 MB
Thumbnail for "Congressman Joe Morelle".
September 23, 202551min 20sec73.94 MB
Thumbnail for "The future of the United States' role in NATO".
September 23, 202550min 37sec72.9 MB
Thumbnail for "Making doulas available to more mothers".
September 22, 202551min 22sec74 MB
Thumbnail for "Tariffs, rate cuts, and grocery prices: Oh my!".
September 22, 202551min 18sec73.89 MB
Thumbnail for "Kafka Prize winner".
September 19, 202549min 38sec71.49 MB
Thumbnail for "In a small town, an unlikely trio attempts to bridge the political divide".
September 19, 202550min 58sec73.43 MB
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September 18, 202551min 1sec73.48 MB
Thumbnail for "Where have all the nuclear protesters gone?".
September 18, 202550min 57sec73.39 MB
Thumbnail for ""Big Beautiful Bill" could reshape your tax bill".
September 17, 202550min 54sec73.31 MB
Thumbnail for "Sitting down with Ukrainians visiting Rochester".
September 17, 202550min 57sec73.4 MB
Thumbnail for "The Bills are going to win the Super Bowl right before moving into a new stadium".
September 16, 202550min 52sec73.27 MB
Thumbnail for "How colleges are preparing for a possible enrollment plunge".
September 16, 202550min 7sec72.18 MB
Thumbnail for "Understanding the Trump administration's mixed signals on solar".
September 15, 202550min 59sec73.45 MB
Thumbnail for "The debate over allowing AI to write our music".
September 15, 202551min 20sec73.95 MB

Medical professionals set the record straight on vaccines

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October 6, 202550min 49sec

President Trump recently said that children are getting 80 vaccines and the doses are strong enough for a horse. (None of that is true.) Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently implied that COVID vaccines are more dangerous than COVID. Our guests help us understand the latest in vaccines, safety, and efficacy.

Our guests:

  • Ann Falsey, M.D., infectious disease specialist with UR Medicine
  • Steven Schulz, M.D., pediatrician with Rochester Regional Health
  • Geoff Weinberg, M.D., pediatric infectious disease specialist with UR Medicine

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