Brian Mann

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As climate change looms, New York bets big on winter sports tourism

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Officials in New York are on track to spend $1 billion taxpayer dollars refurbishing 40-year-old Winter Olympic sports and tourism sites near Lake Placid. Critics doubt it will pay off.

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Critics have doubts about New York's huge winter sports tourism investment

Wednesday, July 12, 2023

The state is on track to spend a billion dollars refurbishing 40-year-old Winter Olympic sports and tourism sites near Lake Placid. Critics ask why? (Story aired on ATC on July 10, 2023.)

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Critics have doubts about New York's huge winter sports tourism investment

Monday, July 10, 2023

Officials in New York are on track to spend $1 billion taxpayer dollars refurbishing 40-year-old Winter Olympic sports and tourism sites near Lake Placid. Critics doubt it will pay off.

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Trail running through the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Kansas

Friday, July 07, 2023

The tallgrass prairie is an astonishing place to run — with rolling hills, bison herds, wildflowers and birds. We take a sunrise run in a tallgrass preserve in Kansas.

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Politicians want tougher police action against drug dealers — a move that cost lives

Thursday, July 06, 2023

New research suggests the war on drugs is hurting people with addiction, but lawmakers from both parties are demanding tougher crime policies to curb fentanyl overdoses.

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Politicians want cop crackdowns on drug dealers. Experts say tough tactics cost lives

Wednesday, July 05, 2023

As fentanyl deaths surge, lawmakers want more drug busts and arrests. But new research found tough police tactics might increase overdoses and drug deaths in communities.

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Overdose deaths involving street xylazine surged years earlier than reported

Friday, June 30, 2023

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found U.S. deaths involving xylazine, known on the street as Tranq, had already risen 35-fold by 2021.

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Family members backed the $500,000 bond that freed Rep. Santos from jail

Thursday, June 22, 2023

For weeks New York's embattled Republican congressman fought to keep the backers of his bond secret. Turns out it was his dad and his aunt.

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The missing submersible raises troubling questions for the adventure tourism industry

Thursday, June 22, 2023

The search for the Titan in the North Atlantic continues. When adventure travel goes wrong, who pays the price, and who's forced to take big risks mounting a rescue?

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A deadly new street drug caught the U.S. off guard. Experts say it'll happen again

Saturday, June 17, 2023

A dangerous chemical called xylazine is being mixed into fentanyl across the U.S., but who's doing it and why is a mystery. The government still doesn't identify and track new drug threats.

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A dangerous horse tranquilizer is being laced into U.S. street drugs

Friday, June 16, 2023

Xylazine is the latest toxic street drug to spread across America. Experts say the country is flying blind without public health data.

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A dangerous chemical Xylazine is being added to U.S. street drugs, killing thousands

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Public health and law enforcement agencies around the U.S. are scrambling to blunt the impact of xylazine, a deadly new threat to Americans who use street drugs.

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Drugmaker Mallinckrodt may renege on $1.7 billion opioid settlement

Monday, June 12, 2023

Victims of prescription opioid addiction as well as communities slammed by the opioid crisis could wind up with nothing if Mallinckrodt files for a second bankruptcy.

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Who backed George Santos' $500,000 jail bond? He's still fighting to keep it secret

Friday, June 09, 2023

News organizations including NPR want a federal judge to reveal who paid Rep. George Santos' jail bond after he was charged with federal crimes.

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Scientists in the Adirondack Mountains monitor Canadian wildfire smoke

Thursday, June 08, 2023

Smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to blanket much of the Northeast. Scientists at a mountain research station in New York have been watching the crisis unfold.

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U.S. skies in the Northeast and the Midwest are hazy with smoke from Canada

Wednesday, June 07, 2023

A good chunk of the United States is dealing with smoke following a series of wildfires in Canada. Winds have carried the smoke across the Northeast and parts of the Midwest.

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Addiction drug maker will pay more than $102 million fine for stifling competition

Friday, June 02, 2023

Indivior was accused of using illegal strategies to keep generic versions of the opioid-treatment medication Suboxone off the market. The company denies wrongdoing.

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You'll need a boat to navigate the flooded forest at this Vermont bird sanctuary

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

In springtime, a wildlife refuge in northern Vermont is a paradise of migratory birds where you can paddle through flooded maple forests.

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Appeals court clears the way to shield Sackler family from opioid crisis lawsuits

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

A landmark appeals court ruling would shelter members of the Sackler family from lawsuits linked to opioids and their company Purdue Pharma.

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A landmark appeals court ruling clears way for Purdue Pharma-Sackler bankruptcy deal

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York cleared the way for a controversial bankruptcy deal that grants immunity from opioid lawsuits to members of the Sackler family.

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