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Martin Anderson
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Public radio host, music fan, lover of nature and compassion and other sensible stuff.
Dual headlines courtesy of the NYT:
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A bit of fun and synchronicity with the current spotlight on the American Revolution, courtesy of the PBS Ken Burns series. A giant Patriot visited Isothermal Community College today! open.substack.com/pub/martinan...
December 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Songs of food & gratitude all day long on WNCW this Thanksgiving Day. I love helping to serve it up each year, but I’m thankful to have a couple days off this week. “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” airs just past Noon and at 9:30 p.m.

www.wncw.org/2022-11-18/h...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Your WNCW family has a seat at the table for you, with songs of food & gratitude all day long this Thursday. In one of our favorite annual traditions, Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” fro...
www.wncw.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Just a little reminder: when you’re feeling frayed or frazzled or in need of getting your compass reset, just put on some Jackson Browne.
November 11, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Looking forward to this afternoon concert. A few tickets are still available, last i heard, plus we’ll be livestreaming it via WNCW’s YouTube page! The Saluda venue Salud! will be hosting a watch party!

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WNCW Benefit Concert
Intimate Studio Concert with Free Planet Radio & Friends
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November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Excessive force. PERIOD!

They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.

📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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I don't resent poor people who use food stamps to buy another soft drink.

I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.
November 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“Their commitment to ending democracy in the Tar Heel State is unapologetically on display. North Carolina voters have, perhaps, one more electoral cycle to defeat it. But we will be required to prevail by bountiful margins.“

Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/opinion/arti...
NC Republicans’ commitment to ending democracy is unapologetically on display | Opinion
When the acceptance of cheating becomes habitual, as it has in North Carolina, the death of democracy ensues. | Opinion
www.newsobserver.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace becomes a circus."
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October 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Note this is Time Magazine, a mainstream news source that has to do a fair amount of vetting through corporate shareholders and such:

time.com/7325086/cora...
time.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Not to mention not-so-young people who can’t afford ~$590/month! For mediocre coverage!?! What do we do??
Young healthy people are going to drop their insurance.

And then something happens and they are screwed.

Ask me how I know.
October 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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I continue to feel that our national experiment of making the dumbest MF in the country president was ill advised.
September 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Happy Rapture Day! How about we all agree that if it DOESN’T come, then they should release the Epstein Files?
September 23, 2025 at 7:57 AM
September 19, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The White House “Rose Garden”, designed and installed by Jackie Kennedy, during the Obama Administration (photo by Pete Souza), and last night:
September 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
PragerU: MAGA’s replacement for PBS. Their “edu-tainment” indoctrination is already in 10 states; they intend to be in all 50. Keep them out of yours!
www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
‘They have a 50 state strategy’: PragerU’s ‘insidious’ alternative to PBS hits U.S. classrooms
PragerU has found an ally in the White House and is presenting itself as the “conservative” option to PBS. The media company currently has partnerships with 10 states but MSNBC’s Antonia Hylton, who h...
www.msnbc.com
September 7, 2025 at 12:47 PM
August 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM