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Today on Morning Edition Extra, a round up of the week's news, and look at why the state of Massachusetts is spending more than  $3 million to study the impact of gambling on society, before t

A study on gambling's societal impact, an urban poet in Lenox and the late Randolph Bromery at StoryCorps 

This week on Morning Edition Extra, Massachusetts State Treasurer Steven Grossman talks about the Marketplace Fairness Act, approved this week by the U.S.

MA State Treasurer talks about internet taxes; how NE is securing energy from renewables to meet legislative mandates and one aspect of putting out brush fires

 

This week on Morning Edition Extra,  ESPN's Howard Bryiant on Jason Collins coming out, plus contemporary art in traditional Stockbridge, Mass., and commentator Robert Chipkin on the Boston Ma

This week on Morning Edition Extra,  ESPN's Howard Bryiant on Jason Collins coming out, plus contemporary art in traditional Stockbridge, Mass., and commentator Robert Chipkin on the Boston Marathon and his family's coming through OK, most of the time.

The fund for victims of the Boston Marathon explosions is growing, and Kenneth Feinberg is the man who decides how to divvy up the the money; also a story of how a UMass graduate student called out

UMass alum Ken Feinberg to administer the One Fund Boston, a UMass graduate student calls out Harvard reasearch and a U.S. Senate candidate profile  

 

Today on Morning Edition Extra from New England Public Radio News, how Iraqi refugees now in Massachusetts are adjusting to life in the U.S.

How Iraqi refugees in MA are adjusting to life in the U.S., how the experience differs from east to west; an entomologist laments NE's near miss of the 17 year cicada

 

Today on Morning Edition Extra, a closer look at Connecticut's new gun law; also a walk through Holyoke via the photos of Jerome Liebling, and a little Emily Dickinson set to music to start off National Poetry Month.

 

Today on Morning Edition Extra, a look at how changes in the federal Defense of Marriage Act could effect residents of states where same sex marriage is legal and where it's not.

A  look at the impact of changes in the Defense of Marriage Act, and soldiers and veterans are doing yoga to treat an issues that come with war

This week on Morning Edition Extra, an artist who is painting 100 portraits of U.S.

An artist painting portraits of US Iraq war veterans and active duty soldiers; a new stage production from Double Edge Theater and the Tiny House movement

 

Today on Morning Edition Extra, new Holocaust research reveals many more death camps and deaths than previously understood, also how same sex marriage and civil unions are seen through the immigrat

Today on Morning Edition Extra, new Holocaust research reveals many more death camps and deaths than previously understood, also how same sex marriage and civil unions are seen through the immigration lens, and commentator Liz Rosenberg reveals and revels in the nuanced relationship with her seven year old daughter, who is deaf.

Today on Morning Edition Extra from NEPR News, Food Banks are not only seeing more people coming through the doors,but more people with specific dietary needs, including the need for gluten free fo

Today on Morning Edition Extra from NEPR News, Food Banks are not only seeing more people coming through the doors,but more people with specific dietary needs, including the need for gluten free food because of Celiac Disease, also commentator Philip Caputo on too little, too late changes in gun laws.

 

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