Jesse Medina
Assistant DirectorRECENT STORIES ON KPBS
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After Hurricane Katrina, many New Orleans charter schools united in a mission to send more students to college. Today, some of those students, now adults, wish they'd been given more options. -
How did a word that simply referred to a millennia-old beverage come to be the latest iteration of "what's up?" -
President Trump's executive order challenges a landmark Supreme Court decision, according to free speech attorneys. -
The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes. -
Redistricting critics warn that efforts to redraw maps mid-decade risks fueling further gridlock in Congress, and ceding more power to the executive and judicial branches. -
Earlier this month President Trump signed an executive order imposing an additional 25% tariff on India due its purchases of Russian oil, bringing the combined tariffs to 50%.
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