Click here to view the story on WAMU After the recent Paris attacks, anti-Islamic sentiments and racial profiling are at risk of rising in the United States. Sikh men wear turbans for religious reasons, and are sometimes wrongly mistaken for Muslims and even terrorists. A local Montgomery County group is trying to change this by ...
This September the Arlington Public School District plans to open the doors of a brand new elementary school, pegged to be the first net zero school in Virginia and the largest net zero school in the Mid-Atlantic region. At 7:30 a.m. on a Thursday morning the construction site of the Discovery Elementary School in Arlington ...
Click here to view story on WAMU Suzanne is the vice president of a large bank. She’s been living with — and managing — her bipolar disorder for years. But Suzanne, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, also allowed clutter to accumulate in her house and eventually it got so bad that ...
Click here to view story on WAMU Stephen has been living with schizophrenia since he was in his teens. He’s 36 now, and for years, his story was one of delusions, misdiagnoses, hospitalizations, and brushes with the law. “I’ve had my ups and downs,” Stephen says. “But that’s the context of how things happen, there ...
Click here to view story on WAMU The Flying Circus in Bealeton, Virginia was started in 1970 by a group of guys who wanted to pay homage to the barnstorming era of the 1920s, when pilots would fly throughout the country selling airplane rides, usually operating from a farmer’s field. For 44 years, the Flying ...