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The Triad will soon be home to a new manufacturing plant. The heavy equipment company, Caterpillar, has agreed to build a factory in Winston-Salem that will employ several hundred people. More

 

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Augusta Lee Collins was recently inducted into the Bay Area Blues Hall of Fame. Augusta Lee knows the blues because he's lived it. He was homeless for two years, and at the time he serenaded passersby with songs of life on the street. But now, Augusta Lee is using blues to celebrate - the music has given him his life back. He joins guest host David Brown, and performs his new single, "1,000 Miles from Nowhere." More

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YahZarah

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YahZarah got her start in music as a teenager, singing backup on Erykah Badu's album "Mama's Gun". That was 10 years ago. Now, after touring with Badu and releasing two studio projects of her own, YahZarah has reinvented herself for her third CD, "The Ballad of Purple St. James". More

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NPR Remembers Daniel Schorr, 1916-2010

NPR's senior news analyst and elder statesman of journalism Daniel Schorr died Friday, July 23. 

The last of Edward R. Murrow's legendary CBS reporting team, Schorr enjoyed a career that spanned over 60 years, from covering post-World War II reconstruction to most recently analyzing the U.S.-Russia spy swap. More from NPR... 


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Now There's An App For WUNC

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Get full details about WUNC's new iPhone / iPod Touch app.  Listen to WUNC anywhere - anytime - for free!

If you have iTunes installed on your computer you can immediately download our app with a visit the online Apple App Store.

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Donate a car, boat or other vehicle to WUNC and support the programming you enjoy. Find out more by calling 1-888-CAR-WUNC or find out more here.


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