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Rich Homberg

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Honored to help lead #Detroit PBS & be part of The Most Important City In America #TMICIA. Lucky, too, to be married to the Dish & father to Nick.

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If you can solve this without guessing, your math skills are impressive. What's the missing number?
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People always get this wrong at first try. How many T’s are in that?🤔
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Zarii
@GosleepriyaOct 25
This question separates smart people from geniuses. What is it? 🤔
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Don’t answer too quickly… read it twice! How's this possible.???
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Music over time🎻
@Peal8888Sep 14
The best cover of all time for this song! ✨
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Outstanding story from the PBS News Hour: Fighter pilot reflects on order to sacrifice herself to stop Flight 93 on 9/11 pbs.org/newshour/show/fighte…
Fighter pilot reflects on order to sacrifice herself to stop Flight 93 on 9/11

Fighter pilot reflects on order to sacrifice herself to stop Flight 93 on 9/11

On 9/11, the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 stormed the cockpit, forcing the hijacked jet to crash in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. But before the world knew of their bravery, members of...

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"If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person." - Fred Rogers Thank you teachers - Detroit PBS
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One Detroit@OneDetroit_PBSAug 6
TONIGHT at 7:30p ET: A look at Michigan’s Chaldean history, the legacy of Detroit radio station WCHB and more from our Destination Detroit series. Watch it on @Detroit_PBS or OneDetroitPBS.org
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From the Columbia Journalism Review in 2011. The answer is "absolutely!" Coming off an incredible year and jumpstarting the next generation of our partnership with TMICIA - The Most Important City in America. Thanks to our great team and our great partners. Here we go!
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From Detroit PBS and the PBS News Hour: The alarming decline at bird populations and why humans should care. pbs.org/newshour/video/horiz…

The alarming decline of bird populations and why humans should care - Horizons

Birds are not only wondrous creatures that live amongst us, they’re also an essential part of life on Earth – helping grow food, keeping pests at bay and spreading seeds. But more than half of...

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Worried about a warming world? Fascinating piece from the PBS News Hour on a scientist and his family tracking melting glaciers for nearly half a century. pbs.org/newshour/show/the-sc…
The scientist and his family tracking melting glaciers for nearly half a century

The scientist and his family tracking melting glaciers for nearly half a century

The world’s glaciers are receding at an alarming rate, losing more than a trillion tons of ice a year. Fueled in part by climate change, it’s driving sea levels higher, which could threaten coastal...

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Betting that WRCJ's Dave Wagner agrees, here's an amazing piece on an incredible organist from tonight's PBS News Hour. pbs.org/newshour/show/musica…
Musical phenom introduces an old instrument to new audiences

Musical phenom introduces an old instrument to new audiences

The pipe organ is typically associated with formal concert halls, church music and traditional works by Baroque composers like Bach. But one musician, Anna Lapwood, is broadening the instrument’s...

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An incredible piece on sting from the PBS News Hour tonight. Worth your time. Enjoy. Share! pbs.org/newshour/show/why-st…
Why Sting challenges himself to push his artistry into new forms

Why Sting challenges himself to push his artistry into new forms

Sting’s music is known around the world. Over the course of his career, he has sold more than 100 million records, first as the frontman, principal songwriter and bassist for The Police, and later as...

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101 WRIF Detroit@101wrifMay 28
On this day in 2000, On a Detroit public television show called Backstage Pass, the White Stripes made their first TV performance. Full run down of today's Rock History in comments!
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PBS Books Readers Club welcomes New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman youtube.com/live/bLN3KfFVLvQ…
Readers Club: This is Not About Us | Allegra Goodman

Readers Club: This is Not About Us | Allegra Goodman

PBS Books Readers Club welcomes New York Times bestselling author A...

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This just in from Mackinac: Mike Duggan on...Mike Duggan. Duggan shares his decision not to continue the campaign for Governor. facebook.com/reel/1721343219…
34 reactions · 33 shares | Former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan joins...

34 reactions · 33 shares | Former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan joins...

Former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan joins Detroit Regional Chamber President and Chief Executive Officer Sandy K. Baruah for a conversation about Detroit’s continued growth, economic development,...

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Ever wondered what’s hiding in the deepest, darkest corners of the Great Lakes? We’re teaming up with @HiddenBelowFilm to send an underwater drone to the deepest known point in the Great Lakes on June 6 at 1 PM and livestream what we find. See you there: greatlakesnow.org/hiddenbelo…
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"I believe the time has come to stake another claim in the name of all the people, stake a claim based upon the combined resources of communications." President Lyndon B. Johnson when signing the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 on November 7, 1967
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"Today our problem is not making miracles—but managing miracles. We might well ponder a different question: What hath man wrought—and how will man use his inventions?" President Lyndon B. Johnson November 7, 1967 on the creation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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Supreme Court rules for Michigan in its fight to shut down an aging energy pipeline

Supreme Court rules for Michigan in its fight to shut down an aging energy pipeline

The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with Michigan in ruling that the state's lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an aging pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state court.

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