Guy Davis -- Goin' Down Slow

The roots of bluesman Guy Davis' music are the rhythms and themes of the South. One person's favorite: his album Call Down the Thunder.

Tough Questions About Black Lung and Money

Coal companies have paid millions of dollars to Johns Hopkins medical institutions over the last decade for medical opinions that have been used to deny hundreds of ailing mine workers meager black lung benefits
 

Friday Nite Videos -- November 1, 2013

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Following the Ninth (Beethoven!). Tough Questions About Black Lung and Money. LeBron Asks: What Muscles Do We Use When Shooting a Basket? George Carlin on Religion and God. Least Gay Marriage Friendly State: Alabama or Mississippi? Guy Davis -- Goin' Down Slow.

Romney House

Columnist Gail Collins The New York Times

The Image and Influence of California's Organized Labor

Scott Detrow California Report (Public Radio Consortium, KQED)
While unions are "taking it on the chin" in many areas of the country - e.g. states like Wisconsin and Indiana eliminating collective bargaining rights - organized labor is alive and well in California politics.