Poisoned Waters
35 years after the Clean Water Act, our environmental protections are in poor shape. PCBs poison Puget Sound’s Orca whales and King salmon. Oysters and blue crabs on Chesapeake Bay have shrunk badly. New chemicals in our drinking water. Stormwater runoff from growing cities and suburbs. Pervasive pollution from poultry, hog and cattle farms. All endanger the eco-system and some pose serious health hazards to humans.

Going Green
That’s our new focus – creating a two-hour program for PBS Frontline to show the unhealthy state of eco-protections, the dangers to human health from new toxics, and to dig into why it’s so hard to save premier waterways like Puget Sound and Chesapeake Bay. One early finding: public grass roots action gets results.

“Spying” Gets Recognition
"Spying on the Home Front,” rebroadcast by PBS Frontline in November, has been nominated for a Writers’ Guild award for best documentary script for 2007. As Congress debates a new NSA law, two dozen Senators want to see program excerpts for a look inside NSA’s domestic eavesdropping. You can see “Spying” on-line at Frontline’s Web site.

Emmy For Pension/401k Program
Producer Rick Young and Correspondent - Senior Producer Hedrick Smith picked up an Emmy in New York for their Frontline program on the fraying private retirement system - "Can You Afford To Retire?"
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CAN YOU AFFORD TO RETIRE?
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“Making Schools Work” Wins
National Public Service Award
“Making Schools Work with Hedrick Smith,” our two-hour special on stunning educational successes in public schools, has been awarded the national television public service award for 2005 by the journalism honor society, Sigma Delta Chi. The program highlights strategies for improving student performance in urban and rural communities form coast to coast. (To obtain the video, contact Films for the Humanities, Princeton, NJ., 1-800-527-5126) .

Help for Schools in Your Community:
For communities engaged in school reform, find helpful information about district-wide reform and school-based strategies, plus interviews with experts. Download a discussion guide about issues in educational reform on the homepage. All at: www.pbs.org/makingschoolswork.

Ellington and Brubeck
For an intimate glimpse of the early life and times of the incomparable Duke Ellington or an unparalleled close-up – on stage and backstage - with jazz legend Dave Brubeck, get hold of our PBS documentaries. Both are award-winning programs that have scored with viewers. Nearly half a million people have hit our web site on www.PBS.org to learn more about Duke Ellington’s Washington, and Rediscovering
For Ellington:http://www.shop.pbs.org.
For Brubeck: Films For Humanities (800).257.5126.