Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons

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WBEZ's Reset brings context to the latest Chicago-area news with experts, journalists and newsmakers.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons episodes:

May 11, 2022 Where Will You Live Under Chicago’s New Ward Map?
Will Chicago’s 36th Ward really resemble a ‘pool noodle’?
Enough members of Chicago’s City Council have reached a tentative compromise on the city’s ward remap, the full council still has to confirm the remap in a vote next week. If approved, it would take the issue off the June ballot and out of the hands of voters.
Reset hears more on the deal and reaction from both sides.
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16min
May 10, 2022 CPS Launches Suicide Prevention And Mental Health Campaign
This month, Chicago Public Schools is launching the “Please Stay” suicide prevention and mental health campaign for students in grades 7-12. The effort is in response to the rise in depression, self-harm and suicide among U.S. children and teens.

Reset checks in with WBEZ education reporter Susie An, Dr. Sameer Vohra with the Illinois Children’s Mental Health Partnership and Dr. Niranjan Karnik with the Institute for Juvenile Research at University of Illinois Chicago to discuss what Illinois schools and organizations are doing to help students prioritize their mental health and to get the help they need.

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Host: Sasha-Ann Simons
Producer: Stephanie Kim
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23min
May 09, 2022 Public defenders are now handling deportation cases in Cook County
Immigrants facing deportation in Cook County now have access to legal representation from the Public Defender’s Office.

Reset talks to three advocates about the county’s new Immigration Unit pilot.

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May 07, 2022 Chicago Artist Saba Discusses New Album ‘Few Good Things’
Saba’s latest album “Few Good Things,” took almost four years to finish. “Part of the personal evolution that you hear is just the time spent sitting with the record, tweaking the record, and being able to be present,” he told Reset. The Chicago hip-hop artist takes us inside his follow-up to 2018’s “CARE FOR ME” and tells us how vulnerability fuels his process.
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19min
May 06, 2022 WBEZ Weekly News Recap: May 6, 2022
Mayor Lightfoot announces the former Chicago Tribune publishing plant in River West as the site of the city’s first casino. Plus, Chicago unveils its bid to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention as the downtown area continues to see a spike in crime.
Reset goes behind the week’s headlines in the Weekly News Recap.
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30min
May 05, 2022 SNL Alum Sasheer Zamata Talks Stand-Up, ‘Woke’ And Hot Dogs
Sasheer Zamata has kept busy since leaving SNL. She’s starred in Hulu’s hit show Woke and ABC’s Home Economics, and has also produced stand-up comedy specials.
Reset checks in with the comedian as she embarks on a nationwide comedy tour to talk about how her childhood impacted her performance trajectory and what she’d like to say to fans who ask her why she doesn’t do impressions.
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19min
May 04, 2022 Chicago inches toward 200 homicides in 2022, and Anti-Semitic flyers left outside homes in Highland Park
Chicago had 178 homicides during the first four months of this year, according to a report from the city’s police department.
Reset discusses how the data compares with previous years and gets the latest on CPD’s plan for addressing homicides and violent crime as we head into the summer.
Plus, last week on Holocaust Remembrance Day, anti-Semitic leaflets were left outside homes in north suburban Highland Park and Glencoe. Experts say it’s not an isolated incident.
Reset learns more about how officials are responding and digs into a new report that shows anti-Semitic incidents reached historic levels in 2021.
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24min
May 03, 2022 Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker Reacts To Supreme Court Leak On Roe v. Wade
A leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion suggests the nation’s highest court is ready to overturn Roe v. Wade. Reset discusses what this could mean for reproductive rights in the U.S. and if Congress could take action in the absence of Roe with Amanda Becker, Washington correspondent for The 19th. Plus, we hear from Gov. JB Pritzker about the future of abortion access in Illinois.
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19min
May 02, 2022 A Month Away From The Illinois Primary, Here’s What You Need To Know
Editor: Ethan Schwabe
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15min
April 29, 2022 WBEZ’s Weekly News Recap: April 29, 2022
Parents and teachers protest Chicago Public Schools budget cuts and the head of the Chicago Reader steps down amid employee protests.

Reset goes behind the headlines in the Weekly News Recap.

Guests: Alex Nitkin, City Hall reporter for The Daily Line, Patrick Smith, WBEZ criminal justice reporter
Producer: Andrea Guthmann, Andrew Meriwether
Host: Sasha-Ann Simons

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32min

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The podcast currently has 4,488 episodes available.