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From the Newsroom: Preventing Bird Strikes, Opposing Jenkins’ Immigrant Plan

Shelley Kofler
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KERA News

In today's All Things Considered local block from the KERA Newsroom: 

Meet the woman at DFW airport who makes sure airplanes and wildlife don’t mix. And Dallas County Commissioners meet Tuesday for the first time since Judge Clay Jenkins announced a polarizing plan to help the federal government set up shelters for immigrant children.

You can listen to the segment weekdays at 6:20 p.m. and 8:20 a.m. on KERA 90.1 FM.

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.