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Who Is She? Just One Of The Most Popular Songs Ever

Written 50 years ago this summer, it's just been dubbed the second-most recorded pop song ever. It's been covered by everyone from Frank Sinatra to Amy Winehouse to the Yale Whiffenpoofs.

Today on KRPS For Wednesday June 7, 2023

Show highlights today on KRPS include the Piano Puzzler on Performance Today this morning at 11. Fred and Bruce welcome Allison Toltz calling from Montreal, Canada to play the Puzzler.Also, this afternoon at 3:30 on Today, Explained.Home insurance companies State Farm and AllState recently announced that they would halt offering home insurance policies to California residents due to climate change and the high cost of rebuilding. What that means for property owners in California and the rest of the country.

A cyclist rides past an area flooded during a King Tide, an especially high tide, in Miami, Florida on Oct. 9, 2018. Federal scientists, according to a report released on July 10, 2019, predicted 40 places in the U.S. will experience higher than normal rates of so-called sunny day flooding that year due to rising sea levels and an abnormal El Nino weather system.

Sea levels are rising. Streets flood on sunny days. How can we prepare for a more watery world?

In April 2023 alone, floods hit numerous regions of the United States, including land-locked states like Kansas, Tennessee and Colorado. With warmer temperatures and human activity causing the oceans to rise and the ground to sink, flooding is now a question of when, not if. But there are still things we can do to prepare for this "floodier future."

An endangered pallid sturgeon swims in an aquarium at the Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery in Yankton, South Dakota. Some say recovery efforts for the pallids and other animals on the Missouri River could also help protect the floodplain.

Ancient fish, modern problem: How the pallid sturgeon could be a warning for the Missouri River

The pallid sturgeons outlasted dinosaurs, but human changes to the Missouri River nearly wiped out the prehistoric fish. Some experts think the fish’s struggle could signal larger problems on the Big Muddy, especially as climate change accelerates.

Legal pot meant a second chance for thousands in Illinois — did the state keep its promise?

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the recreational marijuana law nearly four years ago. It contained language that made hundreds of thousands of people eligible to have marijuana-related charges removed from their records.