Some podcast highlights... Miles Bartholomew, a court reporter, invented the first successful shorthand machine in 1877 and is considered to be the “Father of the Stenograph.” The first paperless stenograph to utilize a floppy disk didn’t come along until 1987. During Hurricane Katrina, prisoners from the Orleans Parish Prison were evacuated to one of the only high-ground options—the elevated Broad Street overpass. Guard boats dropped off close to 3,500 inmates, who sat on the hot asphalt for four days while being watched over by hundreds of guards with....MORE

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