Marching for Voter Rights, Jerri Heid Youth Services Manager Retires

Dennis Hart provides a summary of Iowa news from the past week. 

On August 28, KHOI reporter Mike Murphy attended the Local March on Voting Rights, held in Ames. On this anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington led by Martin Luther King Jr., marches were held across the country to protest voting restriction laws being enacted by state legislatures. Voices of participants of Saturday's march were captured here for KHOI.

Carolyn Klaus, president of the League of Women Voters of Story County and Ames, elaborates on the main theme of Saturday's march in Ames,  has joined us, thank you for taking the time to talk with us some more about the rally in Ames and the ideas behind it, the For The People Act of 2021. Klaus also gives some startling statistics about the composition of governing leaders.

Jerri Heid, Youth Services Manager at the Ames Public Library, reviews her work at the library on the eve of her retirement from service.

 

Originally broadcast 08/30/2021