This show begins with a story on the Deborah Iowa Eagle Cam. KHOI correspondent Pat Schlarbaum talked with Bob Anderson about Decorah Eagle Cam set up to observe their behavior day and night.
Kay Puttock talked with Gabrielle Roesch-McNally about the issues of pesticide drift in Iowa.
County Reporters Jim Werbel and Susan Franzen took a road trip to Huxley to talk with Ballard High School Principal John Ronca and Industrial Technology teacher Nick Steenhagen about the High School Industrial Technology program, then went to KREG Tool Company to learn from President and CEO Todd Sommerfeld why he gave the program a $60,000 grant.
The State of the Community Report for the City of Ames was presented on Thursday January 22.
Co-hosts Gale Seiler and Ursula Ruedenberg brought us voices from a forum held in Ames about the need for legislation that would allow driver's licenses for anyone, regardless of immigration status. Maria Gonzalez, Maria Alcivar, and Story County Sheriff Paul Fitzgerald spoke at the forum.
Today we spoke with publishers or editors from alternative publications that have operated in the Ames-Story County area sometime during the past ten years:
:photo courtesy of Ames School District
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A recap of 2014 and a preview of 2015 from the Ames Convention and Visitors Bureau: Julie Kieffer, with Group Sales and Services, Allyson Walters with Member and Visitor Services, and Bob Bosselman, President of the board talk about what projects and events are being planned for 2015 and programs funded this year by the Bureau. They also share some of what they have learned about what attracts people to Ames as a destination for visitors.
Hosts Paul Wierson and Thomas Beell explored the subject of the survival and success of local newspapers connected through Stephens Media. Michael Crumb, editor of the Ames Tribune, and Claudia Lovin, publisher of the Boone News Republican, discussed how they gathered news and worked with other papers in the network.
Host Greta Anderson and guest co-host Lauris Olson talk to: