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Originally broadcast 02/03/2016
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Richard Bender tells how he was an ISU student when he began to work for Cliff Larson in Ames, anti-war oriented Chair of the Iowa Democratic Party. In his work for the party, Bender proposed the changes to the Iowa Caucus process for greater democracy and grassroots input, and carried out the first years of the process before it became obvious they had started something of national importance.

Betty Boccella of Central Iowa Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) describes volunteer opportunities and training, from clerical office work, to helping young people, to finger printing and searches for missing persons. A wide variety of opportunities are available along with training for the work.

Keith Morgan , Story County Emergency Coordinator gives tips for safety in Winter and how to stay WARM - as well as your animals!.

Originally broadcast 02/01/2016
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Caucus Day in Iowa has finally arrived. Over the weekend KHOI reporters Gale Seiler, Susan Franzen and Greta Anderson attended the final appeals of candidates Clinton, Cruz, and Rubio in Ames. They provide audio highlights and insights. We take a summary look at the Republican race with our valued commentator David Redlawsk, a political science Fellow at the Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement , who tweeted about more than 100 candidate events in Iowa this season and attended all 20 of the soapbox speeches at the Iowa State Fair this summer. On the Democratic side, Laura Belin, who has been writing as desmoinesdem at the Bleeding Heartland blog since 2007, shares perspectives on Bernie's rise and how the caucus system could affect results.

Originally broadcast 01/27/2016
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ISU Professor Steffen Schmidt was with us again today to talk about Media in the Caucuses from his online Iowa Caucuses MOOC and also Spencer Burton, independent film maker from Portland Oregon who has been in Iowa for several weeks filming campaign events.

The co-host for the last part of our program was Max Eness, from KHOI's Teen Zone, hosting a discussion among Alexia Clinton, Paulina Lavrova, and Ben Sulzberger on the effect of social media on first time voters.