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Originally broadcast 01/11/2016
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In the light of struggles over conservation lands in Oregon, we take a look at our own state's stock of protected lands, amounting to a scarce patchwork of refuge for native and migrating species. Iowa DNR state parks veteran Mark Edwards and the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation's Program and Planning Director Lisa Hein join us for this conversation. We then connect with Mary Skopec of the Iowa DNR's water monitoring staff to examine how the unprecedented rains of December 2015 affected water quality in Iowa's streams. The news is not good. Finally, Leanne Harter provides her monthly update on county government. We start the show with a look back to Saturday's live national broadcast from KHOI studios with an excerpt of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders' comments at the CCI Action Fund "Putting Families First" candidate forum.

Originally broadcast 01/08/2016
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Co-hosts Greta Anderson and Ursula Ruedenberg discuss two musicals premiering in Ames this January with their creators. Clark Ford describes the last of his six musicals covering the same family, 2016 The Musical: One Family , while composer Robbie Kroeschell and dramaturg / lyricist Ben Sulzberger, seniors at Ames High School, introduce their full-stage musical A Slice of Reggie, which opens this weekend (January 8-10) at 615 South Dayton, Suite 129, Ames. We then speak with ice skating coach Darlene Lewis about the Ames Figure Skating Club and the craft of ice-skating. Finally, we preview a "termesphere" exhibit, at the Octagon Art Center's 1st floor community gallery, in conversations with Naomi Friend and Heather Johnson.

Originally broadcast 01/04/2016
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We start off the year with a healthy dose of political science! Host Greta Anderson talks with Hugh Espy of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement , which is holding an issues summit and candidate forum on January 9, then we interview David Redlawsk, visiting fellow at the Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement , about his two books on the Iowa caucuses, Why Iowa? and one still in the early stage, on this year's race. Keith Morgan, coordinator for Story County Emergency Management Agency , walks us through the chain of events and decisions set off by a 911 phone call. And correspondent Kay Puttock interviews Robin Switzer of Friends of Emma Lee McCarthy Park and Munn Woods (on Facebook) , about that group's work fending off alien species.