Originally broadcast 09/18/2015
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On today's show we had Merry Rankin back to focus on sustainability. She brought Shelene Codner who works the Iowa DNR for the Iowa Waste Exchange. that helps to reduce and reuse waste. We then talked to John Pleasants, the Cantor for the Ames Jewish Congregation, about the Jewish High Holiday. Finally, we wrap up Eric McCabe, a Zen Buddhist Priest in Ames. He talks about Zen Buddhist spiritual practices.
Originally broadcast 09/16/2015
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From September 17 - 20, the annual Story! Festival in Story City, will once again celebrate the art of story-telling with nationally acclaimed story-tellers performing in Story City. Paul Wierson speaks with two of the featured artists, Jeff Doyle and Connie Regan-Blake. They describe their art and craft and offer a story or two on the air. Naturalist reporter Pat Schlarbaum describes the current nesting activities of our state bird and then, in our Tuning Into Agriculture segment, interviews Joe Kooiker, Story County's Roadside Biologist about how Story County plants prairies along the roadsides instead of mowing and spraying, with the Integrative Roadside Management program.
Originally broadcast 09/14/2015
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Our special guest co-host is Emma Wilson, Nevada girl and student of Middle East politics and broadcast journalism. She brings us Esam Boraey, an Egyptian human rights advocate, now an exile living in Des Moines, who was in the middle of the Tahrir Square in 2011, where the demand to the Mubarek regime was three words: "Freedom, Justice and Dignity". He shares the horror of seeing friends killed and blood on the street, and shock from the U.S. non-response. We also hear from two members of the local Egyptian community, ISU PhD candidate Noor Abdelsamad and professor Ayman Fayed, about life in Ames after growing up in Cairo. Then, host Greta Anderson shares footage from outside Saturday's GOP tent at the tailgater preceding the Cyclone-Hawkeye game, where candidates were scheduled to appear, and where an ad hoc student group "Students against Bigotry" carried a banner in protest of the hate speech of one of those candidates. We talk with the group's leader, Maria Alci'var, about the goals of the protest, the solidarity in numbers and some of the harassment her group faced from haters. Also: a fond look back at this weekend's Maximum Ames Music Festival, with a poem from Saturday's reading by Brett Brinkmeyer.
Originally broadcast 09/21/2015
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This show focused on the Ames Airport Modernization Project. We talked to Damion Pretziger from the City of Ames, Daniel Culhane for the Ames Economic Development Commission, and Miles Lackey from ISU regarding the scope of the project, the needs of different groups, and who is paying for the project. We also talked to Stacy Brothers and Jordan McCrea from JAX Outdoors regarding the growth of the business over 60 years and its 60th anniversary party on September 19th.
Originally broadcast 09/09/2015
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Today’s Local Talk show contained information from Jennifer Garst and Vern Hawkins with Story County Community Foundation Community Grants program. The show included information about upcoming Prairie Awakening Celebration at the Kuehn Conservation Area in Dallas County. Coordinator Chris Adkins with Dallas County Conservation Board discusses the event. Also included is Dr. David Gradwohl, Archeologist and Anthropologist emeritus professor from Iowa State University discusses the life and story of Maria Pearson from the Yankton Nation. Maria is being honored at this year’s 18th annual event, September 12, 2015. Rounding out the program Keith Morgan, Story County Emergency Management Agency Coordinator, and Ron Edwards, Animal Control Supervisor, talked about emergency preparedness for urban pet owners and domestic livestock producers.
Originally broadcast 09/07/2015
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In honor of this workers' holiday, host Greta Anderson interviews Dr. Colin Gordon UI professor of history, whose paper, "Stolen Chances: Low-Wage Work and Wage Theft in Iowa," was recently released by The Iowa Policy Project, together with results from a survey of 300 low-wage workers conducted by the Center for Worker Justice. Mitchell Bennett of Ames shares his experience with wage theft at a major mobile phone company. Then, we take the way-back machine to 1974, the year our guest Mark Rumsey worked at the Pantorium dry cleaners' as a summer job. He paints a portrait of the cast of characters who worked in what he describes as a "well-oiled machine." Finally, Greta reviews Saturday's Art Vacancy happening, "Free Floating", along the Skunk River, including an interview with Alex Braidwood, a sound artist in the College of Design. Also a preview of Thursday's Maximum Ames headliner, Grandmaster Flash.
