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Originally broadcast 09/04/2015
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Today's show largely deals with "the national crisis in mental health" and the shortage of mental health providers that can provide prescriptions for severe mental health problems. Guests include, Carver Nebbe, a psychiatrist at ISU student health, Linda Hanson, the director of Primary Health Care, Michelle DeLa Riva, the director of community and family resources, Christine Krauss of the director of behavioral health at MGMC, and Dr. Michael Kitchell, a neurologist and Chair of the Board of Directors at McFarland Clinic. This show was spurred by an AMOS initiative on the mental health crisis. We also have Susan Gwiasda, Director of Public Relations for the City of Ames giving us an monthly update on city events. Congrats on the USA today award for healthiest city in the USA.

Originally broadcast 08/31/2015
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Co-hosts Gale Seiler and Ursula Ruedenberg brought us an interview with Allyson Walter and Bronwyn Beatty-Hansen, from Ames Convention & Visitors Bureau, who filled us in on public events coming up in September. Nate Logsdon was in the studio with music and information about the Maximum Ames Music Festival, which will take place from SeptEMBER 10 - 13 in downtown Ames. There was also a report from a forum called Unite Iowa on Immigration that took place on Saturday in Storm Lake and included two presidential candidates, Lincoln Chaffee and Martin O’Malley.

Originally broadcast 08/28/2015
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As guest PIPES (see below) says, "It's all about the kids." Host Greta Anderson (and literature Ph.D.) gives a thumbs-up review to a remarkable novel by 14-year-old Ames resident, Lucas Bleyle, also known as one of the "Fort Kids," and speaks with Lucas about the book's themes, his writing practice, and goals in writing. His sci-fi adventure novel, The Scavengers, depicts future Earth as a Wasteland on which Earth's former inhabitants, most of whom have moved to a larger planet called The Clean World, dump their trash. Then Teenz Zone hosts Max Eness and Thea Brenner put their spin on the topic of political cynicism. We begin the show with hour with Alex Fejfer, project director at the Ames Historical Society, telling us the background of the unique commercial district on West Street, as our ongoing segment "Why is That?" We end it with a phone call to "PIPES", the emcee for tonight's (postponed due to rain) Bike Night, who shares his vision of this type of community event.