Originally broadcast 05/09/2014
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We’re dedicated this program to thinking about our mothers and what this holiday means to us, including history of the holiday.
Hosts:: Susan Franzen and Tom Beell
Reporter: Greta Anderson
Engineer: James Winters
Originally broadcast 05/07/2014
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Pat Schlarbaum catches on tape a presentation by Linda Zaletal and Mike Meetz of the Outdoor Alliance of Story County, a new local foundation that will serve as an umbrella for various nature-related organizations.
Greta Anderson talks with Valerie Williams about the upcoming May 9-10 Women in Motion performance, Girls Night Out.
Cynthia McClure visits the Brick City Grill in the Somerset district, recently voted the best burger in Iowa. With phenology: the river otters are giving birth, in all 99 counties of Iowa!
Originally broadcast 05/05/2014
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We begin with May's installment of Community Service Appreciation, and Kay Puttock's interview with Diana Baltimore of the National Center for Adoption. Then, host Greta Anderson speaks with Beth Wessell-Kroeschell about the Iowa legislative session that just ended and the presence of ALEC in Iowa. A visit from Nate Logsdon rounds out the show as he introduces the headliner bands he helped select for Ames 150th birthday party scheduled for July 4-5. Pictured at left, Robert Randolph.
Originally broadcast 04/30/2014
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Local Talk ends National Poetry Month with a bit of a "slam" featuring 4 local poets: Jim Coppoc, Xavier Cavazos, Jennifer L. Knox and Claire Kruesel. In between poems, Jim Coppoc shares the history of poetry slams nationwide and in the town of Ames, and describes the scene at Ames Poetry Revival, the poetry slam / music jam that happens the first Tuesday of each month at DG's Taphouse. Host Greta Anderson also checks in with the poets on what drives them to keep pulsing out poems.
Heart of Iowa program originally broadcast 04/29/2014
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Beltane is the first Fire festival of the year and is held either on April 30 or May 1, which is halfway between the Spring Equinox and the Summer Solstice. The rituals conducted were intended to purify crops, animals, and people which would help to bring fertility in all three in the coming year.
Originally broadcast 04/28/2014
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We featured coverage of the annual Ames Sand County Almanac "marathon" reading, led by Erwin Klaas, then pursued a controversy arising last week from the publication of scientific research about the carbon footprint of cellulosic ethanol, made from corn stalks. The DuPont plant going up in Nevada is the largest-ever plant using this experimental technology. Two articles published in the Des Moines Register last week demonstrate industry push-back against the researcher's conclusions that burning cellulosic ethanol may be worse for the environment than gasoline. Co-host Greta Anderson talks to Greenlee School of Journalism professor Michael Dahlstrom about this controversy as an example of how science is reported in the mass media.
