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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 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.

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.