Going Hollywood, Secret Service, Farce, Satellites

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 02/05/2020
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Sara Jordan-Heintz, our first guest, brought us a discussion of her book GoingHollywood: Midwesterners in Movieland followed by her preview of Larry Adams, with a history of the Secret Service and the fight against counterfeiters for the February 8 Saturday with a Scholar lecture at the  Boone History Center.  Two theatre previews followed -- Joe Ferrell of Roland, one of the stars in "Leading Ladies,the cross-dressing comedy playing at ACTORS in Ames this weekend. Debbie Garner, a star in Ankeny Community Theatre's farce, Don't Dress for Dinner, described a madcap romp in a French farmhouse.  We ended with an Iowa Caucus story about the satellite caucuses from Iowa Capital Dispatch.  

Caucus 101 and Weekend Activities

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 01/29/2020
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We had Judy Trumpy, Organizations Chair for the Story County Republican Party, followed by Madalyn Anderson, chair of the Story County Democratic Party with Democratic Caucus Chair Lewis Rosser to give us detailed descriptions of what we need to know for Caucus night, February 3.  Wes Martin gave us a brief glimpse of how the Democrats "do the math."  Steffen Schmidt, political science professor at Iowa State University and well-known caucus expert gave us the history of caucus development since 1972 as well as "retail politics."  For the weekend we have the Climate Crisis Parade in Des Moines (sponsored by 70 organizations)  while in Ames, Clark Ford's new musical "2020 America I Miss You" will play at Unity Church.  

Getting Ready to Decide (Iowa Caucuses), 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 01/27/2020
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Voter opinion: Mike Sauer from Nevada Iowa explains why he is a swing voter. A former Republican who is unhappy with candidates conforming to party platforms, he explains why he is still undecided about how to vote.

Visitors to Iowa Caucuses:  Kristoffer Hellane, chalk artist from Santa Cruz, California, describes how he does chalk art to build a grassroots support for Bernie Sanders, and explains why he supports Sanders.

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi WOrld War 2 concentration and death camp, Auschwitz in Poland. To commemorate the day and in the spirit of never forgetting, Lily Misner in Los Angeles (originally from Poland) , tells her story: as a survivor of Auschwitz.  

Raising Readers, Ames Progressive Alliance, Eagle Shooting

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 01/24/2020
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The Story County Community Foundation grant recipient, Lisa Reeves will tell us about Raising Readers. And Anne Kinzel and Carolyn Myers with Ames' Progressive Alliance will be here with their feature on Skunk River Paddlers member David Denhaan concerning a user friendly kayac launching structure at Ada Hayden Heritage Lake. And the shooting of an eagle in Ankeny was reported.  

Water Quality, Prairie Network, Log Chairs

Listen Here NowOriginally broadcast 01/22/2020
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Ingrid Gronstal Anderson, water program director at the Iowa Environmental Council  spoke with us about how the IEU proposes to increase participation in the Nutrient Reduction Strategy https://www.iaenvironment.org/ .  Our second guest, Adam Mason, from Iowa Citizens for Community http://iowacci.org/improvement, discussed actions ICCI has taken to put pressure on the Iowa legislature to change laws -- everthing from lobbying legislators to demanding a moratorium on new Combined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs).  Mike Meetz, Lloyd Crim and Carmen Rosburg came in to tell us about the Prairie Network's Winter Seminar "Prairie Seeds, Bees and Birds" Saturday January 25th. - 9:30 to 5:00 at Ames High School https://monarch.ent.iastate.edu/2020-iowa-prairie-network-region-5-winter-seminar Our final guest, Chad Kelchen, who started making furniture out of invasive black locust trees at Big Creek State Park, told us how the project was started and how it developed into furniture crafting.  

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