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Troubled Adolescence and Link From Collective Past to Present

Host Craig Lubow talks to Jeff Spiteri about his troubled adolescence, which is explored in his book, The Bridge Within. The book chronicles his journey as a troubled adolescent struggling with mental health issues, delinquency and crime and eventual homelessness riding freight trains across the United States following my ramblings from...

11/20/2023

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Media reform in France with Un Bout des Médias

Romary Daval discusses media reform in France. Daval is General Secretary of Un Bout des Médias (“a purpose for the media” in French), and a member of the Society of Friends of Mediacités, a nonprofit investigative journalism organization. Un Bout des Médias works in France to increase diversity in media...

11/16/2023

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Richard Ned Lebow on national defense including deterrence

Richard Ned Lebow discusses national defense including deterrence. Lebow is Professor Emeritus of International Political Theory in the Department of War Studies, King's College London and James O. Freedman Presidential Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth. He is also a Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. He has taught strategy...

11/14/2023

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A Spark of Hope on the Climate Crisis from the Heartland

On Nov. 14, host Dave Mitchell will interview Mr. James Fritz, founder of Mission Green LLC, Decorah, Iowa. Mission Green was founded to work with the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Decorah to become a carbon neutral facility. We'll explore the background dynamics leading to such an important decision by Good Shepherd, why...

11/01/2023

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Vets for Peace discuss Armistice Day and 11-11-11

Representatives of Vets for Peace Kansas City discuss Armistice Day, November 11: On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 the big guns officially fell silent, ending World War I. That became Armistice Day, memorialized in many countries world wide. In 1954 the US...

10/31/2023

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Dysfunctions with no Speaker in the US House

University of Kansas professor Karl Brooks discusses dangerous historical parallels and real world impacts that stem from protracted leadership struggles in the US Congress such as the current struggle within the Republican party over whom to support for Speaker of the US House. So far this year, the US House has had...

10/24/2023

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Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy

Doannie Tran joins host Craig Lubow to talk about his book with Landon Mascarenaz, The Open System: Redesigning Education and Reigniting Democracy This book discusses what they as educators found to be common trait in failing schools. They also discuss possible solutions.

09/26/2023

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Ranked Choice Voting for KCMO and Peace in Ukraine Coalition

We begin with a brief comment by Rachel MacNair of Better Ballot KC about their work to convince the KCMO City Council to put Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) on the ballot. This is followed by a discussion with Bert Knorr of the Peace in Ukraine Coalition about actions they are...

09/26/2023

By Spencer GravesComments Off