Summary: Guests include Hal Cato, president and CEO of Oasis Center, and Peter Canellos, Washington Bureau Chief for the Boston Globe and author of Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy .
Part 1 – Dodging a Bullet – News, to do list, is this Daylight Savings Time thingy working for us or against us, Councilman Mike Jameson calls a meeting about Riverfront development, and Councilman Jason Holleman’s storm water amendment. [37.3 MB 23:13 download MP3]
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Independence Day
– Martina McBride
Cannonball – The Breeders
See a Little Light – Bob Mould
Part 2 – Interview with Hal Cato – Joining us is Hal cato, president and CEO of Oasis Center, to tell us about their new digs at the Youth Opportunity Center – where Oasis and their partner organizations have banded together to serve young Middle-Tenneseans facing real challenges. Health care, job assistance, counseling, education support, emergency residential services, college counseling, youth leadership opportunities, and even a youth-run business are just some of what they offer all under one roof. [20 MB 12:30 download MP3]
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Philadelphia Freedom – Elton John
Part 3 – The More You Know The more you know the more you are able to make informed decisions based on your values. So it’s surprising that Rep. Stacey Campfield, “Rep. Daddy,” for the sake of this segment, introduced his “Don’t Say Gay” bill which would “prohibit the teaching of or furnishing of materials on human sexuality other than heterosexuality in public school grades K-8.” With this legislation, Rep. Daddy once again introduces an unnecessary bill and makes it clear that if he had kids and they went to public school, all further discussion of important issues would stop once they got home. [14.7 MB 09:10 download MP3]
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People Get Ready – Curtis Mayfield
Part 4 – Interview with Peter Canellos – Peter Canellos is Washington bureau chief of The Boston Globe and editor of Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy, the newly published biography of Ted Kennedy by the team at the Globe. It’s all in there – his brothers and the Kennedy mystique, Chappaquiddick, universal health care, his political legacy, and the relationship between Kennedy and President Obama. Plus, we get his thoughts on the state of journalism in the digital era and a down economy. [26.4MB 16:29 download MP3]
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We’re in Yr Corner – Cornershop (album: When I Was Born For The 7th Time)
The Step and the Walk – The Duke Spirit (album: Neptune)
Part 5 – Our Ears are Marked by a Conservative Caller – Who tries to spread the lie that President Obama promised during his campaign to stop earmark spending and is breaking that promise by signing the spending bill currently being considered in the Senate. We miss Elbert but we don’t need him for a smackdown. [8.8MB 5:31 download MP3]
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Part 6 – Making the Sausage is Hard – So some legislators take the easy way out by making complex issues appear in stark black and white so they can present them cynically to their constituents. Congressman Zach Wamp (R-TN) went on national TV and did it with the issue of Universal healthcare (we replay the audio), and Rep. Debra Maggart did it with an abortion bill (which is why we’re once again having a difficult conversation about abortion). [25:13MB 40:04 download MP3]
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