Monday, 07/21/08Bob Mancini Director of Player Development for the Edmonton Oilers and guest on The Colbert Report; Elbert Ventura, research fellow for Media Matters for America.
Monday, 07/21/08Mike Padgett and Kenneth Eaton, Democratic primary candidates for U.S. Senate; Elbert Ventura, research fellow for Media Matters for America.
Monday, 06/30/08Gray Sasser, chairman, Tennessee Democratic Party; Denver Schimming, local businessman and prison reform advocate.
Monday, 06/23/08David Sirota, author of The Uprising: An Unauthorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington; Elbert Ventura, research fellow for Media Matters for America.
Monday, 03/24/08Jennifer Cantrell, Eric Fogle, and Joe Bass of the Rape & Sexual Abuse Center; Paul Waldman of Media Matters and author of Free Ride: John McCain and the Media; Mike Wessler of Project Vote Smart.
Monday, 03/17/08 With guest host, Ashley Crownover. Guests include Adam Kleinheider, former blog producer and political scribe for WKRN’s VolunteerVoters.com, and Elbert Ventura, research fellow for Media Matters for America.
Monday, 03/03/08 Anti-racist activist and author Tim Wise, and Councilman Erik Cole of the Fightin’ 7th! Plus Elbert Ventura and the Media Matters for America Smackdown.
Monday, 2/25/08 Dean Masullo and David Wood of Vanderbilt’s Iraq War: 5 Years and Counting - a series of films, lectures and panel discussions. Plus Elbert Ventura and the Media Matters for America Smackdown.
Monday, 2/18/08 The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, and the Director of the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center at Vanderbilt University, Linda Manning
Monday, 1/14/08 Addison Pate, president of the Davidson County Young Democrats, and Aaron Dorn, Chairman of the Davidson County Young Republicans; Allison Frick from the Center for American Progress and Dr. Stephen Zunes, Middle East editor for Foreign Policy in Focus; Elbert Ventura, Research Fellow at Media Matters for America
Monday, 12/24/07 The LibeRadio City Hall Holiday Wish Christmas Evetacular(!), with Tennessee Democratic Party Communications Director Wade Munday, schoolteacher Robert Meyers, and Gathering to Save Our Democracy Founder Bernie Ellis. Plus, the Liberadio(!) Family Singers present, “Larry Craig’s 12 Days of Christmas!”
Monday, 11/05/07 Laura Flanders, host of Radio Nation on Air America and author of Contenders; Davidson County chancellor and human rights activist Richard Dinkins and Professor of Special Education at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College Carolyn Hughes; Plus Elbert Ventura, research fellow at Media Matters for America
Monday, 10/22/07 WRVU 91.1 FM. Paul Krugman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University, op-ed columnist for the New York Times, and author of The Conscience of a Liberal; U.S. Congressman Jim Cooper (D-TN, the Fightin’ 5th!); Media Matters for America Research Fellow, Elbert Ventura
Monday, 10/15/07 WRVU 91.1 FM. LibeRound Table with former Tennessean columnist Tim Chavez, Press Secretary for the Tennessee House Democratic Caucus, Addison Pate, and Clean Cities of Middle Tennessee Executive Director, Dave Pelton; Plus, John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants
Monday, 08/27/07 WRVU 91.1 FM. Karl Dean, mayoral candidate; Bruce Barry, Vanderbilt Professor and author of Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace (Buy now); Plus, the Media Matters for America Smackdown with Elbert Ventura.
Monday, 08/06/07 WRVU 91.1 FM. Andy Allman, Chairman of the Sumner County Democratic Party; Plus, our post-election, pre-run off LibeRound Table discussion with David Briley, Councilman at large Adam Dread, and Sean Braisted of Nashville21.com
Monday, 07/16/07 WRVU 91.1 FM. Metro At-large candidate Peter Westerholm and Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt, Colin Dayan, author of “The Story of Cruel & Unusual.” Plus, the MMFA Smackdown with research fellow, Elbert Ventura.
Friday, 06/15/07 WRVU 91.1 FM. Guest: Lisa Graves, deputy director at the Center for National Security Studies, on the recent internal FBI Audit that found thousands of violations of privacy. Said Graves, "There is now clear proof that Americans’ privacy has been violated countless times…".
Friday, 06/08/07 WAMB 1200 AM: Local blogger and staunch young Tennessee Democrat, Sean Braisted, of Nashville21.com.
Saturday, 05/26/07 WNSG 880 AM: We take your phone calls! It’s Open Lines / Open Minds Saturday. Guest: Seannalyn Brandmeir, Davidson County Young Democrats Immediate Past President and Tennessee Young Democrats President. Live Streaming Available at Rejoice880.com.
Friday, 05/25/07 WAMB 1200 AM: Phillip Cargile, a Nashville Immigration attorney with Haas and Devine.
Saturday, 05/12/07 WNSG 880AM: Guest co-host Jerry Maynard, Alex Wiesendanger of TCASK, and we take your phone calls on Open Lines / Open Minds Saturday!
Friday, 05/11/07 WAMB 1200AM: Cindy Sheehan of The Camp Casey Peace Institute and the "Mother of a March"; Plus, we take your phone calls on Open Lines / Open Minds Friday!
Monday, 05/07/07: Eddie George, former Tennessee Titans running back and spokesperson for the Tour de Nash; Laura Flanders, Air America personality and author of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the PoliticiansBUY NOW!.
Friday, 05/04/07: Nashville Businessman and Mayoral Candidate, Kenneth Eaton.
Monday, 04/30/07: Vanderbilt University Distinguished Professor Rev. Jim Lawson; Iowa Governor and former presidential candidate, Tom Vilsack.
Saturday, 04/28/07: Leah Flynn (11th grade, Hume Fogg) and Marcus Bagwell (11th grade, Hillsboro) of the "Meet the Man" Youth-led, Youth Issues Mayoral Forum; Plus, we’ll replay our interview with Vice Mayor and mayoral candidate, Howard Gentry; And, we take your phone calls! It’s open lines / open minds Saturday!
Friday, 04/27/07: Former US Senate candidate Ned Lamont and Nashville mayoral candidate, Karl Dean
Saturday, 04/21/07: We take your phone calls! It’s open lines / open minds Saturday! And, if you missed it last week, you’ll get to hear our interview with David Briley, Councilmember at Large and mayoral candidate.
Friday, 04/20/07: Vice Mayor and mayoral candidate, Howard Gentry
Friday, 04/06/07: Congressman Jim Cooper, the fightin’ 5th!; Paul Waldman, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America and author of Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn from Conservative Success.
Monday, 04/02/07: Jim Grimstead, Democracy for Tennessee; Craig Holman, Legislative Representative for Public Citizen; Stephen Colbert’s AmeriCone DreamTM.
Monday, 03/19/07: Alma Sanford & Thelma Kidd, Tennessee Democratic Women’s PAC; Shea Flinn, Former Tennessee State Senator (D-30); Suezann Bosler, Co-founder & Board Member of Journey of Hope.
Monday, 03/05/07: Senator Rosalind Kurita, Speaker Pro Tem of the Tennessee state senate; Paula Span, Contributing writer, Washington Post Magazine and Associate, Columbia University School of Journalism “Battle Worn.”
Monday, 02/26/07: William Arkin, writer (Washington Post’s Early Warning blog), author, and Fellow at the Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy; Dr. Katharine Donato, Vanderbilt University Sociology Professor, who’s research Interests include international migration between Mexico and the United States and Immigrants in the U.S. Economy.
Monday, 02/19/07: Adam Dread, Metro Councilman-at-large; David Barsamian, Founder and director of Alternative Radio, radio producer, journalist, lecturer and author of Targeting Iran.
Monday, 01/29/07: Governor Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire’s first female governor and current Director, Institute of Politics at Harvard; Bob Mancini, General Manager/Coach of the Saginaw Spirit, frequent Colbert Report guest, and Mary’s brother; and Elbert Ventura, Research Fellow for Media Matters for America
Monday, 01/08/07: Jenn Tlumak, Climate Project Messenger, and Lorelei Kelly, Policy Director for the Real Security Initiative of the White House Project, Elbert Ventura, Research Fellow Media Matters for America.
Monday, 12/04/06: Jeff Barrie, Director, Kilowatt Ours, and Elbert Ventura, Research Fellow Media Matters for America.
Monday, 11/27/06: Professor Bruce Barry, President, ACLU of Tennesse & Professor of Management and Sociology Owen Graduate School of Management Vanderbilt University, and Paul Waldman, Senior Research Fellow Media Matters for America and Author of “Being Right is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn from Republican Success.”
Monday, 11/20/06: Nashville Metro Councilmember at Large and mayoral candidate, David Briley, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University and recent guest commentator for the Nashville Scene, Sekou Franklin, and April Glaser & Hannah Sassaman of the Prometheus Radio Project
Monday, 11/13/06: Reverend Barry W.Lynn, Executive Director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State , Dave Pelton, Founder, Clean Cities of Middle Tennessee, an organization dedicated to stopping our nation’s reliance on foreign oil and promoting clean, domestic alternatives, and Tom Schaller Author, Whistling Past Dixie & Contributing writer to The Gadflyer.
Monday, 11/06/06: Reverend Jerry Maynard, Deputy Chair of the Tennessee Democratic Party; Live Schoolhouse Rock Sing-A-Long with Brooke Bryant, Patrick Waller & Julee Baber of The Nashville Children’s Theater; Comedian Mary Mack; and Billy White, Davidson County Election Officer.
Monday, 10/30/06: Congressman Jim Cooper, representing the Fifth District of Tennessee. Winner, 2006 Judge Edward R. Finch Law Day Speech Award for his speech entitled, “Executive Overreaching v. Congressional Underperformance.”
Monday, 10/23/06: Rob Richie, Executive Director, FairVote.org, a non-profit organization that researches and advocates election reforms that promote voter turnout, accountable governance and fair representation. Richie is also the co-author of Every Vote Equal: A State-based Plan for Electing the President by National Popular Vote (2006).
Monday, 10/23/06: Will Kimbrough, singer, songerwriter, producer, guitarist extraordinaire, and proud son of yellow-dog Democrats from Mobile, Alabama. His latest CD, Americanitis, prompted the Los Angeles Daily News to say, “Kimbrough has a gift for folk-pop protest.”
Monday, 10/16/06: Matthew Grimm, of Matthew Grimm and the Red Smear, Musician, Activist; and Randy Tarkington, Campaign Manager for the Vote No on 1 campaign.
Monday, 10/09/06: Third Party & Independent Candidates Forum withGinny Welsch, Independent running for 5th Congressional District; Howard Switzer, Green Party candidate running for Governor; Chris Lugo, Green Party candidate running for U.S. Senate
Monday, 10/02/06: Councilman Mike Jameson, Councilman Jameson represents District 6 (portions of East Nashville and downtown) and was voted “Best Metro Council Member” in the 2005 Nashville Scene Reader’s Poll.
Monday, 09/25/06: Elbert Ventura, Research Fellow for Media Matters for America. Elbert Ventura has worked as a writer, editor, and researcher for various publications. His work has appeared in The New Republic Online, The American Prospect Online, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among other outlets.
Monday, 9/18/06: Albert Bates, Director of the Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology since 1984 and the Ecovillage Training Center at The Farm in Tennessee since 1994, and Robert Naiman, National coordinator Just Foreign Policy.
Monday, 8/28/06: Professor john a. powell, Executive Director of Ohio State University’s Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and an internationally recognized authority in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, and issues relating to race, ethnicity, poverty and the law. He also holds the Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Moritz College of Law.
Monday, 8/21/06: Congressman Jim Cooper, Congressman Cooper is serving his second term as U.S. Representative for the 5th District, although his prior service in Congress gives him eight terms of experience. Jim represents approximately 700,000 people who live in Nashville and surrounding communities.
Monday, 8/07/06: Dr. Bob Bowman, combat veteran against the war and candidate for the Democratic nomination for the US House in District 15, Florida (Brevard, Indian River, Osceola, and Polk Counties). Dr. Bowman is widely ackowledged as the father of the Star Wars missile defense program before it became public and has emerged as one of the most credible 9/11 whistleblowers.
Monday, 7/31/06:Larry Woods, senior partner of Woods & Woods, columnist, and top level advisor of political campaigns at the Presidential, Gubernatorial, U.S. Senate, Congressional and local levels. Also, Tyson Slocum, Director for Public Citizen’s Energy Program will join us to discuss Big Oil: Record Prices and Record Profits.
Monday, 6/19/06 - Monica Benderman,who is the wife of Sgt. Kevin Benderman, a conscientious objector who was convicted of desertion and sentenced to 15 months in the brig for refusing to deploy to Iraq for his second tour. Their websites are www.bendermandefense.org, where you will find three direct ways you can support Kevin, and www.bendermantimeline.com, which is a chronology of facts surrounding his CO case. Listen.
Monday, 6/13/06 - London-based writer Milan Rai, co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness UK and Justice Not Vengeance, and Randy Tarkington, Campaign Director for Vote No on 1, the organization opposing the the Tennessee constitutional amendment on marriage.
Monday, 4/17/06 - Donnie Safer, Chairman of the Board of Tennessee Environmental Council. Goals for TEC include continuing the efforts to build a stronger, better organized voice for the living planet here in Tennessee while encouraging sustainable, successful lifestyles for the people who live here.
Monday, 3/27/06 - Francie Hunt, State Director of the Tennessee chapter of STAND - a citizen voice for children. Founded in 1999, Tennessee Stand for Children brings together people from all walks of life – parents, grandparents, people who work with children, and others who care about the next generation – in order to make children a top political priority.
Monday, 3/06/06 Rev. Dr. Welton Gaddy, President of The Interfaith Alliance and The Interfaith Alliance Foundation. He also serves as the Pastor for Preaching and Worship at Northminster (Baptist) Church in Monroe, Louisiana and is the host of State of Belief, a weekly radio show by The Interfaith Alliance that is carried on AirAmerica Radio.
Monday, 1/30/06 Gene Policinski, Executive Director of the First Amendment Center
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am
TIRRC is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration whose mission is to empower immigrants and refugees throughout Tennessee to develop a unified voice, defend their rights, and create an atmosphere in which they are viewed as positive contributors to the state.
Monday, 12/12/05 Jeff Barrie
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am
Jeff Barrie - Project Director — Graduated from UCLA in 1993 with a bachelors of arts degree in Environmental Studies and Geography and has spent the last 12 years producing award-winning environmental documentaries for television and classroom use, coordinating successful and highly visible grassroots environmental campaigns, coordinating multimedia educational tours, and building coalitions as a consultant for organizations such as Alaska Wilderness League, Sierra Club, and Tree People. His video productions include “Generation Earth: A Look at Environmental Education,” “Summit of Hope,” and “Arctic Quest: A Search for Truth.” In 2000, Barrie coordinated and pedaled a 4,600 mile bike trek across America to raise awareness about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The tour featured a hybrid Toyota Prius support vehicle, and promoted fuel efficiency on one of the first cross-country drives made by a hybrid car. Barrie founded Citizens for TDOT Reform in 2002 and led a successful effort to reform public involvement policies and advocate a more balanced transportation system in Tennessee. He wrote, filmed and edited “Kilowatt Ours: A Plan to Re-Energize America” (2005) and founded the Southern Energy Conservation Initiative.
Monday, 12/05/05 Denver Schimming
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am
Born in Hammond, Indiana and a resident of Nashville, Tennessee since 1985, Denver Schimming is a voting rights advocate and the driving force behind HB 1722 to unify the process for ex-felons to register to vote. He frequently speaks at political conferences and associations about the disenfranchisement of ex-felons in Tennessee, is a proud member of the ACLU, a facilitator of a monthly bipolar support group, an active volunteer for Project Return, a member of the United Methodist Church, and a liberal Democrat.
Mr. Schimming, a sales executive in Middle Tennesee for the last ten years, is also an ex-felon with aspirations of public service. He has been married to the beautiful Sheila Hobson since 1997 and resides in Goodlettsville, Tennessee.
No Show on Monday, 11/28/05 Happy Thanksgiving!
Monday, 11/21/05 Music retailer extraordinnaire, Doyle Davis
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am
Doyle Davis has over 20 years’ experience in music retailing and is co-owner of Grimey’s New & Preloved Music in Nashville. Doyle is a founding board member of national retail coalition AIMS (Alliance of Independent Media Stores) and serves on the board of the Americana Music Association. In addition, Davis hosts “D-Funk”, a weekly radio program focusing on deep funk & soul, on WRVU/Nashville.
Monday, 11/14/05 Radio and TV icon and author, Teddy Bart
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am
For over thirty years, radio and television audiences in the Mid-South tune in to Teddy Bart. Known for his probing yet non-confrontational interviewing style, his questions search for information and meaning from guests from all walks of life. He is most well-known for hosting, along with Karlen Evins, what has become a Nashville tradition, Teddy Bart’s Round Table.
Released in mid-October 2005, “The Hooligan” is Bart’s third published book. Previously, he has authored “Inside Music City USA” and “The Mensch.”
Monday, 11/07/05 Stefanie A. Lindquist, Associate Professor of Political Science; Associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am
Vanderbilt University law professor, Stefanie A. Lindquist, has written extensively about the U.S. courts system, including the Supreme Court. Her writings include Judging on a Collegial Court: Influences on Appellate Court Decision aking (with Virginia Hettinger, Wendy Martinek) University of Virginia Press, forthcoming 2006, “The Influence of Jurisprudential Considerations on Supreme Court Decision Making: A Study of Conflict Cases,” forthcoming, Law and Society Review, (with David Klein), “Comparing Attitudinal and Strategic Accounts of Dissenting Behavior on the United States Courts of Appeals.” 2004 (with Virginia Hettinger and Wendy Martinek), and “Separate Opinion Writing on the United States Courts of Appeals,” 2003. American Politics Research, (with Virginia Hettinger and Wendy Martinek).
Monday, 10/31/05 David Briley
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am
David Briley has served as an at-large councilperson for the past four years and has served on the following: Budget and Finance Committee (1999- present; 2001-2003, Vice Chair), Public Works Committee (1999-2003), Personnel-Public Information-Human Relations-Housing Committee (1999-present), Traffic & Parking Committee (2003-present), Charter Revision Committee (1999-present, 2001-2002 & 2003-2004, Chair), Ad Hoc Committee on Solid Waste (1999-2003, 2002-2003, Chair), Water Rate Oversight Committee (2000-2003, 2001-2003, Chair) and the Greenways Commission (2001-present).
He was named the Best Metro Council Member by the Nashville Scene, 2001-2002 and has been endorsed by the Metro Nashville Education Association, the Nashville Business Coalition, the Central Labor Council, the Home Builders Association of Middle Tennessee, and the Nashville Firefighters. Business Nashville magazine named David one of the top “40 under 40” in its June 2000 issue.
A licensed attorney with the Nashville branch of the Law Offices of J. Houston Gordon, Davild currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Hands on Nashville, Sister Cities of Nashville, and ReDiscover East.
Monday, 10/17/05 Alan Coverstone
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am
Alan Coverstone is a teacher of Government and Economics, as well as Academic Dean at Montgomery Bell Academy. He is the father of two children who attend Hull-Jackson Montessori Magnet School, a part of the Metro Nashville Public Schools. He helped found and served as president of the PTO at Hull-Jackson. He also served as a Parents Advisory Council representative on the Mayor’s School Funding Task Force and currently serves on the Magnet Cluster board of the Parents Advisory Council.
Monday, 10/10/05 Reverend Tim Simpson, Christian Alliance for Progress
WRVU-FM, 7 to 9am
Rev. Timothy F. Simpson is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church USA. He is currently Director of Religious Affairs for the Christian Alliance for Progress, a grassroots organization created to help progressive Christians return their values to the public sphere, and the editor of the Journal of Poltical Theology. He is graduated from Liberty University, the University of Florida, Columbia Theological Seminary and Union Theological Seminary. He has taught at Florida Community College at Jacksonville, the University of North Florida and Florida State University and his work has appeared in such publications as Christian Century, Lectionary Homiletics, the Journal for Preachers and Koinonia. He and his wife, Sherri Patray, live with their three children in Jacksonville, FL.
Monday, 10/03/05 Tony Garr, Executive Director Tennessee Health Care Campaign
WRVU-FM, 91.1, 7am to 9am
Tony Garr is the Executive Director Tennessee Health Care Campaign, a statewide, nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, working for affordable, accessible and quality health care for ALL Tennesseans. The Tennessee Health Care Campaign believes that the TennCare cuts enacted by Governor Bredesen are wrong and not necessary. They have a plan and a petition.
Monday, 9/26/05 Tim Wise
WRVU-FM, 91.1, 7am to 9am
Tim Wise is the author of the recent essay titled, “A God with Whom I am not Familiar,” that has been circulating throughout the internet. This particular essay begins, “This is an open letter to the man sitting behind me at La Paz today, in Nashville, at lunchtime, with the Brooks Brothers shirt: You don’t know me. But I know you.” Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and activists in the U.S., having spoken in 48 states, and on over 350 college campuses, including Harvard, Stanford, and the Law Schools at Yale, Columbia, and Vanderbilt. From 1999 to 2003, Wise served as an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute and in the early ’90s was Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism: the largest of the many groups responsible for the political defeat of neo-Nazi, David Duke. Wise serves as the Race and Ethnicity Editor for LiP Magazine, and his bi-monthly columns are distributed as part of the ZNet Commentary program: a web service that disseminates essays by prominent progressive and radical activists and educators. He is the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, NY: Soft Skull Press; and Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White, NY: Routledge.
Monday, 9/12/05 Clay Risen
WRVU-FM, 91.1
Clay Risen, Assistant Editor, The New Republic.
Thursday, 7/14/05 Bob Tuke, Chairman, Tennessee Democratic Party
WRVU-FM, 91.1
Bob Tuke is the Chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party. The interview with Bob was very informative. Unfortunately, because of our (Mary’s) lack of mad recording skillz, the quality of the recording isn’t good enough to post. We (Mary) apologizes to Bob and to our listeners.
Tuesday, 6/21/05 Cole Wakefield
WRFN, radiofreenashville.org
Cole rages about religious abuse and exploitation in his WRFN show “Christian Dissent” (Sundays and 11:30am). Link to Cole’s blog.
Thursday, 6/23/05 Seannalyn Brandmeir, President, Davidson County Young Democrats
WRVU-FM
Seannalyn Brandmeir is President of the Davidson County Young Democrats, young advocates for community and political participation through volunteerism, education and social interaction.
Bernie Ellis (WRVU, April 18, 2005) - Gathering To Save Our Democracy - There have been too few opportunities for concerned citizens and researchers to meet to review the mounting evidence of threats to our democratic processes that the 2004 election revealed and to discuss the urgent need for election reform. Contact Bernie: tracevu@bellsouth.net
William Tyler
Jil Brassil - Jil uses a Canon EOS 20D and a Canon Powershot G5. She has a radio show on WRVU from 12noon to 2 (central time!) on Sundays. Sometimes, when she isn’t in school and Freddie is out of town, she co-hosts with Mary. Her latest project is 2005snaps.
Loney John Hutchins (11/07/04) is a second generation Nashville musician. He currently runs an independent label out of Music City known as Cleft Music. When he isn’t busy performing with friends or helping others with their craft, he indulges in a variety of news sources on the world wide web. He embraces ideas like file sharing while disapproving of similar concepts such as media deregulation.
John Spragens (11/14/04), guest and occasional co-host, was born in Kentucky, grew up in Nashville and went to Kenyon College, famous these days as the Ohio precinct where people waited in line for 10 hours to vote in the 2004 presidential election. These days he’s a staff writer at the Nashville Scene, which means he talks on the phone and brainstorms with Jim Ridley about the future of liberal politics.
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