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Sick and Dead Workers from Toxic Exposure at Kansas City Plant - Wayne Knox Apr 27, 2010

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Wayne Harrison Knox, Operational Health Physicist from Atlanta came to Kansas City to do his own investigation deaths and illnesses among current and former workers at the Bannister Federal Complex, and he stopped by to talk to Tell Somebody.

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Kansas City & Nuclear Weapons Policy - Alicia Dressman Apr 20, 2010

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"As one White House official put it off the record, 'April is all nukes all the time.'"

On April 8, 2010, the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) was signed in Prague. On this edition of Tell Somebody, Alicia Dressman, a volunteer with the Greater Kansas City Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility and PeaceWorks KC explains some of the issues related to START and how this is relates to the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex and Kansas City's prominent role in the complex.

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Public Citizen- Supreme Court on Binding Arbitration -& Spring Break for Homeless Apr 06, 2010

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This week on Tell Somebody, we have sample some audio from the Spring Break for the Homeless event put on by Richard Tripp's Care of Poor People, Inc., www.coppinc.com and then get an explanation of Rent-a-Center West, Inc. v. Jackson, a case on mandatory binding arbitration heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, from Deepak Gupta, staff attorney at the Public Citizen litigation group. www.citizen.org Finally, an excerpt of Bill Moyers speaking at a national conference on media reform. www.freepress.net

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Healthcare Legislation - A Step in the Right Direction? Mar 30, 2010

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On this edition of Tell Somebody, Dr. Carole McArthur and Prof. Mike Wood discuss the recently passed healthcare legislation.

Carole McArthur, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Oral Biology, UMKC School of Dentistry; Professor, Department of Pathology, Truman Medical Center

Mike Wood, adjunct professor at the Bloch School of Business and Public Administration. Wood was among the early architects of Prime Health, one of the first HMO's in the country.

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Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star editorial board member, on the state of journalism Mar 23, 2010

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Several recent shows have talked about the current state of journalism, and on this edition of Tell Somebody, Kansas City Star columnist and editorial board member Lewis Duiguid comes to the KKFI studio to share his viewpoint. Duiguid is the author of the award-winning 2004 book A Teacher's Cry: Expose the Truth About Education Today, and of Discovering the Real America: Toward a More Perfect Union in 2007.

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Care of Poor People Spring Break and DART House Nightmare Mar 16, 2010

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Richard Tripp, author, cab driver, and founder of Care of Poor People, Inc. www.coppinc.com, is looking for your help feeding and clothing the homeless in Kansas City. Tripp returns to Tell Somebody to talk about the 20th annual Spring Break for the homeless coming up Saturady April 3, 2010.

In the second half of the show, Jessica Logsdon and Jeff Helkenberg give us a view of their DART house nightmare- they bought a house in the Northeast neighborhood of Kansas City, thought they had dotted all the 'i's' and crossed all the 't's', but ended up being arrested for trespassing in their own house because it was tagged as a drug house on a list that appears and disappears like a Cheshire cat, first in Kansas City MO territory, then in Jackson County, leaving nothing behind but an evil grin.

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John Nichols - Betting on our Better Angels Mar 09, 2010

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John Nichols and Robert McChesney's new book, The Death and Life of American Journalism - The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again has been much in the news lately. Recently I spoke to McChesney about it on the air and for this edition of Tell Somebody, I decided to give another listen to what John Nichols had to say kicking off a week of media reform events Alice Kitchen and I organzied with help from Friends of Community Media and other groups in Kansas City with help from www.freepress.net and Common Cause in October, 2008.

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Robert McChesney on Saving Journalism Feb 16, 2010

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University of Illinois Professor Robert McChesney returns to Tell Somebody to talk about The Death and Life of American Journalism - The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again, the new book he co-authored with John Nichols of The Nation magazine.

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The Bob & Ray Show Feb 09, 2010

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The February 9 edition of the show featured the Bob and Ray Show. Former CIA analyst and Presidential daily briefer Ray McGovern returned to the Tell Somebody phone, and this time he brought Robert Parry on the line with him. Robert Parry has covered Washington for more than three decades and led the way in exposing the Iran-Contra scandal in the 1980's. Ray McGovern has been publishing his articles on Parry's http://www.consortiumnews.com/ for several years and now Bob and Ray have teamed up as a powerful speaking duo.

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Remembering Howard Zinn & Payday Loan Reform Proposed Feb 03, 2010

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During KKFI's April, 2008 pledge drive, Howard Zinn got on the phone with Tell Somebody to talk about his the then new book, A People's History of American Empire, a graphic book based on his People's History of the United States.

Then a segment on reform of payday loan operations in Missouri.

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