KANSAS COFFEE BAR

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Hear Rep. Bill Otto and "the Lineball Sisters" discuss all manner of smalltown life in Kansas in the second hour after these news stories.

Counterspin (30 min.)

Description: This week on CounterSpin: A Rolling Stone account of a shocking gang rape at the University of Virginia got wide attention in the media for shining a spotlight on campus sexual assaults. But now critics are saying the magazine's approach was flawed, and some wonder if the whole thing is a hoax. Investigative reporter Lindsay Beyerstein joins us to talk about the piece and what the critics are missing.

Free Speech Radio News (30 min.)

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• Protests grow nationwide after no charges in Eric Garner police choke hold death
• UN climate talks open in Lima, activists hold parallel summit
• Opponents of LNG export terminal at Cove Point say FERC rubber-stamps projects
• A visit to the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda
• Colorado apologizes 150 years after the Sand Creek Massacre
• Florida judge issues ruling in favor of Food Not Bombs feedings

Co-hosted during the second hour with Rep. Bill Otto, formerly of the 9th district, in the Kansas legislature listen in to conversations with "Traditional Republicans" who have lived small town life in Kansas across the generations.