OTTOS KANSAS COFFEE BAR

Program Summary date: 22 DEC 2014

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: Progressive Democrats launched an unexpected attack on a congressional spending bill, leaving some pundits complaining once more about nasty Beltway polarization. But legislators were trying to do something substantive: stop an attempt to roll back an important part of the Dodd/Frank Wall Street reform law. Journalist David Dayen will join us to explain what was at stake.

Free Speech Radio News (30 min.)

Description:

• US and Cuban leaders announce thaw in Cold War-era diplomatic relations
• More mass kidnapping in northern Nigeria; Boko Haram suspected
• Taliban militants slaughter almost 150 children at a Peshawar school
• Israel showcases drone technology as the world’s top exporter
• Wichita outfits all police with body cameras, L.A. and Houston announce similar plans
• New York environmentalists celebrate first-ever statewide fracking ban
• New Zealand opens coastal waters to deep sea drilling

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.