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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: Each week CounterSpin brings you a look behind the headlines of the mainstream news. At year's end we take a look back and revisit some of the stories it's been our privilege and pleasure to bring you. We call it "best of," but the truth is we always work to shine a light on angles or perspectives on events we think you might not hear elsewhere ,and insights into why and how corporate media coverage comes to look the way it does.

The aim is to help you not just Not Believe Everything You Read but to show that on every issue there are groups and individuals who don't make the nightly news but have something important to say.

Free Speech Radio News (30 min.)

Description:

• AirAsia 8501 recovery efforts continue in stormy weather, high seas
• Holidays bring generations together at “Black Lives Matter” demonstrations
• Sand mining: One of the lesser-known environmental impacts of fracking
• Hindu fundamentalists in India carry out controversial group conversions with alleged support of ruling party
• Ebola rages on in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea while Nigeria offers lessons

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.