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Program Summary Feb. 9, 2015

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

Between the Lines (30 min.) Description: Featured guests: Mel Goodman, fmr CIA analyst, Dir. of the National Sec. Project at the Center for International Policy; Ali Al-Ahmed, Director of the Institute for Gulf Affairs; Mark Price, a labor economist at the Keystone Research Center

Free Speech Radio News (30 min.) Description:

• Proposed reforms to corporate tax code included in Obama’s $4 trillion budget request
• The wheels of Congress begin to move on bilateral relations with Cuba
• Deadly airstrikes and rocket attacks across Syria
• Turkish authorities charge Dutch journalist spread “terrorist propaganda” via social media
• Mexican authorities discover 61 bodies in an abandoned crematorium in Guerrero
• Survivors of acid attacks call on Indian government to implement preventative and rehabilitative measures
• California to make condoms available in prisons statewide

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.