OTTOS KANSAS COFFEE BAR

Program Summary June 1. 2015

Hear Rep. Bill Otto and "the Lineball Sisters" discuss during the 2nd hour all manner of Kansas small town life after these news stories.

Counterspin (30 min.)

Description: Are media dangerously indifferent to questions of criminal banks? Plus: whistleblowers on the front line of the conflict between powerful institutions’ desire to keep secrets and democracy’s requirement that people be well-informed.

Free Speech Radio News (30 min.)

Description: 

• Indigenous police commander Nestora Salgado transferred from Mexican max-security prison after 24-day hunger strike
• Paris police announce they will clear camp where 100s of migrants languish
• Senate to return early from Memorial Day recess to vote on surveillance provisions
• Maine activists call for state action on labeling laws and support for local agriculture at march against seed giant
• Extreme heat wave in India kills around 2000 people
• Striking auto workers in Turkey declare victory in labor struggle

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.