Brian Alexander, author of The Hospital: Life, Death and Dollars in a Small American Town, talks about the larger themes explored in the book and how they affect us all. From health care to the economy to culture and politics, he weaves into his book a story of America in the 2000s. Other Episodes May 2, 2024 War for the Soul of American Christianity ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Drive with me down the 2,500 miles of Great River Road along the Mississippi from northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico, and let’s watch the river grow. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. When John Soule advised his Indiana readers in 1851 to “Go West, young man,” a phrase Horace Greely later made famous, he was already writing after the fact. By then several hundred steamboats a month were streaming up the Mississippi past Rock Island and Davenport, loaded with young men—and women—with families from the East and the South, from Ireland and Norway, England and Germany heading west to the California gold fields or to the newly opened prairies of Minnesota and the Dakotas. Other Episodes ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. On the ninth of March in 1837, the Reverend John Brich, an itinerant Presbyterian minister from England, froze to death after his horse fell through the ice of a creek near the Rock Island County border. Reverend Brich hung his saddle bags on a tree and wandered two miles into adjacent Henry County before succumbing to the cold. Had it been the other way around, the American Bible Society may have been five hundred dollars richer, and Rock Island County may have had to settle for a wooden courthouse as was common in other frontier counties, rather than the ornate... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Prisoners of war have more time to dream than most—and more need to. Defeated fighting for a cause they believed in, surrounded by enemies, cold and hungry, dreams are what they have left. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. ... Read More

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Don Wooten and a cavalcade of guests kill an hour in a very unceremonious way. Other Episodes May 4, 2024 Saturday Morning Live! Carrying on one of the most venerable traditions in local broadcasting history, Kai Swanson carries on the carrying on Don Wooten carried on with a cavalcade of carriers on. Carry on. ... Read More

Other Episodes April 27, 2024 River Action Fish and Fire 2024 Listen · 4:00 ... Read More

Other Episodes May 3, 2024 The Impact of Iowa's Budget Increase: A Closer Look In this episode, we discuss the recently passed budget and new income tax plan in the Iowa Legislature. Listen · 28:13 ... Read More

On Midwest Week, the Illinois General Assembly begins working on new maps for Congressional and legislative districts. But it’s complicated by delayed reports from the Census Bureau. Herb Trix’s guest is Peter Hancock, Statehouse Reporter for Capitol News Illinois. You can also hear Midwest Week Fridays on WVIK at 6:20 pm during All Things Considered. Other Episodes December 30, 2022 ... Read More