Libby Meyer, Federal Reporter for Iowa Starting Line, talks about the contested Iowa 2nd congressional district race and the autopsy report on the 2020 Iowa caucuses, two major stories bookending a strange and unpredictable year in Iowa politics. Other Episodes May 16, 2024 Nobel-winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz New Book Offers A New Vision on Economic and Political... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. The City of Rock Island might well have become the chair capitol of the world, had it not been for an actress named Lilian Lewis. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Listen ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. If the following story is not true, it should be. It involves two Illinois folk heroes, Abraham Lincoln and the traveling evangelist, Peter Cartwright. Most counties in Illinois have Lincoln and Cartwright stories. We Rock Islanders deserve ours. The story began as unsubstantiated rumor, but by the time Carl Sandburg wrote his biography of Lincoln, it had become fact. Other Episodes ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Circuses and other entertainments seldom live up to their billing, but the five thousand spectators who streamed into the City of Rock Island on October 29 th , 1845, to enjoy its first public hanging were more than satisfied, despite jangled nerves created by traffic jams of wagons on every road into town. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. If you passed through fourth grade any time before 1947, you, too, memorized Eugene Field’s poem, “Little Boy Blue.” That was where you learned about “the little toy dog” covered with dust, “but sturdy and staunch he stands” in the old armchair alongside the toy soldier red with rust, whose musket molds in his hands—faithful even in death. Other Episodes ... Read More

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. Safe in the Vatican, Pope Leo the Thirteenth was probably not aware in the spring of 1887 that a stack of lumber in front of the W. J. Young Lumber Company in Clinton, Iowa, was about to cause him some grief. That lumber was the first domino in a chain of bigotry that got out of hand. Other Episodes December 27, 2023 The Special Edition ... Read More

Other Episodes June 23, 2023 Scribble: The Finale Listen · 29:02 June... Read More

Don Wooten and a cavalcade of guests kill an hour in a very unceremonious way. Other Episodes May 11, 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 May 11, 2024 Bird Migration and Light Pollution Listen · 2:56 ... Read More

Other Episodes May 10, 2024 The Cities 5/11/24 The Cities 4/11/24 Listen · 27:15 ... Read More