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Show archive for October, 2008

The Last Weekend; Voting; Switching Parties; Letters; A Little Light Night Music with James Isaacs

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Incredible Shrinking Economy; Personal Foreclosure; Presidential Transitions; Can a Computer Game Predict the Election?; World Series Radio; “Octavian Nothing: Volume II”

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Election; “The View” and the Election; Athlete Brain Injuries; JP Morgan; Balsphemy in Afghanistan; Russian Translators

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Children and Guns; Short Selling Your Home; Ballot Questions; Moraine, Ohio, Faces GM Plant Closure; Movie: Ballast

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The Presidential Race; John McCain: Mistakes of his Father; The Few, The Proud, The College Bound; Guantanamo Bay Trial; The Starbucks Economy; Salem Witch Judge

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Stock Market; Keith Jarrett; Two Families Named McCain; Sports; Charlie Kaufman

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Housing; Mixed Race; How Did John McCain Pick Sarah Palin; Googling Discoveries; Dollhouse Village Exhibit

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Politics; Is it Socialism?; Tax Revolts; Massachusetts; Girl Talk

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Florida Voting Early; History of Voting; Disabled Children and Politics; Election-Related Children’s Book

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Politics; Energy and the Environment; Older Workers; Mental Health and Executive Job Loss; Texting

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The Presidential Race in the Polls; Retirement; An Old Fashion Bank; Letters and Sports; Fifty Writers and Fifty States

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Acorn; Why Are The Markets Still in a Free Fall?; Joe The Plumber; The View from Argentina; Dead Cat Bounce; The Gabe Dixon Band

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Debate Preview; Small Businesses Caught in Credit Crisis; Shirt Stories; Words from a Bailout; Hell Drivers

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U.S. and the Banking Business; Pakistan, India, and Kashmir; An Uncertain Charlotte; Tim and Tom

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Politics; Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman; Uighurs; Mammouth Cave; National Anthem at Baseball Games; FDR Banking Chat

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Where’s The Bottom?; Semantics Are Important … No, Really; From the Campaign Trail; Anti-Bailout Ad Man; Container House

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Saving America’s Middle Class; Meltdown in Iceland; Mexico Under Seige; Should Salaries Be Made Public; Politics and Food

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Housing; Executive Pay; The Trial of Saddam Hussein; Lucky Smoke; Senate Races Get Nasty

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Lender of Last Resort; The Candidates’ Healthcare Plans; Round Two; Record Homeless in Massachusetts; Monsterology

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Banks in Crisis; Lehman CEO in Hot Seat; Electoral College Doomsday; The Story Behind “Flash of Genius”; Ani DiFranco Red Letter Year

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Bailout; Wall Street’s Future; Vice Presidential Debate; Costume Change; Letters; Humor in Crisis; Seascape Revisited

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Bailout Bill; Business School Ethics; Voting Problems; Michigan Foreclosures; Blue Moo

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Senate to Rescue; Palin Versus Biden; Truth Squading the Candidates; Fat Sheep; Patty Larkin

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NOTES & UPDATES

Welcome to our newest listeners in Orlando, FL, Chicago, IL, Morris, IL and Chesterton, IN! In the past few months we’ve been joined by new stations in Alaska, Arkansas, California, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.

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