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Midmorning
Midmorning
Archive for August 8 - 12, 2005
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Monday, Aug. 8, 2005
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Spending spree
Legislation passed by Congress this year will add $35 billion to next year's budget deficit. Are the Republicans now the country's big spenders?

Guests:
Corey Davison, director of legislative affairs at the Concord Coalition. Stephen Slivinski, director of budget studies at the Cato Institute.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: The Concord Coalition
Document Web Resource: Cato Institute
Document Web Resource: The Grand Old Spending Party
Document Web Resource: Spending Explosion
Document Web Resource: The White House
Document Web Resource: Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
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Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Cost of freedom
As requests for political asylum are growing, federal judges and the Immigration and Naturalization Service are becoming less certain about current asylum policy.
Guests:
Erin Corcoran, staff attorney for the Asylum Program at Human Rights First and a professor of law at George Washington University. Jan Ting, law professor at Temple University. Ting is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Center for Immigration Studies. He was assistant commissioner at the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: About Erin Corcoran
Document Web Resource: About Jan Ting
Document Web Resource: Human Rights First
Document Web Resource: Center for Immigration Studies
Document Web Resource: Asylum Support
Document Web Resource: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2005
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio End of an era?
Broadcaster Peter Jennings died of lung cancer on Sunday. His death, as well as the departures of Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather from their evening news slots, could suggest the age of the television anchor is over. Midmorning discusses the role and the future of the network news icon.

Guests:
Deborah Potter, executive director of NewsLab, a non-profit journalism training and research center. Previously she was a network correspondent for CBS and CNN. William Powers, media critic. He writes a weekly column for the National Journal magazine.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: About Deborah Potter
Document Web Resource: National Journal: William Powers
Document Web Resource: About Peter Jennings
Document Web Resource: Evening News Blues
Document Web Resource: Future of Network News
Document Web Resource: Broadcast Education Association
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Truth and consequences
Whistleblowers are often honored by the media and in the movies. But acting in an ethical way doesn't always have a positive outcome. What price do whistleblowers pay for revealing wrongdoing?

Guests:
Fred Alford, professor of government at the University of Maryland. Alford is the author of "Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power." Tom Devine, legal director of the Government Accountability Project. He is the author of "The Whistleblowers Survival Guide: Courage Without Martyrdom."

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: About Fred Alford
Document Web Resource: About Tom Devine
Document Web Resource: Whistleblower Disclosures
Document Web Resource: Project On Government Oversight
Document Web Resource: National Whistleblower Center
Document Web Resource: About Whistleblowers
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2005
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio What's in a brand name?
A Web site hosted by a Minneapolis man is attracting thousands of fans of Marshall Field's. They're pleading with new owner Federated Department Stores not to change the retailer's name. If a store or business essentially stays the same, does the name really matter?
Guests:
Dave Brennan, co-director of the Institute for Retailing Excellence at the University of St. Thomas. Akshay Rao, professor of marketing at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: keepitfields.org
Document Web Resource: Institute for Retailing Excellence
Document Web Resource: Akshay Rao's bio
Document Web Resource: Marshall Field's
Document Web Resource: Federated Department Stores
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Writer uncovers father's secret history
A son tries to reconcile his memories of his Cold Warrior father with the realities of working as a spy in Korea and Vietnam in the 50s and 60s.
Guests:
John Richardson, author of My Father The Spy: An Investigative Memoir.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: HarperCollins
Document Web Resource: The Spy Left Out in the Cold
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Lutherans to vote on gay rights
Lutherans expect to debate whether the church should bless same-sex unions. Midmorning looks at how the issue of gay representation has affected many Christian denominations.
Guests:
David Wayne Machacek, a resident fellow at the Public Policy Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College. Michael Sherer, editor of Metro Lutheran. He's covering the ELCA assembly in Orlando, Florida. Steve Scott, religion writer for the Pioneer Press.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Document Web Resource: ELCA: Sexuality
Document Web Resource: Metro Lutheran
Document Web Resource: Lutheran Church and Homosexuality
Document Web Resource: Speaking of Faith
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio A whole new world?
Scientists have announced the discovery of a new planet. Midmorning talks about the largest object to be found in our solar system since 1846 and examines the latest research into worlds around us.

Guests:
David Rabinowitz, research scientist at the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics. He was part of the team that identified what could be the solar system's 10th planet. David Morrison, chief scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Document Web Resource: NASA Astrobiology Institute
Document Web Resource: About the Solar System
Document Web Resource: Planetary Radio
Document Web Resource: American Astronomical Society
Document Web Resource: California and Carnegie Planet Search
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Friday, Aug. 12, 2005
Hour 1 (9 a.m.)
Audio Red and blue cities
A new study ranks America's most liberal and conservative cities. The poll gives a snapshot of the role of class and race on people's voting patterns.
Guests:
Jason Alderman, co-author of the study and director for the Bay Area Center for Voting Research. Richard Davis, professor of political science at Brigham Young University. Steve Mitchell, chairman of Mitchell Research & Communications. He is the pollster for The Detroit News and political analyst for WDIV-TV.

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: The Bay Area Center for Voting Research
Document Web Resource: Brigham Young University
Document Web Resource: Mitchell Research & Communications, Inc.
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
Hour 2 (10 a.m.)
Audio Skin cancer on the rise?
Skin cancer is affecting more young women than ever before. Also a new study suggests that increased testing does not seem to making a dent in the number of deaths due to the deadlier form of skin cancer.

Guests:
Cynthia Olson, MD, dermatologist who practices at Hennepin County Medical Center and clinical associate professor at the University of Minnesota. H. Gilbert Welch, MD, professor in the departments of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and Codirector of the VA Outcomes Group in the Department of Veterans Affairs, White River Junction, Vermont. He is co-author of the melanoma study in the current issue of The British Medical Journal and author of Should I Be Tested for Cancer?

Related Links:
Document Web Resource: Hennepin County Medical Center Dermatology
Document Web Resource: British Medical Journal
Document Web Resource: The Skin Cancer Foundation
Document Share your views in the News Forum.
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