Our featured guest, Bill Buzenberg became Executive Director of the Center for Public Integrity in January 2007. The Center is an investigative news organization based in Washington, D.C. with a 20-year track record and some 37 first place national journalism awards. Buzenberg was Vice President of News for National Public Radio, as well as an NPR foreign affairs correspondent and London bureau chief from 1978-1997. He was responsible for launching Talk of the Nation, as well as the expansion of All Things Considered and the extension of NPR’s newscasts services to 24 hours a day. http://www.iWAtchNews.org/

AND … storyteller Loren Niemi will join us from the Twin Cities for a tell or two – plus we may learn a bit about small (REALLY small) government. His state is shutdown as you may know. http://www.storytelling.org/Niemi/

Music today is from singer-songwriter Ben Folds.
http://www.benfolds.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Folds