The Pentagon responds to Defense Secretary Austin’s hospitalizations…Governor Reynolds speeding up a reduction of the state’s income tax.
Category: News
News Digest 1-9-24
Winter weather has arrived in Iowa…the state legislature has opened its 2024 session.
Culture Crawl 885 “Musical Friendship”
“Charlie and the Wolf” is an opera for young people commissioned by Cedar Rapids Opera. Bored middle schooler Logan dozes off, only to have Wolfgang Mozart and Charlie Parker appear to teach her about music and friendship. Cast members Brittany Graham, Evan J. Nelson, Lindsay Paradise, and Rene Vazquez will bring this fanciful tale to …
News Digest 1-8-24
Multiple storm systems are bringing severe weather to much of the U-S…the 2024 Iowa legislature opens today.
This Week In Jazz January 7 thru January 13
Hey, Jazz fans! Be sure to tune in this week as we celebrate the birthdays of drummers Kenny Clarke, Osie Johnson and Max Roach, singers Betty Roche and Ruth Brown, trombonists Wilbur de Paris and Willie Dennis, saxophonists Allen Eager and Jane Ira Bloom and more. We’ll also mark the recording anniversaries of Toots Thielemans’ …
Special Programs January 8 thru January 14
Jazz Corner of the World with host Craig Kessler Mondays at 6:00pm Happy Birthday Blue Note It’s an encore presentation of Craig Kessler’s 85th birthday party for the legendary Blue Note Records, founded January 6, 1939. Craig celebrates by spinning some unusual and obscure titles. We’ll hear the likes of Sal Salvador, Wynton Kelly, Frank …
News Digest 1-5-24
Reaction to the school shooting in Perry…Haley and DeSantis hold back-to-back town halls in Iowa.
News Digest 1-4-24
The White House is pressuring House Republicans to approve a government spending plan…Iowa business groups are pushing for legislation to allow foreign businesses to buy Iowa farmland for large developments.