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From fighting uphill to great success as a player at Kansas State, and on to a fabulous and legendary run as a coach at Washburn University for almost four decades and over 800 wins, Bob Chipman has carved out a career to remember.

Two hundred dollars a year, to make private profits off public water is little for Nestle Water Company in the state of Michigan. When it’s what residents in Flint Michigan are paying every month to drink private water because the public supply’s been poisoned, it’s a lot. Become a member today.  Thank you! 

 

The Laura Flanders Show Crew:  Laura Flanders, Sabrina Artel, David Neuman, Nat Needham, Rory O'Conner, Janet Hernandez, Sarah Miller and Jeannie Hopper

 

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This episode features an episode with Donnie Johnson Sackey, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Wayne State University.

Dr. Sackey is a senior researcher with Detroit Integrated Vision for Environmental Research through Science and Engagement (D•VERSE), an affiliated researcher in Michigan State University’s Writing, Information, and Digital Experience (WIDE) Research Center, and an executive board member of the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition. His research centers on environmental public policy deliberation, environmental justice, and environmental cultural history. His work has appeared in the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, Computers and Composition, and the collection Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things. Along with Dr. Alex Hidalgo, he co-edited issue 5.2 of Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric and Society, a special issue entitled "Race, Rhetoric, and the State."

In addition, Sackey is currently a co-investigator on a grant funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to perform risk communication work around the lead and legionella contamination crisis in the municipal water system in Flint, Michigan. In the following interview, we talk at length about his work with that grant project and on Present Tense.

This episode includes clips from and references to the following:

• Lois Agnew et al.'s "Octalog III: The Politics of Historiography in 2010"
• Jeff Grabill's "The Work of Rhetoric in the Common Places"
• Malea Powell's 2012 CCCC Chair's Address
  
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• Carlos Saura's "El Manantial"
• Armond Towns' "Body Camera Remix"

 

John Gonzalez and Amy Sherman of MLive and Behind the Mitten celebrate the holidays with this special "Best Of" show. It features some of their favorite interviews in 2016.

Segment 1:
Air Date Feb. 13 (Episode 42): Interview with Rob Klatay of Table & Tap in Flint. Link to full episode. http://www.spreaker.com/user/michigangonzo/btm-flint-show-feb-14-2016

Segment 2 (Listen at 10:01):
Air Date April 23 (Episode 52): Interview with Lorri Hathaway of the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trails. This interview took place at the Governor's Pure Michigan Conference in Lansing. Link to full episode. http://www.spreaker.com/user/michigangonzo/btm-pure-michigan-tourism-conference-in-

Segment 3 (Listen at 19:06):
Air Date July 9 (Episode 63): Interview with John Beilfuss of Lula's Louisiana Cookhouse, our pick for Michigan's Best Fried Chicken. Link to full episode. http://www.spreaker.com/user/michigangonzo/btm-episode-63-lulas-louisiana-cookhouse

Segment 4 (Listen at 28:33):
Air Date Nov. 5 (Episode 80): John and Amy talk to Stephanie Kotschevar of Experience Grand Rapids, which is a great resource to all the things happening in the area. Link to full episode. http://www.spreaker.com/user/michigangonzo/btm-episode-80-gerald-r-ford-museum-and-

Also, John mentions Gianna and Lisa Licari of Licari's Sicilian Pizza Kitchen (Episode 79)-Michigan's Best Pizza. Link to full episode. http://www.spreaker.com/user/michigangonzo/btm-episode-79-licaris-pizza-treetops-wi

Learn more about Behind the Mitten at https://www.facebook.com/behindthemitten/?fref=ts

The people of Flint Michigan have been exposed to lead in their drinking water for the last year and a half. Experts anticipate that thousands of persons will suffer long term neurological damage as a result of lead poisoning. But scientists, companies, and governments have known for over 100 years that lead causes brain damage and behavioral problems. Most of the people who suffer from lead poisoning are black people. Low academic achievement, poor social skills, high rates of violent crimes in black communities, and mental retardation are all either associated with lead poisoning or correlated with exposure to lead in the environment.

I'm joined by Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor and Publisher of The Nation.

We discuss her article for 'The Washington Post' entitled "The poisoning of Flint," which discusses the water crisis in Flint, Michigan under Republican Governor Rick Snyder. (http://tinyurl.com/hsrkr4q)

Katrina's Twitter handle is @KatrinaNation. The Twitter handle for 'The Nation' is @TheNation. Their website is www.TheNation.com.

(Image credit: Jake May/Associated Press)

Mark Grimaldi, Executive Producer of The Leslie Marshall Show, guest hosts for Leslie this hour.

He's joined by John Nichols, a pioneering political blogger, who has written the Beat since 1999.

Mark and John discuss John's recent article for 'The Nation' entitled "Outcry Over the Austerity Crisis in Flint Grows." (http://www.thenation.com/article/outcry-over-austerity-crisis-in-flint-grows/)

John Nichols' Twitter handle is @NicholsUprising. The website for 'The Nation' is www.TheNation.com.

Mark Grimaldi's Twitter handle is @MarkJGrimaldi.

 (Photo Credit: Eduardo García)