YPR MTPR PROGRAM TOPIC 2009:
Jan. 4 Jan.
6 Pyramid Mountain Lumber of Seeley Lake survives in spite of a tough market and low
lumber prices.
Jan. 11 Jan. 13 Positive change requires leaders, and Bruce Whittenberg, Director of Leadership Montana, outlines what’s
being done to create a core of leaders.
Jan.
18 Jan. 20 Adoption is changing, and for everyone involved
it’s good news. Riley Griffin, an adopted 18-year old and Rosemary Miller of Catholic Social Services discuss
open adoption.
Jan. 25 Jan. 27 What message gets a candidate elected? Behind the scenes of the political
campaign with 30-year veteran David Hunter.
Feb. 1 Feb. 3 Author David Quammen has edited a new illustrated
version of Darwin’s extraordinary book, “Origin Of
Species” in time for the 200th anniversary of Darwin’s birth.
Feb. 8 Feb. 10 Pete Geddes, president of a free-market think
tank discusses the changing philosophy of government de-regulation.
Feb. 15 Feb.17 Todd Wilkinson, 25-year Montana journalist,
discusses the challenge of professionally covering the news regardless of the personal consequences.
Feb. 22 KUFM Fundraising kick off (20-minute dialog with breaks)
Environmentalists and hunters sometimes differ on conservation strategy. Is a new organization, Backcountry
Hunters and Anglers, bridging that divide?
Feb. 24 Beginning as a small town
newspaper reporter, long-time journalist and author Richard
Manning discusses his books about the debate between economy and ecology.
Can we sustain a livable planet?
March 1 Pre empt for Fundraising week
March 3 With trade union membership at an all-time low, trade unions are reorganizing. Jim Fleischmann discusses "Change
That Works," a new trade union-led grass roots
effort.
March 8 Beginning
as a small town newspaper reporter, long-time journalist and author Richard Manning discusses his books covering
the debate between economy and ecology. Can we sustain a livable planet?
March 15 March10 America leads the world in commercialization of its food industry, yet we are being poisoned by things
like peanut butter. Jaydee Hanson of the Center for
Food Safety discusses how it happens and what should
be done to prevent further tragedy.
March 17 Clockmaker/Repairman Evan Smalley collects and repairs old clocks, and owns about 3,000 of them
March 22 With trade union membership at an all-time low,
trade unions are reorganizing. Jim Fleischmann discusses "Change That Works," a new trade
union-led grass roots effort.
March 24 Home Ground pre-empted for live coverage of Presidential press conference.
March 29 Clockmaker/Repairman Evan Smalley collects
and repairs old clocks, and owns about 3,000 of them
March 31 YPR Fundraising week – Home Ground pre-empted.
April 5 April 7 The Sonoran mud turtle is a 200-million
year old relic of the Ice Age and two scientists and an Arizona
rancher are using their personal resources to study it. Find out why?
April
12 April 14 Elk are the property of the public, but spend time on private land. Managing wild elk is never easy. Sportsmen, wildlife officials and landowners try to find common ground.
April 19 April 21 Public access to Montana’s streams has been contentious for decades. Jay Bodner of Montana Stockgrowers and Bruce Farling of Trout Unlimited discuss a new agreement.
April 26 April 28 Americans spend $7,500 per person per year on
health care, but our infant mortality rate is higher than Cuba’s.
Will President Obama’s benchmarks for universal coverage, lower costs and
better quality health care work?
May 3 May 5 The legendary Placer Hotel is being converted
to urban living condominiums – a pioneering economic and aesthetic investment in revitalizing downtown Helena.
May 10 May 12 US House of Representatives Speaker of the House is "two heartbeats away" from leading the nation. John Lawrence, Nancy Pelosi's Chief of Staff, gives an insider's view of
Democracy.
May 17 May
19 Dr. Ann Bartuska heads research for the US Forest Service. How does science
affect national policy decisions?
May 24 May 26 Montana author Karen Stevenson spent three years researching radical Elsie Fox. It changed her view of history.
May 31 June 2 Inventor Bruce Kania of Shepherd
Research Farm discusses BioHavens – man- made, floating islands that mimic nature’s way of fighting water pollution.
June 7 June 9 Denver Holt of Charlo's Owl Research Institute discusses owls: why humans are so interested in them, and why they matter.
June 14 June 16 Businessman Mike Geary dropped everything to help victims of Hurricanes Katrina and
Wanda. And he's just back from Kuwait where he worked with the Red Cross helping US troops. Why does he do it?
June 21 June 23 For 20 years, despite natural tensions between
their interests, folks living, working and recreating in the Blackfoot
River Valley have found common ground. What's their secret?
June
26 Friday Special- 2009 Governor’s Humanities
Award recipient Brian Kahn, Host of Home Ground Radio (Interview
1)
June 30 2009 Governor’s Humanities
Award recipient Brian Kahn, Host of Home Ground Radio (Interview
1)
Date TBD Special : (Interview 2) - 2009 Governor’s Humanities Award recipient Brian Kahn, Host of Home Ground Radio
June 28 July 7 Presidential
historian Joan Hoff compares the New Deal presidents with Bush and Obama.
July 3
Friday Special- 2009 Governor’s Humanities Award recipient Brian Kahn, Host of Home Ground Radio (Interview 1)
July 5 July 14 FoodCorps is unique to Montana, leading efforts
to make locally produced food available.
July 12 July 21 Unemployed Helenans tell their stories.
July 19 Shakespeare scholar Ron Lee discusses the relevance of 17th century poetry, science and religion to today’s world.
July 26 July 28 A Montana child suffers a
rare disease, and needs a bone marrow transplant. Can a donor be found?
Aug 2 Aug
4 Professor Jacob Hacker helped design the “public
health insurance option”.
Aug 9 Aug
11 James Gelfand, US Chamber of Commerce health policy advisor opposes increased government intervention.
Aug 16 America
leads the world in commercialization of its food industry, yet we are being poisoned by things like peanut butter. Jaydee
Hanson of the Center for Food Safety discusses how it happens and what should be done to prevent further tragedy. (RERUN)
Aug 18 Shakespeare scholar Ron Lee discusses the relevance of 17th century poetry, science and religion to today’s world.
Aug 23 Aug 25 Tom Still - Classical pianist looks back on a lifetime of music.
Aug
30 Sept 1 Local
citizens speak out at President Obama’s Town Hall meeting in Bozeman.
Sept 6 Sept 8 Senator Max Baucus gives an update on healthcare reform
proposals; Lee Newspaper’s Mike Dennison
comments.
Sept 13 Sept
15 Tim Burton gets satisfaction from the challenges of managing a city with a 50-million dollar budget and answering to multiple bosses.
Sept 20 Sept 22 George Archibald, co-founder of the International Crane Foundation.
Sept 27 Sept 29 Monika Bauerlein, editor of Mother
Jones magazine.
Oct 4 Oct 6 Dr. Tom Weiner, oncologist, discusses aspects
of cancer care.
Oct 11 Oct
13 Butte, America documentary
Oct 18 Professional Licensing Boards are a relatively unknown area for dispute.
resolution. Quasi-Judicial)
Oct 20 (Fundraising
at YPR. Program pre-empted)
Oct 25 Oct
27 MacDonald Pass forest fire and the community response to its threat.
Wed Tues
Nov 4
Nov 3 Dr. Joe Medicine Crow, warrior chief of the Crow nation and recipient of the President's medal of Freedom.
YPR MTPR PROGRAM TOPIC 2008:
Jan. 1 Jan. 5 David Berg’s talk radio program Voices of
Montana is the most widely listened to in Montana. Hear what Dave has to say on Home Ground.
Jan. 8
(Election coverage on YPR pre-empts Home Ground)
Jan. 15 Your alcoholic husband
beats you, but you don’t have enough money for a lawyer. Where can you turn for help? Legal Aid’s
Domestic Violence Unit provides answers.
Jan. 22 Jan. 12 Towns in the great
plains are struggling, and the people look to local government for answers. Miles City Mayor Joe Whalen discusses his low-key,
analytical approach.
Jan. 29 Jan. 19 Donna Worth of Whitehall Community Library
and Alice Meister of Bozeman Public Library discuss how Montana libraries are dealing with the digital information age.
Feb. 12 Jan. 26 As the population gets older, will there be enough
primary care givers to serve the need? Dr. Jay Larson of Helena says a primary care crisis is looming.
Feb. 19
Feb. 2 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Steve Running of the Univ. of Montana discusses climate change in North
America.
Feb. 26 Feb. 9 National health care is a hot political issue during
this primary season, but Dr. Ken Eden of Helena fears something bigger: a healthcare meltdown.
Mar. 4
Mar. 8 Montana National Guardsman Chris Dana committed suicide on returning from Iraq. The tragedy
caused an outcry, and has led to major changes in how the Guard helps Montana veterans. Post-deployment health.
Mar.
11 Feb. 23 Land use planning polarizes communities. And that's why Helena's collaborative
planning process is so interesting. Helena Valley Growth.
Mar. 18 Mar. 15 Controversy
and litigation looms over the proposed Highwood Generating Station. Southern Montana Electric's CEO Tim Gregori articulates
the arguments in favor of the plant.
Mar. 25 Mar. 22 Citizens for Clean Energy
and the mayor of Fort Benton speak out against Highwood Generating Station.
Apr. 1 Mar. 29 Hunters and anglers feared loss of access when world famous sporting
goods retailer Cabela’s began selling choice real estate. Then Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks stepped in, and brokered
a positive outcome.
Apr. 8 Apr. 5 Sage grouse, a spectacular native of the
Great Plains, and are on the decline. Threatened by the conflict between economics, science and politics, is there any common
ground?
Apr. 12 Climate Change (rebroadcast at request of MPR) with Dr. Steven
Running.
Apr. 15 Apr. 19 Should we have the Right to Die? Terminally-ill
Livingston resident Steve Stoelb says all Montanans should have this choice.
Apr. 22 Apr.
26 Only 10% of Montana’s food is grown locally. The Grow Montana coalition is trying to change
that—to improve our health and strengthen our economy.
Apr. 30 May 3
Montana Conservation Corps. Modeled on the Depression-era CCC, young Americans are engaged in outdoor jobs that benefit
society.
May 6 May 10 Kids in our high tech, urbanized society are having trouble
learning.
A new educational movement, Place-Based Education aims to get kids back outside.
May 13
May 17 Artemis Institute of Livingston expands on the benefits of using the natural world as the classroom
for training architecture students in energy-efficient design.
May 20 May 24
BLM—State Director Gene Terland discusses his job and the interface between science, politics and community values in
agency decisions.
May 27 May 31 Intercollegiate athletics—In the aftermath
of major felonies committed by MSU and UM athletes, MSU Athletic Director Peter Fields discusses the pressured world of intercollegiate
athletics.
June 3 June 7 Montana trout guide Channing Welin -- A man of sophistication
and faith, this renowned guide discusses what he teaches clients on the stream.
June 10 June
14 Female detectives—Three women detectives in the Missoula Police Dep't discuss the realities of
working in one of the last bastions of the “man’s world”.
June 17 June 21
Small town newspapers are disappearing. So rural-born Courtney Lowery is developing web-based newspapers to ensure journalism
and a sense of place survive in Montana.
June 24 June 28 John Manz, Marine
Corps Vietnam-era fighter pilot and executive with an international timber company, discusses his life-long association with
the Boy Scouts of America.
July 1 July 6 Five years ago on Home Ground, energy
expert Randy Udall said we’d soon see the end of cheap oil. Now he tells us what we can do about it.
July 8 July 13 Is punishment always the best approach to a just sentence? Restorative
Justice is gaining momentum in Montana as an alternative.
July 15 July 20 Supreme
Court Justice Brian Morris worked under US Supreme Court Chief Justice
William Rehnquist. Morris, the youngest on Montana’s
Supreme Court bench, discusses his philosophy.
July 22 July 27 Veteran
reporter Scott McMillion discusses his profession. Does what a reporter think affect our news?
July 29
Aug. 3 A major player in the conservation movement, the National Wildlife Federation has a
strong position
on climate change. Guest Jeremy Symons is NWF’s Global Warming director.
Aug. 5 Aug. 10
The Fourth of July Parade in Butte has been famous for generations. Do people today think about the significance of
that first Independence day, 232 years ago?
Aug. 12 Aug. 17 Having been in
and around the US Forest Service for half of its 100 years, retired USFS former chief Dale Bosworth reflects on its past successes
and failures and where it needs to go from here
Aug. 19 After coming back
from near obliteration, there are now 1,500 wolves in the Yellowstone Park region. Barb Cestero of the Greater Yellowstone
Coalition on Wolves and Carolyn Sime of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks discuss the conflicting opinions as to how they should
be managed.
Aug. 24 (Rerun) Montana National Guardsman Chris Dana committed
suicide on returning from Iraq. The tragedy caused an outcry, and has led to major changes in how the Guard helps Montana
veterans. Post-deployment health.
Aug. 26 (Pre-empt)
Aug. 31
(Rerun) National health care is a hot political issue, but Dr. Ken Eden of Helena fears something bigger: a healthcare
meltdown.
Sept. 2 (Pre-empt)
Sept. 7 After coming
back from near obliteration, there are now 1,500 wolves in the Yellowstone Park region. Barb Cestero of the Greater Yellowstone
Coalition on Wolves and Carolyn Sime of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks discuss the conflicting opinions as to how they should
be managed.
Sept. 9 Sept. 14 We are the richest nation in history, yet last
year alone, 90,000 Montanans went to free food banks to feed their families, and it’s getting tougher according to the
Montana Food Bank Network.
Sept. 16 Sept. 21 What does it mean to be a "conservative
Republican"? Representative John Ward, who lost his GOP primary by 24 votes, and is mounting a write-in campaign, discusses
his philosophy and the divisions in his party.
Sept. 23 Oct. 5 Small
business is tough business. Ed Beall, co-owner of Capital Sports and Western in Helena, discusses how he stays in business
in the face of chain and box store competition.
Sept. 30 Sept. 28 As the nation
teeters on economic crisis, the next president will rely on his close advisors. If Obama is elected, he'll ask Chicago University's
Austan Goolsbee.
Oct. 7 Oct. 12 Attorney General Mike McGrath:
Candidate for Chief Justice of the Montana Supreme Court discusses his views and personal and judicial philosophy.
Oct. 14 Oct. 19 Attorney Ron Waterman: The second Chief Justice candidate
does the same.
Oct. 21 Oct. 26 The Attorney General is Montana's top legal
officer. Tim Fox, Republican candidate for the position, discusses his qualifications for the job.
Oct. 28
Nov. 2 Steve Bullock, Democratic candidate for Montana Attorney General, discusses his
qualifications.
Nov. 4 YPR pre-empt due to election coverage
Nov. 11 Nov. 9 The American bison was on the brink of extinction
when one man took a stand, fought potent economic interests, and saved the species. Author MichaeI Punke tells how George
Bird Grinnell did it.
Nov. 18 Nov. 16 David Sirota, author of The Uprising,
argues that Right and Left are uniting in opposition to established power in America.
Nov. 25
Nov. 23 Tenspoons: The owners of this Missoula-based, organic winery discuss what it's like to launch
a totally new business venture, and to learn the ancient
craft of making wine.
Dec. 2 Nov. 30 A Hiroshima survivor and the director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum discuss the gravity of nuclear war.
Dec. 9 Dec. 7 World champ bronc rider Bill Smith had to change his life when his rodeo career ended. Author Margo Kahn discusses
the Wyo. native in her book, "Horses that Buck"
Dec. 16 Dec.
14 Since early civilization, quality rugmaking has been vital to the Middle
East. Anatolia Rug Co. of Helena descrbes the traditional process and
sells rugs that last a century.
Dec. 23 Dec.
21 After decades of opposition, timber and environmental interests have come
together to support the Blackfoot/Clearwater project.
Dec. 30 Dec. 28 US Senator Jon Tester discusses
the challenges facing America, and his common-sense approach to working together in Washington for positive change.
