MICHIGAN CALLING: DEMOCRATIC SENATOR DEBBIE STABENOW
October 19, 2012 from 9-10 a.m. ET
Democratic U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow takes questions from public radio listeners across the state as she asks voters to return her to the Senate for a third term. This one-hour call-in show is hosted by Rick Pluta of the Michigan Public Radio Network. Listeners will also be able to ask their questions via e-mail, Facebook,and Twitter.
NOTE: Writer's Almanac and Radio Reader will be preempted for this special call-in program.
MEDIA MEET: INSIDE MICHIGAN POLITICS
October 21 at 7:30 a.m. ET
October 22 at 3:30 p.m.
Media Meet: Inside Michigan Politics. Veteran state capitol insider and political analyst Bill Ballenger discusses today's issues and the upcoming elections.
MICHIGAN CALLING: REPUBLICAN SENATOR PETE HOEKSTRA
October 26 from 9-10 a.m ET
Republican U.S. Senate nominee Pete Hoekstra takes questions from public radio listeners across the state as he asks voters to elect him as their representative in the US Senate. This one-hour call-in show is hosted by Rick Pluta of the Michigan Public Radio Network. Listeners will also be able to ask their questions via e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter.
POLITICAL DEBATE: 1ST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
October 28 at 7:30 a.m. ET
October 29 at 3:30 p.m. ET
Candidates running for the 1st congressional house seat debate important topics including budget deficits, Health care, job creation, and taxes.
MEDIA MEET SPECIAL: MICHIGAN'S 2012 BALLOT PROPOSALS
October 29 at 3 p.m. ET
BURN: AN ENERGY JOURNAL'S ELECTION SPECIAL
November 2 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET
It is the fundamental issue of our time: Energy; where we get it; how we use it; what happens then. It powers our homes and our economy; it creates troubled alliances and disturbing divisions; it empowers and impoverishes; it enables almost all that we do and now threatens all that we have become.
Host Alex Chadwick explores our energy future through the intimate stories of visionaries of research, maverick inventors, industry insiders and concerned citizens. These personal stories will help explain how and why we face an energy crisis, the dilemma of the continuing demand for energy, the realities and consequences of a mostly carbon-based industry and infrastructure, and some possible alternatives and personal/global solutions to what looks increasingly to be an ever more grim energy and climate future in the coming decades.
BURN will follow the quest for Energy answers and the stirring public initiative required to transition to this new energy world.
One segment of the program focuses on Michigan's ballot referendum requiring 25 percent of the state's electricity come from renewable energy resources by the year 2025. Reporter Scott Carrier addresses the question Michigan voters may confront one day after the November elections: If the referendum passes, then what? What is the science behind wind power and how do you get people to accept a field of enormous machines in their community?
