Radio Roundtable: Funding the Unified School District

WKNO | By Justin Willingham

Published September 14, 2012 at 8:45 AM CDT

This week on the Behind the Headlines radio roundtable, a discussion on how to fund the Shelby County Unified School district.

Host Eric Barnes, publisher of the Memphis Daily News, talks with Chairman of the County Commission Mike Ritz, County Commissioner Heidi Shafer, and reporter Bill Dries of the Memphis Daily News about the Shelby County school board tax increase referendum and override of Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell's veto.

For a review of the top news stories of the week, you can tune in to Behind the Headlines Friday evenings at 7 on WKNO-TV 10.

Justin Willingham

My mother introduced me to WKNO-FM and public radio long before I can remember. I suppose the first thing I really recall about WKNO-FM is that every afternoon, when my mother picked me up from school, the radio was tuned-in to The World, then All Things Considered, probably beginning around age 8. The way these reporters and hosts took you from the comfort of your mom's van to wherever in the world they were reporting from absolutely fascinated me. From then on, I was officially hooked.

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