Radio Roundtable: The Upcoming Municipal Elections

WKNO | By Justin Willingham

Published September 16, 2011 at 1:54 PM CDT

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Memphis, TN – This week's topic: the upcoming municipal elections. Will voter apathy keep people from the polls? Early voting has started for the October 6th elections. The panel discusses who will show up to vote, and why.

Host Eric Barnes, publisher of The Memphis Daily News, and panel discuss this week's most important news story. This week's panel includes Les Smith of Fox 13, Bill Dries from The Memphis Daily News, Amos Maki from The Commercial Appeal, and Jackson Baker from The Memphis Flyer. For more on this week's topic, and other issues important in this week's news, tune-in to WKNO TV's Channel 10 Friday evenings at 6:30 for Behind the Headlines.

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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