At the Square

In Episode #9 of Both Sides , APS founder Ambassador Allan Katz, and, Co-Chair to APS's Advisory Board Mike McShane, talk with the President of William Jewell College, Dr. MacLeod Wall about how Higher Education is adjusting to COVID 19 regulations.  American Public Square at Jewell is proud to be formally affiliated with   William Jewell College , a 170-year-old private college and academic insti...

In Episode #8 of Both Sides, APS founder, Ambassador Allan Katz and Co-Chair to APS's Advisory Board, Mike McShane talk with the Kansas Secretary of Health and Environment, Dr. Lee Norman who has been leading efforts to contain and address COVID 19 in the state of Kansas.  Both Sides, brought to you by American Public Square at Jewell (APS), is a reoccurring civil dialogue about topics related to...

This episode features American Public Square at Jewell's intern team in an interview with Richard Mabion in effort to hear about his work to create an inner city climate consciousness as he experienced some technical difficulties at our recent digital panel discussion.  Richard Mabion was a panelist at the APS student program 'The Fight for Our Future' that took place on the 50th Anniversary of Ea...

In Episode  #7 of Both Sides, APS founder, Ambassador Allan Katz and Co-Chair to APS's Advisory Board, Mike McShane talk with Vice President and editorial page editor at the Kansas City Star, Colleen Nelson, about the role of local media in restoring trust in the public's perception of the media and the challenges local media face in their efforts to cover COVID 19.  Both Sides, brought to you by...

In Episode #6 of Both Sides, APS founder, Ambassador Allan Katz and Co-Chair to APS's Advisory Board, Mike McShane discuss whether or not Former Vice President Joe Biden will win the 2020 Presidential race and deliberate about the Feds bailing out state governments as a part of COVID 19 relief.  Both Sides, brought to you by American Public Square at Jewell (APS), is a reoccurring civil dialogue a...

In Episode #5 of Both Sides, you'll hear APS Founder Allan Katz and Co-chair to APS's Advisory Board, Mike McShane, deliberate about the 2020 Presidential Election and Climate Change. Both Sides, brought to you by American Public Square at Jewell (APS), is a reoccurring civil dialogue about topics related to current events through distinct political perspective. Mike and Allan come from different...

Join host Allison Koelzer in hearing from the APS Spring 2020 Intern team in their effort to provide an audio fact sheet about Climate Change. You'll also hear from Bob Grove, President of Climate Council or Greater Kansas City about the 2020 Online Earth Festival. This episode was created in effort to complement the upcoming APS Student Program, The Fight for Our Future: Addressing Climate Change...

In Episode # 4  of Both Sides, APS founder, Ambassador Allan Katz and Co-Chair to APS's Advisory Board, Mike McShane talk national and local solutions to COVID 19, how far ahead to begin planning for the November National election, and how the media might be contributing to division during a time when unity is needed. Both Sides, brought to you by American Public Square at Jewell (APS), is a reocc...

In Episode #3 of Both Sides, APS founder, Ambassador Allan Katz and Co-Chair to APS's Advisory Board, Mike McShane explain the economic term Moral Hazard and talk about the importance of leadership in crisis. Both Sides, brought to you by American Public Square at Jewell (APS), is a reoccurring civil dialogue about topics related to current events through distinct political perspective. Mike and A...

Episode #2 of Both Sides, a series by American Public Square at Jewell (APS) featuring APS founder, Ambassador Allan Katz and Co-Chair to APS's Advisory Board, Mike McShane. In this episode Mike and Allan talk about the state of the economy in regard to quarantine and shelter-in-place orders. They also talk about why someone like Mike, a moderate-right conservative... with libertarian tendencies,...

Episode #1 of Both Sides, a new series by American Public Square at Jewell (APS). Featuring APS founder, Ambassador Allan Katz and Co-Chair to APS's Advisory Board, Mike McShane, Both Sides is a reoccurring civil dialogue about government response to COVID 19 and beyond through distinct political perspective. Allan and Mike come from different generations, political parties, and overall ideology o...

This episode of At the Square was produced as a part of our educational series The Nuts and Bolts of Democracy which consists of a series of member's only events designed to teach us about our local, state, and federal elections. This episode features renowned political consultant Jeff Berman.  With decades of experience in managing campaigns and nominations, including President Barack Obama and S...

In this episode of At the Square, we discuss Medicaid Expansion. We  explore the social, political, and economic themes of expanding Medicaid while aiming to explain why states like Kansas and Missouri haven't expanded the program. We also interview Health Economist, David Slusky, from the University of Kansas. This podcast was produced as a part of our event Medicaid: Expansion versus Status Quo....

From American Public Square (APS), this episode was created in collaboration with our Affordable Housing: Making the Numbers Work event on October 24th, 2019 in Fairway, KS. This short episode provides local, background information on the topic of Affordable Housing The live event will be archived at https://americanpublicsquare. org/archive/ .  This podcast is designed to provide brief background...

This episode corresponds to American Public Square's "East is East and West is West: Segregation in Kansas City" event on Thursday, April 19 at the Johnson County Library. In this episode, host Kaylee Peile speaks with Dr. Sandra Enriquez of the University of Missouri-Kansas City (2:36) and ethnographer Nathaniel Bozarth (9:01) about the history of segregation and racism. The discussion focuses on...

This episode corresponds to American Public Square's "Millennials & Marriage" event on Monday, March 26 at Boulevard Brewery.  In this episode, host Kaylee Peile speaks with a variety of people on the topic of marriage and the Millennial Generation. The guests include The League's Meredith Davis (3:00), Daniel and Ebony Edwards of Movement KC (9:54), Dr. Jennifer Murff of Millennials for Marriage...

The words "fake" and "news" are rarely separated in our conversations today. In this episode, host Kaylee Peile speaks with Russian disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz (1:05) and Travis Smith of Axiom Strategies (11:19) about fake news and its relevance in the world we live in from a national and global perspective.  Our event, "Fake News," is on March 13 at Unity Temple on the Plaza in Kansas Ci...

"Common Good" was a fact-based, civil conversation about how faith communities can work together to respond to the violence and injustice of tragic events such as those in Charlottesville, Sutherland Springs, and in our own backyard of Overland Park in 2014 and Olathe in 2017. Representatives of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity discussed the issue and took questions from the audience. In this epis...

At this Truman Series event presented by American Public Square,  The Harry S. Truman Library & Museum,  the  Truman Library Institute , and the Harry S. Truman Center at UMKC, our panel of experts discussed where the ACA and where it may be headed. In this episode, host Kaylee Peile speaks with former Governor of Kansas Kathleen Sebelius and Jessica Hembree of the Health Care Foundation of Greate...