Radio Active Magazine

This episode of Radio Active Magazine features an interview with Gwendolyn Grant, President and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Kansas City, followed by a brief comment on Omicron and COVID more generally. The interview with Ms. Grant was conducted by Anne Calvert and Rachel Thompson of the League of Women Voters of Kansas […]

Teresa Perry Operates “Share The Love House”. They provide Resources for The Homeless and Community. Teresa talks with host Craig Lubow about her organization and the scope and suggested solutions for homelessness in the Kansas City area.

Tiffany Buckley, President of Volunteer KC, is interviewed by Radio Active Magazine host Pat Riehle.

December 3 has been observed as the United Nations’ International Day of Persons with Disabilities since 1992.  Shiela Styron discusses this with Radio Active Magazine host Spencer Graves.  Sheila is a Blindness Low Vision Specialist with The Whole Person in Kansas City.  She is also a co-chair of the Transportation Committee of the American Council for […]

Host Pat Riehle talks with Daniel Brazzell, Executive Director of Team Fidelis.  The mission of Team Fidelis is to prevent suicide among service members and families by raising awareness, providing a bridge of HOPE and building camaraderie.

RadioActive Magazine will host James Owen, Executive Director of Renew Missouri, along with their Kansas City Regional Director, Alissa Greenwald.  Renew Missouri was founded in 2006 in Columbia, Mo. to advance renewable energy and energy efficiency in Missouri.  We will explore the status of the 2008 Renewable Energy Standard passed by initiative petition, the Grain […]

We discuss the current redistricting process with Mary Lindsay of Kansas City, a member of the League of Women Voters of Missouri‘s Fair Redistricting Committee, Connie Taylor, who represented the League of Women Voters of Johnson County, Kansas, in testifying before a state redistricting committee last August, and Tommye Sexton, who has been observing the process of redrawing […]

Evelyn Maddox and Donna Hoch of the League of Women Voters of Kansas City, Jackson, Clay and Platte Counties, Missouri, join Radio Active Magazine host Spencer Graves to discuss voter suppression in Missouri. Voter suppression is an issue in Kansas, also, as witnessed by the comments of Amber Stenger, President of the League of Women […]

This week’s edition of RadioActive Magazine will feature Daniel Griffith, Associate Director of Law & Policy of Secure Democracy discussing voting and election legislative issues.  We will explore the anti-democratic trends sweeping our country, including a discussion on the recently completed and partisan review in Arizona.  It was called an “audit” by the politicians who authorized it, but […]

Host Pat Riehle talks with Daniel Brazzell, Executive Director of Team Fidelis.  The mission of Team Fidelis is to prevent suicide among service members and families by raising awareness, providing a bridge of HOPE and building camaraderie. This episode includes only the first half of the interview with Brazzell.  The second half of this episode […]

Sunrise Movement KC representatives Raymond Forstater and Ryan Dickey discusses their current concerns and activities with Radio Active Magazine regular Spencer Graves.

This is a rebroadcast of the first half of a one-hour special on "Black Voices, White Allies", which originally aired 2020-07-21.  Click here for the full hour.   RadioActive Magazine founder […] The post Clause on racial justice appeared first on KKFI .

Radio Active Magazine host Spencer Graves talks with three people from MORE2:  their executive director, Lora McDonald, and community organizers, Ricee Cade and Cautia Wadood.  MORE2 is Metro Organization for Racial and Economic Equality, pronounced “MORE-squared” and sometimes written with the “2” as a superscript. Cautia is working primarily on improving healthcare for MORE2 supporters in Missou...

This episode of Radio Active Magazine features a discussion of a petition to bring ranked choice voting to Kansas City, Missouri, organized in part by Better Ballot KC.  Host Spencer Graves talks with Chris Verbrugge about this petition drive.  They hope to collect at least 7,000 signatures by November 15. Wikipedia has several articles that relate to […]

Charles Carney is walking the 253 miles from McConnell Air Force Base four miles southeast of the central business district of Wichita to the Kansas City National Security Campus on Botts […] The post Charles Carney's Peace Walk appeared first on KKFI .

Hilary Cohen Singer, Executive Director of Jewish Vocational Service (JVS) of Kansas City, discusses their program and what they are doing with refugees, especially now following the official US withdrawal […] The post Jewish Vocational Service and refugees in Kansas City appeared first on KKFI .

Kyle Mohr joins Joe Ballegeer to discuss how unemployment is understood in the United States. Kyle is a PhD student in economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City, a […] The post How unemployment is understood in the US appeared first on KKFI .

Public health expert Doug Samuelson, economist Joe Ballegeer, and Radio Active Magazine host Spencer Graves discuss "Externalities, public goods, and contagious diseases".  Major conclusions from this discussion include the following: […] The post Externalities, public goods, and contagious diseases appeared first on KKFI .

Lori Glenski, Clinical Director Substance Use Disorder Services for ReDiscover talks with Radio Active Magazine host Pat Riehle.  They offer a 24-hour crisis line and other mental health services through […] The post ReDiscover Mental Health Services in Kansas City appeared first on KKFI .

This episode of Radio Active Magazine features excerpts of a remembrance event Sunday, 2021-08-08, of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945, seventy-six years earlier, August 6 and 9.  PeaceWorks Kansas City has been organizing similar remembrance events since roughly 2012. This year’s commemoration included the following: Ms. Hiroko Komiya, Vice President, International Pea...

This episode of Radio Active Magazine features an interview with Tony Rothert, Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Missouri.  The discussion may include the following: 1. Barriers to voting:  The ACLU of Missouri has sued to protect voting rights in multiple cases (school boards, motor voter, limited IDs accepted) involving many issues […]

On Aug. 3, RadioActive Magazine host, Dave Mitchell, will interview Senator Jim Hendren of the Arkansas legislature, founder of Common Ground Arkansas, along with the Executive Director, Ms. Misty Orpin.  […] The post Common Ground Arkansas: A Voice for Bipartisan Cooperation appeared first on KKFI .

This episode of Radio Active Magazine features Craig Lubow interviewing Sharon Brett, the Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Kansas about their concerns and current litigation.  Ms. Brett formerly served on the Law faculty at Harvard and as a trial attorney at the Civil Rights division of the US Department of […]

Rohan Grey joins Joe Ballegeer to discuss cryptocurrencies and the future of money. Rohan’s research focuses on the legal design and regulation of money and finance, including digital fiat currency, as well as broader issues of law and political economy. He is the research director of Digital Fiat Currency Institute and a consultant to the UN International Telecommunications Union’s Focus Group on...

This episode of Radio Active Magazine features an interview with Kansas City structural engineer Ralph Jones, who describes what he thinks residents of Kansas and Missouri should do if they see something that looks to them like a possible safety problem with a structure, e.g., building or bridge.  Jones is President of Structural Engineering Associates […]