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Show Summary –
Western Skies #86 – February 9, 2006
CAPITOL COVERAGE
A split estate bill inched closer to passage this week, and several pieces of eminent domain legislation were considered. Stephen Raher reports with assistance from Dan Costello. [LISTEN]
WHAT'S IN A SONG: THE LAST LETTER
The first in a five part series from the Western Folklife Center. Bill C. Malone
grew up the son of a sharecropper in east Texas. He remembers vividly the family's
first radio where he heard sad country songs like this one by Rex Griffin. [Due
to licensing restrictions, this piece is not available online]
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