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Interviews with news makers and discussion of topics important to Southwest Michigan. Subscribe to the podcast through Apple itunes and Google. Segments of interview are heard in WestSouthwest Brief during Morning Edition and All Things Considered

WestSouthwest August 24, 2017

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On WestSouthwest, a Kalamazoo area teacher who wrote recently on childhood anxiety, And a Mackinac Center analyst says Michigan should be happy it didn't win the economic development battle to land a Foxconn plant. 

Anne Lape wrote about anxiety in children for FYI Magazine. She tells us how it can get in the way of learning and what parents can do. 

And the Senior Director of the Mackinac Center's Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative says Michigan should be glad that it didn't win an economic battle to land a Foxconn plant. Michael LaFaive says Wisconsin paid too much, and he says economic incentive programs don't produce the jobs they promise. 

Gordon Evans became WMUK's Content Director in 2019 after more than 20 years as an anchor, host and reporter. A 1990 graduate of Michigan State, he began work at WMUK in 1996.
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