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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 December 1, 2014

George Franklin

On this edition of WestSouthwest, lobbying for Kellogg and looking ahead to the next session of Congress. 

  

Former Western Michigan University trustee George Franklin discusses his book, Raisin Bran and Other Cereal Wars: 30 Years of Lobbying for the Most Famous Tiger in the World. He tells WMUK's Sehvilla Mann that his book is meant to offer practical advice about how businesses influence policy.

West Michigan Congressman Fred Upton returns to Washington for his 15th term in the U.S. House. The chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee sits down with WMUK's Gordon Evans and Kalamazoo Gazette reporter Alex Mitchell to discuss net neutrality, immigration, medicine, Upton's political future and more. 

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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