Sharon Kleyne Hour

Rep. Dennis Richardson (Central Point, OR), Oregon State Representative, District Four and Vice Chair for Health Care Committee as well as various other committees, reviews state and national healthcare policies for 2008. For additional information, please visit www.leg.state.or.us/richardson/. Second guest, Paul Labovitz (St. Paul, MN), Park Superintendent with the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area, discusses how the Mississippi River is one of the most complex floodplain river ecosystems on the planet, and easily one of the defining features of the North American continent. The 72 mile stretch of river running through the Minneapolis – St. Paul metropolitan area, changes character more than it does anywhere else along its 2,300 mile length (Part 1). For additional information, please visit www.nps.gov/miss.