Dear Friends,

I’m excited that the Fallon Forum is returning to a call-in program. CHECK IT OUT HERE.

Our new format (actually, a return to the format we started with twelve years ago) gives you the opportunity to join the conversation during our live broadcast on Facebook on Mondays at 4:00 p.m. central time.

You can, of course, still listen to the program as a podcast or on a handful of radio stations. Here’s the list of stations that carry the program:

– KHOI 89.1 FM (Ames, Iowa)
– KICI.LP 105.3 FM (Iowa City, Iowa)
– WHIV 102.3 FM (New Orleans, Louisiana)
– KPIP-LP, 94.7 FM (Fayette, Missouri)
– KCEI 90.1 FM (Taos, New Mexico)
– KRFP 90.3 FM (Moscow, Idaho)

If you know of a station that might be interested in airing the Forum, please let me know. There’s no cost, and we’d love to expand our outreach with a message you won’t hear on corporate-owned stations.

This week, we discuss the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. Agreements have been reached on coal, deforestation, and methane. But do they go far enough? What enforcement mechanisms will be put in place? How much of what’s being touted as accomplishments is merely green-washing?

My callers and I tackle these and related questions on this week’s program. Callers range from Jerry Schnoor, a UI professor who has attended all of the previous climate summits, to the notorious “Frank from Des Moines,” a conservative whose perspectives I enjoy but often disagree with. (Spoiler alert: We cue Frank’s entrance into the conversation with Darth Vader’s theme music.)

Again, if you’d like to join our conversation, mark Monday at 4:00 central time on your calendar. Watch/listen to the program on the Fallon Forum Facebook page. Call in at 515-238-6404 and let us know what you think.

During this week’s Farm and Food segment, Kathy Byrnes and I answer November garden questions. That conversation begins at the 53:30-minute mark.

Please support the local businesses and non-profits who make this program possible. Click on their logos on the Fallon Forum website and in our weekly email, and visit Dr. Drake Family Psychiatry, Story County Veterinary Clinic, Bold Iowa, and Birds & Bees Urban Farm.

Thanks for supporting the progressive alternative to the right-wing shock jocks!

Ed Fallon