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Seems like we just recovered from our Solar New Year’s hangover, and it’s already time to celebrate the Lunar New Year. What will the Year of the Water Dragon bring for you? Lots of great (and safe) cycling adventures, we hope.

To start the year off right, we’re headed up to Burlington, Vermont to have a chat with Glenn Eames, who owns and operates the Old Spokes Home, a combination bicycle shop and bicycle museum. Glenn sells and wrenches on both modern and vintage machines, but his passion is for classic bikes, and a large number of his customers are local university students.

You may have read about the recent civil court case between Specialized and Volagi. Volagi was started by two former Specialized employees, and as sometimes happens, former employer sued former employees over who did what when, and with what secret knowledge. If you’re confused, don’t be alarmed, our buddy Steve Frothingham from Bicycle Retailer and Industry News joins us in the second half of the show to explain the whole thing in plain English.

And to wrap up on a very happy note, Mark Griffith of the Moab Skinny Tire Festival drops in to talk about his event coming up March 10 – 13 in Moab, Utah. The Skinny Tire Festival is not only a showcase of the best, low traffic riding in Moab for us non-MTBers, it’s also a fundraiser for Cancer Survivorship Programs.

This time of year, we like to think of The Outspoken Cyclist as a “winter survivorship program” for cooped-up cyclists. À votre santé!

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Welcome in the Year of the Dragon. Listen to this edition of  Arts on the Heights to hear all about local events celebrating the Chinese New Year

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Listen to this edition of Arts on the Heights to hear about the all new production of the 70′s classic Hair now showing at the Palace Theater.

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This edition of Making the Case features Diana Ratliff. Diana Ratliff is the President of Leadership Kentucky.

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In this week’s show Dan and Noelle continue the conversation on where jobs come from and how to increase the number of jobs. Click on the link below to hear the podcast. http://soundcloud.com/theciviccommons/show-44-mommy-where-do-jobs

Occasionally, all the factors come together to produce something that exceeds our wildest expectations. One of those occasions is today, and the factors are Diane, and our two guests. And the irony is, that while one of our guests does ride a bike, neither of them are what you’d think of when we say the word “cyclist”.

First we are happy to welcome Stephen Auerbach, the producer and director of the film Bicycle Dreams, which chronicles the solo competitors in the 2005 Race Across America (RAAM). Stephen talks about why he wanted to make a feature-length film about RAAM, the innovative way the film was shot, and how it’s taken on a life of its own with thousands of local screenings, including one on January 26th at the Big Dog Theater in Conventry.

In the second half of the hour, we head over to Boston, Massachusetts, and Dr. Anne Lusk, of the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Lusk has been researching the relationship between public health and transportation for over thirty years. She also worked on some of the first bicycle infrastructure in the U. S., and is a strong advocate for European-style cycle tracks as a solution for both health and transportation. Far from being a dry academic, Dr. Lusk is a bundle of both facts and energy, who walks to work instead of riding because she “knows too much science.”

So interesting, and packed with information, you might have to listen twice!

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Mock Caldecott Election, Preschool/Daycare Fair, Great Book Discussion Group

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Click the link below to hear this edition of Making the Case Featuring Regina Griffin Making the Case Featuring Regina Griffin This edition of Making the Case features Regina Griffin. Regina Griffin is the Executive Producer of BrownBabies: The Mischlingskinder Story. She is an Emmy award-winning news producer formerly of CBS News and is currently [...]

This week on the Civic Commons the gang discusses how jobs are created. They’ll also talk to someone who was hired from a newly created job. Click the link below to hear the story http://soundcloud.com/theciviccommons/show-43-mommy-where-do-jobs

Reading Comics, Library After school Fun, and The Step Out of Time Series.

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