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The Local Show: October 18, 2012

This week: Terence O'Malley discusses his latest film, The Low Wage Trap, Steve Paul and Kansas City Noir and the KC Symphony Petting Zoo.

This week on The Local Show, Randy Mason sits down with local filmmaker Terence O’Malley to discuss his latest film Tom & Harry: The Boss and The President which examines the complicated relationship between Harry Truman and Tom Pendergast. We profile three local mothers who are caught in The Low Wage Trap which puts them at risk of losing childcare subsidies with even the slightest increase in pay at their jobs. Editor Steve Paul talks about the new book, Kansas City Noir, which features short stories set in the seedy underbelly of Kansas City from some of the area’s most talented writers. And we look at an outreach program of the Kansas City Symphony which gives grade school children an opportunity to get hands on with the tools of the trade for musicians.

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The Boss & The President: Terence O’Malley on Tom & Harry

Filmmaker Terence O'Malley discusses his latest film Tom & Harry: The Boss and The President.

A new film that documents the relationship between President Harry Truman and Kansas City political boss Tom Pendergast opens this weekend at the Glenwood Theater in Overland Park, Screenland-Crown Center, Screenland-Armour and the Pharaoh Theatre in Independence.

Tom and Harry: The Boss and the President is the third Kansas City centered documentary for attorney and filmmaker Terence O’Malley. He also directed Nelly Don: A Stitch in Time and Black Hand Strawman: The History of Organized Crime in Kansas City.

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Women’s Equality: The Low Wage Trap

We examine The Low Wage Trap issue through the experiences of three women who depend on child care subsidies which they risk losing if they make even one cent per hour more than they currently do.

How many of us would turn down a pay raise? I am sure most of us would say: Are you crazy?
Believe it or not, for thousands of low income parents in our bi-state area getting even 25 cents more an hour is a terrifying proposition because it means they will lose thousands of dollars a month in day care subsidies for their children. Producer Rich Miller headed over to our areas largest low income day care center, Operation Breakthrough, to talk with three mothers about this extraordinary issue of The Low Wage Trap where to better yourself would actually make you worse off.

In this past session of the Missouri legislature, Republican Senator Rob Schaaf introduced a bill called, “The Low Wage Trap Elimination Act” which would have prevented low income Missourians from losing their child care subsidies overnight should they begin making a little more money. It passed the legislature, but the funding required to implement the program has been withheld by the governor.

Children on playground at a daycare

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Dirty, Double-Crossin Rat: Kansas City Noir

Randy Mason sits down with Steve Paul to discuss the book Kansas City Noir, a collection of stories from some of the region's most talented writers.

Picture steam rising from a sewer grate on a rain-slicked street. The sound of footsteps come closer and closer behind you as you walk down a dark, downtown Kansas City alley. If this scenario entices you, then you just might enjoy Kansas City Noir, a new anthology of short stories that takes readers on a journey through Kansas City’s seedy underbelly. The book’s editor is Steve Paul from the Kansas City Star who writes in the introduction that this is a city that’s home to its share of serial killers and moral turpitude. He sat down with Randy Mason to share that gritty side of our town.

Display of the book Kansas City Noir

The book includes short stories from some of the region’s best authors including J. Malcolm Garcia, Grace Suh, Daniel Woodrell, Kevin Prufer, Matthew Eck, Philip Stephens, Catherine Browder, John Lutz, Nancy Pickard, Linda Rodriguez, Andrés Rodríguez, Mitch Brian, Nadia Pflaum, and Phong Nguyen.

Steve Paul and contributors Catherine Browder, Nancy Pickard, and Linda Rodriguez will be presenting readings from the book on Saturday, November 3 at 11 a.m. at Mysteryscape which is located at 7309 W. 80th St. in Overland Park.

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