Lou Gum
News and Operations DirectorLou grew up in Tucson and has a long family history in the state of Arizona. He began his public radio career in 1988 at KNAU in Flagstaff as a classical music DJ and has been hooked on public radio since, transitioning to news after trying his hand at several other careers in publishing and commercial broadcasting. Lou has a degree in American Studies from Arizona State University and was KAWC's Morning Edition host for two and half years before becoming News and Operations Director.
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Democrat and first-time candidate Quacy Smith sets his sights on a big task in CD-9, defeating a popular but controversial Republican incumbent who has held the seat since 2011.
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Arizona Edition Friday is KAWC's weekly look at topics and people shaping the community, with insightful conversations and in depth reporting from the field.
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Today we sit down with San Luis Police and Fire Chiefs to hear about some of the challenges and successes in their departments as they serve a community that is growing faster than 92 percent of similar U.S. cities over the last quarter century.
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The stop gap for migrant releases in Yuma County is the Regional Center for Border Health in Somerton, AZ. A look inside the agency's processing facility.
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In the 1930s Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter wanted to gather and catalogue plants in the Grand Canyon, and while the details of their journey are amazing – how they became scientists, faced sexism and danger, and changed the field of botany is equally as engaging.
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Arizona Edition Friday is KAWC's weekly look at topics and people shaping the community, with insightful conversations and in depth reporting from the field.
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Julie Murphree of the Arizona Fram Bureau shares her insight on the latest Farms Census from the Department of Agriculture.
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Arizona Edition Friday is KAWC's weekly look at topics and people shaping the community, with insightful conversations and in depth reporting from the field.
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Lysistrata by Ellen McLaughlin is a modern retelling of the classic Greek comedy by Aristophanes.
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Buffelgrass is changing rocky terrain into grassland, providing a path for fire between decades old saguaro cactus that did not exist before.