Segment 1: Problems in Clay County government prompted request.
More than 9,000 Clay County residents are asking Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway to take a hard look on their county's government. This week the county administrator resigned, last year two other county officials were charged with tampering with public records, and there have been a number of questionable purchases made with tax payer dollars. Today we looked at how county government became so bad that residents went to the state for answers.
- Jerry Nolte, Clay County commissioner
- Sherry Duffett, leader of Citizens For A Better Clay County
- Megan Dillard, Fox 4 News reporter
Segment 2, starting at 28:00: "The love-hate relationship between American and British English."
At some point, the American linguistics of English split away from Great Britain's. A new book takes a look at social, political and linguistic forces that caused Americans and Brits to use different variations of the same tongue. Today, we talked with author Lynne Murphy who explained the superiority complex both countries have on their approach to the English language.
- Lynne Murphy, University of Sussex linguistics professor and author of The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
