Segment 1: Is the U.S. "locked in" to a two-party system?
Independent candidate Greg Orman recieved 6.5 percent of the vote in the Kansas gubernatorial election this year, and independents don't fair much better nationally. So is there still hope that a third party candidate can eke out a win? Today we discuss how our two-party system differs from other democracies, and what it could take in our current climate for a third party to find success.
- Scott Morgan, Kansas Party of the Center leader
- Debra Leiter, UMKC political science professor
Segment 2, beginning at 25:08: Meet the 93-year-old who has been painting Kansas City for decades.
Wilbur Niewald is a Kansas City art-world legend. He's been picking up his easel and paintbrush to head to Loose Park for longer than many of us have been alive. With exhibits at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art this year alone, he hasn't let age get in the way of doing what he loves.
- Wilbur Niewald, painter and professor emeritus of painting at the Kansas City Art Institute
