Now Playing

Loading streams...

Podcasts & RSS Feeds

Morning EditionRSS
All ContentRSS
View all podcasts & RSS feeds

WKU Public Radio News Staff

Kevin Willis
Kevin Willis
News Director
Lisa Autry
Lisa Autry
Reporter/Producer
Joe Corcoran
Joe Corcoran
Morning Edition host; Reporter/Producer
Kenny Colston
Kenny Colston
Kentucky Public Radio Frankfort Reporter

Morning Edition

Weekdays from 4am to 9am C.T.

The nation's most popular morning news program, Morning Edition brings you wide-ranging news, features and interviews from NPR and the WKU Public Radio news team. Start your day with the latest national, international, and regional news each weekday morning, with local host Joe Corcoran.

Produced and distributed by NPR in Washington, D.C., Morning Edition draws on reporting from correspondents based around the world, and producers and reporters in locations in the United States. This reporting is supplemented by NPR Member station reporters across the country as well as independent producers and reporters throughout the public radio system.

Visit the show's website.

Genre: 
News/Talk
Composer ID: 
5187f4a7e1c8490660751cfc|5187f4a2e1c8490660751cf7

Pages

Business
3:45 am
Thu April 26, 2012

Ethanol Industry Is Bigger Than Ever

Next imagePrevious image
Credit Glen Stubbe / MCT/Landov
Young corn plants grow next to the Guardian Energy ethanol plant in Janesville, Minn. Five years ago, the U.S. government projected that in 2012, ethanol production would use up 30 percent of the nation's corn supply. Last year, it used 40 percent.
Credit Mark Wilson / Getty Images
A 45-cent-per-gallon government subsidy for ethanol producers ended earlier this year, but there's still a mandate that forces refineries to blend ethanol with gasoline. Before the mandate, refineries used about half as much ethanol as they do today.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By

Originally published on Thu April 26, 2012 12:28 pm

Five years ago, ethanol was seen as the next big thing to wean the U.S. off foreign oil. Then some studies on the corn-based fuel cast doubt on its environmental benefits, and auto companies turned their attention to hybrids and electric cars. The hype died off, but the ethanol industry is alive and well, driving a big change in America's corn consumption.

Rising up out of the corn fields outside Lake Odessa, Mich., is the ethanol refinery for Carbon Green Bioenergy. The company's CEO, Mitch Miller, says a lot of refineries were popping up when this one was built in 2006.

Read more
Business
3:45 am
Thu April 26, 2012

The Last Word In Business

Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Originally published on Thu April 26, 2012 8:21 am

Transcript

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Let's stay in Europe for our last word in business - about an ad that allegedly pushes Nationalist buttons.

RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

The story starts with the Netherlands Energy Company. As a promotion, the energy company is offering free beer taps.

INSKEEP: We do not know how a free beer tap promotes using energy, but never mind. The company bought ads. The ads contain a warning for Netherlands women: Prevent your husbands from traveling to Ukraine to see this summer's European soccer championship. They thought...

Read more
Law
3:25 am
Thu April 26, 2012

Hague To Issue Verdict Against Charles Taylor

Share
E-mail
Comments
By

Originally published on Thu April 26, 2012 8:21 am

A special tribunal in The Hague has found former Liberian President Charles Taylor guilty of aiding war crimes. Taylor armed fighters in neighboring Sierra Leone in return for "blood diamonds."

Asia
3:25 am
Thu April 26, 2012

U.S. Considers Ways To Keep Drones In Pakistan

Share
E-mail
Comments
By

Originally published on Thu April 26, 2012 8:21 am

Transcript

RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

It's MORNING EDITION, from NPR News. Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

And I'm Steve Inskeep.

Let's follow up on the controversy over the American use of drones in Pakistan. Over the past few years, no issue has done quite as much to inflame public sentiment and stir anti-American feelings in Pakistan as drone strikes.

Read more
NPR Story
3:19 am
Thu April 26, 2012

Pakistani Group Tries To Keep Sons From Being Radicalized

Share
E-mail
Comments
By editor

Originally published on Thu April 26, 2012 11:32 am

Transcript

RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST:

As we just heard from Jackie, most drone strikes are in areas along the border with Afghanistan, places overrun in recent years by the Pakistani Taliban and other radical groups. And our next guest is using a form of soft power to fight terrorism there: mothers. Mossarat Qadeem is deploying mothers to pull their sons back from militancy.

Read more

Pages