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John's guest this week is Brooke Totzke, the business manager for Totzke Farms. They talk about her family's history, in farming in Berrien County, which is now approaching the fourth generation. They talk over current issues in farming, always a tough business, but morphing with such trends as "local foods", genetic modification of animals and plants.

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Flick Pick is a podcast about movies. In today's episode, Andrew Green reviews If Beale Street Could Talk, one of our awards contenders this year. Sadly, this film was snubbed for a Best Picture nomination, but it's gotten a handful of others. Set in the 1970s, the film tells the story of a young woman in Harlem who deals with a pregnancy while trying to free her boyfriend from prison.

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The wife of murdered Army Sergeant Tyrone Hassel the Third is due back in court in Berrien County next week.

The city of Benton Harbor is working with Berrien County and the state of Michigan to address elevated lead levels found in some homes around the community last year.

Help could be on the way for unpaid federal workers thanks to two members of Congress from Michigan.

Paw Paw River County Park in Watervliet could be getting a substantial expansion.

The Michigan Farm Bureau says when the federal government shutdown ends, Congress and the White House need to reform immigration law and immigrants, whatever their status, should be allowed to work here.

It looks like the year is getting off to a good start when it comes to car and truck sales.

Lawmakers taking another stab at bringing the governor and legislature under the state's 40-year-old freedom of information act.

It's day 35 of the government shutdown and affected federal workers are missing their second paycheck.

There's still no indication why a young man walked into a Florida, bank and killed five women this week.

A surprise new album from Weezer - the band covering a bunch of hit songs from Michael Jackson to TLC.

Flick Pick is a podcast about movies. In today's episode, Andrew Green and Jacob Holmes discuss the new movies opening this week. They include The Kid Who Would Be King, which is about a bunch of kids who go on some kind of medieval quest. While we hear it's good, it can't possibly top Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The other new release is Serenity, a murder story with Matthew Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway.

Andrew and Jacob will also discuss the latest movies they saw. For Andrew, it's If Beale Street Could Talk, while Jacob saw the new Dragon Ball movie and Glass.

Finally, our fellows in the dark will give their thoughts on the Oscar nominations which were announced this week.

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