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On Monday, October 29, the League of Women Voters and Chamber of Commerce are hosting a forum for the upcoming November elections, and 88.5 KURE will be there. All five candidates for City Council and the four Hospital Trustee Candidates will be there to field questions from a panel of city and student representatives. Dianne Bystrom, director of the Catt Center, will moderate the event, to be held at Ames City Hall beginning at 7:00 pm. If you can not make it there, you can hear it live on 88.5 KURE, watch it live on cable on Government Access Channel 12 or check back to this web page later for an mp3 download of the event.

The candidates participating in the forum are:

Additionally, a number of the candidates for the City Hospital Board of Trustees will be presented at the beginning of the event. For more information about the candidates or the upcoming election, please visit the election homepage prepared by the county auditor's office.

Questions for the candidates will come from GSB Director of Government Relations Daniel Fischer, Chamber of Commerce representative Jim Lohr, a representative of the League of Women Voters and from community members like you. In fact, we would like to take your questions--please email them to producer Robert McMahon and he will see that they are included in the forum.

We hope you will join us there!

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  2. Caribou - Andorra
  3. Stars - In Our Bedroom After the War
  4. Poison Control Center - A Collage of Impressions
  5. Earlimart - Mentor Tormentor
  6. Radio Moscow - Radio Moscow
  7. Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
  8. M.I.A. - Kala
  9. Akron/Family - Love is Simple
  10. Liars - Liars

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Band of Horses is what The Shins would have been if they listened to more contemporary art rock groups like The Flaming Lips rather than The Beach Boys or Big Star. Their second album, "Cease to Begin," starts off on a slow yet steady canter and builds to its apex roughly halfway through with the drums driven "The General Specific" and then explodes again with "Islands on the Coast." It's surprisingly crafted for being released so soon after 2006's critically acclaimed "Everything All the Time."