LOUIE TODAY: Mad Cowboy, 9/11, going green

With Earth Day around the corner, Mahoning County Commissioner Anthony Traficanti and the Green Team's Jim Petuch join Louie in his street-front studio in the heart of the city to talk recycling, reusing, renewing and possibly guitar licks and Traficanti's favorite: AC/DC !

The Mad Cowboy, Howard Lyman returns to the Valley this weekend and makes his first stop the Louie b. Free show.

A successful Montana cattle rancher for nearly four decades, Lyman sold his farm in 1983 and became a professional lobbyist for the Montana Farmers Union and the National Farmers Union, promoting the passage of the National Organic Standards Act. He went on to become one of the most prominent activists in the animal rights and environmental movements.

He has served as president of Earthsave, executive director of Jeremy Rifkin’s Beyond Beef Campaign, president of the International Vegetarian Union, and program director for the Humane Society of the United States. Lyman is best known for a 1996 appearance on “Oprah,” After a resulting lawsuit (filed by a group of Texas cattle ranchers) was decided in Lyman’s favor, he emerged as one of the anti-meat movement’s most visible and well-connected standard-bearers.

Also, Philip Shenon, investigative reporter for The New York Times, where he has worked since 1981. He was the lead reporter on the investigation of the Sept. 11 commission and has held several of the most important assignments in the Times' Washington Bureau, including chief Defense Department correspondent, diplomatic correspondent, Congressional correspondent and Justice Department correspondent. He was one of two Times reporters embedded with American ground troops during the invasion of Iraq and worked in pre-war Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iran for Times foreign staff.

He'll discuss the uncensored history of the 9/11 Investigation.

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