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The Morning Cram [got milk edition]

From NPR: Farmers are peering over a dairy cliff as they wait for Congress to pass the new farm bill. With this summer’s drought their feed is more valuable than the milk the cows produce after eating it.Kentucky: Crews will be fixing a light outage on the Lake Barkley bridge, so expect some possible delays.

Tennessee:  Gov. Bill Haslam says excluding college campuses from a bill that would allow workers to keep firearms in their parked cars is key.

Illinois: Lawmakers in the state have put a proposal on the table to fix the Illinois’ multi-billion dollar pension crisis. Cell phone scams that add charges to customers’ bills have doubled in Illinois just this year.

Whitney grew up listening to Car Talk to and from her family’s beach vacation each year, but it wasn’t until a friend introduced her to This American Life that radio really grabbed her attention. She is a recent graduate from Union University in Jackson, Tenn., where she studied journalism. When she’s not at WKMS, you can find her working on her backyard compost pile and garden, getting lost on her bicycle or crocheting one massive blanket.
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