The American National Guard’s 1140th Engineer Battalion in Cape Girardeau currently has 23 members in the Dominican Republic to provide hurricane relief for the Caribbean nation. The National Guard members are repairing and building roads, schools, health clinics, and other infrastructure. National Guard Lieutenant McClellan Gaono joins us to talk about the Guard’s project in the Dominican.

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Missouri Treasurer Clint Zweifel and the Missouri Bankers Association recently agreed to support legislation that would lift an interest rate cap on government deposits in community banks. The cap currently ties interest earned to that of six-month US Treasury securities, which recently was as low as 0.2%.

Zweifel and the Missouri Bankers Association also agreed to expand eligibility to the Missouri Linked Deposit Program, which will allow community banks to offer more low-interest loans to small businesses, farms, and alternative energy projects.

Mr. Zweifel talks to KRCU's Jacob McCleland to explain how the "Invest in Missouri" bill could inject a billion dollars into the Missouri economy without raising any taxes.

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Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: Millennium Approaches is the title of the next play that will be presented by the Department of Theatre & Dance at Southeast Missouri State University. The play won seven Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and many other awards and accolades in the early and mid 1990s.

Angels in America will be performed at 7:30 p.m. March 26-28 and April 1-4, and at 2 p.m. April 5 in the Wendy Kurka Rust Flexible Theatre at the River Campus in Cape Girardeau.

Andrew Kruep is a Belleville, Illinois native and Southeast senior who will graduate in May. He is also one of the actors in Angels in America. He dropped by the KRCU studio to fill us in on the show.

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