6pm Hour – mink farms

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Posted Apr 30, 2012 01:56:21 PM.

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Nahleen Ashton joins us to talk about a mink farm protest. Cecil our sometrimes rowdy sports fan is by. Peter Twohig is by with his weekly Weird Shit in Historic Newspapers. and Port Hawksbury Mayor Billy Joe McLean talks about NewPage.

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