it around mid-michigan within range of my radio.

Many more liberal stations now stream live on line. I don't listen to a regular radio anymore. Some apps also pick them up. A favorite is WCPT 820 in Chicago, but there are lots more available. Good luck in your search for civility.

it's sad because I would so love to hear not a rightwing hack station OR a "liberal" station - just programming that rationally discusses events and issues affecting my life, my state, my country - but it seems to be long gone

Can't pick it up in the house, just the car, but that lets me listen to Stephanie Miller or Ed Schultz on the way to and from the grocery store.

Is pretty good, where you can get it. We had a progressive AM station for a while but the shows they had weren't all that great and the statikn owner changed formats.

Can sometimes pick up stations many hundreds of miles away, unfortunately its mostly some rightie like Jerry Doyle whining about everything. some times the Coast to Coast can be interesting but more often than not its becoming a platform for the conspiracy theorist crowd.

far-right weirdness coming in from far away in the middle of the night. It's like a view into the Twilight Zone. Like the night a male minister advised some properly humble and submissive women, who understood that they couldn't be trusted with credit but were being wistfully tempted by those deals offered at checkout, to fill out the paperwork, get the deal, then cut up that dangerous card as soon as it arrived. To my mind highly dishonorable, but when it's a corporation in league with Satan to seduce the morally frail sex with credit, apparently all's fair.

Or the mysterious figure who met secretly with CIA agents on the upper slopes of Mt. Ararat (a place special to wingnut Christian conspiracists) in the middle of the night, where they revealed to him that not only was global warming not real, but the planet was actually cooling.

And on and on. It's been while, and I'd schedule another long drive for the night just to pick up the latest iteration of this stuff. I could always just drop by a busy wingnut website, of course, but those all alone in the night with them experiences are somehow special.

More tune into conservative shows, apparently.

How people could listen to them.

Is it because they don't think for themselves or because the "I hate liberals" routines is so attractive? I guess everyone has to hate someone. Why not hate the group that is trying to keep this planet liveable?

Reference to Howie Carr, a Boston area right-wing turd. All his callers either on the verge of a coronary or they are simply the biggest sarcastic assholes of all time.

That' subscribe to Mike Malloy's podcasts and listen in the car. He's a bit over the top but the only opposing entertainer from the left to counter someone like mush limpball which oozes out of all these radio stations like phlegm from a flu.

My only beef is setting it up to eliminate static from the radio. I have a 16 year old car with no bluetooth.

BSers listen to. Just looked - Progressive Talk Radio. Thom Hartmann's a favorite. I agree with lot but really don't care to become a dittohead for solely left-wing points of view either. I like "fair and balanced" -- the real thing.

NPR is what I usually listen to. It's liable to give me a segment on the bull moose of northern Maine when I'm craving a public issues feed, and Charles Koch as an honored contributor makes me very unhappy, but it is nevertheless currently easily the closest to the real thing available to me on radio.