{"podcast":{"title":"Here First","slug":"here-first-3071566","podcast_index_feed_id":3071566,"rss_url":"https://www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/here-first/rss.xml","website_url":"https://www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/here-first","image_url":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/eeb06b2/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x3000+0+0/resize/2000x2000!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1d%2F39%2Fb494a2cb4fdfa233f293c37138fb%2Fhere-first-podcast.png","author":"Iowa Public Radio (digitalservices@iowapublicradio.org)","episode_count":200,"summary":"Start your day with the essentials. Coffee. Breakfast. And the local news you need to know. Host Meghan McKinney rises bright and early to bring you the top news stories from around Iowa in under 10 minutes. Wake up, grab that coffee and get your news Here First. You can support what you hear on this podcast at ipr.org/donate.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-22T12:17:40.664522+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/here-first-3071566"},"episode":{"title":"Wednesday, September 9th, 2026","slug":"wednesday-september-9th-2026","published_at":"2026-09-09T11:15:22+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/here-first-3071566/wednesday-september-9th-2026","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/here-first-3071566","url":"https://www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/here-first/2026-09-09/wednesday-september-9th-2026","audio_url":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/4c9587f2-e550-4709-b293-ad0300ce922d/6e089abc-d3c0-4a25-9f08-ad1e013536e3/7267a1cb-b402-4d20-9b1c-b4c000b8b1ee/audio.mp3","summary":"University of Iowa marching band member Derek Phillips has died after collapsing from the heat in Iowa City Saturday. Waterloo passed a temporary ban on new data centers at its council meeting Tuesday, and the U.S. Department of Energy will loan NextEra up to $1.9 billion to restart the Duane Arnold nuclear plant near Cedar Rapids. American farmers will likely feel the squeeze of higher tariffs exchanged with Canada, impacting products including dairy and ag equipment.","meta_description":"University of Iowa marching band member Derek Phillips has died after collapsing from the heat in Iowa City Saturday. Waterloo passed a temporary ban on n…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":251,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/here-first-3071566/episodes/wednesday-september-9th-2026/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/here-first-3071566/wednesday-september-9th-2026.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}