The regional public radio station gives me four minutes of air time every seven weeks to talk about quality of life here in the area. A few years ago I wrote about Indiana's Do Not Call law, which for a time was among the strictest in the country. The law made for a huge reduction in the number of unsolicited sales phone calls most of us received at our homes.

But now the calls are coming back--more often, and more companies, though some of them may be the same companies using the same methods in difference industries. Credit cards and home security systems have been most common.

I managed once, a few years ago, to record one of the calls in which the person I was speaking to said that it was not against the law to call because he was representing the federal government. It was a gutsy, I-don't-give-a-damn performance on his part. I wrote the Indiana attorney general's office to let them know that I had this recording, but got no answer.

So I told the whole story on the public radio, and I sent that along to the attorney general, and now that they saw I was actually reaching a wide audience they answered me. So it goes.

Now there is a different attorney general and I've written to ask for an update on the issue. I told them I might be getting some coverage in the media up front this time, so we'll see if they reply. I'll report back later. Until then, would you like a free home security system? Cause I know a company that will be in your area later this week installing these fine systems for people just like you.

Want to read more? Here's the first of my radio pieces, in which all my elected officials in Washington blew me off until they knew I had access to public radio. And here, in the second of the radio pieces, at 3:30 in the audio, the lying son of a gun credit card salesman tells me over the phone that he works for the federal government. And the office of the attorney general is too busy to reply to my query until they hear that I have media access.