Nicole Sandler’s daily fix of the latest news and fascinating guests with a healthy dose of snark and humor.
Today is a federal holiday. It’s Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the day the last still-enslaved African Americans were made aware they had been emancipated. Freedom Day is how some refer to this day. And though that’s a nice sentiment, it’s still aspirational. Like many others I’m sure, I thought we had come further than…
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The question is, legal or black market? The legal stuff is certainly welcome. But, they make it so difficult and so expensive! Today’s guests, Robin Goldstein and Daniel Summer, professors of economics and agriculture respectively, examine the blunt realities of Cannabis Economics, and it seems that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Their…
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Today is Day 3 of this round of hearings conducted by the House Select Committee investigating the events surrounding the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol. The focus today is on VP Mike Pence, and Trump’s efforts to pressure him into using powers he never had to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Howie Klein will…
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Today’s scheduled third day of hearings from the House Select Committee investigating the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol was postponed, giving us a bit of a breather. But not really, when you consider all that’s happened today. The Supreme Court handed down decisions in six more of their still undecided cases for this term,…
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Laffy’s been away for a few weeks, actually preparing to go away for a few more weeks! But she’s here today, and we have a lot too catch up on, like the 1/6 hearings, the bipartisan gun deal framework, and everything else that’s been going on since we last spoke. Buckle in…
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