EP 572 The Guru of Better Living In Our Later Passage With New Information and Motivation

EP 572 The Guru of Better Living In Our Later Passage With New Information and Motivation

Ken Dychtwald, the founder of Age Wave, is a force of nature who through his writings and talks has changed America’s way of looking at aging.  In this podcast, he employs his remarkable communication skills to frame the issues of aging in a new light and delivers results from a new study regarding changing retirement …

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EP 571 Is Proportional Representation The Answer to Our Gridlock?

EP 571 Is Proportional Representation The Answer to Our Gridlock?

In the United States we are used to single-member districts for our House of Representatives. These are winner take all style elections. This approach seems so natural to us. You lose by one vote and you’re gone. A proportional representative approach, which is practiced in most democracies, involves larger multi-member districts and a division of …

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EP 570 The Art of Being Heard in a Noisy World

EP 570 The Art of Being Heard in a Noisy World

The field of public relations has been most simply described as ‘doing good and communicating it’. Even in days when newspapers, television and radio were the prime sources of information, a skilled public relations practitioner would have to work hard for placement, by having a great understanding as to what the media outlet was looking …

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EP 569 The Future Is In the Cloud

EP 569 The Future Is In the Cloud

In these complicated economic times it’s easy to miss the forest amidst the trees. Just as basic telephony gave way to smart telephony, which now resides in all of our pockets and has revolutionized the way we communicate and do e-commerce, our guest, Mark Mills, author of ‘The Cloud Revolution’ directs our thinking to the …

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EP 568 Welcome Back, Baby, to the Poor Side of Town

EP 568 Welcome Back, Baby, to the Poor Side of Town

Our guest, Howard Husock, author of ‘The Poor Side of Town and Why We Need It’, has a warm spot for what he considers ‘naturally occurring affordable housing’, the kind that used to be available to those who were finding their way in this country as they went from an apartment to a starter home …

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EP 567 How Can We Whip Inflation Now?

EP 567 How Can We Whip Inflation Now?

It’s likely that when you see double digit increases in the price of food, energy and other essentials, you are in a state of inflation.  As anyone who uses our currency, in whatever fashion knows, that’s the place we find ourselves today.  It’s having a major impact on household budgets and causing reactions in markets …

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EP 566 Diverse Democracies Can Easily Come Apart. Can We Keep This One Together?

EP 566 Diverse Democracies Can Easily Come Apart. Can We Keep This One Together?

  President Biden has been stressing the fragility of democracy in the context of a growing authoritarian strain around the globe. Poster child for this is the most irascible person on the international stage, Russian thug Vladimir Putin. And then there are authoritarian populists in our own midst, like Donald Trump, making the cause of …

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EP 565 Commercial Fishing Arrives in the 21st Century

EP 565 Commercial Fishing Arrives in the 21st Century

  Remember Steinbeck’s “The Old Man and the Sea”?  It is a striking image of a curmudgeonly type of grisled character trolling the waters aimlessly.  As it relates to modern day commercial fishing in America, particularly New England, nothing could be further from the truth.  New 21st century approaches to fishing are addressing the negative …

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EP 564 Is America Falling Behind China?

EP 564 Is America Falling Behind China?

It is very hard to typify what America’s relationship is with China.  We are economically co-dependent and yet we’re competitors.  Some say we’re frenemies in the world; yet others say be realistic and recognize that they are adversaries, growing into potential enemies, based upon their growing defense posture and designs on Taiwan.  And when we …

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EP 563 A Summer Going Down the QAnon and White Supremacist Rabbit Hole

EP 563 A Summer Going Down the QAnon and White Supremacist Rabbit Hole

The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism(ICSVE) has spent a lot of time monitoring and reporting on the actions and motivation of threats from extremists abroad.  Circumstances on the ground in America have forced the Center to focus new attention on the activities of  home grown extremists in our midst.  What might have …

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