Special Edition 12 NO DEAD AIR
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EP 484 Police Reform On the Horizon
https://www.policingproject.org/team/ Defund the police? Provide less immunity for their bad acts? Create a national standard for their training and ways to de-escalate a situation? Augment the term public safety to include social workers and mental health specialists? Depending upon who you talk to, all of these matters are part of the concept of ‘police reform’. …
EP 483 Going Back Down on the Farm With Dan Glickman
https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-3213-8.html Dan Glickman has had a very interesting life. Following his years as a Congressman from Kansas, he became Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Agriculture and later the president of the Motion Picture industry, replacing the legendary Jack Valenti. In his new book, “Laughing At Myself: My Education in Congress, On the Farm and the Movies’, …
EP 482 New Federal Tax Credit May Be a Game Changer in Reducing Child Poverty
https://veronicagoodman.com/ The enhanced Child Tax Credit(CTC) was signed into law by President Joe Biden as part of the American Rescue Plan. While temporary to start, if successful, it may well be remembered as the most important part of that legislation. Some social scientists are comparing its potential impacts for children and middle and lower income …
EP 481 Water: Too Many Straws and Not Enough Supply
https://robertglennon.net/books/ Our guest likes to use the straws metaphor to get across the point that all the users of the world’s most precious resource must accept that given population growth and climate change, one of the key solutions to a growing water crisis is to recognize that if your straw stays in the glass, some …
EP 480 Remote Work Enters the Business Lexicon to Stay
https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Distance-Practical-Lessons-Virtual/dp/1119782449 Your office for the duration of the pandemic was wherever you, your phone and computer were. And while some companies are calling everyone back into the office, many others have recognized the value and benefits of remote work. The work from home trend is now being factored into the culture of many companies as …
EP 479 Is There a Way Out of Our Toxic Polarization?
https://www.thewayoutofpolarization.com/ Our guest dedicates his book to ‘the 86 percent of Americans who are currently exhausted, miserable, and desperately seeking a way out of the culture of contempt’. I’d imagine many of you are among that legion, so why are we letting only 14 percent of our nation lead us into deadlock, dysfunction and national …
EP 478 Working Too Much Can Be a Matter of Life and Death
https://www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/daiga-kamerade If you google ‘work too much’ you will find lots of references to the ill effects of an unbalanced life when you spend too much time on the job. These effects include harmful medical, mental and social consequences. A new study discussed in this podcast attributes 745,000 thousand deaths worldwide in 2016 to the …
EP 477 America’s Response to Health Crises
https://www.amazon.com/Martin-Halliwell/e/B001HOF1XE%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Despite major advances in medical science and epidemiology over the last century, the United States has not significantly improved its ability to predict and handle public health emergencies. With our fractured system of local, state and federal responsibilities our historic approach to responding to health crises has been uneven. Its a continuing theme in …
EP 476 Who Is Canceling Who in Our Culture?
https://www.stevenmintzethics.com/about-steve You hear the terms ‘cancel culture’ and ‘wokeism’ bandied about these days as if people even understand what they mean. If we’re honest our political divide, now of legendary proportions, results in each side not listening to the other. Yet the terms cancel and woke, derisive in tone, have been appropriated by the right …