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Pandemic Baby Bust continues the downward trend of US population decline. In conversation with Professor Phillip Levine of Wellesley College
Season 8 Episode 13
US births in 2020 were actually down by 400,000 by year end 2020 due to the pandemic lockdowns. Professor Levine and his team have identified a corre…
4 years, 9 months ago
Los Angeles: A big,hot mess. Talking with Dan Walters, veteran California journalist.
Season 8 Episode 12
Los Angeles, the nation's second largest city has an unemployment rate of 11.7% versus 5.4% for San Francisco. Poverty and homelessness are on the ri…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Israel Hamas Conflict. A conversation with Professor Ron Hassner, UC Berkeley.
Season 8 Episode 11
The conflict between Israel and Hamas has entered an uneasy stand off with an Egyptian brokered cease fire. The US, EU and other countries have pledg…
4 years, 9 months ago
Reviving California's Gold Mines : An Interview with Ben Mossman, CEO of Rise Gold Corp.
Season 8 Episode 10
Rise Gold Corp is in the process of re-opening a historic underground gold mine, the Idaho-Maryland mine, first opened in 1863. At its' peak producti…
4 years, 9 months ago
5 Oregon counties vote to join Idaho. An interview with Mike McCarter, President of Move Oregon's Borders.
Season 8 Episode 9
5 rural Oregon counties voted by wide margins on Tuesday to begin the process to join Idaho. That brings the tally to 7 for the leavers, with more th…
4 years, 9 months ago
BBC Trending: Social Media watchdog. An interview with editor Mike Wendling
Season 8 Episode 8
Media literacy is so important today since millions of Americans get their news from Social Media which unlike legacy press and TV is neither edited …
4 years, 10 months ago
Canada's mysterious brain disease: In conversation with Professor Dr. Neil Cashman.
Season 8 Episode 7
An undiagnosed neurodegenerative brain disease has occurred in a cluster in New Brunswick on Canada's East Coast. 48 people in the City of Moncton an…
4 years, 10 months ago
California's vaccination rates and getting back to work: in conversation with Susie Neilson, Data Reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle.
Season 8 Episode 6
San Francisco has reached the 50% mark in terms of full Covid vaccinations, with 71% of the remaining unvaccinated population saying they plan to ge…
4 years, 10 months ago
How will Putin test Biden ? A conversation with Professor Andrei Tsygankov, Professor of International Relations and Political Science, San Francisco State University.
Season 8 Episode 5
There is a history of Russian leaders sizing up new American Presidents, starting with Krushchev and JFK, Gorbachev and Reagan and now Putin and Bide…
4 years, 10 months ago
Ranch to Table Meat Supply: Talking to Adam Parks of Victorian Farmstead Meat Company.
Season 8 Episode 4
Food Safety and Security soared in importance in the wake of Covid 19 meat packing plant infection rates and collapse of the supply chain. Ranch to t…
4 years, 10 months ago