Episodes

  • Solving Homelessness

    Solving Homelessness
    Jan 23 2025
    I get the question every day - Why can’t we solve this? Roseanne Haggerty is solving it. First she bought a hotel in New York and housed people. Then she won a MacArthur “genius’’ fellowship. Now she advises cities all over the country how to solve it. Turns out it’s not that complicated. It takes what tough problems have always required: political courage, collecting data about those in need and a healthy dose of caring about people.
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    45 mins
  • The Pentagon Gets Real about Renewable Energy and Climate

    The Pentagon Gets Real about Renewable Energy and Climate
    Jan 16 2025
    When Sherri Goodman arrived at the Pentagon in 1993 for her job as a deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security, the Defense Department was one of the biggest polluters on the planet. The legacy of our nuclear weapons program along with pollution from military bases all over the country. Her job? Clean up the mess. And as things went on, start factoring energy and climate change into how the military operates. How did it go? And what happens now that the Trump people have taken over?
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    36 mins
  • Bird Flu is here and it’s in the Milk

    Bird Flu is here and it’s in the Milk
    Jan 9 2025
    The flu is in 16 states and more than 900 dairy herds. That means the milk is threatened. Can it jump to humans? Yes. Will it jump to humans in a big way. I ask NY Times science reporter Apoorva Mandivilli all the questions and she gives the answers. It’s not COVID, she says. Yet.
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    28 mins
  • Trump Won’t be THAT Bad

    Trump Won’t be THAT Bad
    Dec 12 2024
    Will Trump follow through on his draconian threats to deport millions, go after his enemies and jack up the price of everything? Every liberal Democrat I find say yes. But I found a journalist who doesn’t think so. Michael Powell of The Atlantic says the worst won’t happen. And he has a lot of experience watching politicians who promise bug and can’t deliver. He write sports for the New York Times, been on Pulitzer-winning teams. Most of all - he is from New York and watched all kinds of pols up very close. He has been there. So Trump is nothing new to him.
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    42 mins
  • Family Meeting

    Family Meeting
    Nov 19 2024
    Wherein some of the Ellis family gathers to assess, analyze and argue about the election. How was it lost? How was it won? No holds barred. It’s all men because the women in our lives have serious work to do and refused to be compromised by contact with the men. But there are nuggets. Harris played not to lose. (ME) And so much more.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • BERNIE SANDERS: Why Kamala Harris, Re-election, Vermont Initiatives

    BERNIE SANDERS: Why Kamala Harris, Re-election, Vermont Initiatives
    Nov 4 2024
    The Democratic Party sabotaged his bid for president. He is running for a fourth term. He is the most famous name in politics until Trump came along and changed everything. Bernie Sanders on why Harris needs to win and how the Democrats lost the working class.
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    17 mins
  • The Vermont Attorney General and the Most Dangerous Man in America

    The Vermont Attorney General and the Most Dangerous Man in America
    Oct 23 2024
    Charity Clark is the chief law enforcement officer for the state of Vermont and she is suing Meta and Mark Zuckerberg to top them from addicting young people to bad stuff on Instagram, stealing their privacy and identity, selling it to advertisers and lying about what they do.
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    50 mins
  • David Maraniss and the Legacy of Vietnam

    David Maraniss and the Legacy of Vietnam
    Sep 30 2024
    A conversation with the Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of Clinton, Obama, Lombardi and Jim Thorpe. His book on Vietnam - They Marched Toward Sunlight - weaves together the events of 1967 in his home town of Madison, WI, the Oval Office and the dreaded battlefields of Vietnam. Maraniss keynotes the Leahy Public Policy Forum at the University of Vermont on Oct. 1 looking back at Vietnam 50 years later.
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    38 mins