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Authors Fiscal Policy Politics

Jazz Shaw

Hot Air weekend editor Jazz Shaw and I talk about a few of his columns, including New York State’s plan to dramatically increase taxes on the wealthy and what the impact will be and the pending report to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee from the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or UFOs). We also discussed Jazz’s participation in The Big Phone Home and the effort to insure that the report is made public.

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Advocacy Authors Healthcare Homelessness Politics

Dr. Wayne Winegarden

Dr. Wayne Winegarden, Ph.D. is a Sr. Fellow in Business & Economics at the Pacific Research Institute, as well as the Director of PRI’s Center for Medical Economics and Innovation. He joins me to discuss the recent column that he co-authored “We Need Greater Transparency to Improve teh U.S. Healthcare System“.

Dr. Winegarden is also a co-author of “No Way Home: The Crisis of Homelessness and How to Fix It with Intelligence and Humanity“.

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Advocacy Authors Crime

Nikki Goeser of the Crime Prevention Research Center – 4/5/21

Nikki Goeser is the Executive Director of the Crime Prevention Research Center and also the author of “Stalked and Defenseless: How Gun Control Helped My Stalker Murder My Husband in Front of of Me.” She joins me today to discuss her recent Town Hall opinion piece “Unintended Consequences of More Gun Control.”

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Fiscal Policy Monologue Politics

Monologue – 4/5/21

Connecticut is constantly referred to as the richest state in the country, and many state politicians repeatedly use that to justify more taxes and more spending. But we are on track to quickly lose that status. What happens then?

Read more about this from Marc Fitch of the Yankee Institute here.

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Crime Politics

State Senator Kevin Kelly 4/5/21

Connecticut State Senator Kevin Kelly and I discuss the problem on juvenile crime in Connecticut and some potential solutions that are being debated in Hartford.

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Advocacy

Randy Landreneau

Randy is the president of US Inventor, an investors’ rights advocacy group, to discuss how US patent laws are being destroyed by Big Tech and other large corporations and the economic damage that is being caused by this abuse of the patent system.

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Fiscal Policy Politics

Marc Fitch 4/2/21

Marc Fitch, investigative journalist for the Yankee Institute, joins me again to discuss the TCI proposal that was recently passed out of the Environment Committee and the potential impact on gas prices in Connecticut. We also talk about how the state is still paying for former Gov. Dan Malloy’s First Five folly.

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Education

Thomas Van Stone Sr.

Waterbury Board of Ed Commissioner Thomas Van Stone Sr. joins me today to discuss the challenges being face by Waterbury students and schools as the pandemic restrictions loosen.

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Monologue

Monologue 4/1/21

I discuss the refusal of the CT State Employee Bargaining Agent Coalition to cooperate in finding ways to reduce the size and cost of the state government in the face of potentially 5,000 to 6,000 retirements over the next year.

I also respond to NBC News anchor Lester Holt’s declaration that “Fairness is overrated.”

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Politics

John Lott

Today, I speak with John Lott, the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center regarding voter fraud and the efforts by Democrats to codify the many changes made in the 2020 election into national law.