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Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
The new year has begun the way 2016 ended—fraught with unsettling challenges. Typical year-to-year political carryover is scary enough. But 2017 is no typical year; it marks the beginning of a new era in U.S. politics, a seismic shift not only in the meaning of politics and how it gets done, but also in how we deal with it.
On Jan. 10, when President Barack Obama gives his farewell speech in his hometown of Chicago, he’ll recite for the record a litany of breakthroughs, progress and accomplishments the nation experienced under his two terms in office. On Jan. 20, when President Donald J. Trump takes the helm, he’ll give a snapshot, in his inaugural address, of the sweeping changes his fear-inducing administration will make.
The changes they have made or will make notwithstanding, the question, says Leid Stories, is: What changes have we made?
Monday Jan 02, 2017
Monday Jan 02, 2017
Leid Stories listeners close out the year with wide-ranging discussions on the issues and events they believe were most significant or had the greatest impact this year. It’s our last “Free Your Mind Friday” for 2016. Call 888-874-4888 and help us adjust our rear-view mirrors.
Thursday Dec 29, 2016
Thursday Dec 29, 2016
Leid Stories listeners discuss the issues and events they believe were most significant or had the greatest impact in 2016.
Wednesday Dec 28, 2016
Wednesday Dec 28, 2016
Leid Stories listeners discuss the issues and events they believe were most significant or had the greatest impact in 2016.
Tuesday Dec 27, 2016
Tuesday Dec 27, 2016
Leid Stories listeners discuss the issues and events they believe were most significant or had the greatest impact in 2016.
Monday Dec 26, 2016
Monday Dec 26, 2016
No bows, no tinsel, no fancy wrapping. Just the plain, unvarnished truth.
You’re cordially invited to our weekly celebration of information, opinions and ideas. It’s “Free Your Mind Friday” on Leid Stories, and joy in our world is having our say about things that matter.
Call in (888-874-4888) and join the festivities!
Thursday Dec 22, 2016
Thursday Dec 22, 2016
Mayor Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans proudly announced Monday that the city had closed a “dark” chapter in its history that was written more than a decade ago. The city has worked out settlements, totaling $13.3 million, in three especially egregious police killings as well as with plaintiffs in other serious cases involving police brutality and lethal use of force. Most of the cases occurred during the time of Hurricane Katrina, in 2005.
With some family members at his side, Landrieu assured the public that the settlements were a sign of governmental transparency, accountability and a resolve to turn the city’s notoriously brutal and corrupt police department around. But the mayor’s news conference gave several clues about the price New Orleanians should expect to pay, says Leid Stories.
Listeners decipher the hidden messages in Landrieu’s message.
Wednesday Dec 21, 2016
Wednesday Dec 21, 2016
On the heels of a stunning defeat in the 2016 presidential election by Donald J. Trump, Hillary Clinton finds herself gearing up again for a major legal battle she can ill-afford to lose. Many Republicans in Congress are pushing to revive an investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server and her handling of classified information while she was secretary of state. Clinton also is at the center of an expansive probe of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation focusing on whether it was a slush fund operating as a global charity.
Charles Ortel, a former Wall Street banker who uncovered massive stock fraud within the financial world just prior the 2007-2008 financial meltdown, since May has been detailing highly irregular activities and practices of the Clinton foundation—which, he says, amount to “the largest unprosecuted fraud in history.”
Tuesday Dec 20, 2016
Tuesday Dec 20, 2016
It’s been a long and bumpy ride to yesterday’s Electoral College vote that officially declared the winners—billionaire businessman Donald J. Trump (president) and Gov. Michael R. Pence of Indiana (vice president)—in the 2016 presidential race. But the end of the race isn’t putting an end to intense debate and dissatisfaction about the process that won them, and previous candidates going back to 1787, victory.
The president and vice president, the highest offices in the land, are elected by the Electoral College, not directly by popular vote. The merits of the 2016 final candidates—including Democrats Hillary R. Clinton, former secretary of state (president), and running mate Tim Kaine, junior U.S. senator from Virginia)—aside, they did get 2.8 million more popular votes than the Trump-Pence ticket.
Leid Stories asks: Is it time to abolish the Electoral College and let the people decide?
Monday Dec 19, 2016
Monday Dec 19, 2016
Five hundred and thirty-eight electors—100 from the U.S. Senate, 435 from the House of Representatives, and three representing the District of Columbia—will be meeting all over the country today to perform a quadrennial duty: selecting the next president and vice president of the United States. The rancor of the presidential election between main combatants Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton is expected to spill over to the Electoral College vote, with two sore points at the root—Clinton won the popular vote while Trump won the more significant electoral vote, and Clinton has charged that Russian cyberattacks and a smear campaign against her caused her loss.
Leid Stories looks at the Electoral College vote, whether anti-Trump threats to derail the vote will succeed, and whether Clinton’s claims will be borne out by federal probes currently under way.
The second half of the program focuses on the legitimacy of the claim—now being echoed by President Obama, powerful members of Congress, the media and influential organizations—that Russia fixed the election.