The count on mass shootings and gun violence just keeps growing. I'm breaking down the arguments and offering realistic solutions on how to amend the 2nd amendment.

If Muhammad Ali lived in these times, he would be canceled… which would deny us his greatest gift. Canceling people who dissent or drop vile comments and perspectives doesn’t solve anything. Maybe it’s time to cancel cancel-culture.

We’re all allowing digital media and social networks to program us exactly how we want to be programmed… and it’s widening the divide.

There’s a word that most Americans consider dirtier than all others. We’re either on one side of it or another.

There’s plenty of ugliness to find in a team’s name if you look hard enough and want to see it. This week I’m sharing my own thoughts on the sports team renaming controversy, starting with the Redskins.

For most of us, the holidays mean home. For more than a half million homeless Americans, it’s a gift they only wish for. Fortunately, people like Kim Marshall of Project Homeless Connect have dedicated their lives to making sure they have a place to call home and a friend who is there to help.

George Azcárate has lived many lives. Firefighter, nurse, traveling performer, teacher, Doctoral candidate in Romance Languages. While on a break from studies he was visiting his girlfriend in New York, the city went into lockdown. He came to another crossroad in his life. He chose the harder path and walked into the COVID storm.

I’m talking with 8th grade student, Quinn C. about her thoughts on remote learning and more. She’s a bright young lady and her outlook will give you hope for the future!

Ian Ford shares the origin story of WildCat Ridge Sanctuary and talks about the work they’re doing and their encounters with Joe Exotic and his cohort.

Tomorrow is election day when we all go out and exercise our right to vote. But we didn’t always have that right. And since the very beginning of America, voter suppression has been an issue.

Having survived the Holocaust and escaped the yoke of Communism, Les and Eva Aigner’s history provides insights and perspective on what we’re witnessing today and a testament to the resilience of the human spirit.

Nicole Drieske, Executive Director of the International Children’s Media Center talks about how parents can help their kids more screen smart, literate and emotionally intelligent through digital devices.

For me and my guest, David Fields, our faith informs how we breakthrough to finding hope. And regardless of your faith, or non-faith, the same ideas that we go to for finding hope apply for just about anyone.

Erika Allen, Co-Founder and CEO of Urban Growers Collective, and her partner, Jason Feldman from Green Era Sustainability are working to solve food apartheid. We're talking about their efforts to create the Green Era Renewable Energy and Urban Farming Campus.

Mary and Mark had a lot to say, respectively, about Joe Biden and President Trump. In this episode we dig into their comments on all the topics we covered and have presented a fact check on their information.

Hear from two fellow citizens on why Joe Biden is wrong and right for our country.

Hear from two fellow citizens on why Trump is wrong and right for our country.

Nicole Vick, an adjunct professor of Urban and Environmental Policy, and a public health specialist in the city of Los Angeles, shares her thoughts on how we can open ourselves up, and the five steps we can all take to help heal our country.

The risks in beginning the 2020 fall term aren’t limited to contracting COVID. Tracy Stedry, a 20-year veteran of school classrooms, shares her insights about what might and might not work so well, the impact on child development, and the inequities and shortcomings of remote learning.

Denny Doyle is the Mayor of a big little city, Beaverton, Oregon. He’s done a lot right in his years as Mayor. We’re talking about how a city moves forward through turbulent waters.