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This week on the podcast: Shutting Down the Shelters. Can An Area Be Too Wealthy For The Homeless? Topics: 1. A San Francisco community wants to keep a homeless shelter out of their town. AKA Ben’s Twitter feud. A. What happens when a homeless
This week on the podcast: Tax Day! Tipping the Man Topics: 1. Representatives support bill to ban the IRS from creating a free tax service. Thank god for lobbyists! 2. Targeting low income households unfairly for audits? 3. Amazon CEO Jeff Bez
This week on the podcast: Main Topic: New York State Budget Breakdown. Plastic Bags Education Spending – Extra funding for the poorest schools. Requirements for schools to report how funds are allocated. Property Tax Cap. Bring on the assessor
This week on the podcast: Main Topics: Defense Department rushes to spend the rest of their budget. 1A. If you don’t use it you lose it. 1B. Break down of the spending. Is it justified? Yes and No.
Late Term Abortion of the Parties Main Topics: 1. Federal Abortion Bill / New York Reproductive Health Act 2. Democrats and Republicans are leaving their parties. Quick Caps: 1. San Francisco is expunging old marijuana convictions 2. 11 year
This week on the podcast: Ricks Pick! Hoda Muthana wants to return to America after leaving to join Isis. Main Topics Trumps border emergency. Is it an emergency? Bernie Sanders is running for president. Is he not left enough now? Quick Cap
In the current media landscape everything is printed in red or blue. Rick and Ben sit down each week to find the purple area between the lines. We ask questions, apply logic, and discover what stories were written by the headline heroes. Just l
Main Topics: Moore Ocasio-Cortez – Documentary film director Michael Moore says that there are no moderate topics while twisting facts from American history to suggest that the presidential age limit should be lowered. (Video / Link to video b
This week on the podcast: Taxing the Rich and Laying Off the Media Topics: Main: 1. Media Layoffs – Why does President Trump seem so happy about this? What really caused these layoffs? How long has this been coming. Hint: Since before the inter
In the current media landscape everything is printed in red or blue. Rick and Ben sit down each week to find the purple area between the lines. We ask questions, apply logic, and discover what stories were written by the headline heroes. Just l
In the current media landscape everything is printed in red or blue. Rick and Ben sit down each week to find the purple area between the lines. We ask questions, apply logic, and discover what stories were written by the headline heroes. Just l
In the current media landscape everything is printed in red or blue. Rick and Ben sit down each week to find the purple area between the lines. We ask questions, apply logic, and discover what stories were written by the headline heroes. Just l
Ocasio-Cortez wants free room and board. Since Ocasio-Cortez will not receive her first check for being in Congress until January she is not asking for room and board until then. How do tax payers survive while transitioning from one job to a
Rick and Ben scour last week’s headlines pointing out the Headline Heroes and trying to find the purple area between the lines. Each week they sit down, ask questions, apply logic, and try to take a non-partisan look at some of the topics disc
The safe act has been a big topic with the upcoming elections in New York State. Rick and Ben put together a compilation of their segments on guns. They've covered gun control, gun safety, cutting murder rates, dementia and guns, and of course
Rick and Ben scour last week’s headlines pointing out the Headline Heroes and trying to find the purple area between the lines. Each week they sit down, ask questions, apply logic, and try to take a non-partisan look at some of the topics discu
Rick and Ben sit down with Steve Minogue, the Central New York Regional Campaign Director at Larry Sharpe for New York. We ignore the headlines and headline heroes this to talk policy issues that are affecting the citizens of New York State. To
Rick and Ben scour last week’s headlines to try to find the purple area between the lines. Each week they sit down, ask questions, apply logic, and try to take a non-partisan look at some of the topics discussed in the media. If you enjoy this
Rick and Ben scour last week’s headlines to try to find the purple area between the lines. Each week they sit down, ask questions, apply logic, and try to take a non-partisan look at some of the topics discussed in the media. If you enjoy this
Rick and Ben scour last week’s headlines to try to find the purple area between the lines. Each week they sit down, ask questions, apply logic, and try to take a non-partisan look at some of the topics discussed in the media. If you enjoy this
Rick and Ben scour last week’s headlines to try to find the purple area between the lines. Each week they sit down, ask questions, and try to take a non-partisan look at some of the topics discussed in the media. If you enjoy this episode pleas
Rick and Ben scour last week’s headlines to try to find the purple area between the lines. Each week they sit down, ask questions, and try to take a non-partisan look at some of the topics discussed in the media. Don’t forget to send in your ca
Take a look back at the week of August 4th through August 11th with Rick and Ben. In a world of partisan media follow along as we take a logical look at the headlines of the week. We’re like the Sunday paper, only more opinionated with 99.9% le
Take a look back at the week of July 28th through August 3rd with Rick and Ben. In a world of partisan media follow along as we take a logical look at the headlines of the week. We’re like the Sunday paper, only more opinionated with 99.9% less
Take a look back at the week of July 21st through July 27th with Rick and Ben. In a world of partisan media follow along as we take a logical look at the headlines of the week. We’re like the Sunday paper, only more opinionated with 99.9% less
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