Here are the show notes for the Dave Congalton Show for Friday, March 15 -- the Ides of March. This is my last day guest hosting for Dave, he should be back in the driver's seat on Monday! 3 p.m. hour: Michael Semanchik, Managing Attorney for the California Innocence Project California governor on halting executions: […]
Here are the show notes for the Dave Congalton Show for Pi Day! 3 p.m. hour: David Cobb, 2004 Green Party candidate for President, Currently running Cooperation Humboldt Green New Deal — Full Language The Not-So-Pretty Fine Print of 'Green New Deal' The Green New Deal: Scope, Scale, and Implications Green New Deal FAQ sheet […]
I'm hosting Dave Congalton's show today through Friday and if you're looking for source material or other links, here's where I'm going to be putting them. 3 p.m. hour: Kyle Bell, San Luis Obispo City Planner San Luis Obispo Tiny Home website HomeShareSLO Tiny House consulting site San Luis Obispo County 7th least affordable housing […]
We're being ill-served by the media. Despite the oft-repeated chest-thumping that "Democracy Dies in Darkness," or "Speaking Truth to Power," the majority of the mainstream media is suffering from both Trump Derangement Syndrome—the inclination to take any claim which puts Donald Trump in a bad light as automatically true—and simply lazy reporting. That was the […]
Yesterday, radio talk show host Dave Congalton marked his 27th year hosting his Hometown Radio show on 920 KVEC in San Luis Obispo. One of his guests was Joe Tarica, the San Luis Obispo Tribune's new editor. You can listen to the interview here. Before taking calls (including mine) for the second half of the show, […]
Saturday afternoon, Judge Brett Kavanaugh became Justice Brett Kavanaugh after being confirmed by the Senate in a 50-48 vote. Two weeks ago I appeared on Dave Congalton's radio show to talk about my two previous posts on the Kavanaugh confirmation process and the more recent live testimony by Kavanaugh and his primary accuser, Christine Blasey […]
Another day, another baseless charge against Judge Brett Kavanaugh as the sliming continues. Some on the political right encouraged the Senate last week to ignore the non-credible and unsupported charges of Christine Blasey Ford and go ahead and confirm Kavanaugh to a seat on the Supreme Court. They argued that Ford's repeated requests for delays […]
Today, at the behest of the Boston Globe, more than 350 newspapers, large and small, are publishing editorials taking aim at President Donald Trump's constant complaining about "Fake News" and the biased news media. This is the wrong way to restore media credibility in the people who already mistrust what reporters are telling them. Two papers […]
For more than 20 years, U.S. presidents have put off moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as directed by overwhelming majorities in Congress in the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995. Yesterday, the United States finally made it official. I've said before that I would praise President Donald Trump when he […]
I'm sure you've heard the axiom that you don't bring a knife to a gunfight. It really doesn't require much explanation, but for the dimwitted among us, it is basically a warning at attempting a fight with obviously inferior weapons to those of your opponent. In an editorial published last weekend (sorry for the delay, […]