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Today's Guests

Michael Dougherty is the Boulder County District Attorney and candidate for Attorney General of Colorado. We'll talk about his decision to retry a man previously convicted of murder whose sentence was overturned because of malfeasance by CBI scientist Missy Woods.

Retrial set in Colorado murder case after life sentence thrown out | 9news.com

Boulder DA to retry Michael Clark murder charge CBI DNA scandal

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Elena Czarnowski is Founder of Kid Laboratories, sometimes called America’s STEM teacher

Building Confidence in Teens Through STEM Education

We'll talk about financial literacy and whether it should count as a STEM skill in addition to being nearly essential for kids to learn.

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Other Stuff

Obviously much of the show is going to be about the many ripples moving through American politics and culture in the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

I'll put a few topics related to that here, and then topics about other things just below.

I emailed this reporter and said "Thank you for a lovely, interesting, and generous article." It's worth reading as a human-interest story regardless of whether you are/were a Charlie Kirk fan: For Erika Kirk, a Husband’s Life Cut Short by Violence He Seemed to Foresee - The New York Times

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Erika Kirk and America’s Religious Revival - by Maya Sulkin

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Charlie Kirk Memorial: Trump, Erika Kirk Eulogize Turning Point USA Founder - WSJ

Non-Charlie Kirk topics

How will this work?
White House discloses more details of deal to save TikTok

Trump’s TikTok deal is a ticking time bomb waiting to happen

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So, let's get this straight: RFK Jr is going to throw a few people at a problem that lots of people have been studying for years and find an answer in a couple of months. Naaah. Nonsense, like almost everything else about RFK.

(If we get the actual report before or during the show I'll try to add it here)

Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say - The Washington Post

Speaking of idiocy engendered by RFK: RFK Jr.'s vaccine panel makes few policy changes

CDC advisory committee recommends MMR vaccine delayed until children are 4

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I'll have a story to share on the air about this, from my time as a part-owner of a Chicago nightclub that was on the banks of the Chicago River: Chicago River hosts first swim in nearly a century

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This is interesting as a business story as much as sports story: The W.N.B.A.’s Growing Fan-Base - The New York Times

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Trump upends H-1B visas: White House tries to tamp down corporate panic for high-skill visa holders after last-minute overhaul - POLITICO

The executive order: Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers – The White House

China to launch K Visa to invite foreign talent from October 1 amid H1-B visa chaos - India Today

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This doesn’t seem criminal (yet) since he was a private citizen and influence is often sold but “a bag of cash” sure is an ugly look: Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash - The New York Times

What to Make of the Tom Homan Bribery Allegation? | Andy McCarthy - National Review

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Idiots: U.K., Canada and Australia formally recognize a Palestinian state, breaking with the U.S.

Why Starmer recognising Palestine is the ultimate in fantasy politics

Rising push for 2-state solution in Mideast conflict could backfire | AP News

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The former CEO of Disney (which owns ABC) is upset that ABC indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel. I think he's mostly right though Kimmel's offense was so egregious that he absolutely deserved some degree of punishment, like temporary suspension. I do think that the severity of the punishment represented one or more of other factors: 1) The show isn't doing well and Kimmel is expensive so it's a way to get rid of him sooner, and/or 2) ABC was afraid of retribution from the FCC and the Trump administration (including President Trump himself) if they didn't take aggressive action.

Mandy Connell