The Middle American

Killer comes in and shoots down kids and teachers in school.  Thoughts and prayers are offered.  Police are heralded as heroes.  Shouts of banning guns from the Left.  Shouts of upholding the Second Amendment on the Right.  Nothing happens.  The cycle repeats.  Kids getting gunned down in schools rarely happens anywhere else in the world.  Yet we are numb to it here in America.  Why?  Something ne...

Steve Bergstrom ran for the Wake County School Board twice and is now running for the Chair of the Republican Party in Wake County.  He sits down to talk about his experience running for the school board, the issues he sees with with partisanship on those boards in general, and how he and his team plan to shape the Republican Party in Wake County while still reaching out to unaffiliated and indepe...

Five years ago, school boards were largely forgotten about positions on the back of a ballot that most of us either ignored or simply voted for the incumbent without a second thought.  COVID changed all of that and brought a national spotlight on school boards across the country.  What were once traditionally "non-partisan" entities are increasingly becoming partisan.  Is that a good thi...

Far left.  Far right.  Conservative.  Liberal.  Republican.  Democrat.  Can't fully relate?  Me either.  But nearly all public discourse and media is centered upon the views share by one of the two political parties - and often those shouting the loudest from the extremes of both sides.  This isn't just a political podcast.  It's a podcast on life and society, with politics mixed in...

Far left.  Far right.  Conservative.  Liberal.  Republican.  Democrat.  Can't fully relate?  Me either.  But nearly all public discourse and media is centered upon the views share by one of the two political parties - and often those shouting the loudest from the extremes of both sides.  This isn't just a political podcast.  It's a podcast on life and society, with politics mixed in...