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Signing up for a Medicare Advantage could be a Mistake. Join Kay Tillow, Hamza Jamal, and Evan Hawthorn to learn the difference between it and Traditional Medicare. Single Payer Radio airs on Forward Radio, 106.5 FM, WFMP-LP Louisville, and on our website, forwardradio.org, every Monday at 2pm and repeats on Tuesday at 7am and Wednesday at 11 am. - Contains no copyrighted music

On this week's program, we bring you a vital conversation about the legacy and impact of Dr. J. Blaine Hudson, with Marian Vasser & Lindsey Ronay on UofL's Employee Success Podcast hosted by Brian Buford (https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/uoflemployeesuccesscenter). Brian is UofL's Director of the Employee Success Center, Marian is Assistant VP for Inclusive Excellence and Belonging, and Lin...

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, shares with you a major highlight from the recent annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, held in Anaheim, California from October 27-29, 2024. The keynote speaker on October 28th was Shaun Harper, one of America’s most highly respected diversity, equity, and inclusion experts. He is a Provost Pr...

A discussion with Dr. Jon Wisman of the Economics Department at American University on his paper "The Urgent Need to Delegitimate Laissez-Faire Ideology" ( https://ideas.repec.org/p/amu/wpaper/2024-02.html ). See also his book, The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology.

Host Ruth Newman and her guest, Melissa Morgenson, discuss the aftermath of the 2024 Presidential election and what a Trump win portends for the future of our democracy, our economy and our planet. Also discussed were possible approaches to take for processing and dealing with this outcome that can help shore up our floundering democracy and democratic institutions.

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Alice Kaltman at www.alicekaltman.com or on IG @alicekaltman This week we chat with Alice Kaltman about her latest book, Alice’s Big Book of Mistakes. She has written books of linked short stor...

On The Edge With K.A. Owens | Elena Kamenetzky | Teacher of Japanese, Eastern High | 11-9-24 by Forward Radio

On this week's program, we bring you some more highlights from the 2024 Environmental Justice Conference hosted by the West Jefferson County Community Task Force (WJCCTF) on Saturday, Oct. 19th, 9am - 3pm, at the University Club at the University of Louisville and online. Funding for this free public conference was provided by the Environmental Protection Agency RATHA Grant and the Louisville and...

SHOW NOTES: 2024 saw record anti-trans legislation, with over 660 bills, that curtail the rights of trans people, 45 of them have passed and over 120 are still active. Like the interstate highway system, real estate covenants, and color laws of the past; like book banning, anti-DEI initiatives, and unfair and restrictive voting laws of the present day, our courts are legislating hate against trans...

A crisis looms for Rural Hospitals. Paul Hoppe, Drs Mike Flynn, Gene Shively, and Don Henderson discuss the problems faced and what could be done.

More than two-thirds of Americans say they are stressed about this year's Presidential election, and those anxious feelings could persist through Inauguration Day, and beyond. Many people even think the country could devolve into a civil war. This week we discuss research by psychologists on election stress and how to deal with it. At the end of the show, Scott Miller discusses what planets, meteo...

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. This week our topic is philosophical. No, we’re not discussing those dull philosophy textbooks, but rather novels or nonfiction that ask big questions, such as “Who am I?” and “What is happiness?” and “Do w...

PFAS, or Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of synthetic chemicals, known as "forever chemicals" because they persist in the environment and in most all human bodies and other animals worldwide. They were developed by DuPont and manufactured into myriads of products by DuPont and 3M. On October 28, 2024, Rob Bilott, an attorney and author of the book "Exposure" presented the results...

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, digs in the dirt with Nico Phillips, an organizer with the Shelby Park Community Garden since 2019, a UofL Masters of Urban Planning student, and now, as of July 1st, the new Urban Agriculture Program Coordinator for Louisville Metro Parks! Tune in to learn more about Nico, what drove her interests in urban agriculture and sustainability, and find out...

Our guest today is the playwright and author Don Smith. Don Ray Smith is a Published humorist, writer and storyteller. Don Ray Smith is the author of the theatrical production Growing Up White on Wilson Ave. He Has converted some of his best short-humor pieces to 5-15-minute performance pieces. Some accompanied by bongos. Don Ray smith has composed humor, features and profiles for many regional pu...

Mylantha Williams and Angela Tamura who are the co-founders of Jacob’s Ladder, and Meg Stone who is Board President for Eden Village met me in the studio to talk about a project they have been working diligently on to build housing for people who are chronically homeless and want to change that. This show is in the public domain. It airs 3 times weekly: Sundays at 11am, Mondays at 8am, and Tuesday...

A look at Harris and Trump proposals and plans for the US economy.

Patty and Brian discuss strategies for helping address election anxiety for the upcoming US Presidential election.

In the few days left before the 2024 election, Election Connection host Ruth Newman invited Dee Pregliasco, former President of the Louisville League of Women Voters and retired attorney and judge, to discuss various election-related items. Included were voting information resources; where to find reputable and non-partisan information sources on candidates and issues; the two amendments on the KY...

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. You can find Alisa Alering at www.alering.com or on Insta @alisa.alering. This week we wrap up what has been a month of seasonally spooky books with guest Alisa Alering, the author of Smothermoss, a book th...

On this week’s program, your host, Justin Mog, takes a stroll through Louisville’s historic downtown neighborhoods with Steve Wiser of the Louisville Historical League (https://louisvillehistoricalleague.org) & Martina Kunnecke from Neighborhood Planning & Preservation. We discuss the important role of historic preservation and neighborhood planning in shaping a more sustainable future for our cit...

Cara Fitzpatrick, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who wrote for the Tampa Bay Times and is author of the book "The Death of Public School - How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America," spoke at the Louisville KY Main Library downtown on October 15, 2024. She presented the Pro's and Con's of using taxpayer money to fund private, often religious, schools (including home schooling) whi...

K.A. Owens interviews Writer, Actor, Activist Michael T. Topic: 2024 Presidential election and who should or should not be be a male role model and why. Recorded Saturday October 26, 2024, 5PM.

On this week's program, we bring you some highlights from the 2024 Environmental Justice Conference hosted by the West Jefferson County Community Task Force (WJCCTF) on Saturday, Oct. 19th, 9am - 3pm, at the University Club at the University of Louisville and online. Funding for this free public conference was provided by the Environmental Protection Agency RATHA Grant and the Louisville and Kentu...

Our website - www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod Facebook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we’re bringing you a Creature Feature in which we suggest books that have creatures of some kind in them. Those may be mythological creatures, cryptids, or beings from your favorite horror film. S...