Winn Tucson

Guests - Betsy Smith, Dave Smith, Jeremy Duda, Elijah Norton

Guests - Katey McPherson, Heather Rooks, Sergio Arellano, Scott Schara Thursday on Winn Tucson was a morning that defied easy description. It was about sexual abuse in schools. It was about the institutional reflex to protect administrators over children. It was about a school board president removed for filing mandatory reports. And it was, by the end, a sustained conversation about the theologic...

Guests - Ava Chen, Pam Furie, Joel Strabala Wednesday on Winn Tucson moved from the highest-stakes geopolitical negotiation in decades to a Treasury Department roundtable in Washington about senior financial security to the ground level of Pima County elections and a bomb threat student allowed back on his school bus. Three guests, three distinct worlds — and throughout all of it, the same recurri...

Guests - Andy Ross, John Hayworth, Joanie Hammond, Rodney Glassman Tuesday on Winn Tucson was, as Kathleen Winn noted at the close, a drug show — though not in the way that phrase usually lands. The morning connected pharmaceutical pricing to abortion medication to fentanyl deaths to the statewide race for attorney general in a chain of arguments that shared one central diagnosis: institutions tha...

Guests - Betsy Smith, Alex Kolodin, Jan Edwards, Lori Schott

Guests - Drew Allen, Rick Shafton, Dave Smith, John Gordon, Cheryl Caswell Friday on Winn Tucson came loaded with irony — the show aired on May 1st, historically the day communist and socialist movements march through city squares around the world, while on the ground in Pima County, conservatives were organizing to recall a sheriff, push a voting integrity law through a resistant Senate, and prep...

Guests - Merissa Caldwell, Rep. Lupe Diaz, Scott Schara Thursday on Winn Tucson carried a weight that went from the practical — voter registration deadlines, budget votes, and out-of-state registration schemes — to the profound: a father who has now lost two children and believes both deaths trace to the same underlying system. Three guests. Three distinct battles. One shared conviction that thing...

Guests - Ava Chen, Joel Strabala, Mike Arnold Wednesday on Winn Tucson covered the arc from Washington to Nigeria — from the third assassination attempt on a sitting president, to a voter registration scheme mailed from Pennsylvania to Arizona addresses, to a Christian genocide that has killed more than six million people and that almost nobody in the American press has reported. Three guests. Thr...

Guests - John Riches, Walt Blackman, Jay Tolkoff, Cheryl Caswell, Lisa Von Geldern Tuesday on Winn Tucson was a full accounting of where Arizona stands — in the courts, in the legislature, in the county supervisor's chamber, and in the voting booth. Five guests. Five different battlegrounds. One through-line: the people who are supposed to serve Arizonans keep trying to circumvent the rules that p...

Guests - Betsy Smith, Dave Smith, Michael Letts, Laurie Moore The weekend that was supposed to be a celebration ended Saturday night with a Secret Service agent bleeding on the floor of a Washington hotel, a gunman tackled before he could reach the ballroom, and a president who gave a press conference a few hours later sharp enough to note — with unmistakable precision — that if he'd had his big,...

  Guests - Sam Anthony, Stephen Mundt, Ian Faith Friday on Winn Tucson came loaded. Four guests, four distinct battlegrounds — the collapse of legacy media and what replaces it; the military standoff in the Strait of Hormuz and the redistricting fight tearing through Virginia; the use of AI to win down-ballot elections; and a 56-year federal prohibition that ended, without fanfare, in the middle o...

Guests - Juan Ciscomani, Betsy Smith, Scott Schara Eighty-eight days to the primary. The Pima County fair was running. Volunteers were collecting recall signatures. The Board of Supervisors had just voted to double their spending cap and put the question to voters in November. And a father in Wisconsin was preparing to spend seven weeks on a radio show in Tucson telling the story of how his daught...

Guests - Ava Chen, Dave Smith, Gilda Carle Wednesday on Winn Tucson moved across three very different worlds — the geopolitical chessboard between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, the fiscal ambush playing out in a Pima County meeting room, and the collapse of personal character among the men who purport to lead the nation. Three guests. One through-line: the cost of not paying a...

Guests - Mark Griffith, William Parven, Peter Gentala Ninety days from the primary. A Board of Supervisors meeting underway downtown with a billion-dollar spending maneuver on the agenda. A city burning through money it claims it doesn't have while considering shutting down fire stations. And a growing list of people who've seen enough and decided to do something about it. That was the backdrop fo...

Guests – Dave Smith, Brenda Marts, Jay Tolkoff, Alex Kolodin, Merissa Caldwell, Janet Neustedter Guest host Dave Smith, who had kept the show running during Winn's trip while his wife Betsy traveled with the Winn Tucson team, joined Kathleen for the opening segment to debrief on the week's news and set the political context. The two opened with what Smith called the "non-personing" of Eric Swalwel...

Guest Host - Dave Smith, Guest - Bob Dohse   The Strait of Hormuz is open. Oil prices have dropped from over $100 a barrel to around $83. The stock market is surging — the NASDAQ is dramatically up. Iran has signaled a desire for peace, a development the press was certain would never come. "The world's not ending," said guest host Dave Smith, filling in for Kathleen Winn on Winn Tucson. The second...

Guests - Laurie Moore, Mark Griffith Substitute host Dave Smith opened the program by noting Kathleen Winn and co-host Betsy were en route to the National Rifle Association conference in Houston. Smith traced the city’s crime and disorder problems back to deeper philosophical failures. Drawing on his background in criminology, political science, and sociology, he contrasted the classical school of...

Guests - Ava Chen, Paul Sheldon Ava Chen joins for China Watch Wednesday, diving into the rapid developments around the Strait of Hormuz. She highlights U.S. naval actions securing the waterway after Iran's blockade attempts, noting the strategic pressure on the regime. Paul Sheldon, president of the Arizona State Fraternal Order of Police, addresses the case of retired Tucson Police Officer Konto...

Guests - Grant Krueger, Lydia Hernandez, Jared Knott Kathleen Winn pays tribute to Chris Sheaf and his wife Jackie, who were killed in a plane crash in Marana while returning from the Final Four. Grant Krueger joins to share memories of Chris Sheaf, highlighting his decades of service to Tucson. Arizona State Representative Lydia Hernandez discusses House Bill 4109, which requires every school dis...

Guests - Tara Oster, Dave Smith, Bill Walton Tara Oster joins to discuss the Pima County GOP booth at the upcoming Pima County Fair, running Thursday, April 16 through Sunday, April 26 in Thurber Hall. The booth will register voters, distribute candidate materials and palm cards with election dates, sell patriotic merchandise, and feature a spin wheel for prizes. Dave Smith discusses the evolving...

Guests - Gary Benoit, Mark Lewis Gary Benoit, editor-in-chief of The New American and longtime John Birch Society member, asserts that the Constitution does not grant automatic birthright citizenship. Mark Lewis reports on the Salt River Project (SRP) board election held the previous day, describing a mixed outcome for Republican conservatives. Chris Dobson was elected president and Barry Paisley...

Guests - Ava Chen, Neal Cornett Ava Chen congratulates the current administration for creating an environment conducive to regime change that benefits the Iranian people themselves. She explains that the United States has applied maximum pressure while leaving the door open for a new, democratic-leaning government open to business and Western engagement. Neal Cornett joins to discuss the Mass Depo...

Guests - Stephen Mundt, Rodney Glassman, Laurie Moore, Joel Strabala Retired Brigadier General Steven Mundt joins to break down the F-15E rescue operation in Iran over the Easter weekend. He details how the pilot and weapons systems officer ejected after the aircraft was hit by a shoulder-fired missile advanced by Russian technology. Rodney Glassman, candidate for Arizona Attorney General, outline...

Guests - Michael Wiegand, Daniel Butierez, Betsy Smith, Steve Christy, Laurie Moore Michael Wiegand, precinct committeeman from LD18, announces an event this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. east of Costco on Grant and Wilmot, next to the former Carl's Jr. The gathering will feature Daniel Butierez collecting signatures for the Sheriff Nanos recall petition. Daniel Butierez, Republican candidate for...

Guests – Scott Schara, Brett Mecum, Bill Sullivan, Rodney Glassman Scott Schara, author of the newly released book Is the Government Legally Killing Us?, shares the heartbreaking story of his daughter Grace, who had Down syndrome and died at age 19 on October 13, 2021. Brett Mecum, chairman of the Arizona Space Commission, describes witnessing the Artemis II launch from Cape Canaveral as "electrif...