The Rick Smith Show is a labor radio program from Central Pennsylvania. The show covers state and local politics and national issues.
Scott Paul: China's currency misalignment, environmental issues, worker issues have not been addressed by Trump admin.
Christian Weller: Companies' fiduciaries should be able to offer add'l choices as long as the ratings & fees are similar; they should also be allowed to offer those as the default investments. Make the paperwork less. DOL & SEC need to work together.
Sergio Flores: Education about what neoliberalism is and does to us is necessary. We need solidarity & the search for the common good. We also need concrete ideas such as how to properly fund public education.
Bob Ney: Harvard & MIT are totally online now & are suing the US gov't since ICE has said foreign students can't be in US for online-only college classes. The repercussions of this will be that home countries will tell their students to go to Canada instead of U.S.
Tom Arnold: Joni Ernst, 1st female Senator fm Iowa--I want to support her,I really do,but she can't say anything bad about Trump. She served in the military, she stood up to her ex-husband who was abusing her, but she won't speak up against Trump. Iowa deserves better
Emily de La Bruyère: The one hope, as we deal with COVID, is it will be the wake-up call as to how dependent on China we are. We're seeing that in the PPE chains. China has done this across industrial sectors, making us totally reliant.
Jamie Martin: As of today, all 14 PA state schools are planning to bring students back as soon as August 10th. We've been having discussions on safety issues based on CDC guidelines--masks, social distancing. My concerns: classrooms, dorms, off-campus housing
Bob Ney: Mass. Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill that any citizen can have the option to vote by mail in any 2020 election, & no reason is needed to vote by mail.
Propane Jane: Shut the state [of Texas] down. Masks are one thing, but that's not stopping people from going to work or going to places they don't necessarily need to be. Our numbers were not this bad when we were staying home. Shut things down till we have control
Will Bunch: It's a [police] culture that's really broken at this point, & we need to decide as a society how we're going to fix it.
John Bolton: If I'd come across the info [that Russia was paying bounty money for killing American soldiers] as Nat'l Security Advisor, I would have taken that information right to the President.
Joe Walsh: I'm launching a new group next week to get Republicans in key states to recruit more Republicans to vote for Biden. Trump is a cancer & we need to get him out of the White House. Rick: We'll get rid of Trump & then we'll go back to fighting each other.
Sarah Burris: About 200,000 Oklahomans will have health insurance when they didn't have it before after voting for Medicaid expansion. There are some counties in OK that have a 40% infant mortality rate b/c they have no healthcare, no hospitals.
James Mackler: Washington is failing Tennessee. Since I launched my campaign at a closed rural hospital, three more have closed. TN now leads the US in closed rural hospitals. This is why I'm running.
Sarah Kendzior: In a free & fair election, Trump would lose. With the coronavirus, economy, etc., Biden would stand a very good chance of winning...in a free & fair election. However, I'm worried we will not have a free & fair election.
