Catalog of Interviews and Bits

Loren Woodson

Dennis Koller

"An indictment and a guilty plea of former Trump campaign officials are making headlines today. The indictment accuses Mr. Manafort of improper business dealings prior to his involvement with the Trump campaign, while the guilty plea involves George Papadopoulos, a low level Carson then Trump foreign affairs campaign employee, who misstated the chronology of certain meetings with foreign nationals. Conservative commentator, Laura Ingraham labeled todayâ??s events as a big â??Nothing-Burger,â?? saying, â??If they had something on Trump, that would be the indictment today.â?? President Trump Tweeted that Mr. Manafortâ??s legal issues stem from activities that happened long before he consulted for the Trump campaign. In March 2016, as Donald Trump was preparing for a potential floor fight at the Republican convention, Mr. Trump needed a specialist who had experience in corralling delegates and managing the convention process so that the Republican nomination could not be stolen from Republican voters. Paul Manafortâ??s name rose to the top of a very short list of people with the experience necessary to successfully win a contested convention. A long-time well-respected Republican, Paul Manafort had helped manage Gerald Fordâ??s convention fight in 1976, the last time a Republican convention had been held where no candidate had enough delegates to win the convention." READ MORE: mediaequalizer.com/joe-marroquin/2017/10/despite-media-hyperventilation-no-trump-russia-collusion

SUBURBIA IS A WASTELAND OF DRUG USAGE... Some experts are skeptical about the wall's ability to fight the problem, given its roots in painkillers prescribed by doctors in the United States. OPIOID ANALYST/PHYSICIAN: Dr. Dennis Deruelle (Durr-Rell), is a physician and National Medical Director of Acute Services for IPC Healthcare; he is Author Of Your Healthcare Playbook: Winning the Game of Modern Medicine. "President Donald Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency on Thursday, telling an audience in the East Room of the White House that "we can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic." "This epidemic is a national health emergency," he said. "Nobody has seen anything like what is going on now." He added: "As Americans, we cannot allow this to continue. It is time to liberate our communities from this scourge of drug addiction. Never been this way. We can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic. We can do it." Trump, in a wide-ranging speech about opioids, stressed the need for further enforcement and linked his planned wall along the US-Mexico border with efforts to stem the tide of illegal drugs coming into the United States. "An astonishing 90% of the heroin in America comes from south of the border -- where we will be building a wall -- which will greatly help in this problem," he said. Some experts are skeptical about the wall's ability to fight the problem, given its roots in painkillers prescribed by doctors in the United States. Trump also stressed the need to crack down on those Americans who are buying illegal drugs, stressing the need to link enforcement with stopping abuse in the first place. "Every person who buys illicit drugs here in America should know that they are risking their futures, their families and even their lives," he said. "Illegal drug use is not a victimless crime. There is nothing admirable, positive or socially desirable about it." READ: www.cnn.com/2017/10/26/politics/donald-trump-opioid-epidemic/index.html

1. Earned Doctorate in Psychology, specializing in Organizational Management and Consulting. 2. Over 35 years assisting businesses, associations, educational institutes, government agencies reach organizational goals. 3. Designed programs or trained staff from over 6,000 companies learning awards from the County of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Unified School District and others. 4. Earned the Prestigious IRWIN AWARD in Niche Marketing in 2016 for creating a portfolio on "Knowledge Management for Organizational Excellence" and summarizing the contents into a soon-to-be-published book: 25 Techniques To Improve Knowledge Management.

Katherine Paterson, two-time Newberry Medal and National Book Award-winning and best-selling author of Bridge to Terabithia, has written an engrossing new middle grade novel, My Brigadista Year, which follows a young Cuban teenagerâ??s participation in Fidel Castroâ??s national literary campaign.