Citizen Smith

Southern states are in a dire situation as ICU beds are filled with unvaccinated Covid patients, with other critically ill patients waiting in emergency rooms and even ambulances. Taxing the rich is on the table in Congress, those making more than $400,000 face upwards of 40 percent income tax, but billionaires remain unscathed.

Kids are back in the classroom across the country, and that's a good thing as most have fallen behind in their studies after Covid shut down most in-classroom learning. Biden's push for booster shots for the general public runs into a roadblock after doctors and scientists conducted an FDA study that refutes the need for a booster to protect against Delta variant.

Is Biden's announcement of vaccine mandates for federal workers and contractors, health care workers, and corporations with more than 100 employees unconstitutional? These and other topics will be discussed with guest host, sage and lifelong Portlandian, Pete Lee. 

As the federal government moves forward with the $1 Trillion Infrastructure projects, there's a lack of skilled laborers. It's time to fund a training program for new construction workers -- let's start with men and women in prison release programs. Movie review -- Shang Chi.

A revealing article in the Wall Street Journal documented the alarming statistics of an academic world where women now dominate college enrollment and young men are left behind-- especially white men from lower and middle income families. 

Multi-vitamins, multi-minerals, vitamin supplements and organic food, it's a lot of what we need to stay healthy. Ryan Mauk shares his expertise as a nutritional health coach for Natural Grocers on today's show.

Utilizing a clever approach to upending the legal right to an abortion in Texas, the Supreme Court decides 5-4 to not restrict the new Texas law as the court rushes its decision via "shadow docket."

Floods, massive power outages and record rainfall buries cars in streets as rain storms rage from Hurricane Ida in the Northeast. The NFL soon kicks off the season, but only a couple of teams so far are mandating masks, and one of them, New Orleans, requires Covid proof of vaccination. Will more teams follow?

Covid vaccination cards or negative coronavirus test now required to attend outdoor sporting events in Oregon. Some other teams in the nation are also enforcing it -- does it become a national trend? China is enforcing regulations and limitations on kids under 18 online gaming and after school learning -- like English language schools. Oh, my.

Portland's local union of the Nabisco factory are in the fourth week of their strike, Citizen Smith heads out on the street to talk to them, and in-studio guest Pete Lee, Vice-chair of the Oregon Democratic Party, weighs in on the issue.