Guests - Ava Chen, Betsy Smith

Wednesday on Winn Tucson was two shows in one: China Watch Wednesday with Ava Chen unpacking the most consequential week in global geopolitics in years, followed by Smith and Winn with Betsy Brantner Smith on teen takeovers, a mosque shooting, an illegal alien on a shooting spree in Austin, and the ongoing decay that follows every city that decides law enforcement is the problem.

The common thread: decisions made at the top of power structures — whether in Beijing, Sacramento, or a Travis County courthouse — cascade downward until ordinary people pay for them with their safety, their freedom, and sometimes their lives.