San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo joins Pat Thurston to explain his bill on gun insurance.

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State Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, announced the proposal Monday during a news conference at a high school in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Pan, a pediatrician, has long been the Legislature’s most outspoken advocate for tighter vaccine requirements. “What we’re saying is that if you choose not to vaccinate your child, there’s a consequence,” Pan told The Chronicle. “It’s to protect the other children because they have rights as well. We need to give confidence and certainty to parents and to school districts that schools can stay open and that they’re safe.” The bill, SB871, would expand California’s existing COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students by removing the personal belief exemption. A small percentage of students could still receive medical exemptions if they have a bona fide medical condition that prevents them from being vaccinated.

California has already eliminated personal belief exemptions for the 10 other vaccines it requires students to receive, including chicken pox, measles, polio and tetanus. But state officials say Newsom cannot remove the exemption for COVID-19 without the Legislature acting first.

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San Francisco Giants legend Barry Bonds and former Red Sox ace Roger Clemens, two superstars dogged by rumors of using performance enhancing drugs, missed being elected in their last year of eligibility.

Bonds and Clemens were linked to the use of performance-enhancing drugs through the 2007 Mitchell Report by senator-turned-baseball-investigator George Mitchell. But neither player ever failed an MLB test for steroids and Bonds only admitted to using substances he said he was told were an arthritis balm and flaxseed oil.

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Mark Thompson covers unbelievable stories in "Televangelist Theater".

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David Cay Johnston, co-founder DCReport, 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner and 4-time bestselling author joins The Mark Thompson Show to discuss the likelihood of war between Russia and Ukraine.

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Mark Thompson reveals the world's safest airline for 2022 in "Stories From The Sky".

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The Mark Thompson Show explains how San Jose is looking to require gun owners to buy liability insurance and pay an annual fee.

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Women are always and constantly being judged by their looks, and Morning Show host Nikki Medoro relates an example of how one listener went out of their way to attack her appearance.  Loaded with healthy self-confidence, Nikki has a special message for this troll.  Warning: strong language.

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A Republican-led committee in the Florida state house has advanced a bill that would ban all discussion of sexuality and gender identity in schools, a move advocates say will “erase” LGTBQ+ students and history. The Florida house education and employment committee passed the Parental Rights in Education bill, also known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, last week. The bill requires the implementation of “procedures to reinforce fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding upbringing and control of their children”. In addition to allowing parents to launch legal actions against school boards if they believe policies overstep that “fundamental right”, the bill bans teachers from discussing in classrooms LGBTQ+ topics “not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students”.

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