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Leid Stories episodes

January 27, 2022 Leid Stories - 01.27.22
What concerns you most about the state of the nation right now? (Part 2)
55 min
January 26, 2022 Leis Stories - 01.26.22
Here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today:
What concerns you most about the nation right now? Why?
54 min
January 21, 2022 Leid Stories: 01.21.22
It's "Free Your Mind Friday" on Leid Stories, so we'll make our usual tweaks.
We'll dispense with our regular program format and become an open forum so you can express your views on issues that matter to you and about which you have a considered opinion.
Those who differ also are invited to express their views.
Call 888-874-4888 and free your mind live on air!
56 min
January 20, 2022 Leid Stories - 01.20.22
TOPIC:

A year into his four-year term, President Joe Biden explains the challenges he has faced and others ahead that will test his mettle.

Meanwhile, his predecessor, Donald J. Trump, has become a case study in the many ways a president can blow it.
55 min
January 19, 2022 Leid Stories - 01.19.22
Is this the start of the Trump takedown? The beginning of Trump's inglorious end?
There's a growing consensus in ex-President Donald J. Trump's camp, sources say, that he should lay low while various law-enforcement and legal entities have him in their sights. Will he take heed?
55 min
January 18, 2022 Leid Stories - 01.18.22
TOPIC:
Donald Trump, reeling out of control and following the chaotic dictates of his frazzled mind, continues to wreak havoc and create disorder as he tests the limits of his outrageous conduct.

Except, he's a former president and head of state, and hell-bent on utterly destroying what he believes was stolen from him and those he holds responsible for making that happen.

What's to be done? What's the fix for this problem?

A current president who often seems detached from what's actually happening, and a full-blown megalomaniac who demands he be let back in the door so he can finish the chaos that he started.
56 min
January 17, 2022 Leid Stories: 01.17.22
Eleven months before he was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tenn., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is interviewed at his Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Ga., about the burgeoning nonviolent Black freedom movement, which was gaining ground nationwide.
54 min
January 14, 2022 Leid Stories: 01.14.22
It's "Free Your Mind Friday" on Leid Stories. We break from our regular program format and become an open forum for callers to have their say on issues they have strong feelings about.

Call 888-874-4888 and free your mind!
57 min
January 13, 2022 Leid Stories - 01.13.22
︎Are you more aware, less aware or unaffected in your attitude about U.S. politics and its impact on your life?

︎How do you measure or gauge your progress in life and that of the nation as a whole?

︎Given the precarious times we're living in, do you nonetheless feel confident in the nation's systems of government?

︎Do you privately panic about the country's leadership?
55 min
January 12, 2022 Leid Stories - 01.12.22
President Joe Biden appears to be signaling an intention to run for reelection in 2024, after this term ends.
Should he go for it or not? Why/why not?

︎Martha Sepulveda, a devout Roman Catholic woman from Medellin, Colombia, finally was granted her wish to die but euthanasia because she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurological disease with no known cure that had caused her great pain, she said.
She became the first woman in Colombia to be euthanized without having a terminal illness.
Should a government decide whether you wish to die?
57 min