Leid Stories

Almost all (94) of Detroit’s 97 public schools are closed today—the

result of a sickout by teachers reacting to news over the weekend that

the state won’t be able to pay them after June 30,

when emergency aid to the bankrupted city runs out. Elena Herrada, an

elected member of the school board whose authority over local education

was overridden during the imposed bankruptcy, says the sickout protest

is a publicity stunt to cover up the union’s complicity in the main

objective: destroying the public education system in Detroit.

Presidential

candidate was the keynote speaker at the Detroit NAACP’s Freedom Fund

Dinner last night. Leid Stories discusses the main item on the menu:

total contempt for the very people chiefly responsible for her viability

as a political candidate.

In the throes of a media-induced frenzy about the 2016 presidential

race, it’s hard not to get caught up in the bizarreness of it. But

rather than join the madness, says Leid Stories, this election cycle

should cause us to overhaul our thinking about the political process,

our political orientation and ideology, and the nature of our

relationship with “the system.”

Paul DeRienzo, who has been reporting on “America’s

Fukushima”—actual and looming disasters of America’s nuclear program and at

several nuclear power plants—discusses a massive leak at the notorious Hanford

Site, a sprawling nuclear-reactor complex on

the Columbia River in south-central Washington state. Regulatory agencies,

however, are saying there is no cause for alarm.

Bernie Sanders’ insists that his

campaign is a “revolution.” Sounds great, and he’s got millions of votes to

back up that contention, but his actions increasingly suggest

that it’s something else. Leid Stories says it’s way past time to call him on

it.

Think last night’s Clinton-Sanders faceoff was something? Well, you

ain’t heard nothin’ yet! Hear the sparks fly on Leid Stories’ “Free Your

Mind Friday,”

the best people’s forum in Radioland. Great minds gather here at the

end of the week to analyze and share information, opinions and ideas

about news and issues that matter to our growing community. Callers

decide what they want to talk about, and are free to take on other

callers’ points of view. The battle of ideas is all done with great

respect—and a generous helping of humor. Join in! Call 888-874-4888 and take your turn at the people’s podium!

Going into the high-stakes, delegate-rich April 19

New York primary, presidential hopefuls are leaving nothing to chance.

They’re all over the Empire State, working their circuits and trolling

for votes. A hurriedly arranged CNN “debate” between Hillary Clinton and

Bernie Sanders tonight

in Brooklyn is trumping (pardon the pun) all other events the

Democratic candidates have scheduled. On the Republican side, Donald

Trump is making the most of his hometown brand.

Leid Stories discusses the importance of the New York primary, especially to those who reject duopoly politics.

Leid

Stories goes within today, taking an introspective, philosophical look

about life and what we do with it. Host Utrice Leid, celebrating a year

of fruitful living after a devastating diagnosis, tells what pulled, and

keeps pulling, her through.

On

the Democratic side, there’s nary a whimper from the candidate who’s been

winning the popular vote but lagging in party delegate votes. Bernie Sanders is

playing by party rules, hoping to win delegate and superdelegate votes from

Hillary Clinton at the party’s nominating convention (in Philadelphia) in July.

But

there’s an all-out war in the Republican camp, with Donald Trump, the party’s

winningest candidate, railing against a “corrupt” and “crooked” system that is

denying him his fair share of delegates. Trump isn’t waiting to persuade

nominating delegates to switch at the GOP’s national convention in Cleveland;

the party’s “rules,” he says, are patently unfair because they are being

manipulated to favor the will and choice of the party elite.

Leid

Stories in a commentary contends that the battle over delegates and the charges

of corruption in the parties’ primary process are one of the best gifts the

duopoly can give. It brings into plain view why neither party can be trusted to

respect the sanctity of the people’s vote.

Got something to say about this week’s insanities? Well, get it said already! Call in to the world’s greatest open forum (888-874-4888) and free your mind.

The frenzied fight over delegates continues as the 2016 presidential primaries reaches its apex this month. But Democrats and Republicans already are fixing their focus on their June conventions (Philadelphia for the Democrats; Cleveland for the Republicans), where epic battles are expected over the delegate-driven nomination process.

As we have been doing since the political season began, Leid Stories “polls” listeners on their current attitudes about the presidential race and what choices they are likely to make in the general election.

Donald

Trump and Hillary Clinton, the duopoly’s erstwhile “frontrunners” in yesterday’s

Wisconsin primaries, both got trounced—Trump, by Ted Cruz, with 48.2-35.1

percent of the Republican vote; Clinton, by Bernie Sanders’ 56.6 percent of the

Democratic vote to her 43.1 percent of the vote.

Experts

and the media are busily dissecting the political upsets, attributing them to a

wide range of factors, from personal appeal to campaign strategy and issues

they championed. But there is little, if any, discussion about what the

Wisconsin primaries really proved—that, once again, the system proved the

process is rigged.