In a powerful and important opening segment and hour, Michael Brown outlines the history of Juneteenth and the groundswell of support behind making it a federal holiday. The motives may not be what they appear to be.

Denver has a 250 million dollar budget deficit and is strongly considering massive layoffs and furloughs, rather than making any cuts to the endless 'investment' in public housing for the homeless - which is delivering little, if any, return on that 'investment.'