On this episode of News With My Dad, Joe & Jefferson discuss the movement of Hurricane Dorian, Prime Minister Johnson’s very-bad-not-so-good week, and the contenders for Oregon’s Secretary of State.

Luntz on Climate Change...which words to choose? Gillibrand out for President...who’s next? Isakson out for the US Senate...Democrats in? Parliament out in Britain...Democracy out too?Local Focus Thursday! Not a car, not a house...Who handles tiny homes? Special session for the death penalty. Environmental impact of expanding the highway? And here’s the kicker…$1.6 Billion.

Who is the G7...and who isn't? Will the China-US trade war tank the economy, or is it justified...or both? Remembering David Koch without dancing or tears. A football star doesn’t press his Luck. Nuking Hurricanes and not buying Greenland. RBG and the age strategy of Supreme Court justices.

Joe and Jeff guess who will be the next to leave the 2020 race, discuss religious freedom, sexism, and campaign finance reform, and talk with the curators of Portland’s Biennial artists’ survey.

Protests, playfulness as a combat against racism and Proud Boys (bananas and white flour!), polling negasaurs, pre-empting gun murders, protecting the NRA from investigation, and paying for the CRC bridge mega-highway.

On the latest episode of News With My Dad, the Smith’s discuss Democracy Dollars and Banana Suits, as Portland prepares a round of counter-protests for August 17th’s Proud Boy rally.

Epstein, Court News, "The Family," and protests in Hong Kong & Moscow. Thank goodness for Simone Biles.