Hour 3b - 

Nick Reed talks about a variety of topics in the news, including: 

For households earning the US median annual income of about $70,000, the current inflation rate has forced them to spend another $175 a month on food, fuel and housing, according to Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics. 

ALSO - 

The lovely Lexi Locke joins Nick Reed this morning: 

Join the Springfield Symphony this Saturday for Fancy Footwork! 

Enjoy an eclectic concert of orchestral and piano show-stoppers, including Dvořák’s high-spirited Slavonic Dances and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s lively Petite Suite de concert. We welcome to our stage 2021 Hellam Competition Winner Simon Karakulidi for Prokofiev’s astonishingly technical and enchanting Piano Concerto No. 2. 

The concert performance will be held at 7:30 p.m.