Highlights this week. Interviews may be abbreviated. For the date and hour podcast to hear more, see the note

0:00 Phil Kerpen, American Commitment (Jul 31, Hr 2)

10:37 Malta Joe on Malta, Pastizzi, and other Maltise delicacies (Jul 31, Hr 2)

18:34 Excerpt of Dave Smith interview. Dave is the Pima County GOP Chairman (Aug 1, Hr 3)

29:09 Dr. JoAnn di Filippo on Pima County raises (excerpt) (Aug 1, Hr 2)

39:08 Green Valley News Editor Dan Shearer on Pima County N/W service center and the proposed asphalt plant (Aug 2, Hr 3)

50:43 Bart Pemberton and Dan Grosenback effort to change Catalina Foothills School District governing board (Aug 2, Hr 3)

57:28 Tucson resident confronts shoplifters at a Walgreens…related to column of "The price of refusing to prosecute" (Aug 3, Hr 2)

1:08:05 Dean Clancy on options being worked for affordable healthcare (Aug 3, Hr 3)

1:18:45 Food Friday! Richard Fifer, Agave House (Aug 4, Hr 2)

More Joe Pesci movies with Mark Van Buren...the top choices.

Michael Reyes with Lodge on the Desert. Even if you live here you can Visit Tucson.

Shaun McClusky unleashed

Food Friday! Agave House's Richard Fifer. At Main Gate Square. Check out Agave House at agavehousetucson.com

Movies with Mark Van Buren--Top Ten Joe Pesci movies

Shaun McClusky joins the crew

TUSD back to "virtual learning"?

PACC fail...a report from KVOA.

Alien talk

Dean Clancy with Americans for Prosperity and Paragon Health Institute on personal option solutions expanding access to affordable health care, including H.R. 3799. For more information, check out personaloption.com

More crime discussion

Austin VanDerHeyden takes Pima County Attorney Laura Conover to task in "The price of refusing to prosecute"

Observations from Wakies and suggestions ranging from carrying a chancla to a "GrubHub" service for store security.

Officer Zuckerberg over at Facebook cracked down on humerous memes regarding the vax...at the behest of the Biden Admin...no laughing people

Feedback on Pima County Finance Director: now two highly compensated employees do the job one did before.

Bart Pemberton and Dan Grosenback talk about Save CFSD, a PAC established to replace the current Catalina Foothills School District Board members with new members and restore transparency to the district leadership. It was formed in response to the statistice that 4 out of 10 families opt-out of the district. For more information, visit savecfsd.org

Fitch downgrades US credit rating.

OVPD Chief Kara Riley talks about her tenure as OV, and how it started chaotically with a pandemic and evacuation alerts from the Bighorn Fire. Chief Riley and Chris discuss crimes in OV in the recent news and trends that are emerging as well as the Chief's initiatives and priorities. She also discussed Oro Valley's response time stats.

Shelley Kais, former Pima GOP Chairwoman, talks about party unity and responds to comments made yesterday by the new Pima County GOP, Dave Smith. She directs listeners to info.republican to view specific issues.

Reflections and feedback from yesterday's interview with the leader of the Pima GOP.

Dan Shearer, Editor of the Green Valley News joins Chris to talk about the evolution of the purchase of the Golden Pin Lanes from a remodeled building to new construction at a significantly higher cost. Dan also talks about a new robot in Green Valley and feedback from his recent journalism roundtable.