Gary and Dee discuss another alternate voting method:  Approval Voting.  It’s much easier than Rank Choice Voting.  It’s biggest drawback is that it doesn’t have a ‘catchy’ name.  The Voting Integrity Commission is up and running.  Sadly, Colorado is one of the states cooperating with it.  Thanks Wayne Williams!  We also discuss some of the […]

Gary, Dee, and Joe discuss Rank Choice Voting.   Rank choice voting is a better way to vote.  It gives everyone a voice.  It eliminates negative advertising.  It stops fringe candidates from winning.  It has the side effect of a more involved electorate.  In US cities where it is used, there is a higher voter turn […]

Gary and Dee discuss the latest version of the Republican Tax Cut bill, otherwise known as Trumpcare.  What would this new ‘healthcare’ bill change?  For adults under the age of 65 the consequences are disastrous.  The premiums could rise to as much as five times what a younger adult would pay.  Currently, that is capped […]

Gary and Dee discuss dialysis and dialysis clinics.  What is the state of dialysis here in the United States?  Did you know dialysis is guaranteed to everyone who needs it?  Why is so much of our dialysis care tied up in for-profit clinics?  What are the consequences of this?  DaVita is a national for-profit dialysis […]

Gary and Dee discuss health care in America.  We’d love to discuss the current health care ‘reform’ proposals, but those aren’t finalized, yet.  Our main focus of discussion is lack of primary care physicians.  According to a Medical Colleges report, the US could lose 100,000 physicians in eight years.  That’s a staggering number. Repealing the […]

Part Two of Guns.  Gary and Dee are back for the second half of our episode on #guns.  What happens in states with stricter gun laws?  Lower rates of homicide and suicide.  There was no substitution effect found.  Removing guns from domestic abusers lowered intimate partner death rates 7 – 19%.  How did the Protection […]

Gary and Dee discuss #guns.  Let’s start with the 2nd Amendment, adopted to the Constitution in December, 1791.  A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. At the time of the amendment, guns were slower, less […]

On June 2, 2017, US Representative Ed Perlmutter (D,) from 7th District of Colorado held a rally at Ivy Wild School, in Colorado Springs.  Gary and Dee were there to ask questions and observe.  We got there quite early and had the Congressman to ourselves for a while.  So, we got a few questions in.  […]

Gary and Dee discuss the PPLD’s summer reading program; Care and Share’s summer feeding program and Colorado Action Network’s town hall.  Pike Peak’s Library District summer reading program for children and teens has started.  Swing by your local library and sign up.  Prizes for all who complete their goals.  Care and Share is fighting summer […]

Gary and Dee discuss a plethora of topics.  Traveling this summer?  Check out the CDC’s travel apps @ https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/apps-about.  Want to check out the finances of the people working in the White House?  There’s a page for that, by public integrity–https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/04/04/20801/new-database-details-white-house-officials-finances.  Have something that needs repairing?  Check out the repair cafe at the Rockrimmon library […]