Philip Teresi

Democrats' Redistricting Win Sparks A New Party War In California. When Zohran Mamdani’s lead media strategist slipped out of town and flew west to cut an ad for a little-known progressive in the heart of California’s Central Valley, he was opening a new front in the Democratic Party’s civil war. 

One Year In, The Numbers Behind California’s Fast Food Wage Hike. California passed the Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery (FAST) Act in April of 2024 amid vocal support and fierce opposition. The first-of-its-kind policy increased the starting wage for California fast food workers to $20 per hour, which is higher than the overall state minimum wage. 

The Pop-Tarts Bowl TrophyShortly after Iowa State's win in the 2024 Pop-Tarts Bowl, Cyclones receiver Jaylin Noel, in a celebratory mood, went to grab the game's trophy to lug it home. But this trophy is different from any other and, as such, required Josh Price, an engineer who helped build the thing, to deliver some safety instructions. Noel wasn't interested. 

2025: Year in Review Terry and Nick take a look back at 2025. Numerous countries such as the United States, Canada, and Germany installed new national leaders, and some transitions were contentious. 

Guest: Nick Richardson 

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Tuesday with Terry Slatic, joining him this week is Fresno City Councilmember Nick Richardson. 

The Majors talk Oregon Punishing the Freedom Foundation Public-worker unions. A new Oregon law is targeting a think tank that informs workers of their First Amendment right not to pay union fees. 

What’s Next for Venezuela and Cuba? The U.S. and its Latin American allies need a plan for the day after the dictators fall. With all eyes on the U.S. Navy’s buildup in the southern Caribbean, less attention is going to the spike in repression inside Venezuela. 

Guest: Nick Richardson 

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Chinese Military Drills Send ‘Stern Warning’ After U.S. Arms Sales to Taiwan. China launched major military exercises in the waters and airspace around Taiwan Monday in what it called a “stern warning” against outside interference in Chinese affairs, as tensions grow with the U.S. and Japan over the security of the island.

Pete Hegseth Thinks Boot Camp Got Too Soft. If the trainees expected to be chewed out as they formed lines and awaited orders, they were disappointed. There were no Hollywood theatrics. No screaming, red-faced drill instructors. No unprintable insults. The mood was calm, professional, business-like. Now, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants to turn back the clock. 

Guest: Nick Richardson 

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China’s Largest Live-Fire Naval Exercise Simulates a Blockade of Taiwan. The Chinese Navy is currently running its largest live-fire exercise ever, surrounding the island nation of Taiwan and simulating a blockade. 

Guest: Nick Richardson 

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Terry Slatic and fellow Marine and Fresno Councilmember Nick Richardson check out The Department of Homeland Security investigation into Somali-run childcare facilities to determine whether they are abusing taxpayer funds after a YouTuber brought national attention to seemingly empty daycares receiving public funding. 

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Terry Slatic and Fresno City Councilman, and fellow Marine, Nick Richardson take a look what going in with Minnesota’s fraud problem. Gov. Tim Walz is now boasting about the people and contractors he’s recently hired to watch over a state government he’s run for nearly seven years. 

Guest: Nick Richardson 

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The highest-earning 10% of Americans have increased their spending far beyond inflation. Everyone else hasn’t. The highest-earning 10% of Americans have increased their spending far beyond inflation. Everyone else hasn’t.Many Americans are pinching pennies, exhausted by high prices and stubborn inflation. The well-off are spending with abandon. The top 10% of earners—households making about $250,000 a year or more—are splurging on everything from vacations to designer handbags, buoyed by big gains in stocks, real estate and other assets. 

New Years Resolutions -  

These are Americans’ top New Year’s resolutions for 2026: Survey The next most common choices for the new year included being happy (23 percent), eating healthier (22 percent) and saving more money (21 percent).  

Twenty-one percent of respondents said improving their physical health was most important, while 17 percent of participants said they’d like to lose weight. 

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Democrats and some Republicans question how the information will be used. 

Neal Kurk fought for privacy rights for three decades as a Republican state lawmaker in New Hampshire. Now he is joining a fight in the famously libertarian haven to keep the federal government from obtaining a list of the state’s voters. 

“This is an attempt to exercise federal interference in what is really a state issue,” said Kurk, who is part of a bipartisan group trying to intervene in a lawsuit brought by the Justice Department to get that list. “In New Hampshire, we’re always trying to make sure that our voter lists are accurate.” 

The Trump administration wants to control how data centers connect to the power grid 

At a conference of state utility regulators in Seattle, a group of Trump administration officials got an earful of complaints about a plan the White House is pushing for the federal government to take control of part of the country’s power grid in the service of artificial intelligence. 

Their concerns stem from instructions Energy Secretary Chris Wright recently gave to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which is known as FERC and oversees wholesale power in the U.S., to draft new rules that would give it oversight of how giant data centers connect to the power grid. The process is typically overseen by states. 

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A new lawsuit is questioning the “microwave safe” and “freezer safe” claims of Ziploc plastic bags. The lawsuit against S.C. Johnson alleged that these claims for its Ziploc brand products are misleading, and that these uses of the products increase risk of exposure to microplastics.  

MARS: RESTORING ASIA'S CORAL REEFS FOR MARINE CONSERVATION 

Mars sustainable solutions has led one of the largest single coral restoration efforts to date in the Spermonde Archipelago, Sulawesi.  

The project, known as 'the big build', saw partners from government, NGOS, business and local communities work side by side to install a 2,500m² reef and outplant 30,000 corals in the heart of the coral triangle, a nature-rich area of tropical waters in Southeast Asia. 

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Andrew Janz working with various agencies in town. Representing police and other agency employees who are being sued by the public.  What keeps him working as the cities top lawyer. The need to keep people safe. Here to serve to make Fresno a better place and make people safe.  

Terry talks what percentage of mainstream media coverage about trump is negative? 92% of coverage by legacy media on trump is negative.  

Democrats won’t release 2024 election loss ‘autopsy’, DNC chair says 

Report on Kamala Harris’s loss to trump would be a ‘distraction’ as party is ‘putting our learnings into motion’. The democratic national committee won’t release a review of its election loss in 2024, saying it would be a “distraction” from helping the party win going forward. The party has been working on a so-called autopsy of 2024 since Kamala Harris lost the presidential election to Donald trump. 

Ken martin, the DNC chair who previously said he would publicly release a review of the 2024 election, said in a statement that the review was complete and that the committee was “already putting our learnings into motion”. 

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