a theme for today's show: people who push back, let's start with the big rig truck driver who rammed a murder suspect fleeing police in a pick-up, a KVI listener tells a story of a confrontation inside a Seattle restaurant where customers were being accosted by a man inside and a police officer declined to do anything about based on the race of a person involved, Joe Biden Constitutional Law Expert, new polling shows how bad things are for people living in Chicago.
GUEST: KVI's Lone Star State Correspondent, from McKinney TX, Kirby Wilbur, how the Texas critics keep saying "give it another week" as they morbidly hope COVID cases go up in the state, consider Michigan's restrictions and continued high COVID rates, COVID cases are down 25% in TX over the last four weeks; ugly story of an Oregon union defying Supreme Court Janus ruling about union dues, the union leaders allegedly fraudulently signed documents to take union dues from the worker.
FL Gov. pushing back on 60 Minutes for biased hit piece on the Republican, the high school track coach calling non-sense on a mask mandate for track meet competitors, how WSDOT is $15 billion behind on road/bridge maintenance, GUEST: economist, Steve Moore, why corporate tax rates matter, Team Biden's talk of a 'global tax cartel' sounds a lot like collusion, the blatant mis-use of WA digital reader boards for the "vaccinated? Keep wearing your mask" message.
a KVI listener describes an encounter inside a West Seattle restaurant where a police officer declined to intercede in an unruly person badgering customers inside the eatery, why the officer cited the new 'de-escalation' law for not responding to the situation, KVI callers (including one who works in law-enforcement) ound off on the listener e-mail,
union vote is failing among Alabama Amazon (warehouse) workers and JUST IN: now the union pushing for unionization is vowing to sue based on the losing union vote,
more coverage and reaction to this failed union vote for an Amazon warehouse in Alabama, the union vote failed with a 70.8% "no" vote, hero big rig truck driver stops CA murder suspect after high-speed chase, hero track coach gets fired for suggesting that high school (track) athletes don't need to wear mask during events at meets, a KVI listener points out that parents aren't even allowed to attend high school track meets right now based on gathering restrictions (even though its an outside event).