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Luke Wake, senior attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, joins Lars to discuss the push to rescind the Roadless Rule. Could removing the restrictions open the door to cheaper hydroelectric and geothermal power for communities stuck paying some of the nation’s highest electricity rates?
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Kevin Sabet, President and CEO of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, joins Lars to discuss the growing commercialization of marijuana as Trulieve becomes the first U.S. cannabis company to list on a major American exchange. With marijuana addiction rising, is Big Marijuana following the same path as Big Tobacco?
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Jeremy Portnoy, investigative journalist at Open the Books, joins Lars to discuss nearly $460 billion in federal housing spending since 2015. With homeownership still out of reach for millions of Americans, why hasn’t all that spending made housing more affordable?
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Travis Joseph, President of the American Forest Resource Council, joins Lars to discuss the Trump administration’s proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule. Would opening more national forest land to roads and active management help reduce wildfire risk and improve forest health?
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Stephen Soukup, author of The Dictatorship of Woke Capital, joins Lars to discuss the collapse of the Net Zero Banking Alliance. With major banks abandoning the $75 trillion climate coalition, is Wall Street finally admitting Net Zero was a mistake?
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Nigel Jaquiss, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, joins Lars to discuss new allegations of years of sexual abuse and a cover-up at the Oregon Youth Authority. What did agency leaders know, and why is a former OYA director now running the Oregon Health Authority?
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Leland Vittert, host of On Balance and Chief Washington Anchor for NewsNation, joins Lars to discuss cases of police officers abusing Flock surveillance cameras. Should misconduct by individual officers lead to scrapping a useful crime-fighting tool, or is the real problem a lack of safeguards?
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Dr. Bob Zybach, president of NW Maps Co., joins Lars to discuss Oregon’s claims of record-setting wildfire acreage. By counting grass and shrubland fires alongside destructive crown fires, is the state giving the public a misleading picture of Oregon’s wildfire crisis?
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Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels joins Lars to discuss the recovery from the Fairview Fire now that evacuations have been lifted. What will it take to rebuild, and how much should local and state officials cut red tape to get families back into their homes?
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Nick Shivers of the Nick Shivers Team joins Lars to discuss Seattle’s new ban on pet rent and other landlord fees. Will the new rules actually help renters, or could they end up making housing more expensive?
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