Attitude with Arnie Arnesen Arnie Arnesen

Part 1:We talk with Anders Croy, of Florida Watch and DeSantis Watch.We discuss the home insurance problems in Florida. Cost of insurance has skyrocketed. This has cause many people to lose money, since the insurance companies also often refuse to pay for climate-caused damages.Home prices are falling in Florida. Many people cannot afford to keep their homes.The 6-week abortion ban in Florida has reduced opportunities for the US SouthEast.Ballot iniatiatives have started to put health care (medicaid expansion) on the ballot in Florida.The unrest on college campuses is exacerbated by the actions of the governor, who attempts to suppress as dissent.Part 2:We talk with Adam Finkel about Littleton, NH, a town torn apart by discrimination against gay and gender-fluid persons. All this due to town representative who chooses to tear the town apart on this issue.  WNHNFM.ORG   production

Part 1:We discuss Project 2025, and its implications.We discuss the life expectancy differences between red and blue states.How unionizing is affecting workers and corporations.Part 2:We discuss new regulations that require airlines to disclose true ticket prices and fees. New regulations now require airlines to compensate passengers for flight delays in cash, not 'vouchers for more flights.We talk about the 'overproduction of solar power in CA, and how this can translate to better power management.We discuss the unrest on college campuses, and the schools' administrators' responses: bringing in police and potential effects: more violence. This deprives students of their free speech rights and causes more dissent. Part 1:We discuss Project 2025, and its implications.We discuss the life expectancy differences between red and blue states.How unionizing is affecting workers and corporations.Part 2:We discuss new regulations that require airlines to disclose true ticket prices and fees. New regulations now require airlines to compensate passengers for flight delays in cash, not 'vouchers for more flights.We talk about the 'overproduction of solar power in CA, and how this can translate to better power management.We discuss the unrest on college campuses, and the schools' administrators' responses: bringing in police and potential effects: more violence. This deprives students of their free speech rights and causes more dissent. WNHNFM.ORG  production

Part 1:We talk with Elliot Haspel, an authority on child care.We continue the discussion about how child care is being dominated by for-profit private equity firms. We note their economic power, which translates to political power. For example, their lobbyists were instrumental in eliminating child care provisions from the Build Back Better bill. These firms are world-wide. Better legislation is needed at the national level.Part 2:We talk with Bill Curry and Laura Jedeed. Bill Curry is a alwyer, former candidate for governor in Connecticut, worked in the Clinton White House, and a leader in the nuclear freeze movement. Laura Jedeed is a journalist who reports on right-wing factions in the US. She is a U.S. veteran.We discuss upcoming elections, and the kinds of candidates. Particularly, we discuss the senate campaign in Nebraska. Osborn, a union organizer and leader, is a candidate running as an Independent, challenging a Republican. No Democratic candidates are running.We also discuss the visit of Speaker Johnson to Columbia University, where there are protests about the situation in Gaza, and for a cease fire. The University president asked for police intervention in the protests. We consider this to have been a mistake that will only inflame the situation. Johnson's presence is not helpful. His remarks, chastising the students, were not helpful, and minimized the sentiments on both sides: pro-Israeli and pro-Gaza demonstrators.  WNHNFM.ORG   production

Part 1:We talk with Elliot Haspel, a child and family policy expert.We discuss the takeover of childcare by private equity firms. This is now an industry, that is by its nature, not likely to be profitable. However, private equity firms are using various tools to gain from it. They acquire small child care facilities, then "strip and flip" them, and then discard them after a few years. In the meantime, parents are at their mercy: cost cutting approaches mean fewer and/or less qualified teachers, low wages for employees, poor facilities, skimping on supplies such as food, toys, or even paper. The customer base is usually upper middle class, because poorer parents cannot afford the cost. We talk about alternatives that may be possible.Part 2:This is episode 28 of Race Class, with BU professor Jonathan Feingold.Ep. 28 | Identity Politics & Playing Jewish CardsOn Wednesday Apr. 24, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced he would tour Columbia University and host a news conference to discuss the troubling rise of virulent antisemitism on Americas college campuses. Just ten days prior, Johnson appeared alongside Donald Trump for a press conference that echoed language from the racist [and antisemitic] great replacement theory. With his pivot to Columbia and feigned concern over anti-semitism, one might say Mike Johnson is engaging in identity politics and playing a Jewish card. He is far from alone. Since October 7th, individuals and entities from across the political spectrum have mobilized Jewish identity to wage ideological battles over competing visions of life at home and abroad. With a nod to Carbado & Gulatis research on working identity, we identify four different ways that Jewish identity is being mobilized in this moment: The Comrade. The Sword. The Shield. The Cynic. (Teaser: Mike Johnson's behavior falls into that last category.] 

Our guests:Part 1: Aaron Peskin, currently the President of the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco.  He is running for Mayor.Topics:The home affordability crisis in San Francisco. Peskin's goal is to make SF a more affordable, fair, and equitable city, not just for millionaires. He considers SF a "small town with global wealth". The business community currently dominates SF, and many billionaires are involved in local politics, although SF is a group of "small towns" with citizens who care about their neighborhoods, beyond speculation and investment values. Part 2:  Saul Kaiserman, a doctoral candidate in Jewish Education. This conversation was about perceptions and how people react based on their view of Jewish life, and Jews' relations to other groups. This is in the context of Passover.  We discuss the meaning of the Seder, and how people should understand how they are all traumatized by the actions against Jews, and actions by Jews. The conversation covered the unrest on college campuses, and the treatment of demonstrators.  Are the Jews the "most moral army in the world?" was a topic that was also discussed. The speaker also mentioned the generational gap between Jews: older people focused on the injustices and persecutions in the past, and younger people who are aware of the problems in Gaza, and the Israeli government's role, including that of Netanyahu. WNHNFM.ORG  production

This is a panel discussion.Part 1:We discuss the various protests at colleges and universities around Israel and Gaza. There has been encouragement of the criticism of colleges as a way of attacking higher education. The main influencers voicing the criticism have been right-wing institutes, and individuals (C. Rufo), with a goal of creating instability and distrust around higher education.Part 2:We discuss Israel and Gaza. Netanyahu is eager to escalate the conflict via involving Iran explicitly, and involving the US. While this is happening, the US is involved in a proxy war in Ukraine.We also turn to the Trump trial in NYC. Jury selection is complete. For Trump, it is the presidency or prison as the outcome of his many indictments.  WNHNFM.ORG   production