AM950 Best of Interviews
Matt is joined by criminal defense attorney Jack Rice. They talk about the lack of a conviction for the Michigan men who devised a plot to kidnap governor Gretchen Whitmer, South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg’s 2020 car crash where he killed a pedestrian and more.
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Brett Johnson speaks with Matt Lelou of the Communications Workers of America union at New Flyer in St. Cloud, a bus manufacturing plant. Their union recently authorized a strike seeking higher pay, sick time, paid religious holidays and limits on mandatory overtime.
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Matt is joined by Eric Bernstein, a progressive policy analyst focused on state tax and budgetary policy and policy director for We Make Minnesota. He talks about his Minnesota Reformer article titled, “The GOP tax cut plan is tilted to the rich.”
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Our Democrat of the Day is Richard Painter, who is running for the DFL nomination in the special election for the 1st Congressional district.
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It’s our usual Wednesday visit with national political expert Jeff Stein. This week Matt and Jeff talk about Democrats possibly changing their primary/caucus calendar which could impact Iowa’s first in the nation status, why far right wingers like Marjorie Taylor Greene are causing problems for the GOP and more.
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Brett Johnson recently spoke with Anna Granias of Wilder Research. She was part of the team at Wilder that was contracted to review the state’s response to protests that took place after George Floyd was killed by police. They talked about some of the flaws of law enforcement and elected officials with how they responded…
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Robert Cozzolino is the Patrick and Aimee Butler Curator of Paintings at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia).
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We’re joined by Dr. Joe Eastman who tells us about a new Omicron sub-variant found in South Africa that is already causing problems.
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It’s our usual Wednesday visit with national political expert Jeff Stein. This week Matt and Jeff talk about AOC’s editorial in New York Magazine predicting doom and gloom for Democrats, the 7 hour gap in Trump’s phone records from January 6, 2021, a federal judge ruling that Donald Trump “more likely than not” attempted to…
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Brett Johnson recently spoke with Peter Callaghan of MinnPost. They discussed funding and construction delays of the the Southwest Lightrail line and how a bill at the state legislature could impact healthcare premiums for Minnesotans.
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