We're Back! Guest Ryan Schuling surprises Shelley with his support of the New York Times position on defamation and Sarah Palin, smartly differentiates between the Canadian trucker protest and the local teachers' protest, and agrees with Shelley on the disturbing state of our financial crisis.  

Special Guest Jessica recounts the trauma of her mother's COVID19 experience.  Shelley and Jessica discuss whether fear and politics are driving current viewpoints on COVID19, and whether schools and the economy should open up.  What do you think?  

Join Shelley and Guest Scott Romano, a Senior at University of Denver studying International Business and Economics, as they discuss the differing perspective of Generation Z and Millennials on political institutions, social issues, and the 2020 election.  

Join Shelley with special guest, Matt Dunn of Backbone Radio, while they discuss the impeachment proceedings, their favorite Dems in the race, Spygate, climate change, and Prince Harry's and Meghan Markle's decision to give up their royal titles.

It's time for another lightning round episode! Join us for a fast paced conversation about a variety of topics that have been in the news recently that we find interesting (and we think you will too), including:  Does President Trump really think Colorado is a border state? Why are Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg running sweepstakes to fly supporters across the country if civil aviation pollution is a key contributor to climate change? Abortion rates are down in Colorado - is free birth control for teens the reason why? The TX custody case for 7-year old James Younger:  is he in fact transgender as his mother claims? Did Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act reduce taxes only for the 'ultra-wealthy' but not the middle class? Have Seattle's public schools declared math is racist as part of their newly expanded ethnic studies program?  2 resources that we promised to share from this episode:   NYT op-ed from David Leonhardt (linking to Salt Lake Tribune reprint to avoid NYT paywall restrictions): https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/10/07/david-leonhardt-rich/    Forbes' rebuttal: https://www.forbes.com/sites/howardgleckman/2019/10/11/are-us-billionaires-really-paying-a-lower-tax-rate-than-working-people-probably-not/

Join us with special guest Alan Zibel of Public Citizen (www.citizen.org) as we discuss Alan's recent report titled "Detained for Profit: Spending Surges under U.S. Immigration Crackdown". For-profit prisons play a key role in U.S. immigration detentions and receive billions each year of our taxpayer dollars.  Are for-profit prisons a good or bad idea?  How do immigration policies like the Flores Agreement impact the number of immigrant detainees arriving at our southern border?  What are potential solutions to ensure immigrant children and families aren't waiting months for their immigration cases to be heard?  Read Alan's report for yourself here: https://www.citizen.org/article/detained-for-profit-spending-surges-under-u-s-immigration-crackdown/

it's time for another lightning round episode! Join us for a fast paced conversation about a variety of topics that have been in the news recently that we find interesting (and we think you will too), including:   - Do we have a right to not be offended by someone else's choice of language? - Is the transcript of the call between Trump and the Ukrainian President going to be enough to finally take down Trump via impeachment? (*NOTE*: we recorded this episode on 9/25, the day the transcript was released.  Subsequently the whistleblower report was released which includes facts not discussed in the episode e.g. the timeline for the U.S. decision to withhold foreign aid and when Ukraine was made aware of that decision.) - Do you think teenagers should be featured on a global stage to advocate on issues like climate change? - Why is the federal reserve pumping so much money into the economy? - Do you agree with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors that the NRA is a domestic terrorist organization? - Do you agree that an event hall in Mississippi refusing to perform a wedding for a biracial couple is racist?  

Join us as we talk with Andrew Romanoff, Democrat candidate for U.S. Senate representing Colorado.  We cover a number of issues important to all voters, in Colorado as well as across the U.S., including economic policy, gun violence, healthcare, immigration and more.  You can learn more about Andrew at www.andrewromanoff.com. 

We are joined by Casper Stockham, Republican candidate for Colorado's 6th Congressional District.  We cover a lot of topics that we believe are of interest to our listeners on both sides of the aisle (and even outside of Colorado) and have provided audio bookmarks in case you're interested to hear only part of our conversation (of course, we hope you'll listen to the entire thing).  Also, we've provided quite a few reference links for this episode that provide additional data, opinion and analysis on each topic we discuss. Federal spending/budget/taxes ~6:34 Voting rights ~16:55 Illegal immigration ~26:15 Education ~ 39:15 Gun violence ~52:23 Gay rights v. religious freedom ~1:17:49   References (links may only work on www.redmombluemom.com) Federal spending/budget/taxes: CBO - 2018 federal budget infographic (Jan 2019) Face it - you probably got a tax cut (NYT, April 2019) Pass-Through Deduction Will Fuel Wealth Inequality (Forbes Dec 2018) A Year After the Middle Class Tax Cut, the Rich are Winning (Bloomberg Dec 2018)   Voting rights: Voter Suppression is Warping Democracy (Atlantic, July 2018) Voter Suppression During the 2018 Midterm Election (Center for American Progress, November 2018) Election resources (National Conference of State Legislatures) YouTube - Are voter ID laws racist? (Ami Horowitz, November 2016)   Illegal immigration: Family separation by the numbers (ACLU, August 2019) The real border crisis is foreigners gaming American's asylum laws (The Federalist, December 2018) Why don’t they just get in line (American Immigration Council, 2016) If you want less illegal immigration, go after employers (Mother Jones Commentary, November 2016)   Education: Why do Republicans Suddenly Hate College So Much (Atlantic, July 2017) New Data Shows Some Colleges are Definitely Unaffordable for Many (Hechinger Report, October 2018) The immorality of student loan forgiveness and free college (Reason, August 2019) The world might be better off without college for everyone (Atlantic, January 2018)   Gun violence: 7 gun control myths that just won't die (The Federalist, October 2015) US Mass Shootings - data from 1982 - 2019 (Mother Jones, August 2019) Gun-Rights Advocates Claim Criminals Don’t Follow Gun Laws. Here’s the Research That Shows They’re Wrong. (The Trace, 2015) 2018 was by far the worst year on record for gun violence in schools (Vox, December 2018)   Gay rights v. religious freedom When Religion Becomes an Excuse to Discriminate (Advocate Opinion, February 2018) LGBT rights are under attack (Daily Beast April, 2019) Can a religious school fire a gay teacher? It's complicated. (NBC, August 2019)

it's time for another lightning round episode! Join us for a fast paced conversation about a variety of topics that have been in the news recently that we find interesting (and we think you will too), including:   - Is Trump un-American and un-patriotic for selling arms to Saudi Arabia? - Is Rep. Steve King's recent comment about comparing cultures, the Founding Fathers and American exceptionalism racist? - Did taking down the American flag and replacing it with a Mexico flag at a Colorado ICE detention facility help or hurt the cause of immigration activists? - Are pharmaceutical manufacturers complicit in the opioid crisis? - Did Macy's make the right decision when they stopped selling a set of dinnerware because some criticized the product as promoting body-shaming? Plus, a quick chat on a topic we've discussed before:  the recent shooting in Gilroy, CA and gun control.  We'll discuss this in more detail in an upcoming episode. Although we don't typically share our resources for Lightning Round episodes, here are a few things that we thought might be helpful for listeners as we specifically reference them in the episode (links may only work on www.redmombluemom.com): - Obama's Saudi arms deal: https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/critics-slam-obama-administration-hiding-massive-saudi-arms/story?id=12192558 - Opioid manufacturers flood market with pills (**behind paywall**): https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/76-billion-opioid-pills-newly-released-federal-data-unmasks-the-epidemic/2019/07/16/5f29fd62-a73e-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html?fbclid=IwAR1ayOgSIBHksORxlW95OGLVj1gTdOjusAnVVLCx425yTgb6bZXVUmAGysc&utm_term=.1a375ae291e5