55KRC Thursday Show - Cory Bowman, AFP, State Sen. Bill Blessing, Jay Ratliff

The return to court bom and running from their of the city of Cincinnati and uphill challenge we all know for a Republican candidate, but I think he's got some good ideas and a welcome refreshing change given what we learned about from Todd Zenzer, just scraping the surface of the problems of the city of Cincinnati faces. You can check out that podcast from earlier in the week fifty five car Se dot Com. Corey Bumman will get his thoughts on Hyde Park and the three hundred thousand dollars

for skate park. Yeah, one of the things Todd talked about photo op is I think Todd described he's so mellow and mild mannered, not pointed in his criticism, but nonetheless offering his criticisms while being very subtle about it. Anyhow, skate park, it's like a million dollar thing, but they needed some additional money, so of course finding finding Hey look an additional one point three million dollars laying around City of Cincinnati sides are going to allocate three hundred

thousand for a skate park. Anyway, we'll see what Corey thinks about that. Will there be a debate f TEB pervol versus Corey Bowman? That would be interesting, wouldn't it. Wouldn't that be enlightening and helpful for the City of Cincinnati's voters, plus as a fundraiser company April eighth, and Corey will let us know the details about that. You can find him online if you to learn more about Corey's candidacy, what he stands for, his seven policy pillars,

It's Coreybowman dot Com. After Corey, we'll hear from Donovan and Neil from Americans prosperity A pole was taken after Mike Dewaines's State of the State, which took place the other day, got some details on that and Donovan on that and the poll what do people think about it? State Senator Bill Blessing on property taxes, as well as his proposal, which I again find interesting and somewhat out of left field, for a Republican to provide free breakfast

and lunch at the schools for children, every child. That'd so if you've got a really wealthy family and maybe mom's packing a really nice lunch, or the nanny or one of the staff is prevaring a real nice lunch for them to take the school, or they can actually afford to buy the lunch at school. Nonetheless, it'll be free. I think they price tagged three hundred million dollars. We'll let Bill explain that after he explains the empower you some of our details, or at least scratching the surface.

What's going to go on tonight? At the power you sing are on property taxes. iHeart met the aviation expert, Jay Ratlift at eight thirty thankfully every Thursday. Looking forward to talking to Jay. Always like winding down a Thursday as we segue into Friday with lighter topics and the air of aviation. Today, a passenger was shamed now suing the airline and suing fellow passengers. The stems from a December incident we previously talked about with Jay Air India

recomminds passengers don't flush close down the toilet. We end the stack is stupid. The other day, I'm glad Jay's going to be addressing that Southwest Airlines bags are no longer flying for free and airlines looking to reduce summer capacity, which she describes as a bad thing for travelers. Anyway, those are the topics with Jay. There's a topic you'd like to talk about, feel free to give me a call five one, three, seven eight, two to three talk pound five fifty on AT and T phones and be

sure and check out the podcast page fifty five. Caref you're scratching your head over what Congressman mass he voted. Knowing the cr he outlined and explained it very well yesterday, pointing out that it just keeps the Biden level of spending at the same level, which in Washington is described as a cut. And this Chuckie Schumer's coming out saying they don't have the votes to pass this in the Senate,

so we're looking for a government shutdown tomorrow now. Thomas Massey suggested this was all a setup and then it would pass through the Senate. Keep your popcorn out. Schumer's pushing for a thirty day extension, which will give them more time to work out a bipartisan arrangement. Yeah right, I got a bridge I want to sell you. So if there's a shutdown, the Democrats will own this one. Clearly,

they will own this one anyway. Some interesting points made along the lines of what Congressman Massy was talking about regarding what is a cut and what isn't. And of course the continuing resolution keeping finding at basically the same level unto the biding administration, is not a cut, but the Democrats in Washington perceive it to be. There's an interesting editorial commentary by Linda Mashbarne Newman where does this

show up? Epoch Times, talking about what Doge is doing and looking at it from a business perspective, what Elon Musk is doing radically different from any other effort to bring efficiency to government. It's not all radical by business standards. Remember, government doesn't make anything, it doesn't produce anything. It just consumes our tax dollars and spends them any damn playway they please which doesn't suggest it operate like a business

looking for efficiency. When new management comes into a company, good management will scrutinize every aspect of the business to figure out what everything is and how it impacts the bottom line. They'll start with a zero based budget, zeroing out each budget item and requiring each program, product, line, and widget to justify why it deserves its line item back in the budget. Government does the furthest thing from

zero based budgeting. The various budgets of the federal government know how to do only one thing, and that's grow. For example, mandatory, which makes up more than sixty percent of federal budget and includes programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, is authorized by law to provide benefits to any person meeting the eligibility requirements with a growing population.

These statutes effectively set the budget into auto grow. For discretionary spending, which makes up a quarter of federal spending, the House and Senate pass appropriations bills. These bills generally use as their budget based lines the existing funding amount plus infilation, and almost always add more based on the various special interests of the senators, representatives and their constituents.

The rest of the federal budget is interest on the debt, which anyone with a credit card debt can tell you compounds. All these are a far cry from zero based budgeting, and in fact, anything that isn't an increase is viewed as a cut. Going back to Massey's point, yeah, you heard that correctly. If government budget stays the same year

over year, according to Washington math, that's a cut. Ostensibly, this is to make up for the inflation that cuts the budget in real terms, and politicians of all stripes underscore all stripes will take to the floor of the House and send it to lamb best anyone who tries to slow that spending growth. Departments and agencies also face incentives to spend any unused funds before the end of the fiscal year, not because the money is use it or lose it, but because it ensures their budgets plus

inflation will become the new baseline next year. Heaven forbid you not spend money you didn't need. Go ahead and hurry up and use it up. What the Washington class is really bristling about is doge bringing to government what any ordinary business would consider best practices. It's importantly clear so far itself, a doge itself is not actually done any cutting. What it has done has brought much needed sunlight what the average American might reasonably view as shady, frivolous,

or absurd at government spending with their money. Admittedly, it's a short distance from there to waste, fraud, and abuse. Go ahead and lambask for saying doch hasn't cut anything, But what about all the grants that were stopped? Some point to that. What do you mean they haven't cut anything? You're reminded is simply that pausing government spending is not

the same thing as cutting it. Also, those pauses have been made by the executive branch, to which Congress has, in its infinite wisdom or dereliction of constitutional duty, chosen to largely delegate allocation decisions. By all means, yes, Congress needs to do the tough work to trim its appropriations and fix entitlements. Sadly, it has no incentive to stop spending money it does not have. Instead, it leads it to the executive branch via the Treasury and also the

Federal Reserve figure it out. So why not let the guy who built the reusable rocket give it a try? With thirty six trillion dollars in federal debt and interest payments expected to cost nearly one trillion dollars this year, more than the government spends on national defense, which we spend more than any other nation, I think, probably more than all the nations combined on defense. And you know there's a hell of a lot of fraud, waste, and

abuse in the defense budget. Anyway. She concludes, a high time Uncle Sam stopped treating itself as Uncle money bags and just maybe that tech sevy nephew Jo Doge can help them do that. Amen, Amen, I just my mind is blown. I mean, we elect these folks to take

care of the nation. We elect these folks to deal with the right thing for the American people, and look what they are doing, Republicans and Democrats alike, with the exception of massing a handful of others, no effort is ever made, not my pecked project, not my state, most notably along the lines of the military industrial complex. A lot of those weapons manufacturers and are in Republican states,

and they won't cut a program that is unnecessary. I still believe we don't need the F thirty five fighter jet with drones dominating the airspace, and really the new theater of war is drone related. You don't have to have a pilot in there, and all the millions and millions of dollars that go into those aircraft just merely to protect the guy flying it. Drones go in, go out. They are basically disposable items. You blow one up, you know,

we can rebuild another one. How many drones can you build for the cost of an F thirty five fighter?

of the crap out of the defense budget. Let's get to pare it back from eight hundred almost nine hundred billion dollars. One area of government in need of analysis and some sunlight, as does goes through the various other areas of government, Look what you're looking at USA. Look at how many programs that it's brought to the attention of the American people that who are all out there collectively, regardless of political stripe, going are you kidding me?

us further and further into debt. The death the debt death spiral three seven fifty eight hundred eighty two to three talko ton five to fifty on AT and T phones. Got plenty to talk about this morning, but I'd love to hear from You've got some ideas. I'll be right back after these brief words.

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kr CD talk station. Happy Friday Eve. You can call in five one three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred hundred eight two three talk here in Ohiodwine State of the State address which will be talking about with Donovan O'Neill, and the poll that was taken after the State of the State address, Mike the Wine reporting that the state of our state is strong here in Ohio. He highlighted some manufacturing jobs. He pointed out that Ohio had more

than eighty one thousand private sector jobs. He cited two particular projects, a soybean processing plan, Wine Dot County and bourbon barrel manufacturing in Jackson and Pike Counties. Jim Tressel has been assigned with ten Governor. Jim Trussels been a signed with the developing a workforce playbook to help grow jobs here in Ohio, identifying workforce needs in various regions around Ohio and work with schools and businesses to meet the needs here in Ohio. Workforce remains both our greatest

opportunity in our most significant challenge. Dwine said, I like this. There's a new law and he said it's time to finish the job in ban cell phones in all Ohio schools so kids can learn. Apparently, school districts have until July to have a cell phone policy in place under a new state law. Let us see here. Two year budget plan, Dwine call for new child tax credit for parents with a full time minimum weight job, a program for K through three students who need eyeglasses, and expand

school based health centers. A stress the need to provide career counseling and opportunities for people with disabilities, formerly incarcerated adults, teenagers, seniors, and people recovering from addiction to mental health issues. So among his in his address Dwine said. Dwine announced investment into Certified Peers Supporters, a job opportunity for people who have overcome addiction or mental health challenges, a chance to

help other people struggling with those issues. Dwainestead over sixty four hundred people have completed the program since twenty nineteen. I guess he wants to expand it. He directed the Department of Education and Workforce developed reading and writing curriculum incorporating more social studies and civics content. Lighted efforts with the Ohio History Connection to increase the focus on Ohio

history in schools beginning with kindergarten. Called upon the Department of Education Workforce to develop recommendations for teaching basic life skills like cooking and budgeting into schools. That would be great that bring back home economics, maybe bring back shop class, but budgeting, how to maintain a family budget. Simple things like that, rather than indoctrinating our children into woke ideology, and let's allocate a little bit of time to some

basic life skills. I like that, and announced a plan to celebrate schools that are fully aligned with the science of reading, a phonics based method for literacy, bringing back classical education is the right way to go. This new wave of learning is obviously ill served our children given the test scores. I mean we're graduating students from high school that can't even read. How do you expect to go to college if you can't read? Or how do you expect to get through life if you can't read.

Let's bring back phonics that worked for so many generations of people.

sector jobs. I suppose that's probably the highlight of the whole thing. Probably could use a whole lot more here in the state of Ohio. Feel free to call in. I got local stories coming up and I'll be right.

Right now, time for oh no, not yet premature in the traffic announcement that'll come next five, one, three, seven, hundred eight hundred and eighty two to three Talk found Fi fifty on at and T phones podcast at fifty five carsee dot com judge to a Paulitano on his weekend in Moscow, Congressman Thomas Massey on the why you voted no on the r among other things, and wonderful as always commentary The Big Picture with Jack added in

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got something to comment on anyway. Since I police investigating after a body was found in a dumpster outside of fast food restaurant to say this was in Camp Washington early yesterday, officers showed up with a Wendy's on Hoffel Street shortly I had before two thirty in the morning and discover the man's body. Death appears to be accidental with foul play not suspected, but it does remain under investigation with the Hamlin Kenny Coroner's Office court in Police.

Thank you to the Inquirer for reporting. Uh school board member from Forest Hill School District stepped down from a position since I inquired reporting. Props School District on Sinceny's Eastide announced a news release yesterday board vice president Katie Stewart's been a resignation, citing that she'll be moving to a home outside of the district and this is in accordance with Ohio law, which states that a school board member must be a resident of the district and registered voter.

In the district. Bob Bibb, a Board education president, had this to say, I want to thank missus Stewart for more than three years of service to our school district and her role as a member of the Board of Education for dedication and commitment to this community. Stuart and Anderson Township native elected to the school board in twenty one after having lived in Forest Hill School District for

ten years. At that time, she was a GOP endorse candidate who ran in an opposition of critical race theory being taught in the schools. During the pandemic, she decided to homeschool her children. Became critical of Forest Hills School District after she said her children had quote a lot of gaps in their education close quote, motivating her to run for school board. Her children did end up going back to school, but to Guardian Angels School instead, not

Forest Hills. That's according to previous coverage from the Enquiry, apparely second time in a three week span that the school board has lost a member. In February, the board voted three to two to part ways with Treasurer Alana Cooper for an undisclosed reason. Let us see Dan Monk

paula Christian prop supporting building a CPO. New public advocacy group plans to use March Madness as a launch pad for its campaign to convince Hamilton County commissioners to spend sales tax dollars on a new arena, even if it comes at the expense of old stadiums. Hamilton County Growth Alliances naming the organization plans to use radio, digital and direct direct mail ads to build public support for an arena capable of hosting major concerts and sporting events like

the NC two A Final four. According to Jay Kinkaid, the alliance is founder and executive director, It's very clear that the lack of a modern arena is a huge drag on our counties ability to maxmeser economic growth. We're losing out on attracting sporting events like March Madness, which we haven't hosted here in Cincinnati in thirty three years. I've seen Bruce Springsteen more in Pittsburgh than I've seen

him here at home. Kincaid, a veteran CINCINNTI political consultant and a principal at Single Strength LLC, started working on the campaign last September, when Hamilton County unveiled a one point two billion dollar renovation concept for pay Course Stadium that included a new headquarters building for Cincinnati Bengals and

luxury seating options for fans that could afford it. Released the public records in January of the county and the team were exploring a roughly six hundred million dollar renovation with one hundred and twenty million contributions from the team in the NFL. That's when talks broke down. Both of those ideas will leave less public funding available for an arena that would cost up to eight hundred million dollars that according to established study published in November by the Cincinnai,

USA Regional Chamber of Commerce. Bengals. When reached out for comment to Climb comment for the story, Kincaid said, I guess I understand the county has a number of needs, and I also understand that there are limited funds to address those needs. But because there are those limited funds, it makes even more imperative that we get this right.

We can't afford to make the same mistakes that the commissioners made thirty years ago when they entered into what is widely considered to be and is I might interject the worst stadium deal in the history of our country. He declined to reveal who is funding the arena campaign. Because the Alliance is a nonprofit five on one see four corporation, it isn't required to make that information available

to the public. He shared the results of polling funding funded by those donors with the Cincinni Mayor AFTAB pro of All Hamilton County Commissioners. Public Opinion Strategy surveyed four hundred Hamilton County residents in November and December for a poll margin of era four to five percent. Kincaid said it convened two focus groups of twenty people said it's pretty clear the public understands we have as a community

multiple needs and limited resources. They want the commissioners and another elected official to make good decisions and maximize the impact. Sixty three percent ranked a new arena as their top priority, compared to thirteen percent for pay Course Stadium and nine percent for Great American Ballpark. Eighty eight percent said it

was important to keep Cincinnati Bengals from leaving town. Thirty six percent said taxpayer should not have to pay more than one fourth of the net pay Course Stadium deal. Ninety percent said they should be allowed to vote before the county allocates new money for stadium. Oh I like that. Seventy eight percent they would support the creation of a public exposition in sports authority to manage arena and stadium investments.

Five thirty six fifty five k see the talk station, Nick, I'll be happy to take your call right after these.

stuff that's going to happen that proves your point. That doesn't prove your point, though, is that one single reaper. Okay, it can be fifteen to twenty million bucks. You can't afford to do that. The way that it works is you turn around and you use little bitty drones in a swarm. Right, that's the way that you're got to do it. But you got to get the little bitty drones in with the swarm with a smart pilot and a smart expensive ass to Yeah.

I just use that F thirty five because it is so unbelievably expensive, and that the idea that we're moving more and more towards drones that seems to be an area of government perhaps we could cut I don't know, just throw it out there and welcome your types of input, because sometimes I'm wrong or sometimes I overstate the case. That's why I love my listening audience. Man. I don't

profess to be an expert. I'm a jack of all trades and master of none, so I rely on my very very intelligent listening audience to counter my points or at least point out why in some areas I am wrong, and I'm happy to be told and enlightened along those lines. Nick, you cracked me up this morning, and also thank you for the fond memories of I forgot. I even took

that sewing class. Yeah, it was cooking sewing, and then we had shop class that was it was divided up during the year, and Chuck Burkholtz did not teach either of those classes. Thought what I thought we recall was government class. But he was an outstanding teacher and very influential in my life. Five forty five. If you five KCD talk station foreign exchange, get your car into foreign exchange traditionally imported manufacturers from Asia or Europe. You're gonna

benefit from the foreign exchange experience. If for no other reason, then you'll save a lot of money. But I think the experience back to if front start to finish will be better. I know they're gonna treat you well. There's such nice people there. You can talk to the mechanic if you like to, and I'm a kind of guy that likes to talk to the mechanic. You know, just quite often can't do that at the import dealers. You're stuck in the middle. With the service manager, but just

one little extra perk. But you get an se certified Master technician working on your car, you will leave with a full warranty on parts and service. Nothing to worry about there. And the point of Foreign Exchange is they don't charge you the outrageous price of the dealer. So save money, get your car fixed to your satisfaction in a wonderful environment. That would be in my experience, the

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caught on incidents that were caught on camera. Video appears to show Brett Buganski of WCPO reporting props show daniel Danielle s Grace scr A. S. S Grace or is Gracie, also described as the president of the Sycamore Education Association, three different times pulling her pants down in a common area on the way to the bathroom.

black man taking a photo. Close quote end quote incompetent black man shouldn't be in the picture close quote all right, dear what that?

the Community Relations director Mallory Bombright during the meeting. During the meeting, while she was trying to fix technical problems, the tech said quote, you know you are a joke, right and you are lucky to have your job and pay district suspendedor for forty five days initially without pay. But she filed a grievance challenging the suspension. Both sides settled on a fifteen day suspension at a March fourth

board meeting. Reached out for comment, WCPO has not heard back from MSUs Grace and real quickly here batcrap Insanity abounds in this country. A member of the state panel this is in Oregon, remember the state panel advising the Director of Oregon's Health Authority on best practices and policies on underscore mental health, identifies as a turtle. J. D.

Holt also goes by J. D. Terrapin. She's on THEOHA Consumer Advisory Council, which is appointed by the director, doctor Sej al Hafi, who was appointed by the governor or the governor. The purpose of this board is to advise the doctor on the state's provision of mental health services, including through investigations and reviews the current practices. Quote during a December twentieth virtual meeting quote, Hi, everybody, it's JD.

I use they, them and turtle for my pronouns. I'm in the Springfield Eugene area and I get to be part of the Council Gender wiki website. The documents will listen. Non Binary Genders describes turtle gender sometimes called tortoise gender, as a quote zeno gender identity in which one feels a gendered connection to turtle's close quote. No, there's no reference to Mitch McConnell in this article, Joe that you may think he looks like one, but he doesn't identify

as one. At least give Mitch McConnell that much. This this is a real thing, Fox News reporting on it. I could go on, but I think that's enough. Let's see what CJ's got. Welcome to the program. Thanks for calling in this morning.

to the government. But basically I question whether or not Donald Trump, on his first day in office, was told the bomb market's ready to seams up, and if you're not going to start doing massive cuts now, we are going to be in serious trouble. I think that what they are doing with those and just cutting things, they

have made some mistakes. There's some people who probably shouldn't have been let go of that have been But at the same time, I don't know if they have time based off of what was said on CNBC yesterday.

while Rome is burning thanks to the call man. It's it's it's a major concern out there, and you know, young people are aware of this. You wonder why young people have this sort of you know, give up mentality. This is the reason they can see it for what it is. They're smarter than we all think. Five fifty six, five KRCD talk station, Big news and the environment and the cutting of the Biden administration in a Bamba administration's decision to declare CO two a pollutant. Great news coming

out of the EPA. Well, you can talk about that coming up, and your phone calls are welcome if you want to go a different direction. I don't mind that a bit. I'll be right back.

hour to talk about Hyde Park. I'm going to talk about the money allocated by the city for that skate park. Will there be a debate between between him and a half to have parlol and another fundraiser he's got coming up in April eighth, to get the details. In an hour, Donald and Neil following Corey Bowman at at seven point thirty. Uh Dwine did the State of the State address yesterday and there was a poll take and Donovan's going to give us the results of that poll. Fast forward to

eight oh five. State Senator Bill Blusting's going to join the program to talk about potential property tax relief efforts going on in Columbus, as well as his idea to provide all students in element at K through twelve with free breakfast and lunch. I think price tag on that one up some like three hundred million dollars, which again I think seems odd coming from a Republican, But he'll

offer his explanation for that again. At eight oh five, Jay Ratliffe yay for JAA thirty with iHeart Media aviation expert Jay Ratliffe. Apparently a passenger was shamed last December and is now suing the airline along with fellow passengers were being shamed. Air India reminding passengers to stop flushing, closed down the aircraft lavatories, the story coming from the

stack of stupid. The other day, Southwest Airlines bags are no longer flying for free, and finally, airlines are looking to reduce summer capacity, which may be a bad thing if you're planning on traveling this summer. That at eight thirty, feel free to call if you got a comment on something five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three Talk found five fifty on AT and T phone and thanks to Mary

for forwarding me the announcement. I guess it's legitimate. You know, I'm always questioning what I read on the internet. As Abraham Lincoln did say, you should put all full faith and everything that's on the internet. It's all real, said Abraham Lincoln. But apparently Hamilton County Prossy your college commy pillach is uh? Has I guess got Sharon Coolidge from the Cincinnti Inquirer to be her communications director?

job explaining this. He also wrote an open letter to the public Zelden did yesterday that also is appearing at least among other places in the Journal. You can read it The Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Zelden yesterday proposed a host of well big rule changes. Most important, maybe has moved to reconsider the two thousand and nine so called endangerment finding. Get to the details on endangerment finding declaring

greenhouse gases a pollutant subject to agency regulation. They write, cue the panic and misinformation campaign amen on that no climate change believer m I, or at least in terms of us being responsible for it anyway. There As a refresher, the Supreme Court ruled in Mass versus EPA back in two thousand and seven that greenhouse gases qualify as pollutants under the Clean Air Act. The EPA must regulate pollutants that can quote reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health

or welfare. It's critical you point out to those words endanger public health or welfare. No surprise the Obama administration in two thousand and nine determine the greenhouse gases do endanger public health or welfare. The Obama endangerment finding undergirds EPA's limits on plant foods, CO two emissions from power plants, autos, trucks, as well as methane fees on oil and gas companies.

Among other rules. The Obama Biden administrations used the finding to bypass Congress important words to bypass Congress to advance their anti fossil fuel agenda. Mister Trump's first term advisors considering considered withdrawing endangerment finding, but we're worried about being sued. The Trump EPA merely revised the Obama CO two regulations to make them less punitive. The Trump administration was sued anyway, then the Biden team reverse course made the Obama rules

even more punitive. The climate lobby now says mister Zelden doesn't have legal authority to rescind the endangerment finding, despite the fact that it was a random finding by then EPA. But agencies re examined past decisions all the time. Mister Zelden can reconsider the EPA's s greenhouse gas findings in light of the new or in light of new or

other evidence. Most of the science cited in the Obama endangerment finding eg. Climate change will harm US agriculture and increase the size and frequency of wildfires is debatable understatement. The finding that US CO two emissions will directly harm Americans is even more tenuous. Unlike pollutants explicitly covered by the Clean Air Act. CO two emissions don't affect local air quality. They're in impact on global temperature is intermediated

by other factors like cloud cover. Curbing CO two emissions in the United States will have scant impacts on Americans, especially since India and China emit with abandon. Just As antonin Scalia noted as much in Mass Versus EPA dissent quote, sadly it was a descent quote. Regulating the build up of CO two and other greenhouse gases in the upper reaches of the atmosphere is not akin to regulating the

concentration of some substance that is polluting the air. Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Thomas and Samuel Alito also dissented. They were outnumbered. Withdrawing the endangerment finding could tee up a lawsuit that provides the High Court an opportunity to reconsider that Mass Versus EPA decision. And this is where it's important. Under its major questions doctrine, significant executive actions reques acquire express congressional authority, but Congress never authorized the

EPA to regulate CO two emissions. Democrats have tried and failed several times when they had a majority, So there's no express authorization from Congress. And because it's non express authorization, it's a major question. Congress must do the work to curb or ban CO two emissions if it would ever do it. But they don't, and they haven't. Some energy companies warned the withdrawing the engagement finding could make them vulnerable to lawsuits by states and localities ledging their emissions

cause a public nuisance by contributing to climate change. You know, but oil and gas producers already face dozens of lawsuits and state courts. In defense, they have cited the high courts AEP versus Connecticut ruling that the Clean Air Act

preempts federal torts against oil and gas companies. Their supposed worry is that AEP will become a dead letter if the endangerment finding is revers But withdrawing the finding wouldn't change the court's fundamental holding that quote, it is primarily the office of Congress, not the federal courts, to prescribe national policies in the area of special federal interests quote close quote like climate. This is all the more reason why the Obama Biden EPA power grab endangers the constitutional

separation of powers by usurping Congress's authority. President Trump isn't shrinking from legal fights and scrapping EPA's endangerment finding is one well worth having. Amen, if you're gonna do something of that magnitude, Congress must act expressly and direct the EPA to do it. The EPA on its own does not have the power and authority because it was never established into law that they had this power and authority.

And CO two is plant food for God's sake, and the idea that that could, as the greenhouse guys, it can harm farming. The more CO two, the happier the plants are. And on that note, get a load of this backcrap insanity. This iss outright insanity, and it illustrates the point that CO two is good anyway. Instead of holding a virtual meeting, thus eliminating the need for the November conference, this is the climate alarmist Planning Conference, the

twenty twenty five UN Climate Change Conference. Apparently more than fifty thousand participants from around the world are going to fly into it when they could meet virtually. It's going to be held in a place called Belma, Brazil. Described as a gateway to the Amazon River Amazon Rainforest. Remember when Sting was out there raising money to preserve and protect the Amazon rainforest to ensure that they can easily get back and forth in and out of the city.

They are building a four lane high highway cut through the protected Amazon forests, which absorbs one fourth of these supposedly problematic carbon dioxide absorbed by all the land on Earth. It's plant food, and they're cutting down the rainforest to build a highway. Cord to the BBC, eight miles of rainforest has already been cut down to make room for the partially built Avenida Liberdade Highway. Like reporting on Blaze Joseph McKinnon credit where credits to former carbon capture systems

are being stacked high along the roadside. Yes, it's widely reported. All the logs that have been cut down to build a highway are laid along the roadside carbon capture systems. The American conservation site Manga Bay reported the construction on the highway through the eighteen twenty seven eight or Bellum

Environmentally Protected Area began June of last year. State government's Infrastructure Secretary Outler Silver Area stated at the outset quote, we are committed to advancing the works, respecting environmental legislation and the preservation of local fauna and flora. While cutting it down, State government pointed out that the high will be eliminated with solar powered lights and have bicycle lanes

right next to the cars going by. State government reportedly been interested in clearing the eight point three mile stretch through the beleaguered rainforest to build a highway since at least twenty twelve, but environmental concerns got in the way. The decision to hold the COP thirty in Balem, Brazil provided the state with an excuse to cut down the trees.

Brazil's President designate for the sum of a guy named Andre r Ouran Correra do Lago note in a letter Monday to other parties at the United States the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that quote COP thirty will be the first to undeniably take place at the epicenter of the climate crisis, and the first to be hosted in the Amazon, one of the world's most vital ecosystems, now at risk of reaching an irreversible tipping point, according

to scientists. Close quote Yeah, why don't you go ahead and build another highway in it. He noted further forests like the one being chopped down quote can buy us time in climate action and a rapidly closing window of opportunity. If we reverse deforestation and recover what has been lost, we can unlock massive removals of greenous gases from the atmosphere while bringing ecosystems back to life. I mean, seriously,

what is right with this picture. We've been hearing about deforestation on the Amazon since, I mean for decades now, and they're chopping it down so cars can drive through it for a climate change meeting. Eh.

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to read to be productive. Then we went to another phase more common called school the prison pipeline. And if a keen it cannot read effectively by the third grade, he's targeted for prison. Now, I don't know whether that's a straight line or whether that's just you know, zig zag. All right, you get up to today's Department of Education. Yes, we know it's top hav it. We know most of the money go towards the administration and bureaucracy, and the

kids are losing out on the end. Also because a lot of time the parents didn't read a lot of time, they come out of post traumatic stress syndrome. So it's a lot of moving parts there.

to positive results for the children. But in these modern times that does not hold true because if you look out at all the money on a per pupil basis that goes into cities like in the Chicago schools districts and in Baltimore and other failing school districts, they have, you know, twenty thousand plus per pupil. Yet they're reading schools are in these single digits, which means money does

not translate into education. So what we need is a different path forward in teaching children how to read that actually works, like going back to phonics, for example, which is something we're doing here in the state of Ohio that does not require more money. It just requires rethinking education that will provide a benefit for the student as opposed to whatever the hell it is they're trying to teach now, which obviously has a isn't isn't working clearly fundamentally.

So that's that's my response to the question, James, And that's about as good as I can do. But I think quite clearly money does not mean a good education. We need outcome based research and data and change and a change in the methodology that's going on right now, moving away from what's going on right now. That's my take, James Love Hearing from your Brother six twenty six, fifty

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private sector jobs good thing. Pointed to a bourbon barrel manufacturing plant in Jackson and Pike Counties, as well as a soybean processing plant in Windot County, which is good. He's tasked Lieutenant Governor Jim Trussel with a workforce playbook to help grow jobs in Ohio. I like this time to finish the job and ban cell phones in all

Ohio schools so kids can learn. Quote from DeWine, Apparently there's a new state law and Ohio school districts have until July to put a cell phone policy in place. Call for new child tax credit for parents with the full time minimum weight jobs and programs for K through three students. He also announced investment into Certified Peer Supporters, a job opportunity for people who have to overcome addiction or mental health challenges and a chance to help other

people struggling with those issues. He said, of our sixty four hundred people have already completed the program since twenty nineteen. Directed the Department of Education and Workforce to develop a reading and writing curriculum that incorporates more social studies and civics content. Also announce a plan to celebrate schools that have fully aligned with the science of reading a phonics

based method for literacy. So there you have it, Mississippi. James, at least the DWINE is pressing those issues in his state of the state. Highlight an effort with Ohio History Connection to increase a focus on Ohio history and schools

starting in kindergarten. Called on Department of Education and Workforce to develop recommendations for teaching I love this basic life skills like cooking and budgeting so important education direction in the speech, and I think that's all great personally anyway, you might find anything I'm wrong anyway, emphasize the need

for several programs, and it's to your state budget. Creating child wellness campuses to make sure children can remain in their communities with support when they can't stay with their families.

Funding for Ohio C See Ohio c program to help students who need eyeglasses in kindergarten through third grade driver's education back into Ohio schools, which I didn't even realize it had left anyway, instituting a new program for nine Ohio counties to provide dental screenings and treatment in schools for low income families that might not otherwise have access. So highlights from the state of the state. We have a body that was found in a dumpster. Since they

please investigating this one. A body found in a dumpster outside of fast food restaurants, specifically Wendy's on Hopple Street about two thirty yesterday morning. Death appears to be an accident and a foul play is not suspected, but it remains under investigation with the Hamilton County Coroner's Office and in Main News School Board member of Forest Hill School District stepped down from a position. Board vice president Katie Stewart submitted a resignation this week, citing she was removing

from to a home outside this district boundaries. Moone, you got to live in the district apparently under the rules. Bob ib Board of Education director said, this is a Forest Hills High School, by the way, or Forest Hill School District. He said, I want to thank me Stewart for more than three years of service to our school district and a role as member of the Board of Education,

and for her dedication and commitment to this community. Elected in twenty twenty one after having lived in Forest Hill's school district more than ten years, GOP endorsed candidate who ran on the opposition of critical race theory being taught in the schools. So she did. She homeschooled her kids during the pandemic, and then they did end up going back to school, but to Guardian Angels School rather than Forest Hills. That's according to prior news coverage on that.

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all at a Department of Government efficiency. We turn to them first before we get to the the GAO Government Accountability Office independent of DOGE. Nothing no connection to that one GAO has been around a long time anyway. Start with DOGE reviewing grants from the National Institutes of Health. Now it's yesterday, among the crazy grants that they revealed a six and twenty thousand dollars grant four quote and LGB plus inclusive teen pregnancy prevention program for transgender boys. Now,

contrast that from a pregnancy prevention program for girls. And if you are a believer in biological reality and science, you'll understand that there is no difference between those programs. I mean, you know, the parts work in the same way. Pregnancy is accomplished in the exact same way, whether you consider yourself a boy or you live your life as you were born as a girl. And yet apparently six

hundred and twenty thousand dollars was needed. It's a grant, right, Someone who has a friend in Washington asked for this money and received it. It's like what goes on in

the city of Cincinnati. Listen to Todd zenz Er from the interview I had with them, or from his time in this studio earlier this week, like the skateboard park, for example, Health Institute, which is part of the Department of Health and Human Services was also spending about seven hundred thousand dollars to study cannabis use in quote sexual minority, gender diverse individuals close quote, Pause and ask yourself, does anybody really truly believe much in the same way in

my comments about the pregnancy program that merely because you identify as a person of a different sex, that your cannabis use will be different than a cannabis use of a person who does not so identify, that your sexuality has a change in how cannabis impacts you. Seven hundred and forty thousand dollars allocated for examining quote a social network's close quote among unquote Black and Latina sexual minority men in New Jersey. You know, does this sound like

Babylon b stuff? Fifty thousand dollars on assessing quote sexual health close quote among unquote LGBTQ plus LATINX youth in an agricultural community. And seventy five thousand dollars on researching structural racism. No elaboration on that one. You know, it's fun pointing these things out because as we are in this death spiral, these are great illustrations of how we

got there. And moving over to the general county, a Government Accountability Office GAO, multiple federal agencies they determine the GAO not DOJ wasted one hundred and sixty two billion of your hard earned dollars in government funds making improper payments during fiscal year twenty twenty four one fiscal year one hundred and sixty two billion dollars the support from the US Government Accountability Office money spent by sixteen agencies

across sixty eight programs. This report came out in on March eleventh. JO said improper payments those that shouldn't have been made or were made in the incorrect amount, have been a government wide issue for more than twenty years. I'm going back to good practices in regular businesses. This is something that should have been eradicated a long time ago.

Easy to figure this out, the GAO did it. Five government programs accounted for roughly seventy five percent of the improper spending, start with Medicare topped the list fifty four point three billion dollars in one fiscal year alone, followed by Medicaid, the Earned Income Tax Credit SNAP Program, and

Restaurant Revitalization Fund. What the Hell's that report said? Eighteen federal programs reported improper payment rate estimates of at least ten percent, including six program programs whose rates range from over twenty five percent to forty five percent. Out of the one hundred and sixty two billion dollars in improper payments, one hundred and thirty five billion, eighty four percent were for over payments. God, and we put our trust in government.

We put our faith in government. You want you give the decisions in your life be made by government. They don't care a wit about your taxpayer dollars. They don't care that we're on a sinking ship. They don't care that the interest payment on what they overspent already is a trillion dollars this year. Get your head around that one one thousand stacks of one billion dollars, which, of course each billion dollars is one thousand stacks of one

million dollars. You could fill pay course stadium with the money that they waste every year. Or that our debt service alone, which springs from well overspending, and a whole bunch of programs in the waste and fraud and abuse that goes on in federal government. Why do we continue year after year to well I guess allow this to happen. It is easy to say, but you know, they're in a position where they could stop this. It has to

be identified first, and it's easy to identify. What are the Social Security Administration people have been doing all these years. Dads comes in in like five minutes, determine we've got like one hundred and seventy five year old people still on the Act of Social Security ranks, and you talk about getting rid of those, and you hear people criticize online, Oh my god, they're coming after my social Security. No they're not. They're trying to save it for you. You know.

I don't know if this that kind of response from the detractors springs from Trump derangement syndrome, or if they have a vested interest in the fraud and the overpayments that are going out into the world. I don't know. I'm befuddled by that. Five on three seven four nine to fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eight two three talk. Maybe I need to get over to a Gate of Heaven and have some quiet, contemplative, reflective time, because it

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Cropper Bridge from the Lawrenceburg Ramp. Chuck Ingram, I'm fifty five krs the talk station six forty two at fifty five pr C. The talk station Mayor Old candidate Corey Bowman. After the top of the ur News plus Donald and Neil with the comments on state of the state from Dwine last night, along with a poll that was taken

there after. Fast forward to eight oh five with State Senator Bill Blessing on property texts changes perhaps being discussed any Wayam Columbus and his ideas for free lunch for all students and Jay rattlif at eight thirty. Meanwhile, over to the phones five one, three, seven, four, nine fifty five hundred, eight hundred and eighty two to three Talk Bobby, Welcome back to the program.

the poverty range. That's why you keep hearing all the time about jobs. They don't go within the corporation limits. There's not a family that makes good money, that lives within the corporation limit. Those are facts. Hopefully we've got a conservative individual coming up that's going to run for mayre. You hear the smoking mirrors about the federal government. How about just Cincinnati, not the surrounding areas just within the corporation limits.

you know, call crumbling infrastructure following tax base. It just seems like, you know, speaking of death spiral, that that kind of thing seems to be going on. But I don't know if building a skateboard park is going to solve the problem. I think a problem would be greater solved if they just start fixing the road, so it makes it, you know, more appealing for folks to even consider the idea of moving into the city. But all I hear, at least for my listeners, are people that want to move out.

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wouldn't consider moving into the city. I mean, we got some problems on our hands in the city, Corey.

trucks and three hundred thousand for a skate park. Your comments and reflections on the skate park, what would you have done.

it going to call going forward? This isn't just a static, one time cost when you build something like that, it comes with future needs and obligations.

I haven't read it, but we rank in terms of homicides per capita, we are number twelve in the country. Your reaction, Cory, No.

the community. And I'm sitting there like Bro. You know, if you're gonna ping is is that people that live in the city, people that are experiencing these crime rates and these gunshots every night, and these things that are happening, they're not going to look at satistic or the people are what a certain administration wants to say this happening. They're going to see it for what it actually is.

And so it's very frustrating when you see the crime rate it's up in certain areas, when you see this happening. And so when we talk about increased safety, we're talking about getting behind the local law enforcement, getting behind the firefighters, not supplementing their key roles with programs like three to one one and other comprehensive violence reduction agencies or whatever that might be. We've got to back what works, which

is our police department. Now, I've talked with police department, and I've talked with police officers that's been in for over a decade in the CPD, and what they say is that we have to find that balance between being that protecting and that force of law in the city, but also they have to be involved in the community. You have to have that community's trust. It's very hard to have the trust of the community when there's another agency that's like three to one one one that's basically

answering other calls. We need to fully back the police department and our fire department in ways that really hasn't been seen in.

need to talk about them in a positive way. We need to keep them in the neighborhoods, and again, like you said, get the police in the neighborhoods and establish a relationship that proves that they are there to protect the citizenry, not this evil, racist force that so many people try to characterize them as, which by not saying anything, suggests that the elected officials share that belief, and I

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to a debate? Has that been discussed? Have you reached out to him about doing something like that, and even are you interested in debating mayor Afterab Parvoll.

your your your proposal regarding practical housing. I know there's a lot of screaming and yellow and the connected communities has been talked about in what's your take on Housing in the City of Cincinnati, and as a mechanism to get more people to want to live there. It seemed to have worked when they read when they gentrified over the Rhine area. I know a lot of urban hipsters moved in there. That worked, But then people turned around and started saying, well, I can no longer afford to

live in the area where I used to live. So it always comes with detractors when you invested in any given neighborhood. But what's your plan to create some sort of practical approach to housing.

blow up into in two years time, max. There's gonna be so much development, there's gonna be so much housing available, there's gonna be so much resources available. This is amazing. Two years later, you just realize there's a kink in the hose. What is it.

very high income housing. But for us, in our coffee shop, there's several individuals that work in the city, and they're able to afford a great price in our apartment, in the apartments that are above the building. We don't own the building itself, but we're able to pay a market rate for our business as well, and it's helped the

community thrive. But there's a shortage of available units like that unless you have you know, if you play by the rules with the red tape of you've got to put this type of business here, and you've got to put this type of housing here, and really that shouldn't be the case.

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He noted there were more to eighty one thousand private sector jobs have been added, which is a great thing. Couple of businesses he highlighted. He had some I think some excellent points on education, like notably phonics, bringing back phonics, and getting cell phones out of schools, which I guess the state law is going to require that school districts have an anti cell phone policy in place at least by July of this year. That can only do good

for the students who are so distracted these days. What was your take on this date of the state.

right issues right education, families, workforce, jobs, opportunity. What we have to caution though, Brian, as you as you well know, and I've been on the show many times talking about it, is what government's role is in those things and making sure that we're what we're doing for creating an environment where folks can thrive and succeed and we can be the number one state of the nation, but doing it

through freedom and limited government. So that's always the thing you got to be listening out for in these speeches is wait, what are what is the executive asking for?

I think what we should be doing, yeah, is priortizing some of those things and then also making sure when we're talking about education, we're really focused on the stuff that are going to set folks up for success, right the core essentials, reading, writing, arithmetic, which I know Governor Dewines put a heavy emphasis on making sure students are equipped to read, and we've got some good indicators of that.

But yeah, life skills like budgeting. I think that's really important in making sure folks understand how to live their life.

How does the lineup with actually where voters are and what they want to see y'all do with the two hundred and eleven billion dollars you're going to be spending over the next two years.

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mentioned about education, which appealed to me. Apparently addressing education was one of the right things to do because that was really important to the folks you pulled.

And I think you've got a mix of folks who care about it from the academic and what we're being taught perspective right in choice. But then you've also got it, I think from the folks who want to know they're getting value and the talking about property taxes, the property taxes they're paying to go to fund the schools and education. And so we really hope all makers pay attention here and work to address some of those challenges of which we also had voters care about.

We got an abundance of resources, abundants opportunity, and that's what two thirds of voters want.

nuclear power generation technology, the modular nuclear your plans. I mean, we could be a real leader and another magnet for artificial intelligence to come here, because that's the that's the key to drawing AI facilities and the jobs that they have. Oh without a doubt.

winners and losers in the energy marketplace. The policies we're seeing Center Bill two, House Bill fifteen, those are focused on speeding up in many ways, speeding up the permitting process so that if somebody's got an energy project and energy generation project they want to get off the ground, they're going to know they're going to have an answer to it and not just go into a black hole like they often do, you know, on the federal level as they work through these things.

here at the State House's legislative proposals come in. One is providing you know, what I would deter what I would call temporary relief, right like, hey, let's let's subsidize this through the state and not not in like a lower.

in some part. After the top of the air news I got a big chuckle out of no phanomi of tax dollars being used to support sporting organizations. You did a pull on the taxpayer funding for the new Cleveland brown Stadium. Wow, look at that one eighty.

feel the same way. So I think there's been a lot of cold water doused on some of the governor's proposals around funding stadium, the Cleveland Brown Stadium deal, and I'd be curious to see how that may be, what maneuvers they take now.

So anyhow, eighty percent a pose. And again we're talking about a two point four billion dollars stadium they're considering. That just seems outrageous, man, But I always thought the way of the future was sitting in your own basement watching it on a giant screen TV and not paying twelve dollars to fifteen dollars for a beer Donovan.

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on property tax relief. Do they have some ideas, apparently recently submitted twenty one recommendations for review. He is on the ten member Joint Committee of Property Tax Review, and we're going to hear what he has in terms of property tax relief. Fingers crossed Bill Blessing after the top of the our news.

should be doing going forward. And admittedly, you know, myself and other members of the General Assembly, we didn't wait for the report to come out before we started dropping legislation and attempts to address this even last General Assembly. So but I also hope to like clear up some you know, misconceptions with with what's going on, what we can and can't do. You know a good example of that is, you know, people will say, well, why can't

you just freeze property taxes? And you know a big issue with that is, well, a lot of these provisions in the constitutions, so you'd have to go to the ballot in order to repeal them if you if that was something that we were going to.

from locals. If this school funding formula goes through, it'll be I believe in the load of mid thirties. So obviously we need to, you know, fix that. And for what it's worth, the formula that is being phased in, if we fully phased it in, it is, in my at least in my estimation, a fully content formula. I think you'd find the school districts would say the same thing.

But yes, you are, you're absolutely right that that is a huge piece of this in the sense that if you do more at the state level, it's not like school districts like going to the ballot, I think there'd be a lot less pressure.

terms of tax relief for the taxpayer? Since the fundamental issue is here the bottom line, what do we have to pay in terms of taxes?

and it's not going to offer immediate relief. But that's There are a number of bills in the General Assembly, some of which I carry, that would offer immediate relief I still maintain the three best ideas are one the property tax circuit breaker to an expanded homestead exemption, and three a property tax deferral program, and some other states

do that. To give you an idea, how that works is that the state creates a large fund and you apply, and let's say you're a senior on fixed income, for example, your property taxes would be freeze at their current level, and the state would then take on the burden as they continue to go up. But then either when you pass away or sell the home, the state would then recoup the lost out revenue via a lean on the property.

There were others that would say, we'll have this done at the county level. It's we're still trying to negotiate that.

your income. So, in other words, you, if you're making fifty grand a year in retirement, the percentage in the bill that we introduced is fixed at five percent if you go. If your property tax burden rises above five percent of your income, the circuit breaks and then the state starts taking on the additional burden for that. So you basically will never pay more property taxes than in theory you can afford with that. The drawback of it

is is excuse me, it's an expensive program. But a colleague of mind introduced legislation last YA that made this revenue neutral. We paid for it by going after a number of what we would consider corporate welfare pieces of statute that really needed to be reworked in order to provide relief to seniors in this Actually, although I shouldn't say that that's relegated to just seniors, this would be

everybody within reason. I mean, there are guardrails if you have a you know, two million dollar home and a half a million dollar salary and retirement, Yeah, that the circuit breaker is not going to apply to you fair enough.

Let's say you qualify you're a senior over sixty five, disabled veteran, there's some other widow of a disabled veteran. You get that twenty five thousand off, so you're the valuation of your home for tax purposes goes down to one hundred and seventy five thousand, and you pay taxes on that. So it's not a huge benefit. But the caveat is that you can only get this if your income is less than about thirty six thousand per year,

which really cuts off the vast majority of Ohioans. Not only that it was universal at one point, so there are some folks that make significantly more that are grandfathered in, but in all cases it's really not the best benefit. So the idea is with this legislation is to say, look at this as a percentage of what you're actually taxed. So if you pay over the course of a year six thousand in property taxes and you qualify at the lowest level, you might get twenty percent off your property taxes.

So if you're paying six thousand, you would be getting a twelve thousand dollars benefit from the state. However, as your income rises, that percentage drops. It's like a progressively declining curve, so that you know by the time you hit one hundred some thousand or more, you're not getting

any benefit. But the nice part about this is is that since it's tied to median income and tied to percentage of the property taxes that you actually pay, if you're a senior on fixed income, that you know you're

right at the line towards the top. When you retire, you actually start walking back up the curve as your fixed income is eroded away, so your benefit actually grows over time, which I think is a great way to do this, and I think it would be significantly cheaper, although we're still trying to find the cost estimate for this. But again, the homestead exemption only applies to generally speaking people over the age of sixty five.

So I just make pivot over real quick here. You are one of the bipartisan sponsors are behind the bill to pay for students to have a free breakfast and lunch at school. Can you explain your motivations behind this and how much is it going to cost? I have to observe, this doesn't sound like a thing usually a Republican would embrace. So what's the motive the motive behind this? And I've had some of my listeners say that out loud.

That's why I'm asking on their behalf. But in this as the way the article reads from the Ohio Capital Journal, this is a free lunch and breakfast for all students.

raise your property taxes. This would be entirely state funded. And you know, once again like the property tax circuit breaker, we had a bill last General Assembly that made this revenue neutral, so it was already paid for. But the advocates of this particular program, in light of the fact that we're in budget season, wanted something introduced for public inspection, and they wanted it clean, no other elements in there.

Which admittedly, the bill that we had last year that paid for this was what I would consider sort of a mini budget. But the motivation for this is simple that when you look at a lot of the administrative burden behind doing something like this with respect to free and reduced lunch. That adds a significant cost to this, and in the end, it's actually pretty cheap just to have it universal and end a lot of the stigma behind this, which is one of the reasons why we're

doing this. But more importantly, I think that it's also something that I think will reduce truancy. Because the income limits for free and reduced lunch aren't exactly high, there's a lot of lower middle class parents that would be included in this. Beyond that, when we talk about tax cuts at the state, at the state level, and we have a number of people you know that that look at a top rate income tax cut and they're like, well, how does this benefit us? It really, it really doesn't.

And we as families pay a significant amount of money to raise our children. And yes, I understand that not everybody has children, and you know, but this would be a significant benefit to families, which frankly, you know, my party, Republican Party, we we pay a lot of lip service

to and for parents. I have universally heard on both sides of the aisle that they liked this idea because it you know, it's a tax cut to them, and at the same time it also absolves them of a lot of things that are quite difficult actually as parents. I mean I have three boys myself, and you know, packing the lunch in the evening for them, you know, getting them up and getting them breakfast in the morning. That all would be taken care of at the school.

And it actually achieves an economy of scale from that standpoint. So it's expensive obviously for parents to you know, buy school lunches and breakfasts and prepare them at home. Having this done at the school level I think would be ultimately cheaper for parents and for the state. So yes, I do understand that there are people that disagree with this. They think, you know, this is more government in their lives.

But bear in mind that with respect to you know, the idea of a common good, I mean, we do have that in K through twelve public schools where you are constitutionally guaranteed a public education. In this state. There's a lot of research about kids struggling to learn if they're not well fed. This makes an attempt to bolster our public education system. So in other words, your education is already free in the sense at the point of sale. I mean, the state does pay for it, and so

do property taxes. Adding school lunches to this is, in my opinion, the logical next step.

And I'm not sure what sort of nutritional guidelines you're going to have on this, but I'd like to think if you're going to be providing a free lunch to everybody, at least will be subject to maybe some sort of RFK junior type quality of foods as opposed to the stuff that we're normally accustomed to in a school lunch line.

need to eat. But you're right, I don't. I mean, I for what it's worth, I think there would be a lot of local outcry if if the schools school districts, for example, decided that, you know, we're just going to serve donuts in the morning because that's cheap processed food. I just, you know, to the extent that we need to at guardrails, that's fine, But I just I struggle to believe that they would go ahead and do that. And oh there's real real quick. One thing I did

forget to say about this. This isn't just public schools. This would also be you know, chartered on public So your Catholic schools would be uh would be receiving this as well, all.

what we want to do. The bigger concern is Speaker Matt Huffman, who I don't believe that he wants to do it. He made he made the argument that well, you know they get these free breakfasts and lunches, they may not want them. The kids are just going to throw them away and that's going to lead to a lot of a food waste. And I kind of chockoled, Well, if you know you can't, you can. You can lead

a horse to water, you can't make them drink. I remember in grade school myself a number of times that I had a PB and J sandwich that turned into I guess a PB and J crape. YEP, it was all smashed up and I would end up throwing it away because I'm not eating that. But you know, at least being paid to make the attempt I think is worth it. And frankly, I'm sure there's a lot of food waste that you know, their parents have all the good intentions of giving them, you know, green beans, I

think was the example that Speaker Hoffman used. Uh yeah, the kids see that and there there. You know, you'd hope that they would eat it, but chances are they may not.

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my attorney friends to clothing is not allowed down. I just you know, well, I went around the industry since October of eighty one. I've never heard of a story where the clothing caused the laboratory to stop working. Certainly not at eight of the twelve.

it is to go forward in land. And to think that it wasn't a mechanical situation with the lavatories, which happens from time to time, but it was the fact that people were flushing clothing down the last When the story hit my desk, I thought, okay, this is you know, somebody's having fun with something, because this isn't a real thing.

And I saw report after report after report after report, and yeah, because I'm always very guarded on anything you and I talk about, I want to make sure that I've got all the facts, and.

son sits in your seat? Now, apparently he had another seat, another window seat, but he preferred her seat, and this traveler polightly refused, saying no, I'm just gonna sit here, And that's when the moms started yelling at her and takes out her phone and starts recording her. Thinks she was a bad person. Well, this video, as most travel videos do, went viral more than two million views, and this woman was forced to quit her job as a banker, lived in seclusion at her home.

sit together. Now keep in mind, this family could have gotten the seeds together, could have paid whatever they had for the family to sit together. But somehow we're the bad guys when we say no, thank you and bright. Some of these requests are so ridiculous. It's like, can I have your aisle seat in row eight so you can sit in my middle seat in row third?

for whatever the reason, just play. They're elect on a device at high volumes where it's not only where they can hear it, but everybody was in seven rows and if light intents are trying to tell the people to stop it. But we're seeing more and more of that kind of behavior. So it's getting to the point where it's just absolutely ridiculous to fly. And yeah, I mean speakers come if you hear that, that's what they're talking about.

could find it defensive. So you just have this behavior that is just permeating from flights these days that you know, yes, the number of irate passengers is down compared to years before, but some of this behavior is just beyond my ability to comprehend because I don't think that way, and thank God I don't think that way because it just makes no sense to me.

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And of course, you know, Southwest is seen for years airlines, they're competitors making hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars a year in bag faith and they have constantly consistently said.

and pretty much my only surprise is that.

come on. And the other thing is I like that Amtrak had fun with this. They put out a tweet saying, I guess we're the only ones where bags to go free, so come on. So I love it when a business.

incredibly lucrative summer travel season. A Brian, This scares me because if we see Delta and now United and other carriers do that where they're reducing the number of seats during that busy summer travel season, it means that the fairs for the remaining seats are going to go up, up, up, up,

up up up. I'm hoping that most of the people listen to us if livery summer bought their tickets six seven months ago, But if you've not yet on it, I would suggest quickly doing so, because the fares are only going to go up, and you know, grab the trip cancelation insurance to protect yourself and make your reservations as quickly as you can, because as this trend continues, the fares are going to go up, go up, and it's going to be considerably more to fly this summer

than it was last simply because we have few receipts.

get to the airport. Maybe give you options where you can decide, you know, what you would like to have if something happens to your flight. But yeah, it's going to be problematic over probably through Sunday, so if you're scheduled to fly, just make sure that your lunch.

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