Are They Sympathetic or More Indifferent. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Ken Rogers. Our guest, a retired Canadian businessman, helps us understand how the Canadians feel about the Trump’s Big Lie, the Insurrection and the January 6 Committee in Congress. How do they feel about what is happening in […]
How Roe Changes our Democracy (American Issues Take Two)
How will it Affect our National Decline. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guests are Stephanie Dalton and Jeff Portnoy. Our panel discusses how the reversal of Roe v. Wade affects the country socially, economically and legally, and how it will exacerbate the decline of our democracy. The ThinkTech […]
We Need to Remember Rome’s Still Burning (Politics for the People)
Ukraine Distracts us from the Problems at Home. The hosts for this show are Stephanie Dalton and Jay Fidell. The guests are Tim Apicella and Karen Buzzard. Our panel takes stock of the domestic issues we’ve been covering all along and how they’ve been doing while Europe is burning. This includes the GOP’s continuing efforts […]
Finding the Public Policy in Politics (Community Matters)
Sea Changes in Hawaii and on the Mainland. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Colin Moore. Political Science professor Colin Moore of UH Manoa, brings us current on issues, initiatives and arguments advanced in the Hawaii 2022 legislative session, the forthcoming gubernatorial and legislative races, and other policy and platform […]
Can we Afford to be Optimistic These Days (Community Matters)
If Not, What Should we be Worried About. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Dan ‘Fig’ Leaf. Our panel will discuss the things that we should be most fearful about in this fragmented and violent world and whether and to what extent we can afford to be optimistic given the […]
Burning Issues for America in 2022 (What Now America)
Our Insurrection, Our Democracy, Our Society, Our Pandemic, Our Perspective. A panel of Former Governor John Waiheel, Former UH Political Science Professor Neal Milner, Hawaii attorney Louise Ing, New York covid expert Roopmati Khandekar, and HPU History Professor Jon Davidann, moderated by ThinkTech host Tim Apicella. There is so much media noise and public confusion […]
Is the Voting Rights Bill Lost (Community Matters)
What Can we Do to Resurrect it. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Sylvia Albert and Sandy Ma. Sylvia Albert and Sandy Ma of Common Cause help us understand the status of voting rights in this country, in the various GOP state legislatures which have moved to suppress voting and […]
Examining the Negative Media Coverage on Joe Biden (On the Media)
Has it been Good and Fair Journalism. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Karen Buzzard. Karen Buzzard, an emeritus professor in communications and media at various universities, joins us to examine how well the media has done in reporting on Joe Biden and his administration over the past year and […]
Can the Select Committee Do it in Time (Politics for the People)
How Serious Are the Delays it is Facing. The host for this show is Stephanie Dalton. The guests are Tim Apicella, Winston Welch and Jay Fidell. Our panel discusses the various ways Trump and his acolytes are trying to delay the work of the committee, including refusal to appear or provide documents, and how that […]
Are we Sailing Right into a Voting Disaster (Politics for the People)
Voting is at the Center of our Democracy. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Tim Apicella and Winston Welch. The ongoing Republican effort to undo voting in this country may not be on the top of the news every day, but it certainly should be. Our panel takes a look […]