America Trends Podcast
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EP 744 Rural Hospitals and Health Care Have Unique Issues to Contend With
The issues that seem difficult for health care providers everywhere in the USaccess, coverage, staffing, cost and qualityare often magnified in rural settings. And rural providers may not be able t
EP 743 Finding an Audience For Your Product or Service Requires New Skills in 2024
It seems as if everyone is screaming out for attention in this era given the ease with which people can find audiences for their meanderings, political views, loves and pet peeves. Just jump on line
EP 742 On the Lips of Republican and Democrats: No New Taxes
America was born in rebellion over taxes. Remember the Boston Tea Party? And then hundreds of years later in the 2010s came the TEA Party, which stood for Taxed Enough Already. However, that has b
EP 741 Are We Now in the Midst of a Second Cold War?
America has more than a rooting interest in wars taking place in places like Ukraine, Gaza and elsewhere around the globe. If we go back to the fall of the Iron Curtain and the dissolution of the Sov
EP 740 Remember: Animals Can’t Turn on Their Air Conditioners
Just because humans stride atop the animal kingdom doesnt mean that what affects us doesnt affect other species on this earth or that the impact on them by things like climate breakdown doesnt tur
EP 739 Weight Loss Drugs Are All the Rage
When a gorgeous Poli theater was restored in my hometown about a decade ago, one of the changes that had to occur was making the seats larger, because since the early 20th century Americans have gotte
EP 738 America’s Nuclear Sub Fleet: Our ‘Silent’ Military Advantage
As a Connecticut resident, its hard not to be aware of the storied history of Hiram Rickover, the Father of the Nuclear Navy and the development and commissioning of the first nuclear submarine in
EP 737 The Government was the Architect of Housing Segregation in America: Now What?
Richard Rothstein did America a great public service back in 2017. In his groundbreaking book, The Color of Law he laid out chapter and verse the complicity of American government, at all levels, i
EP 736 Will There Be Water For All in the Future?
The current approach to water management is failing to meet the demands of the growing human population and the severe challenges brought on by climate change. Our guest, David Sedlak, director of th
EP 735 Aging Population at Greatest Risk From Climate Change
When Hurricane Ian devastated Florida in 2022, two-thirds of the people who died were older adults. Similarly, the greatest number of fatalities during Hurricane Katrina, the California Camp Fire and