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HOUR 1

• Gov Andy Beshear in Kentucky on bank shooting / (CNN) https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2023/04/10/louisville-shooting-governor-beshear-press-conference-nr-vpx.cnn
• Rick Whitbeck with Power the Future on Sen Wielechowski’s SB 114 / https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/33?Root=sb%20114
• Taiwan becoming intolerant of China / (FOX News) https://www.foxnews.com/world/taiwan-warns-chinese-misstep-could-lead-uncontrollable-world-war-outbreak
• A ProPublica report on a railroad cost-cutting approach called Precision Scheduled Railroading (PSR) concludes that a strategy that employs longer trains with fewer employees puts profits ahead of safety in the freight rail industry / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/04/10/1168931275/propublica-analysis-train-derailment-long-trains
• The Supreme Court is facing ethics questions since a ProPublica investigation reported that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas received luxurious trips from Republican donor Harlan Crow for more than two decades. The investigation says he failed to report these trips in his annual financial disclosures / (NPR) https://www.npr.org/2023/04/10/1168931282/ethics-rules-on-supreme-court-gift-disclosures-may-be-ineffective-law-professor-

HOUR 2

• Rick Whitbeck with Power the Future on Sen Wielechowski’s SB 114 / https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/33?Root=sb%20114 / 
  Power the Future podcast / https://soundcloud.com/user-988952581
• Jim Minnery, President of the Alaska Family Council on Gov HB105 “Parental Rights Bill”