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Here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today -- Living well(ish) on a tight budget.   SAVING MONEY IN A WAR ECONOMY: SUGGESTIONS   ︎Are you preparing / have you begun to make plans to live in a war economy? What changes have you made or are planning to make? What plans should we consider making right now?   ︎Make a plan, with a minimum of how much you'll try to save each week. Encourage each member of your household to do the same.   ︎Set up your own network of family and friends also trying to cut expenses and save money.   ︎ Cut your utility bills.   ︎Cut your drycleaning bill.   ︎Start a pantry for making simple, low-cost, nutritious meals.   ︎ Make a list of people near you who should be checked on or might need assistance.   ︎ Stay on (or, even better,  below) budget, taking advantage of specials and sales.   ︎Consider healthier choices for you and your family.   ︎Creatively mix and match or recycle clothing.   ︎Buy when there's a good sale.

Here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today -- Living well(ish) on a tight budget.   SAVING $$$: A START   ︎Are you preparing / have you begun to make plans to live in a war economy? What changes have you made or are planning to make? What plans should we consider making right now?   ︎Make a plan, with a minimum of how much you'll try to save each week. Encourage each member of your household to do the same.   ︎Set up your own network of family and friends also trying to cut expenses and save money.   ︎ Cut your utility bills.   ︎Cut your drycleaning bill.   ︎Start a pantry for making simple, low-cost, nutritious meals.   ︎ Make a list of people near you who should be checked on or might need assistance.   ︎ Stay on (or, even better,  below) budget, taking advantage of specials and sales.   ︎Consider healthier choices for you and your family.   ︎Creatively mix and match or recycle clothing.   ︎Buy when there's a good sale.

Here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today. ︎House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a group of high-level U.S. officials should be back home today after unannounced whirlwind visits to Ukraine and Poland to assure both countries of U.S. support in the face of heightened Russian aggression. What is significant about the legislators' trip?

Free Your Mind Friday!

Picking up from where we left off yesterday, here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today.   FINISHING   ︎In your view, how real is the risk of nuclear war in the Russia-Ukraine conflict? What do you think could  provoke a nuclear war? What could deter it? What factors are you weighing?   NEW TOPIC: SAVING MONEY   ︎Are you preparing / have you begun to make plans to live in a war economy? What changes have you made or are planning to make? What plans should we consider making right now?   ︎Make a plan, with a minimum of how much you'll try to save each week. Encourage each member of your household to do the same.   ︎Set up your own network of family and friends.   ︎ Cut your utility bill.   ︎Start a pantry for making simple, low-cost, nutritious meals.   ︎ Make a list of people near you who should be checked on or might need assistance.   ︎ Stay on (or, even better,  below) budget, taking advantage of specials and sales.   ︎Consider healthier choices for you and your family.   ︎Creatively mix and

Here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today. Are you preparing/have you begun to make plans to live in a war economy? What changes have you made or are making? What plans should we consider making right now?

Is the United States, by virtue of its massive -- and, presumably, continuing  military aid to Ukraine -- at war with Russia, too? ︎With the Biden administration's secretary of defense,  Ret. Gen. Lloyd Austin, and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visiting Ukraine President Volodymir Zelenskyy over  the weekend, does it signal that the U.S. has chosen "sides" position on the Russia-Ukraine war? When was that vote taken? ︎Why hasn't Congress yet held an open debate and vote on U.S policy on the war -- inasmuch as billions of dollars are already being allocated and spent on the Russia-Ukraine war?  

Here's what's happening on Leid Stories today.    It's "Free Your Mind Friday," a free-form opinion fest. Give your take on issues that matter! 

Here's what we're talking about today on Leid Stories:   President Biden has opened the gates to the nation's coffers -- to check the threat of economic and social woes that loom large nationwide. A grateful nation--and a normally adversarial Congress--considered it a good move. That program just getting off the ground and showing encouraging results, Biden is urgently beseeched by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine to help repel Russia's declared its intention to reclaim territories it had lost to Ukraine in previous battles. The Russia-Ukraine war is ongoing, with both sides suffering significant losses and setbacks. Should Biden, without making his case to the nation, be allowed to commit the United States to billions of taxpayer dollars in military support to Ukrain -- and without conditions? Is Biden skirting the War Powers Act? Why hasn't Biden presented his case openly to Congress and the people?

Continuing our ongoing series of special presentations by Leid Stories listeners, Gardis Henry Watts explains what violence is--and isn't--in his hometown, Chicago.

Here's what what we're talking about on Leid Stories today: whatever you have a strong, thought-out opinion about and want to share with others.

Here’s the promo for Leid Stories today. Public officials' self-serving, career-boosting, money-wasting news conferences that really are free, taxpayer-funded political ads for themselves.

What if?... Biden's memory lapses and jumbled words turned out to be much more than we knew? ︎Are you beginning to see Obama's return in a different light? ︎Will the Democratic Party leadership endorse the leadership of Kamala Harris, or will she be forced out? ︎Is Obama a possible stand-in for Biden? ︎Constitutionally, must there be new elections for a Biden successor, however temporary? ︎Can the president be ordered to submit to physical and psychological tests in the interests of the people and the country? ︎Who makes the call on the president's fitness for office?

Here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today: What qualities did you have as a child that you're glad you still have as an adult? ︎Who or what inspires you? ︎Were you on a wrong path, but made a dramatic turnaround because of a major event or a particular person in your life? ︎Did you develop a different reading of life early but were not understood? ︎What were you like as a child or growing up that caused your parents endless worry, even despair, but turned out to be one of your best character traits or attributes?

Free Your Mind Friday!

Here's what we're talking about on Leid Stories today: What qualities did you have as a child that you're glad you still have as an adult? ︎Who or what inspires you? ︎Were you on a wrong path, but made a dramatic turnaround because of a major event or a particular person in your life? ︎Did you develop a different reading of life early but were not understood? ︎What we're you like as a child or growing up that caused your parents endless worry, even despair, but turned out to be one of your best character traits or attributes?  

Here's what we're talking about today on Leid Stories:   It's been 54 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 on a balcony of the  Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn.    Dr. King had gone to Memphis to support sanitation workers on strike for equitable pay, safer working conditions, and better job opportunity -- and to begin to organize national advocacy efforts around the issue.   Black workers and King had struck a decisive blow against economic apartheid in America. Why did it die?   ︎How will / should history recall Putin's actions in Europe? Explain.

Have We 'Moved On?" It's been 54 years since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 on a balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn, where he had gone to support sanitation workers on strike for equitable pay and safer working conditions.   In the passing years, it seems King and other stalwarts of the civil rights movement have faded into distant memory, their work, their sacrifices, their lives and accomplishments fading into the past, too.   Have we "gotten over" them? Have we "moved on?"  

Activist Gwen Goodwin distills her recent personal experience in arranging for and monitoring care for her elderly mother. She shares what she has learned about hospice care in her presentation, "Hospice Care: What You Should Know." She'll also take questions.      

Who / what caused the "shortage" of black judges  -- conveniently noted by many jurists and legislators as the appointment of Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court is being considered?