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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 90-year-old actor William 'Captain Kirk' Shatner went 'oldly' into space where only a few have gone before, courtesy of billionaire Jeff Bezos, using his trip to remind us of our fragile climate and thin blue atmosphere that keeps us alive even though we treat it like a garbage dump. But Shatner's free space joyride is a reminder of the many essential workers who actually paid for his trip.\\xa0 New Labor Department data shows record numbers of essential workers are quitting their jobs in search of better wages and working conditions -- particularly those in low-wage service jobs forced into face-to-face confrontations with an angry, privileged, often mask-free public. Nearly two years into the pandemic, university professors and staff who work in 'blue' states can work each day in relative safety, but those in 'red' states are fighting to receive adequate public health protections like mask mandates. DR. MATTHEW BOEDY of the Univ. of North Georgia, president of the Georgia chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), discusses the new public pressure campaign mounted by university professors and students to demand mask and vaccine mandates. Dr. Boedy also explains the disturbing new decision by the Georgia state university system to effectively end tenure protections. Also today:\\xa0 The Biden Administration announced a plan to develop large-scale wind farms along nearly the entire coastline of the United States."