'BradCast' 7/9/2018 (While We Were Out)
b"On today's show, a few bits of good news:\\xa0 An initiative to institute a host of progressive election reforms has qualified for the ballot in Michigan, including automatic voter registration, same-day registration, and no-fault absentee voting.\\xa0 In response to a court order, Kansas has finally restored some 25,000 voters to the rolls who had been denied access for lack of "Proof of Citizenship" documents. Starbucks announces a plan to phase out plastic straws. Not good news:\\xa0 a record heat wave shattered all-time heat records in California and Western states. Wildly corrupt fossil-fueled tool Scott Pruitt resigned as chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, but his second-in-command, former coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler, will now take over the agency. As predicted by experts, the Trump Administration's talks with North Korea have reached an impasse.\\xa0 Despite a federal court order, the Trump Administration is nowhere near being able to reunite some 3,000 children with their parents after separating them at the southern border, amid reports that identification documents\\xa0 for many of the children have been lost or destroyed.\\xa0 A few words and some personal remembrances on the sad passing last week of progressive radio and television broadcaster, and workers' champion, Ed Schultz. Callers weigh in on all of the above and much more..."