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Segment 1:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray Richardson talks about the shooting at the NYC office building, mental illness, and more.
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\nSegment 2:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray goes through the Maine Governor’s race and how rank choice voting will effect the outcome in the primary.
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\nSegment 3:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray talks about the social contagion with a political agenda that is affecting our Maine schools. He reads a Fox News article<\/a> about emails provided to Fox News Digital that show Maine Department of Education Commissioner Pender Makin writing memos for all the state’s school districts after President Donald Trump began to make executive orders addressing public education.
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\nSegment 4:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray gives a little rundown for today’s guests.
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\nSegments 5-6:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray and David Jones (FO Bailey Real Estate<\/a>) and Dr. Peter Earle of AIER (American Institute for Economic Research<\/a>) join and Peter shares his vacation on the beach and his upcoming trip to Maine. They get into some of the economic headlines and Peter shares his thoughts on them.
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\nSegments 7-8:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Matt Jacobson (Retired Navy, Director Sales & Marketing for Summit Natural Gas of Maine<\/a>) joins the party. Dr. Earle hangs around to continue the discussion on the economy and how it might affect the Jobs Report and interest rates, changes in some of business policies, employment, online learning, and more.
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\nSegments 9-10:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray starts with the people texting with interest in the Peter Earle event. Ray discusses an article that he sent Matt about small nuclear power plants, the prices of energy, taxes on energy, gas tax, sin taxes, and more.
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\nSegments 11-12:\u00a0<\/strong> The discussion revolves around public office, the pursuit of office and the differences in Democrat and Republican definition of the job. Sen. Susan Collins’ work ethic, and that she embodies what the Founders had in mind. They get into the budget and the priorities of the elected people and the priorities of the average citizen.
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\nSegment 13:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray starts with sharing the 1st Common Sense For Maine<\/a> commercial on his Facebook Page. He continues to talk about the Maine government not taking care of or caring about the most vulnerable. Matt talks about the changes happening in the railroad industry. There are mergers and potential mergers that are changing the landscape in rails. They talk about getting caught up in the day and not taking every day as a Blessing.
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\nSegment 14:\u00a0<\/strong> Ray plays Summertime and then he brings up the story about Old Orchard Beach police hiring an illegal immigrant that had an expired visa, which brings the conversation on employment policies and immigration practices. They have quite the discussion.
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\nSegments 15-16:\u00a0<\/strong> The boys start with comments about a commercial and it moves on to video games and the energy that gamers need to power all of their computers, and more. They take calls.
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Segment 1:\u00a0 Ray Richardson talks about the shooting at the NYC office building, mental illness, and more. Segment 2:\u00a0 Ray goes through the Maine Governor’s race and how rank choice voting will effect the outcome in the primary. 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