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All heck is breaking loose in West Virginia’s gubernatorial politics.

After weeks if not months of speculation US Senator and former WV Governor Jim Justice openly admitted he is considering another run his old job. The current governor, Patrick Morrisey, was already on a string of bad press before that, and over the weekend found himself at the center of another controversy. Center being the key word, as he flipped the coin f...

While American and Canadian officials crank up the rhetoric, threats, and retaliations, we try to turn down the noise on the US-Canada trade hot mess as our old friend and certified Canadian David Clement joins American Andrew Donaldson on how we got here, can either President Trump or PM Carney get out of this mess, the politics and structures that make the situation worse, and what happens next on this Heard Tell.

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Instead of yelling at others as part of the “affordability”, for this Heard Tell we take the roiling online debate and bring it back to the personal. Having a diverse educational and work background is a good place to start, and being the parent of young adult kids who are navigating these issues in real time means some helpful context. Then we can run the concept through a filter of perspective, knowledge, and accounta...

The old saying goes being listened to is better than being heard because the latter is passive and automatic whereas listening is active and requires focus. But I suspect what sounds like a good idea isn’t going to go well for Gov Patrick Morrisey because the folks on his “listening tour” wanted to be heard the first time and don’t want just attention they want it fixed.

But there is no easy fix. The people d...

Some thoughts on charging parents for enabling the violence of their mass shooting children, why “fell through the cracks” is a lie, and why accountability for these violent events needs to go even further. 

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The story of WV House of Delegate member Elliot Pritt being charged with grooming and abusing a student has made me sick. Reviewing my text messages w/him & notes from where I wrote about him in 2023 even more so. 

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One of our principles on Heard Tell when covering politics & culture is “follow the money” since that’s the closest you usually can get to the truth in a world that is all about image, branding, and marketing. But the same increasingly applies to sports, and with sports media and political media both chasing the content economy the two genres have more in common than not. Our friend Dave Van de Walle of the Va...

Talking America 250 (Part 2). The conversation turns stateside as Ben Harris, an Englishman with a serious soft spot for America but experienced working in the UK Parliament, walks through his viral essay on American exceptionalism: freedom, abundance, and the strange magic of a country built on ideals instead of blood and soil. Andrew and Ben talk grocery store abundance vs. European scarcity, why American diversity actually works...

For the 4th of July and reviving an old tradition, Host Andrew sits down with our man in Westminster, Ben Harris, for the 4th of July episode. Ben (soccer jersey and all) breaks down why Britain can't build anything due to a planning system where NIMBYs hold veto power over housing, energy, even supermarkets, and how an entire generation of young Brits is getting crushed by it. They dig into the UK's revolving door of PMs, the "tri...

Our friend Gabriella Hoffman of IWF, Outsider on the Inside Substack, District of Conservation Podcast, and a whole bunch of other stuff returns to talk about her policy focus work on data centers. We turn down the noise of the boom prophets and doom merchants to talk what data centers are and aren’t, where the policy needs to go for honest questions and reasonable regulation, historical lessons about energy and computers tha...

Live from the UK on a very busy news day Over Yonder Jack Rowlett joins Heard Tell to react to PM Keir Starmer going before the House of Commons for a two hour grilling on the Mandelson/Epstein scandal that has him fighting off calls to resign, the state of the US-UK relationship, economic issues in the UK, energy policy at the heart of what ailes England, what President Trump does and doesn’t affect in UK perception of the U...

Host Andrew Donaldson is joined by economist Dr. Stephen Popick to talk proper economic terms from the headlines life inflation, The Fed, and more, how to understand the housing crisis, why it is a mistake to think economics runs of the political calendar, how AI is shaping the data behind the economy not just the economy itself, and much more.

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Host Andrew Donaldosn brings his unique perspective on AI and higher education as someone who has college-aged children, his own education, and currently being enrolled in community college

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President Trump announces a "ceasefire" in the Iran War, so we do instant reaction with The Independent's Washington Bureau Chief Eric Garcia, plus what to expect when congress gets back in town, and more on this Heard Tell Live from the Heard Tell Substack

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Andrew Donaldson gives his instant reaction after President Trump's press conference that started with the rescued airmen and ended with a hot mess of contradictory statements and yet more threats and moving deadlines over the Iran War and more.

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On trying to do better than the race to the bottom politics, social media, and news media have all decided to not only do, but monetize and make the dominate business model

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In football, they call it "cluster injuries" when multiple problems start to compile and cross streams to derail everything else the team might be doing. The same thing applies to politics, and the Trump administration has some self-induced cluster injuries starting to pile up. We break all that down and more on this Heard Tell Live from the Heard Tell Substack

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Some thoughts on the ongoing Iran conflict, what is and isn't being reported well about the conflict, talk about the troops/veterans, and more on this Heard Tell Live from the Heard Tell Substack

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On this episode of Heard Tell, Andrew returns after an extended absence to explain where he has been, and he hasn't been working - publicly at least - lately and some grown folk talk about caregiving and home healthcare that quickly gets lost in policy, politics, and folks talking without understanding.

All that and more on this episode of Heard Tell.

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