Turi Ryder fills in for Joan and her guests are:
– Harvey Nagler, retired head of CBS Radio News
– Alanna Vagianos, senior national reporter at HuffPost where she covers gender and politics
– David Levine, professor at UC Law San Francisco
– Jonathan D. Katz, curator of the exhibition “The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939” at Wrightwood 659 through July 26
– Rich Moline, a patient in an ongoing study for pancreatic cancer that is at risk of being cancelled due to federal funding vengeance against Northwestern
Catch "Joan Esposito: Live, Local and Progressive" weekdays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/programs/live-local-progressive).
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