Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive guest host Turi Ryder December 24 2025

On today's show: Turi Ryder fills in for Joan and her guests include – Jane Banser, founder at The Etiquette School of Chicago – Mort Meisner, TV and radio agent and media consultant, who talks about censorship at CBS News – Sabrina Shapiro, mental performance specialist and coach – David Cerda, p…

Joan Esposito: Live Local & Progressive with guest host Jill Wine-Banks, December 23, 2025

On today's show Jill Wine-Banks fills in for Joan and her guests are – Civia Tamarkin, award-winning investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker and former television news executive – Billy Ray, screenwriter and film director – Daniel Biss, mayor of Evanston and candidate for Congress – Terry S…

Joan Esposito: Live Local & Progressive with guest host William Muck, December 22, 2025

On today's show William Muck fills in for Joan and his guests are – Michael Scherer, staff writer at The Atlantic; his latest piece is “Why Is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. So Convinced He’s Right?” – Abdullah Al-Bahrani, associate professor of Accounting and Economics at Northern Kentucky University – Phi…

Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 19, 2025

On today's show: – Chris Fitzsimon, host of the Stories from the States podcast – “Out Chicago” host Scott Duff and film critic Rebecca Ford 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).

Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 18, 2025

On today's show: – Eric Zorn, writer-publisher of The Picayune Sentinel – Our Pet of the Month segment with Craig Botagowski of Mark Drugs and Darlene Duggan, head of Anticruelty – Heartland Signal’s Rich Eberwein with three stories you might have missed from our digital newsroom Catch "Joan Espos…

Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 17, 2025

On today's show: – Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) – George D. Strickland, recently retired Lake County associate judge for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Lake County – Dr. Stockton Mayer, infectious disease physician at UI Health – Spencer Critchley, author of Patriots of Two Nations and ho…

Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 16, 2025

On today's show: – Jeet Heer, national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, “The Time of Monsters” – Nick Blumberg, correspondent at WTTW News – Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) – Casey Toner, Illinois Answers reporter at the Better Government Association – Oren Ja…

Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 15, 2025

On today's show: – Chris Bury, senior journalist-in-residence, DePaul University – James Stroud, a statistician at FEMA currently on administrative leave; he has gone public with his opposition to the Trump administration’s wide-ranging effort to obstruct FEMA’s work and recently signed the FEMA Ka…

Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 12, 2025

On today's show – Chris Fitzsimon, host of the Stories from the States podcast – Adam Abrams, spokesperson for Keep Americans Covered, former communications aide to President Barack Obama and a White House spokesman during the passage of the Affordable Care Act – David Orr, former Cook County clerk…

Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 11, 2025

On today's show: – Bruce Rheins, former CBS Los Angeles deputy bureau chief – Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) – Abby Vesoulis, national politics reporter at Mother Jones – Heartland Signal’s Rich Eberwein with three stories you might have missed from our digital newsroom – Joe Fontana, founder of Fry the …