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Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive December 4 2025
On today's show: – Dr. Anthony Douglas, trauma surgeon at University of Chicago Hospital, and one of the lead organizers behind the Responsibility in Firearm Legislation Act, or RIFL Act in Illinois – Virginia Canter, ethics and anti-corruption chief counsel and director, Democracy Defenders Fund …
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Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 3, 2025
On today's show: – Tod Maffin, online content creator and author of “From Far and Wide with Tod Maffin" – Lisa Stark, former ABC News reporter who recently penned a letter to Disney CEO Bob Iger calling on him to defend free press and protect ABC journalists from political pressure – Mark Jacob an…
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Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 2, 2025
On today's show: – Wayne Steger, professor of political science at DePaul – Elisha Brown, Reproductive Rights Today newsletter author at States Newsroom – Rev. Dr. Michael Woolf, Th.D., pastor-activist-theologian, senior minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston – Dr. Kristin Lyerly, OB/GYN, 2024 …
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Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, December 1, 2025
On today's show: – Tamar Jacoby, contributor to Washington Monthly and the Kyiv-based director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s New Ukraine Project and the author of “Displaced: The Ukrainian Refugee Experience.” Her latest article for Washington Monthly is “ Three Lessons From Trump’s Latest …
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Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive November 26 2025
On today's show: – Margaret Donovan, attorney at Koskoff Koskoff and Bieder, visiting clinical lecturer in law at Yale Law School, former assistant United States attorney for the District of Connecticut, Army veteran and former captain in the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps – Jane Kirtley, profe…
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Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, November 25, 2025
On today's show: – George D. Strickland, recently retired Lake County associate judge for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit Court of Lake County – Laura Leslie, editor of NC Newsline – Chef Lisa Counts of The Chopping Block – Chicago Ald. Matt O’Shea Catch "Joan Esposito: Live, Local and Progressive…
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Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, November 24, 2025
On today's show: – Camaron Stevenson, national correspondent in Washington, D.C. for Courier – Jill Wine-Banks, legal analyst, former general counsel of the U.S. Army, author of “The Watergate Girl,” co-host of #SistersInLaw and host of Just The Facts with Jill Wine-Banks – Joe Walsh, former Republ…
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Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, November 21, 2025
On today's show: – Joel Ostrow, professor of political science at Benedictine University – Chris Fitzsimon of the Stories from the States podcast – Rebecca Ford, film critic Catch "Joan Esposito: Live, Local and Progressive" weekdays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Central on WCPT (heartlandsignal.com/prog…
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Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, November 20, 2025
On today's show: – Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL) – Susan Rinkunas, independent journalist covering abortion, reproductive health, and politics; she is a co-founder of Autonomy News and a contributing editor at The New Republic – Mark Jacob with our regular media segment – Heartland Signal’s Rich Eberw…
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Joan Esposito Live Local & Progressive, November 19, 2025
On today's show: – William Muck, professor of political science at North Central College – Spencer Critchley, author of Patriots of Two Nations and host of the Dastardly Cleverness in the Service of Good podcast Catch "Joan Esposito: Live, Local and Progressive" weekdays from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. Cen…
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