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7/13/2012

Sirota Friday 7-13-12 Hour 3

David led off this hour Independent Power Systems founder Tony Boniface. He talked about how Abound Solar Inc., a U.S. solar manufacturer that was awarded a 400 million U.S. loan guarantee, will suspend operations and file for bankruptcy because its panels were too expensive to compete. He also discussed the 40 plus year track record of crystalline PV technology and how thousands of crystalline PV manufacturers and installers are healthier than ever and that solar is a viable and affordable...
7/13/2012

Sirota Friday 7-13-12 Hour 2

David continued taking calls about his move to KHOW and took some advice from listeneres on his new endeavor.
7/13/2012

Sirota Friday 7-13-12 Hour 1

Sirota's last day in the AM on AM 760. We opened it up for folks to say adios, throw flames or whatever they want.
7/12/2012

Sirota Thursday 7-12-12 Hour 3

Former Secret Service member who was assigned to Jacqueline Kennedy Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin our special in-studio guests to discuss their book Mrs. Kennedy & Me: An Intimate Memoir. They have a slide show presentation and book signing at the Tattered Cover in Lodo starting tonight at 7:30 pm. For four years, from the election of John F. Kennedy in November 1960 until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the Secret Service agent assigned to guard the glamorous and...
7/12/2012

Sirota Thursday 7-12-12 Hour 2

Colorado State University Department of Physics Professor Dr. Carl Patton our special guest. He is also a 41 year resident of Fort Collins and had a recent op-ed in the Denver Post on the on-site stadium debate called Will An On-Campus Football Stadium at CSU Help the School's Academic Mission? No. Proponents of the new stadium have so far declined to come on and debate. We then threw it out for our listeners. Would it be good or bad to use tax payer money to pay for a new stadium?
7/12/2012

Sirota Thursday 7-12-12 Hour 1

David opened up the show talking about doctors and what they disclose to patients and family on diagnosis' etc. Should doctors withhold information about bad diagnoses from patients? Many doctors withhold information so a patient does not give up. We also talked about Congressman Mike Coffman denying claims that he scrubbed the Obama is not an American details from his wikipedia page. Do you think he did it or not?
7/11/2012

Sirota Wednesday 7-11-12 Hour 3

Ralph Metzner joins the show to talk about the book he co authored with Ram Dass and Gary Bravo, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture: Conversations about Leary, the Harvard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties. This book shines a bright light on the emergence of the sixties culture and the experiments with mind-altering substances undertaken by Professors Timothy Leary, Ram Dass and then-Harvard graduate student Ralph Metzner. We then talked about the CO wild fires. Should housing subdivisions...
7/11/2012

Sirota Wednesday 87-11-12 Hour 2

The Atlantic's Helen Gao and author Mike Levy our special guests to talk about the Chinese education system and in particular the gaokao which is the annual, nationwide college entrance exam. Helen wrote the recent piece The Education System That Pulled China Up May Now Be Holding it Back. It talks about how China wants inventors and entrepreneurs, but its schools, built around the notorious gaokao exam, are still designed to produce cookie-cutter engineers and accountants. Helen Gao does...
7/11/2012

Sirota Wednesday 7-11-12 Hour 1

Do you believe, as Colorado State Sen. Kevin Grantham does, that Muslims see mosques as a foothold into a society? And if so, do you agree with Sen. Grantham that Colorado should consider a ban on new mosque construction? At the end of the hour David threw out the most memorable TV moments and asked listeners for theirs.
7/10/2012

Sirota Tuesday 7-10-12 Hour 3

We led off this hour with Dr. Robert Hazen to talk about his Salon piece Preparing for the Big One. He argues it's only a matter of time before a large asteroid hits us again and aske realistically what can we do about it? Dr. Robert Hazen is the Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George Mason University and a senior scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory. He also released his latest book earlier this spring called The Story of Earth: The First 4.5...
7/10/2012

Sirota Tuesday 7-10-12 Hour 2

We led off the hour with Tanner Colby to talk about his new book Some of My Best Friends are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America. Almost fifty years after Martin Luther King, Jr."s I Have a Dream speech, equality is the law of the land, but actual integration is still hard to find. Mammoth battles over forced busing, unfair housing practices, and affirmative action have hardly helped. The bleak fact is that black people and white people in the United States don"t spend much...
7/10/2012

Sirota Tuesdy 7-10-12 Hour 1

Prosecutors now saying Robert Dewey must be compensated for being wrongfully imprisoned for a 1994 murder. Should we compensate people for being imprisoned falsely and if so what should the price be? How much per year if jailed wrongly? Currently Colorado is one of the states that does not compensate. Also this hour: President Obama is threatening to veto any legislation that extends all the tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year, as he presses Congress to extend those cuts only for...
7/9/2012

Sirota Monday 7-7-12 Hour 3

Dr. Tali Sharot joins the show to talk about her new book The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain. Psychologists have long been aware that most people maintain an often irrationally positive outlook on life. In fact, optimism may be crucial to our existence. Tali Sharot"s experiments, research, and findings in cognitive science have contributed to an increased understanding of the biological basis of optimism. We then talked about whether or not gay celebrities havd an...
7/9/2012

Sirota Monday 7-7-12 Hour 2

The long-term transportation funding bill just approved by Congress includes funds for researching alcohol-detection technology that could eventually be standard equipment in all new cars. Should alcohol detection systems be in every vehicle?
7/9/2012

Sirota Monday 7-9-12 Hour 1

Sirota back after a long vacation. Our first topic: A drunk driver hits a pregnant woman, ending the pregnancy just days before the due date. Should he be charged with murdering a child? Or would that begin redefining the terms of the debate over abortion and a woman's right to choose? Should we call the child a fetus or a baby? At 7:50 Former top aide to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and a lifelong antipoverty advocate Peter Edelman our special guest to talk about his new book So Rich, So Poor:...
7/6/2012

Sirota Friday 7-6-12 Hour 3

Dave Zirin brought in guest Emira Woods. She is co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, and an expert on U.S. foreign policy with a special emphasis on Africa and the developing world. She has written on a range of issues from debt, trade and development to U.S. military policy. Emira serves on the Board of Directors of Africa Action, Just Associates, Global Justice and the Financial Policy Forum. She is also on the Network Council of Jubilee USA. Dave and...
7/6/2012

Sirota Friday 7-6-12 Hour 2

Dave Zirin in for Sirota today. He led off this hour with guest Etan Thomas, an 11 year NBA veteran. He is also the author of several books. He talked about life in professional sports, owners, treatment of athletes and about the player's union. At 9:40 Al Jazeera reporter and author Laila Al Arian joined the show. We talked about the war on teror, kill lists and a lot more.
7/6/2012

Sirota Friday 7-6-12 Hour 1

Dave Zirin in for Sirota again today! He led off talking about the Olympics and about Denver still wanting to host one. Dave has been to one and laid out his reasons for why we should not want one. What do you think? At 7:35 labor activist and former number 2 at the AFL-CIO Bill Fletcher joined the show. He talked about labor movements and much more.
7/5/2012

Sirota Thursday 7-5-12 Hour 3

Dave Zirin fillin in for Sirota. We led off this hour talking to Citizen Radio's Allison Kilkenny about biased reporting in particluar with the Occupy movement. She also talked about a stop and frisk policy that is going on in NYC and could be spreading to other cities across America. At 9:35 we were joined by UAW activist Gregg Shotwell. He worked at GM for 30 plus years and now exposes union leaders and corporate managers. He has a new book out called Auto Workers Under the Gun.
7/5/2012

Sirota Thursday 7-5-12 Hour 2

Dave Zirin in for Sirota today. He led off the hour with CASA de Maryland director and immigration rights activist Gustavo Andrade to talk about the Dream Act. Also joining Dave in studio were some Dream Acters Corrina, Eve, and Joel. At 8:40 we were joined by Mason Tvert from SAFER choice and the campaign to regulate marijuana like alcohol. We talked about Amendment 64 and a lot more.
7/5/2012

Sirota Thursday 7-5-12 Hour 1

The Nation's sports writer and Edge of Sports columnist and talk show host Dave Zirin in for David today. At 7:20 State Senator Dr. Irene Aguilar joined Dave and discussed her reaction to the Supreme Court upholding the Health Care Act, single payer advocacy and about mariijuana and health care. Also this hour we talked a little about politics and sports.
7/3/2012

Sirota Tuesday 7-3-12 horu 3

James Mejia in for Dave. He continued talking about the DPS bond issue. James then had a personal dilemma that had to do with underaged girls dating older men that we took calls on.
7/3/2012

Sirota Tuesday 7-3-12 Hour 2

We continued talking about teh DPS bond issue and about whether there should be a 400 million dollar increase. DPS board member from District 2 Andrea Merida joined in on the conversation as did Tammy Berberick from the Florence Crittenton School.
7/3/2012

Sirota Tuesday 7-3-12 Hour 1

James Mejia in for Sirota again today. He spent the first couple segments talking about kids and privacy. When is it too early to let your kids get involved in social media? How do you keeo track of what they are doing? Also this hour: Will you vote for a 400 million dollar tax increase for DPS schools? Did they do a good enough job with their last bond? Is it too much?
7/2/2012

Sirota Monday 7-2-12 Hour 3

We took a couple more calls on the bicycling topic before starting to talk about this year's ballot initiative to regulate marijuana like alcohol. SAFER's executive director Mason Tvert joined the show at 9:20. We also talked about the moratorium lif on dispensaries. Where do you stand in this debate?
7/2/2012

Sirota Monday 7-2-12 Hour 2

James Mejia in for Dave today. More and more cyclists are getting tickets for not paying following the rules of the road. Is this a good or bad thing? What do you see on the roads? Should bicyclists be insured? How do you tickets underage cyclists?
7/2/2012

Sirota Monday 7-2-12 Hour 1

James Mejia in for David today. He led off talking about Colorado wildfires and about cancelled foreworks shows. He then moved on and talked about the role of immigration in this years election race. Where do you come down on the executive order that Obama laid down last week in favor of young people who have been in this country. Was it the right thing to do? He also talked about Denver being labeled a Sanctuary City. Do you think this is true? Do you think Romney can garner any Latino...
6/29/2012

Sirota Friday 6-29-12 Hour 3

James talked about the Celina Hollis murder at City Park Jazz Fest. He also talked about the Summer of Violence in 1993. Does this remind you of that summer? How do we keep violence down in the city and keep our kids safe?
6/29/2012

Sirota Friday 6-29-12 Hour 2

We led off the hour with General Counsel at the Greenlining Institute Samuel Kang. He talked about the Affordable Care Act and what it effect it will have on people of color and disadvantaged groups. At 8:25 Executive Director at Colorado Consumer Health Initiative Dede de Percin called in to talk about the effect on Coloradoans. HD candidate Jovon Melton also called in to talk on the subject.
6/29/2012

Sirota Friday 6-29-12 Hour 1

James Mejia filled in for Dave today. We talked about the fires this hour and about living in red zones. Is it too ealry to have that conversation? SHould living in red zomes be like living in flood zones? Also President Obama in town to day to visit the Waldo Canyon fire. Former Governor Bill Owens says he should not be here. Do you agree?
6/28/2012

Sirota Thursday 6-28-12 Hour 3

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Barack Obama's sweeping health care legislation in a narrow 5-4 ruling. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, which said that the Commerce Clause of the Constitution does not give Congress the authority to require people to have health care, but that other parts of the Constitution did. The court's ruling upheld the law's central provision, a requirement that all people have health insurance. Our special in studio guest was Vice...
6/28/2012

Sirota Thursday 6-28-12 Hour 2

James Mejia in for Sirota. We continued conversation from hour one and we got news that the Health Care Mandate was upheld by the Supreme Court.
6/28/2012

Sirota Thursday 6-28-12 Hour 1

James Mejia filled in for Sirota today. In this hour he talked about the Colorado fires. President Obama plans to come check out the fire damage tomorrow. Is that necessary? What can the President do? Is it too late? Does a Presidents presence make you feel that the government is there for you or is it more of a photo op or is he electioneering?
6/27/2012

Sirota Wednesay 6-27-12 Hour 3

At 9:02 Our special guest is airline insider and award winning journalist William J. McGee to talk about his new book Attention All Passengers: The Airlines" Dangerous Descent - and How to Reclaim Our Skies. William J. McGee is an award-winning travel journalist for Consumer Reports and the former editor of Consumer Reports Travel Letter. In 2010 the US secretary of transportation chose him as the lone consumer advocate on the Future of Aviation Advisory Committee. Prior to becoming a...
6/27/2012

Sirota Wednesday 6-27-12 Hour 2

We continued conversation from hour one with Colorado fire coverage and the problems we have fighting it.
6/27/2012

Sirota Wednesday 6-27-12 Hour 1

Colorado fires coverage. We had live reports from Clear Channel reporters Jim Hooley in Boulder and Paul Kelly in Colorado Springs. Why is Gov. Hickenlooper refusing to call in National Guard or military support in the midst of the worst fire season in modern history? Why aren't President Obama or Mitt Romney drawing attention to the crisis - and why has the story been all but ignored by the national media?
6/26/2012

Sirota Tuesday 6-26-12 Hour 3

At 9:05 our special guest is Brita Belli, E- The Environmental Magazine managing editor our special guest to talk about her cover piece Your Ocean on Acid. On a given day, they will absorb 22 million tons of carbon dioxide, a third of the global output. In doing so they help to keep climate change in check, but they also pay a heavy toll as a result. Increasing levels of carbon in the ocean are making the water more acidic, and that"s beginning to have an impact on shellfish, corals and some...
6/26/2012

Sirota Tuesday 6-26-12 Hour 2

Nationally, economic hardships and demographic changes are leading minorities to seek out higher education at a record pace, according to a new report. But the University of Colorado is not showing comparable minority enrollment growth during the recession years. In the fall of 2008, colleges, universities and trade schools nationwide saw a significant boom in freshman enrollment as unemployment rates began to rise, according to a report released last week by the Pew Research Center. Of the...
6/26/2012

Sirota Tuesday 6-26-12 Hour 1

After Denver Police officer Celena Hollis was killed on Sunday, should the city continue the City Park Jazz Festival? Would you take your kids to this festival anymore? What can police do to make it more safe? We then talked about i25 congestion. 175 K cars travel i25 per day between US 36 and 120th ave. Do you think a 50 milion dollar infusion of cash to loosen congestion is worth it?
6/25/2012

Sirota Monday 6-25-12 Hour 2

David led off the hour with some leftover comments from last hour on climate change. Our topic this hour focused on social media and how much you should have to disclose about yourself. A new Louisiana law requires sex offenders and child predators to state their criminal status on their Facebook or other social networking page, with the law's author saying the bill is the first of its kind in the nation. Should laws require you to disclose things about yourself on social networking sites...
6/25/2012

Sirota Monday 6-25-12 Hour 1

Sirota opened up talking about the health care debate and the upcoming Supreme Court ruling on a mandate. We played some audio of Barack Obama back in 2006. Sirota interviewed him for a Salon piece. Obama believes private insurance companies represent legitimate interests and should be involved in the debate. Is it a mistake to assume the Obama admin will be supprotive of a single payer system? We then talked about our state and the rash of fires. Are the super-hot temperatures and Colorado...
6/22/2012

Sirota Friday 6-22-12 Hour 3

Our special in studio guest this hour was Scott Witsoe from Wit's End Brewing at 2nd and Bryant St. in Denver. He's been open about 9 months and is already expanding. check him and his beers out at www.witsendbrewing.com. Also this hour: A Harvard study shows Obama lost 5 percent of the vote in 2008 because of racism. Additionally, a new Gallup poll shows 18 percent of Americans will not vote for Mitt Romney simply because he's Mormon. Which do you think will be a bigger factor in deciding...
6/22/2012

Sirota Friday 6-22-12 Hour 2

Denver Public Schools may be asking voters for a 500 million property tax increase to help with budget cuts. Business and civic leaders say the money is needed to pay for school renovations and programs to help students. According to the Denver Post, the district estimates it has lost more than 70 million in per pupil funding since state budget cuts began in 2009. The referred measure would add about 143 to the annual tax bill for a Denver resident with a home valued at 225,000. Our special...
6/22/2012

Sirota Friday 6-22-12 Hour 1

Mitt Romney"s plan to replace President Obama"s new immigration policy would only allow immigrants to avoid deportation if they served in the military, according to Talking Points Memo. Romney outlined what he called a civil but resolute approach to undocumented immigration in a speech before the National Association of Latino Elected Officials in Orlando, where he also vowed to give spouses and young children priority in the green-card allocation process. Should military service be the only...
6/21/2012

Sirota Thursday 6-21-12 Hour 3

Comedian and Actor Christopher Titus joins us in studio. He has shows at Comedy Works tonight through Saturday night! He talked about all the issues David hit on this morning, Drug checkpoints, NSA spying, Mitt Romney, and much more. check out his website www.christophertitus.com
6/21/2012

Sirota Thursday 6-21-12 Hour 2

We led off the hour with Communications Manager for Western Resource Advocates Jason Bane to talk about their new report Fracking Our Future: Measuring Water and Community Impacts from Hydraulic Fracturing. Fracking Our Future is the first report to provide a comprehensive measure of water and community impacts from hydraulic fracturing. We then talked about Governor Doody's never-ending love for fracking and a recent quote. We also took a couple calls on fracking. At 8:35 we talked about...
6/21/2012

Sirota Thursday 6-21-12 Hour 1

President Obama"s decision Wednesday to assert executive privilege to shield his attorney general and the Justice Department from congressional investigators reignited a long-running Washington debate over the limits of White House power in which Obama has argued both sides. In 2007, Obama, then a senator with higher ambitions, chided President George W. Bush for employing his executive authority to block then-senior White House adviser Karl Rove from testifying before Congress in a scandal...
6/19/2012

Sirota Tuesday 6-19-12 Hour 3

Dr. Dan Ariely joins the show to talk about his new book The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves. Most of us think of ourselves as honest, but, in fact, we all cheat. From Washington to Wall Street, the classroom to the workplace, unethical behavior is everywhere. None of us is immune, whether it's the white lie to head off trouble or padding our expense reports. Ariely shows why some things are easier to lie about; how getting caught matters less...
6/19/2012

Sirota Tuesday 6-19-12 Hour 2

MSNBC host and Editor at Large for The Nation, Chris Hayes our special guest. He has a new book out called Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy. At 8:45 we talked about theis story: The same power that Governor John Hickenlooper used to ban the use of fireworks in Colorado could have been extended to ban the sale of fireworks as well. Hickenlooper signed an Executive Order banning open burning and the private use of fireworks throughout Colorado in response to very dry...
6/19/2012

Sirota Tuesday 6-19-12 Hour 1

Mitt Romney, at a Faith and Freedom speech, talked about the importance of kids today having a mom and dad. Yet another shot at same sex couples who have children. Do you agree with Mitt? We closed out the hour with a brief conversation on why kids are fascinated with dinosaurs.
6/18/2012

Sirota Monday 6-18-12 Hour 3

Gloria Neal in for David. She continued conversation from hour 2 and Obama's new immigrant deportation loosening.
6/18/2012

Sirota Monday 6-18-12 Hour 2

Gloria Neal in today. Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants who were brought into the United States as children will be able to avoid deportation and get work permits under an order on Friday by President Barack Obama. In a move that seemed to be aimed at Hispanics whose enthusiasm for voting in the November 6 election could be crucial to Obama's re-election chances, the president acted to potentially protect 800,000 people from deportation proceedings for at least two years. What are...
6/18/2012

Sirota Monday 6-18-12 Hour 1

Gloria Neal filled in for David today. She led off talking about a Post piece talking about the new dad wars. Stay-at-home dads versus working dads. Are stay at home dads looked at differently than stay at home moms? Is there a different stigma?
6/15/2012

Sirota Friday 6-15-12 Hour 3

We led off the hour with another round of Nerdgasm Sci Fi trivia. At 9:25 we started talking more about extra terrestrial life. If we find aliens do you think they will be hostile to us? Will we be hostile to them? Do you want us to make contact?
6/15/2012

Sirota Friday 6-15-12 Hour 2

Nerdgasm trivia contest round one kicked off this hour. We then asked about what power or innovation form the sci fi world would you like to have or see become a reality?
6/15/2012

Sirota Friday 6-15-12 Hour 1

David broadcasts live from Denver Comic-Con. He opened up talking about space exploration. There have been proposed cuts to NASA and space exploration. Should we look at space exploration as a business investment? We also talked about whether or not the Pentagon is preparing for an alien invasion. Do you want us to make contact with extra terrestrials? Do you think the Pentagon is spending money on this?
6/14/2012

Sirota Thursday 6-14-12 Hour 3

David opened the hour asking whether technology is a good thing or bad thing for kids? Is it moving too fast? Does it create social alienation? At 9:35 Ernest Cline our special guest to talk about his book Ready Player One which is now out in paperback. He has a book signing and discussion at teh Tattered Cover on Colfax this evening starting at 7:30 pm.
6/14/2012

Sirota Thursday 6-14-12 Hour 2

We opened the hour with some reaction to Dave Zirin arguing we should root for the Miami Heat over Oklahoma City becuase of the move they made from Seattle to OKC. Do you agree? We also asked what you would do to keep your sports teams in Colorado? In the past two years, conservative state lawmakers have pushed various unconstitutional policies requiring state employees, welfare beneficiaries and other groups to submit to random drug testing. These programs are fairly consistently struck...
6/14/2012

Sirota Thursday 6-14-12 Hour 1

David led off talking about defense budget cuts and what it would mean to Colorado's aerospace program. A slowdown, which some argue already is happening, could include layoffs, no new resources for existing programs, no new programs, no new hires, renegotiated contracts, canceled orders and general stagnation, several experts said. Is it worth cutting defense budget if it heavily affects our aeropsace industry? Can we not afford to keep spending so much on defense and the military? Or can...
6/13/2012

Sirota Wednesday 6-13-12 Hour 3

As Father"s Day approaches, it may be time to rethink the question of a father"s rights and responsibilities, to take some of our most cherished and unexamined slogans and see if they are fair. Take for instance the idea of a woman"s right to choose. The man"s opinion is only secondary, and if there is a conflict, entirely negligible. Should a man be responsible for a child he wanted to abort?
6/13/2012

Sirota Wednesday 6-13-12 Hour 2

With the High Park Fire burning in Larimer County and local officials enacting strict burn bans in the face of fire danger, some Boulder County cities and towns are reconsidering their Fourth of July fireworks this year. Boulder officials said Tuesday that a permit is in place for the city's annual fireworks display at Folsom Field on the Fourth of July, but that doesn't guarantee the show will take place. Should there be a statewide fire and fireworks ban?
6/13/2012

Sirota Wednesday 6-13-12 Hour 1

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6/12/2012

Sirota Tuesday 6-12-12 Hour 3

We led off the hour with Dr. Daniel Chamovitz to talk about his book What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses. Dr. Chamovitz shows how plants know up from down, how they know when a neighbor has been infested by a group of hungry beetles, and whether they appreciate the Led Zeppelin you"ve been playing for them or if they"re more partial to the melodic riffs of Bach. Covering touch, sound, smell, sight, and even memory, Chamovitz encourages us all to consider whether plants might even...
6/12/2012

Sirota Tuesday 6-12-12 Hour 2

We talked about conspiracy theories in this hour. One of Sirota's buddies insisted the lunar landing was a hoax. What are the consiracy theories you believe or totally do not believe in? We closed out the hour doing an update on our Comic-Con bracket.
6/12/2012

Sirota Tuesday 6-12-12 Hour 1

We led off talking about Ken Buck being the new face in opposition to Amendment 64 which would regulate marijuana like alcohol. We talked about the drug war in Mexico and whether or not it's a failed policy. At 7:50 we were joined by Betty Aldworth who is the Advocacy Director at The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol. She gave response on Ken Buck and their amendment.
6/11/2012

Sirota Monday 6-11-12 Hour 3

At 9;05 Dr. Alex Molnar, a research professor for the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, our special guest to talk about the class size debate in Colorado schools. There was a recent Denver Post piece on this called Education Experts Disagree on Importance of School Size. Class size generally is determined on a building-by-building basis. But the trend of districts' student-to-teacher ratios in Colorado, as calculated by the Colorado Department of...
6/11/2012

Sirota Monday 6-11-12 Hour 2

Investigative reporter Daniel Klaidman our special guest to talk about his book Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency. The book is a behind-the-scenes look at how the Obama administration is waging the shadow war on terror, a story of high idealism quickly shifting once the candidate took office. He also commented on the leak scandal that occured this weekend. We then did News of the Weird and Food Update as well as talked about our Comic-Con Bracket.
6/11/2012

Sirota Monday 6-11-12 Hour 1

State Rep. Marsha Looper's campaign manager forwarded an e-mail to supporters that praised the lawmaker for voting against civil unions even though she has a gay son. It's no secret at the state Capitol that Looper is one of at least four House Republicans with a gay child, but an unwritten courtesy has been to let the lawmaker be the one to publicly reveal that information. Looper said she has been asked by some voters about her son's sexuality and has answered honestly, but never meant for...
6/8/2012

Sirota Friday 6-8-12 Hour 3

We led off the hour with actor and comedian Bob Saget. He has shows at Comedy Works in the DTC this weekend. We talked about his career. At 9:20 Dave Zirin our special guest to talk about the NFL lawsuits. scores of lawsuits involving thousands of former players touched by concussions and brain injuries have been consolidated into one master complaint, setting up a massive and potentially costly case for the NFL. Lawyers for the players filed the complaint Thursday in Philadelphia, accusing...
6/8/2012

Sirota Friday 6-8-12 Hour 2

Author and Rock and Roll Lifesaver Steve Almond joined us to talk about his Boston Globe piece called The Man Date Mandate. He also talked about Romney and pro war protesting during Vietnam. His music suggestion this time around was Train Whistle by Hotels and Highways. We then talked a little about Man Dates and Mancations. At 8:40
6/8/2012

Sirota Friday 6-8-12 Hour 1

A newly-unearthed photograph showing Mitt Romney demonstrating in favour of the Vietnam War draft might leave the presidential candidate feeling somewhat embarrassed.The veteran Republican, then 19, can be seen picketing an anti-war sit-in at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, in 1966. They were protesting at the introduction of a test designed to help the authorities decide who was eligible for the draft.Mr Romney was one of approximately 150 conservative students who...
6/7/2012

Sirota Thursday 6-7-12 Hour 3

State Representative Bob Gardner joins the show to discuss his Opinion piece in the Colorado Springs Gazette called Civil Union Debate Was Only a Diversion, Just Ask Sirota. David thinks Rep Gardner misconstrued his views on civil unions. They hammered it out on air. He stuck around for a half hour. We then took listener reaction.
6/7/2012

Sirota Thursday 6-7-12 Hour 2

Denver Public Schools has terminated an elementary school principal over problems with CSAP testing at his school discovered by the Colorado Department of Education. As the result of state investigations of administration and handling of the 2011 Colorado Student Assessment Program tests at a very limited number of schools, the state said it found the tests were not administered correctly at Beach Court Elementary School. We are seeing more cheating in standardized tests by administration...
6/7/2012

Sirota Thursday 6-7-12 Hour 1

An award-winning coal-mining activist was questioned for 45 minutes by police on suspicion of child pornography after U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn's energy and mineral resources subcommittee decided a photo she submitted of a child in foul bathwater was inappropriate. We have the photo on the website. Is the photo inappropriate? Is Lamborn off his rocker? David then talked about last night's storm. Sirota claims that thunderstorms are not relaxing when trying to sleep. What noises do you like ot...
6/6/2012

Sirota Wednesday 6-6-12 Hour 3

Colorado improperly paid nearly 128 million in unemployment benefits last year, and the state wants it all back. That included more than 98 million from state coffers, with the rest coming from the federal government's extended-benefits plan, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. That Colorado money accounts for nearly 2 percent of the 5.1 billion in erroneous unemployment payments made by states nationwide in 2011, Labor Department spokesman Jason Kuruvilla said. The improper payments...
6/6/2012

Sirota Wednesday 6-6-12 Hour 2

We led off with special guest Christopher Buckley to talk about his latest book They Eat Puppies Don't They? He has a book signing and discussion tomorrow night at the Tattered Cover in Lodo starting at 7:30 pm. In an attempt to gain Congressional approval for a top secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist Bird McIntyre and sexy Neo-Con wonkette Angel Templeton start a rumor that the Chinese secret service is trying to assassinate the Dalai Lama. Their outrageous scheme provokes a series...
6/6/2012

Sirota Wednesday 6-6-12 Hour 1

David led off talking about the Wisconsin election and Governor Scott Walker winning re-election. He talked about money and political elections. Walker outspent his opponent 8 to 1. 30 million dollars raised for the Walker campaign. The ugly truth is elections are bought and paid for. We then asked was it appropriate for Aurora police to publish a photo to make a point about seat belts? Do you support laws forcing drivers to buckle up themselves and their kids?
6/5/2012

Sirota Tuesday 6-5-12 Hour 3

On Valentine's Day, Nick Bergus came across a link to an odd product on Amazon.com: a 55-gallon barrel of personal lubricant. He found it irresistibly funny and, as one does in this age of instant sharing, he posted the link on Facebook, adding a comment: For Valentine's Day. And every day. For the rest of your life. Within days, friends of Mr. Bergus started seeing his post among the ads on Facebook pages, with his name and smiling mug shot. Facebook, or rather, one of its algorithms, had...
6/5/2012

Sirota Tuesday 6-5-12 Hour 2

Dr. Daniel Wilson our special guest to talk about his new book Amped: A Novel. He has a book signing and discussion at the Tattered Cover on Colfax this Friday June 8th starting at 7:30 pm. As he did in the New York Times bestseller Robopocalypse, Daniel Wilson masterfully envisions a frightening near-future world. In Amped, people are implanted with a device that makes them capable of superhuman feats. The powerful technology has profound consequences for society, and soon a set of laws is...
6/5/2012

Sirota Tuesday 6-5-12 Hour 1

Metropolitan State College of Denver may approve a new tuition structure that will cut the cost of college for illegal-immigrant students by more than half. Students who have a diploma from a Colorado high school or a GED and can prove they have been a resident of the state for three years would be eligible for the rate, which would be 3,358.30 per semester for a full-time student, compared with 7,992.60, which is the out-of-state rate now paid by illegal-immigrant students. In-state tuition...
6/4/2012

Sirota Monday 6-2-12 Hour 3

We led off the hour with Spirit Airlines spokeswoman Misty Pinson. She gave us their pricing structure and tried to calm David's fears about their fee structure. There is a piece saying Spirit will charge up to 100 dollars for carry on. Would you fly Spirit Airlines? If not, why not? At 9:40: The House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing on International Proposals to Regulate the Internet to discuss the potential consequences of recent proposals by the international...
6/4/2012

Sirota Monday 6-2-12 Hour 2

When asked a question about it's former production facilities in Colorado, Apple's CEO says he wants to bring jobs back to the United States. Do you believe him? As a consumer, would you be willing to pay more for your Apple products if they were made in America?
6/4/2012

Sirota Monday 6-4-12 Hour 1

Brian Banks will get a crack at the NFL, even if it's simply a tryout. The Seattle Seahawks confirmed they will hold a tryout for Banks, a former high school football star who was exonerated last week in a California rape case in which he was falsely accused. The 26-year-old Banks pleaded no contest 10 years ago on the advice of a lawyer after a childhood friend falsely accused him of attacking her on their high school campus. On May 24, a judge threw out the conviction that sent Banks to...
6/1/2012

Sirota Friday 6-1-12 Hour 3

CU President Bruce Benson joined David. They talked about several issues including tuition costs, teacher salaries, budgetary cuts, 4-20 crackdowns and free speech zones. At 9:25 Actor and Comedian Jay Mohr in studio talking politics and a whole lot more. We also squeezed in a few calls for Festivus Friday.
6/1/2012

Sirota Friday 6-1-12 Hour 2

House Republicans provoked a fresh confrontation in the ongoing battle over women"s health care rights, but failed Thursday to win approval for a bill designed to outlaw abortions based on gender. The bill, aimed at families trying to avoid unwanted daughters, attracted the support of a majority of representatives, but failed because it was considered under a procedure normally used for uncontroversial measures. It needed the votes of two-thirds of the House. Should a woman have the right to...
6/1/2012

Sirota Friday 6-1-12 Horu 1

From North Carolina to Washington State, communities have designated swimming pools, parks and school bus stops as child safety zones, off limits to some sex offenders. They are barred from libraries in half a dozen Massachusetts cities, and from all public facilities in tiny Huachuca City, Ariz. The proliferation of such restrictions reflects the continued concerns of parents and lawmakers about potential recidivism among sex offenders. But it has also increasingly raised questions about...
5/31/2012

Sirota Thursday 5-31-12 Hour 3

At 9:05 New York Times food columnist and author Mark Bittman our special guest to talk about his opinion piece We Could Be Heroes. He talks about ethics and eating meat. Less people are eating meat but it still amounts to about 200 pounds per person per year. The earth may very well be running out of clean water, and by some estimates it takes 100 times more water to produce a pound of grain-fed beef than it does to produce a pound of wheat. We"re also running out of land: somewhere around...
5/31/2012

Sirota Thursday 5-31-12 Hour 2

Mitt Romney cites super-wealthy presidents like JFK and FDR as reason why people shouldn't criticize his wealth. Do you agree or disagree?
5/31/2012

Sirota Thursday 5-31-12 Hour 1

David led off updating the started to ask the White House to create a Do Not Kill List. At 7:20 we talked about this story: New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg intends to restrict sales of sugary soft drinks to no more than 16 ounces a cup in city restaurants, movie theaters, stadiums and arenas, administration officials said. The Health Department plans to propose the ban as an amendment to the Health Code at a June 12 meeting of the Board of Health, according to Samantha Levine, a mayoral...
5/30/2012

Sirota Wednesday 5-30-12 Hour 3

A forthcoming biography on President Obama is making headlines, with new details about the president smoking marijuana with his teenage friends in Hawaii. David Maraniss" book, Barack Obama: The Story, describes Obama as a marijuana enthusiast. While Obama's term began with great promise for drug policy reformers, in the past two years it has been difficult to distinguish Obama's drug policies form his predecessors. Although President Obama has acknowledged that legalization is an entirely...
5/30/2012

Sirota Wednesday 5-30-12 Hour 2

At 8:05 Michael Fumento our special guest to discuss his Salon piece My Break with the Extreme Right. Fumento is a military veteran who worked for the Reagan Administration, American Enterprise Institute and Hudson Institute and published many articles in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Weekly Standard and Forbes. We then talked about this story: New York City is going to be a lonelier place for public school teachers. The city's Department of Education has ruled that NYC...
5/30/2012

Sirota Wednesday 5-30-12 Hour 1

In a scathing New York Times piece President Obama has officially declaring that all military-age males in a drone strike zone are militants worthy of death. Sirota calls this the most important article he has read in years. Do you support his declaration and if you do support that, would you support a Republican president doing the same? At 7:20 our special guest was Coleen Rowley, a former FBI Special Agent and Division Counsel whose May 2002 memo described some of the FBI's pre-9-11...
5/29/2012

Sirota Tuesday 5-29-12 Hour 3

Do you support or oppose CU using 247,000 of public money to crush the 4-20 protest? Do you support or oppose Denver officials using 13,000 of taxpayer money to fly to Iceland to celebrate Iceland Air's new service to the city? What do you think about our tax money going to things like this?
5/29/2012

Sirota Tuesday 5-29-12 Hour 2

MSNBC's Chris Hayes sparked controversy and debate on Sunday when he said that he felt uncomfortable calling soldiers killed in action heroes because the term can be used to justify potentially unjust wars. He later apologized for the statement. Should MSNBC's Chris Hayes have apologized for questioning how we use the term hero when it comes to war? At 8:50: The Colorado Public Utilities Commission approved a new solar rewards program for Xcel Energy that does away with upfront cash...
5/29/2012

Sirota Tuesday 5-29-12 Hour 1

David led off talking about President Obama's speech yesterday on the 50 year anniversary of the Vietnam War. President Obama said patriots can support or oppose a war but we must always support our troops. We also talked about Vietnam Vets and whether or not they were mistreated when they returned and whether dissent caused our loss. David threw out some studies that say 90 percent of vets said they were treated well. Is it true that they were mistreated or is it a myth?
5/25/2012

Sirota Friday 5-25-12 Hour 3

We led off the hour with Wider Opportunities for Women's Senior Scholar Dr. Mary Gatta. The New York Times recently ran a piece called More Men Entering Fields Dominated By Women. While women continue to make inroads into prestigious, high-wage professions dominated by men, more men are reaching for the dream in female-dominated occupations that their fathers might never have considered. The article discusses brand-new findings showing that from 2000 to 2010, occupations that are more than...
5/25/2012

Sirota Friday 5-25-12 Hour 2

David led off talking about Mike Coffman some more. He was on our sister station KHOW yesterday summarizing his apology for saying Obama, in his heart, is not an American. We played some audio and took a little response. We then talked about this story: the Denver Post is eliminating most of its copy editors, meaning many of its stories will no longer receive the most basic kind of fact checking and editing that has been standard in the journalism industry. Will this make you distrust the...
5/25/2012

Sirota Friday 5-25-12 Hour 1

A woman was not allowed to board her connecting flight Tuesday because she was wearing a pro-choice shirt that was too offensive, according to American Airlines. Her shirt said if I wanted the government in my womb, I'd f--k a Senator. Should she have gotten kicked off? At 7:50 Rolling stone's Matt Taibbi joined the show to talk about the Facebook IPO debacle.
5/24/2012

Sirota Thursday 5-24-12 Hour 3

Our special guest is Hank Cardello, a food industry insider and former executive with Coca-Cola, General Mills, Anheuser-Busch, and Cadbury-Schweppes, He turned public health advocate and Hudson Institute Senior Fellow & Director of the Obesity Solutions Initiative. He is also the lead author of a landmark Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded report, Better-for-you Foods: It"s Just Good Business. Cardello serves as a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, a non-partisan policy think tank,...
5/24/2012

Sirota Thursday 5-24-12 Hour 2

The pilotless aircraft that the U.S. government has used to spy on and kill insurgents in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere were approved by the Federal Aviation Administration last week for local law enforcement. Police drones soon could be flying over Americans" heads, surveilling everything from people watering lawns during a drought, to swimming in their backyard pools. Recent technology allows drones to spot patterns of crop growth, such as that of a sick person growing medical marijuana...
5/24/2012

Sirota Thursday 5-24-12 Hour 1

Denver's Public Works department is about to embark on a pilot program in Cherry Creek North. According to a 9News report, the city will bury 500 sensors in the street next to parking meters in an effort to make the meters smarter. By smarter, they mean just a bit more needy. The sensors tell a meter when a car vacates a spot, then remove any extra time that may have remained. So instead of lucking out when the previous occupant put more money in than needed, you'll have to feed the meter no...
5/23/2012

Sirota Wednesday 5-23-12 Hour 3

At 9:05, Steven Martin, City of Hope"s Vice President of Marketing, joins teh show to discuss their radiothon today as well as what City of Hope does and where the funds go. City of Hope is one of only 40 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers nationwide and a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. An independent biomedical research, treatment and education institution, they are a leader in the fight to conquer cancer, diabetes, HIV AIDS and...
5/23/2012

Sirota Wednesday 5-23-12 Hour 2

Ambassador Henry Crumpton, a legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert with the rank of Ambassador-at-Large at the U.S. Department of State, is our special in-studio guest. He discussed his book The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service. For a crucial period, Henry Crumpton led the CIA's global covert operations against America's terrorist enemies, including al Qaeda. In the days after 9-11, the CIA tasked Crumpton to organize and lead the Afghanistan...
5/23/2012

Sirota Wednesday 5-23-12 hour 1

During his Tuesday campaign speech at Keene State College in New Hampshire, Vice President Joe Biden criticized presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney�s claim that his background in business makes him a more suitable candidate for the presidency, saying that working in private equity no more qualifies you to be president than being a plumber. Does Wall Street experience qualify one to hold high public office? At 7:50 President of the New America Foundation, staff writer for the New Yorker and...
5/22/2012

Sirota Tuesday 5-22-12 Hour 3

We continued with Congressman Ed Perlmutter in studio. We talked about oil and gas drilling rules, vet care, jobs, student loans and much more. We then talked about a study that says peopel who eat organic are meaner and develop a more holier-than-thou attitude.
5/22/2012

Sirota Tuesday 5-22-12 Hour 2

If you've ever wondered why fewer men tend to embrace vegetarian lifestyles than women, a new study published in the Journal of Consumer Research may have the answer. Researchers from several top American universities found a strong connection between eating meat, especially muscle meat, like steak - and masculinity. Study participants, when placed in experiments that explored connections between metaphors and certain foods like meat and milk, were found to rate meat more masculine than...
5/22/2012

Sirota Tuesday 5-22-12 Hour 1

By year's end, Denver International Airport will be nearly smoke-free, with all but one of the four indoor smoking lounges closed. Now is the time to clear the air, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said in announcing the move toward ending smoking within the airport. DIA is the last public building in Colorado with indoor smoking lounges. Hancock said the responsible decision is to snuff indoor smoking for a healthier environment for travelers and employees. He noted that while there are systems...
5/21/2012

Sirota Monday 5-21-12 Hour 3

Justin Halpern, the New York Times bestseller author and sitcom creator of Sh-t My Dad Says, joins the show to discuss his new book I Suck at Girls. He has a book signing and talk tonight at 7:30 pm at the tattered Cover in Lodo. This is a laugh-out-loud funny and deeply touching collection of personal stories about relationships with the opposite sex, from a first kiss to getting engaged and all the awkward moments in between. We then did our Food News Update. At 9:35 Gwen Lachelt joins the...
5/21/2012

Sirota Monday 5-21-12 Hour 2

At 8:05 Internationally Bestselling Writer and American Political Scientist Ian Bremmer our special guest to talk about his new book Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World. The book covers the new world order Bremmer has named The G-Zero. Instead of a world governed effectively by international bodies such as the G-7 and the G-20, the opposite has occurred. Member nations have just enough power to keep things from being accomplished, but none has enough clout, or the...
5/21/2012

Sirota Monday 5-21-12 Hour 1

The University of Colorado is drawing criticism from Republican legislators who say the school's new zones for canvassers, including The Gideons International, which passes out free Bibles, are a threat to free speech. But CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard said the campus can place limitations on public access, and the 11 areas designated for canvassers are highly trafficked. Canvassers, whether they're passing out Bibles or pizza coupons, must now get permission from the university, and...
5/18/2012

Sirota Friday 5-18-12 Hour 3

How would you complete the sentence: You know you're from Colorado when...? At 9:35 we talked to author and journalist Gary Taubes about his Newsweek piece Why the Campaign to Stop America's Obesity Crisis Keeps Failing. The nation"s most powerful anti-obesity groups are teaming up for a new HBO documentary but Taubes argues that it pushes the same tired advice. He reports on the research they're ignoring.
5/18/2012

Siorota Friday 5-18-12 Hour 2

GOP Rep. Mike Coffman's non-apology apology for saying President Obama is not an American included a criticism of Obama for seeing America as but one nation among many equals. Coffman says he disagrees - and that it's unpatriotic to see America this way. Do you agree with Coffman? Is American exceptionalism a good or bad thing? We closed out the hour talking about Facebook stock and whether or nor you will buy in today.
5/18/2012

Sirota Friday 5-18-12 Hour 1

CNN Political Analyst Paul Begala our special guest tg lead off the show. He is a also a senior advisor with Priorities USA Action. He talked about their new ad campaign launched by the organization against Mitt Romney. We talked about Bail Capital and Romney's record. We then talked about this story: Financial infidelity appears to be on the rise. No matter how close the marriage, apparently there are often secrets around money. A new study suggests it"s mostly women who are financially...
5/17/2012

Sirota Thursday 5-17-12 Hour 3

White Americans have officially passed a major milestone as they now represent less than half of all births in the United States. Whites still represent the largest share of new births. at 49.6 percent, according to the Census Bureau, and will remain the majority population for many more years. Non-Hispanic whites are currently 63 percent of all Americans. But as the median age increases and their fertility rates go down, it is only a matter of time before whites no longer dominate the...
5/17/2012

Sirota Thursday 5-17-12 Hour 2

Tommy Chong our special in studio guest this hour. He and his wife Shelby are at Comedy Works in Larimer Square tonight, tomorrow and Saturday. We talked about his career, marijuana policy and much more. We then talked about Facebook going public and stocks going on sale. A recent poll says half of American believe Facebook is a fad. Is Facebook just a short-lived fad? Or is it here to stay?
5/17/2012

Sirota Thursday 5-17-12 Hour 1

Rep. Mike Coffman is backpedaling after 9News obtained an audio recording of his comments at a recent fundraiser where he raised the issue of President Barack Obama's birthplace and said the president, in his heart, he's not an American. Do you agree or disagree with Rep. Coffman? How do you define Americanness?
5/16/2012

Sirota Wednesday 5-16-12 Hour 3

9:05 Guest:Joel Stein.Author of Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masculinity Joel Stein joins the show. When 38-year-old, self-confessed unmanly man Stein finds out he and his wife are having a baby boy, he is seized by the compulsion to learn how to do all that manly stuff he"s neglected. So he spends time with some firefighters (all the while hugely intimidated by their dazzling good looks); learns to love dogs (with the help of a former Playboy playmate); gets some lessons in the fundamentals...
5/16/2012

Sirota Wednesday 5-16-12 Hour 1

A woman says she was fired by Colorado Christian University because of a choice she made in her private life, and now she"s suing. Colorado Christian University is a small Christian-based college. The staff and the students say they are expected to follow a strict code of behavior. But the question is, does that legally apply to one"s off-campus and private life? Colorado Christian University has a school policy stating that all students and staff are expected to be strong and strict...
5/15/2012

Sirota Tuesday 5-15-12 Hour 3

We took another segment of calls on the Denver camping ban. We then talked about this story: Animal control officials got a go-ahead Friday from a state court judge to euthanize a 120-pound dog that fatally mauled a 1-year-old boy at home, despite efforts by a New York-based rescue group to send the animal to a sanctuary in Colorado. Clark County District Judge Joanna Kishner sided with Henderson city attorneys who argued the attack proved the 6-year-old mastiff-Rhodesian ridgeback mix is...
5/15/2012

Sirota Tuesday 5-15-12 Hour 2

We led off the hour with Brian Miller who co wrote with Mike Lapham the new book The Self-Made Myth and the Truth About How Government Helps Businesses Succeed. The Self-Made Myth exposes the false claim that business success is the result of heroic individual effort with little or no outside help. Brian Miller and Mike Lapham bust the myth and present profiles of business leaders who recognize the public investments and supports that made their success possible, including Warren Buffett,...
5/15/2012

Sirota Tuesday 5-15-12 Hour 1

Colorado Republicans killed the civil unions legislation, arguing that it's divisive to discuss equal rights when there's a recession going on. Can we deal with equal rights when the economy is bad? Or are equal rights and the economy in conflict? At 7:45 Natalia Swalnick our special guest to talk about Colorado Rides Electric Day which is taking place around the state this week with a long list of events. Natalia is the Director of Environmental Health at the American Lung Association in...
5/14/2012

Sirota Monday 5-14-12 Hour 3

A vegan activist group is calling on the White House to ban the president, his family, and his cabinet from eating what it calls junk food at public events, and drawing attention to some of the more notable pictures of Barack Obama snacking on foods that don't exactly fit into his wife"s anti-obesity campaign. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine mailed a petition to Mr. Obama calling on him to issue an executive order requiring official photo opportunities to feature only...
5/14/2012

Sirota Monday 5-14-12 Hour 1

We talked about the Time Magazine cover story about attachment parenting where a 3 year old is seen breast feeding off his 26 year old mother. David says this is narcissistic behavior on the parents side and is totally inappropriate. Is Time magazine's cover appropriate or inappropriate? Should a 3-year-old still be breastfeeding? Did this mother exploit her child by putting him on the cover of a national magazine?
5/14/2012

Sirota Monday 5-14-12 Hour 1

Hundreds of students in Jefferson County can no longer ride on their school buses. They are being told that they get no more rides until their parents pay the required fees. This is the first year the financially strapped Jeffco Public Schools district has charged for bus service, and children are now paying the price for parents who don"t comply. Should Colorado school districts throw kids off the school bus if their parents don't pay a special fee for bus service? Or should bus service be...
5/11/2012

Sirota Friday 5-11-12 Hour 3

At 9:05, Dr. Marion nestle joins teh program for our food update. She recently released her latest book Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics. In Why Calories Count, Dr. Nestle and Malden Nesheim explain in clear and accessible language what calories are and how they work, both biologically and politically. We then talked about pot again. A new ad in Colorado argues that we should feel safer around pot smokers than around drinkers. Do you agree?
5/11/2012

Sirota Friday 5-11-12 Hour 2

last month, officials say, al-Qaida completed a sophisticated new, nonmetallic underwear bomb - and unwittingly handed it over to the CIA.The would-be suicide bomber, the man al-Qaida entrusted with its latest device, actually was a double agent working with the CIA and Saudi intelligence agencies, officials said Tuesday. Instead of sneaking it onto a plane in his underwear, he delivered it to the U.S. government and handed al-Qaida its latest setback. Does this make you feel safer? We then...
5/11/2012

Sirota Friday 5-11-12 Hour 1

Colorado's main medical-marijuana lobby is pushing Denver's City Council to ban outdoor advertising, such as billboards and sign-flippers, for such businesses across the city in an effort to further legitimize the industry. Should the Denver City Council ban medical marijuana advertising? Or should dispensaries have the right to advertise their product? We then talked about National Day of Prayer. The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that governors' proclamations of a state Day of...
5/10/2012

Sirota Thursday 5-10-12 Hour 3

This season all high school baseball teams across the state were ordered by the Colorado High School Activities Association to stop using aluminum bats. Kelly Kizer, the head baseball coach at Westminster High School, says too many kids were getting hurt by explosive balls. Teams can now use wooden bats or bats with the BBCOR label. Those are supposed to be safer because balls aren"t hit as hard or fast. The Westminster Wolves use the BBCOR bats. The change may mean fewer injuries, but it...
5/10/2012

Sirota Thursday 5-10-12 Hour 2

We continued conversation from hour one on the same sex marriage debate that exploded nationally and locally on Wednesday. At 7:50 we talked with Colorado author and journalist Florence Williams joins the show to talk about her new book Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History. She has a book signing and discussion at the Tattered Cover in Lodo tonight at 7:30 pm.
5/10/2012

Sirota Thursday 5-10-12 Hour 1

Governor Hickenlooper calls special session on civil unions while Obama endorses gay marriage - are opponents bigots?
5/10/2012

Sirota Wednesday 5-10-12 Hour 2

At 8:05 Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks our special guest to talk about her novel Caleb's Crossing. She has a book signing and discussion at the Tattered Cover on Colfax on Friday May 18th starting at 7:30 pm. We then talked about this story: A new study predicts that by 2030, fully 42 percent of American adults will be obese, up from 36 percent now. It's a crisis in the making. Some are suggesting Obese people pay higher premiums for health insurance. Do you agree?
5/9/2012

Sirota Wednesday 5-9-12 Hour 3

The National Western Stock Show & Rodeo has created a major rodeo event that is expected to have a 20 million economic impact on the region. Rodeo All-Star Weekend, slated for next April is expected to draw about 30,000 people from around the globe, the same number that attended the Women's Final Four in college basketball last month, said Kelly Brough, president and chief executive of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce. The National Western Stock Show & Rodeo created the event...
5/9/2012

Sirota Wednesday 5-9-12 Hour 1

Chants of shame on you from gay rights supporters thundered through the Colorado House on Tuesday night after Republican House Speaker Frank McNulty said legislation to allow civil unions won't get a vote. McNulty told reporters that lawmakers had reached an impasse and civil unions would die along with several other bills, including an overhaul of school discipline policies and setting a blood-level marijuana limit for drivers. Do you think the Governor should call for a special session? Is...
5/8/2012

Sirota Tuesday 5-8-12 Hour 3

Kenlie Tiggeman, the overweight passenger who garnered national attention last May after she claimed a Southwest gate agent told her she was too fat to fly, is now suing the airline. Tiggeman, who lives in New Orleans and blogs about weight loss on her website, AllTheWeigh.com, filed an injunction against Southwest in district court on April 20, alleging that the Southwest agents did not follow their company policy and chose to discriminate, humiliate and embarrass her in front of airport...
5/8/2012

Sirota Tuesday 5-8-12 Hour 2

At 8:05 Greg Campbell our special guest to talk about his book Pot, Inc.: Inside Medical Marijuana, America's Most Outlaw Industry. We then did News of the Weird and read some instant messages. At 8:35 Investigative journalist Andrew Gumbel our special guest. He and Roger Charles just released the book Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed and Why it Still Matters. Gumbel and Charles puncture the myth about what happened on that day - one that has persisted in the minds of the...
5/8/2012

Sirota Tuesday 5-8-12 Hour 1

A day after Vice President Biden said on NBC"s Meet the Press that he is absolutely comfortable with gay couples having the same rights as heterosexual couples, the White House press secretary found himself furiously fighting back at suggestions that the president and vice president are out of step on same-sex marriage. More than 50 times, reporters pressed spokesman Jay Carney on President Obama"s position on gay marriage at Monday"s White House briefing. Should President Obama take a firm...
5/7/2012

Sirota Monday 5-7-12 Hour 3

Spurred by flexible work situations, mates with a more lucrative income, a sluggish job market, or simply the desire to be the one in the family who does the bulk of the child rearing, the population of fathers who stay at home with their kids is small but growing. The U.S. Census notes that 16 percent of our preschoolers are cared for by their fathers while their mothers work. In America in 2010, there were 154,000 stay-at-home dads caring for 287,000 children. What explains the rise of...
5/7/2012

Sirota Monday 5-7-12 Hour 2

At 8:05 our special guest is Colorado author Richard Martin to talk about his new book SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future. He has a book signing and discussion at the Tattered Cover in Lodo tomorrow night at 7:30 pm. He will also be at the Boulder Book Store on Thursday May 10th at 7:30 pm. SuperFuel combines science, new historical research, and a gripping business narrative to tell the untold story of thorium power - and show how we can wean ourselves off our...
5/7/2012

Sirota Monday 5-7-12 Hour 1

Mindful of the potentially contentious environment that comes with so many overwrought protesters converging on a national political convention, the city of Tampa has banned a number of items the last four days of August. Don"t come messing around the Republican National Convention with an air rifle, air pistol, paintball rifle, explosive blasting cap, switchblade, hatchet, ax, slingshot, blackjack, metal knuckles, nunchakus, mace, iron buckle, ax handle, chain, crowbar, hammer, shovel or...
5/4/2012

Sirota Friday 5-4-12 Hour 3

We spent the first half hour talking with Mark Hyman about his book The Most Expensive Game in Town: The Rising Cost of Youth Sports and the Toll on Today's Family. Building on his eye-opening investigation into the damaging effects of the ultra-competitive culture of youth sports in his first book, Until It Hurts, sports dad and journalist Mark Hyman takes us behind the scenes for a startling look at the business of youth sports, how it has changed, and how it is affecting young Americans....
5/4/2012

Sirota Friday 5-4-12 Hour 2

We kicked off the hour with talking about the New Yorker and how they asked readers to send in words they wish could be eliminated form the English language. What words would you want to see eliminated. Also this hour: Spirit Airlines starts its DIA service this week. Would you fly the airline? Or will you refuse because you think it's fare structure is a scam?
5/4/2012

Sirota Friday 5-4-12 Hour 1

Sirota led off playing audio of Mitt Romney at Papa John's mansion. Mitt touted that everybody should be able to live in a mansion. He also claimed Democrats don't want anyone to live like that. Should we all want to live like royalty? Is the American Dream a massive home?
5/3/2012

Sirota Thursday 5-3-12 Hour 3

We tooks some more calls on last hour's topic before talking about the I70 viaduct and expansion plans. Is it worth an extra $150 million in taxpayer dollars to prevent the I-70 widening project from harming Denver neighborhoods? These are low income neighborhoods. Would this even be a question if it were going through a more expensive neighborhood.
5/3/2012

Sirota Thursday 5-3-12 Hour 2

The Nation's sports writer Dave Zirin joined us to talk about Junior Seau's apparent suicide. We talked about the dangers of playing football and the long term effects of being an NFL player. Should the rash of NFL suicides make football fans re-think their support for professional football? Are fans complicit in supporting a sport that promotes violence? Or do the players know what they are getting themselves into, and therefore fans should just enjoy the violence?
5/3/2012

Sirota Thursday 5-3-12 Hour 1

David led off talking about Governor Hickenlooper getting together with State Attorney General John Suthers to restrict local municipalities from having say in oil and gas drilling. At 7:20 we talked with Democrat State Representative Dan Pabon about a proposed tax holiday for back to school supplies. It not only applies to things like backpacks, folders and pencils, but also clothes, shoes, computers and sports equipment. At 7:35 Congressman Ed Perlmutter joined us to talk about his fight...
5/2/2012

Sirota Wednesday 5-2-12 Hour 3

Americans have a growing crush on manual transmissions. To be sure, the percentage of new vehicles with stick-shift gearboxes remains a small slice of the new vehicle market, because most of today's models don't even offer manuals. But the first quarter this year manuals were in 6.5 percent of new vehicles sold, and that's getting close to double each of the past five years. It's also highest since 7.2 percent in 2006, according to Edmunds.com. If you were buying a new car, would you buy one...
5/2/2012

Sirota Wednesday 5-2-12 Hour 2

According to a new report seven percent of Colorado families are now opting out of immunizations, and that is very concerning to public health officials. Our special guest is Dr. Rachel Herlihy the Director of the Immunization Program at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. She stayed for an extra segment and took questions and comments from listeners. At 8:45 Denver City Councilman Paul Lopez who represents Denver's 3rd District our special guest. He opposes the city's...
5/2/2012

Sirota Wednesday 5-2-12 Hour 1

David led off talking about President Obama's speeches in Afghanistan on Tuesday. A new pact governing US ties with Kabul after NATO combat troops leave Afghanistan in 2014 foresees the possibility of American forces staying behind to train Afghan forces and pursue Al-Qaeda. Obama says Afghan War is ending in 2014 - but is it really?
5/1/2012

Sirota Tuesday 5-1-12 Hour 3

At 9:05 Denver Post business, investigations and personal finance reporter David Migoya our special guest to talk abouty his piece Banking Groups Challange Colorado Right-To Foreclose Ballot Initiative. Currently, a bank can foreclose with just a lawyer's signature without proof, such as a properly assigned mortgage, that it is owed the money. Initiative 84 would require lenders to show proof of their interest in a mortgage or note before they could take someone's property. They could do so...
5/1/2012

Sirota Tuesday 5-1-12 Hour 2

A divided Denver City Council voted early this morning to preliminarily approve a homeless camping ban after almost five hours of discussion and testimony that ended after the vote at 1:35 a.m. The council meeting drew hundreds of people seeking to comment during a two-hour courtesy public hearing that filled the council chambers and forced a separate room to be opened for the overflow. The council voted 9-4 in support of the measure that would make unauthorized camping illegal in the city...
5/1/2012

Sirota Tuesday 5-1-12 Hour 1

It's the one year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. President Obama is citing the death of Osama bin Laden as reason to reelect him. Is he right to make such a case? Or is he overly politicizing bin Laden's killing?
4/30/2012

Sirota Monday 4-30-12 Hour 3

President Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor said the commander-in-chief is working to balance his support for an escaped Chinese dissident who was under house arrest and the need to maintain good U.S.-China relations. Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan refused to say whether the U.S. was providing protection to Chen Guangcheng, a well-known Chinese activist, who reportedly evaded security guards watching over his house and fled hundreds of miles to Beijing. News outlets are...
4/30/2012

Sirota Monday 4-30-12 Hour 2

Legendary sports writer Frank Deford our very special guest. He is in town to receive a Denver Press Club award on Friday at the Denver Marritt City Center and at Tattered Cover on Colfax Thursday night at 7:30. He has a new book out called Over Time: My Life As a Sportswriter. He has written for SI since 1962, is a correspondent for HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, has written 18 books and received numerous awards and was inducted into the sports writer Hall of Fame. We then talked...
4/30/2012

Sirota Monday 4-30-12 Hour 1

Fmr. Arapahoe sheriff Pat Sullivan says he might have molested a 13 year old boy, but authorities say they have no evidence that's true. Punishment-wise, should they have gone so easy on him? Or does this prove police gave him a pass? At 7:30 we switched it up and gave a civics test on air. 1 in 3 Americans cannot pass the US citizenship test. Also do you think imkigrants should have to know these questions?
4/27/2012

Sirota Friday 4-27-12 Hour 3

At 9:05 our special guest was Alex Pareene who authored the Salon ebook The Rude Guide to Mitt, which provides a hilarious biography covering Romney"s personal and political history. Wethen talked about a New Mexico city cutting off your electricity if you don't pay your traffic tickets. What do you think of this?
4/27/2012

Sirota Friday 4-27-12 Hour 2

At 8:05 we were joined by House Democratic Leader Mark Ferrandino who announced yesterday that he would be the prime House sponsor of legislation to enact civil unions for same-sex couples in Colorado. Rep. Ferrandino was the House sponsor of an identical bill in 2011, but reached out for a Republican sponsor this year to reflect Coloradans" changing attitudes about civil unions. Recent polls show that most Coloradans now favor civil unions. We then talked about this story: a growing number...
4/27/2012

Sirota Friday 4-27-12 Hour 1

Should Denver taxpayers help build a brand new city around DIA? Would this help the city? Would it help the region? Or would it cannibalize business that's already happening?
4/26/2012

Sirota Thursday 4-26-12 Hour 3

We led off the hour with Matthew Hutson to talk about his book The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking: How Irrational Beliefs Keep Us Happy, Healthy and Sane. Psychologists have documented a litany of cognitive biases, or misperceptions of reality, and explained their positive functions. Now, Matthew Hutson shows that all of us, even the staunchest skeptics, engage in magical thinking all the time, and that we can use it to our advantage, if we know how to outsmart it. At 9:20 Organic farmer and...
4/26/2012

Sirota Thursday 4-26-12 Hour 2

Pregnancy discrimination claims are on the rise, according to new data from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In public hearing held Feb. 12, the commission reported that 53,865 charges alleging pregnancy discrimination had been made over the past 10 fiscal years, amounting to $150.5 million in monetary benefits for charging parties. According to the Connecticut Law Tribune, apart from a dip in 2005, pregnancy discrimination claims increased 1 percent every year since 1997, when...
4/26/2012

Sirota Thursday 4-26-12 Hour 1

Saying the governor is not being proactive enough to help victims of the Lower North Fork Fire, Republicans want to create a commission to pay the fire victims. A bill expected to be introduced this week would establish the commission, which would hold hearings to investigate how the wildfire happened and establish a claims process. The fire burned more than 4,000 acres, destroyed or damaged 27 homes and killed three people. Should Colorado taxpayers financially compensate victims of forest...
4/25/2012

Sirota Wednesday 4-25-12 Hour 3

We did another segment of calls on whether fighting belongs in the NHL. We then talked to Nancy Cronk about the War on Women March this Saturday at 9:30 am at Civic Center Park. David then talked about where Obama stayed while in town. Does he need to stay at the Four Seasons or the JW Marriott? We closed out the hour talking about Click It Or Ticket crackdowns.
4/25/2012

Sirota Wednesday 4-25-12 Hour 2

Dave Zirin joined the show to talk about several sports stories making news. We talked about the Metta World Peace elbow, The New Orleans Saints GM Scandal and about advertisers putting pressure on NHL to stop the fighting. We asked whether the league should comply? Or is fighting a laudable part of pro hockey?
4/25/2012

Sirota Wednesday 4-25-12 Hour 1

Fox and Friends rips President Obama for appearing on the Late Show with Jimmy Fallon and Slow Jamming the news on education. Should presidents appear on comedy shows or does that demean the office? Do you care if presidents appear on comedy shows?
4/24/2012

Sirota Tuesday 4-24-12 Hour 3

A 9 year-old was suspended for fighting back to what he says was bullying. Should schools punish kids for fighting back against bullying? Should we encourage kids to take violent action against bullies?
4/24/2012

Sirota Tuesday 4-24-12 Hour 2

The disappearance of mid-level jobs during the Great Recession, along with overall high unemployment, have made it hard for recent college graduates to find good jobs upon leaving school. More than 50 percent of college graduates under age 25 are either jobless or underemployed, according to an analysis from Drexel University and the Economic Policy Institute. President Obama at CU talking about making college more affordable, but with new unemployment numbers out, do you think college is a...
4/24/2012

Sirota Tuesday 4-24-12 Hour 1

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer defended his remarks on Mitt Romney's Mormon heritage, saying his comment that Romney's father had grown up on a polygamy commune was taken the wrong way. Should polygamy be illegal? Should we hold Mitt Romney's ties to a religion with a history of polygamy against him? Should we care at all?
4/23/2012

Sirota Monday 4-23-12 Hour 3

Geoff Berg in today for Dave. We continued taking a couple more calls on Iran and Nuclear Proliferation. We then talked baout the Secret Service Columbian Prostitute scandal. Geoff says the story is being over reported. Nancy Pelosi says she is disgusted. It's legal in Columbia. Why do many in the media and DC think it is so disgusting?
4/23/2012

Sirota Monday 4-23-12 Horu 2

Geoff Berg filling in today. This hour we talked about the Iran problem. Is a war with Iran inevitable? At 8:15 we were joined by Alexandra Toma who is the Executive Director of the Connect U.S. Fund, where she manages the Fund"s day to day programs and grant-making activities. In addition, she founded and co-chairs the Fissile Materials Working Group, a coalition of nuclear security experts. Alex has a diverse professional background in national security policymaking, having worked...
4/23/2012

Sirota Monday 4-23-12 Hour 1

Geoff Berg in for Sirota today. He led off talking about a big Denver post piece on younger religious voters and progressive politics.At 7:15 Rachel Pater from the Iliff School of Theology was our special guest. Compared with their older counterparts, young, white evangelicals, ages 18 to 34, are more pluralistic, supportive of an active domestic government and inclined to favor diplomacy over military might abroad, according to the Public Religion Research Institute. Can you be a...
4/20/2012

Sirota Interview with Darth Vader

Sirota Interviews David Prowse who we know as Darth Vader live from Starfest Denver.
4/20/2012

Sirota Friday 4-20-12 Hour 3

David continued at Denver Starfest. We talked about our Starfest Bracket and also asked if you suggest watching Star Wars as Episode 1-3 first of Episodes 4-6 first. Quite a debate. At 9:30 David talked to a couple of original Klingons Bob O'Reilly and Michael Dorn.
4/20/2012

Sirota Friday 4-20-12 Hour 2

We continued talking about the allure of science fiction. We also talked about round two matchups in the Starfest Tournament bracket. Who do you think will win it all? At 8:20 David was joined by David Prowse who played Darth Vader.
4/20/2012

Sirota Friday 4-20-12 Hour 1

David broadcasting live from Starfest today! He opened up talking about our obsession with science fiction. Why are we so obsessed with sci fi? Does it make you a nerd if you are totally into sci fi? How do we define what goes into this category? Also who would win in a fight - Luke or Leia? Captain Kirk or Han Solo?
4/19/2012

Sirota Thursday 4-19-12 Hour 3

At 9:05 Dr. Timothy Pachirat joins the show to discuss his eye opening book Every 12 Seconds: Industrialized Slaughter and the Politics of Sight. This is an account of industrialized killing from a participant"s point of view. Author and political scientist Timothy Pachirat, was employed undercover for five months in a Great Plains slaughterhouse where 2,500 cattle were killed per day or one every twelve seconds. At 9:20, with the 2 year anniversary of the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico...
4/19/2012

Sirota Thursday 4-19-12 Hour 2

Tomorrow marks the 13th Anniveersary of the Columbine Massacre. Our special in studio guest is Tom Mauser who lost his son son Daniel that day. He has completed a book called Walking in Daniel's Shoes: A Father's Journey Following His Son's Death at Columbine High School. This book will be available May 1 and covers the tragedy on April 20, 1999, his fight for gun control measures and much more. He stuck around all hour and took questions from listeners on the tragedy and on gun control and...
4/19/2012

Sirota Thursday 4-19-12 Hour 1

A mother whose son and future daughter-in-law were slain urged lawmakers today to defeat a bill ending a state criminal background check of gun buyers. Sponsor, Rep. Mark Waller argued the FBI already performs background checks on sales through federally-licensed firearms dealers so Colorado's program isn't necessary. Private sales do not require checks. House Bill 1048 passed on a 37-28 vote, with four Democrats joining all 33 Republicans in supporting the measure. It now goes to the...
4/18/2012

Sirota Wednesday 4-18-12 Hour 3

At 9:10 Suzanne Taylor our special guest to talk about her documentary What On Earth? Inside the Crop Circle Mystery. She will be on Colorado Public Television tomorrow night at 7 pm showing the documentary and talking about the crop circle phenomenon during pledge breaks. This will be the first television broadcast of her film. Take a ride with Taylor and the documentary that won Best Featire Documentary Award at the UFO Congress Film Festival, as she engages a fascinating subculture of...
4/18/2012

Sirota Wednesday 4-18-12 Hour 2

The Federal Communications Commission fined and censured Google for obstructing an inquiry into its Street View project, which had collected Internet communications from potentially millions of unknowing households as specially equipped cars drove slowly by. But the investigation, described in an interim government report, was left unresolved because a critical participant, the Google engineer in charge of the project, cited his Fifth Amendment right and declined to talk, report David...
4/18/2012

Sirota Wednesday 4-18-12 Hour 1

Man tries out for the Denver Broncos cheerleading squad. A man also tried out for the Dallas Cowboys team. The Ravens have a male cheerleader. Why are there male cheerleaders in college but not in professional sports? Should the Broncos hire male cheerleaders? Would you be offended by male cheerleaders in professional sports? We then talked about 2nd graders being what is considered by some parents as porn at the Denver Green School. While doing research oin a computer lab class. They were...
4/17/2012

Sirota Tuesday 4-17-12 Hour 3

Stats show the average money spent on Prom is roughly 1,000 dollars. How much is too much to spend on prom? Are you a bad parent for saying no to the economic arms race surrounding prom? We also talked about how you prep your kids for all the issues surrounding prom like sex, drinking and drugs?
4/17/2012

Sirota Tuesday 4-17-12 Hour 2

Bennett High School decided to take part in the Every 15 Minutes Program, where students take part in a simulated drinking and driving accident, but with some intense new additions including good bye letters to parents and eulogies written by parents. Should we frighten kids into not drinking and driving? How far is too far to go in telling kids not to drink and drive? Should schools simulate death in order to get that message across? What about not showing dead soldiers when talking about...
4/17/2012

Sirota Tuesday 4-17-12 Hour 1

New Gallup poll shows most Americans don't think their taxes are too high. Do you agree or disagree? Do you pay too much or too little in taxes? We also did News of the Weird and our Food Update.
4/16/2012

Sirota Monday 4-16-12 Hour 3

Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library our special guest to talk about his New York Times opinion piece Playing the Violence Card. He argues that when confronted with an instance of racially charged violence against a black person, a commentator draws attention to the fact that there is much more black-on-black violence than white-on-black violence. To play the violence card, as many criminal-justice advocates...
4/16/2012

Sirota Monday 4-16-12 Hour 2

NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell our special guest. Andrea Mitchell Reports will air live from the History Colorado Center tonight, and will feature a segment on education as part of the Education Nation On-The-Road tour. In an effort to continue the national conversation sparked with its Education Nation initiative, NBC News is continuing Education Nation On-The-Road for the spring of 2012. Making its first stop in Denver beginning last Thursday, the NBC News...
4/16/2012

Sirota Monday 4-16-12 Hour 1

An effort to help raise money for veterans through the Colorado Lottery survived its first hurdle Wednesday when a Senate committee approved a proposal to let voters decide on the issue in November. But the measure faces a tough road, requiring two-thirds, rather than a simple majority, of support from lawmakers in the Senate and the House. Elected officials, school advocates, conservation officials and even veterans argued against the measure during the committee hearing. They said it would...
4/13/2012

Sirota Friday 4-13-12 Hour 3

At 9:05 David Rothkopf our special guest to talk about his new book Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead. David Rothkopf provides a look at how we have reached a point where thousands of companies have greater power than all but a handful of states. Power, Inc. traces the bruising jockeying for influence right up to today"s financial crises, growing inequality, broken international system, and battles over the proper role of...
4/13/2012

Sirota Friday 4-13-12 Hour 2

The Colorado Secretary of State"s title board on Wednesday approved language for a religious freedom ballot initiative submitted last month by Focus on the Family.The controversial initiative taps into the increasingly heated tug of war over social issues waging between Christian organizations and representatives of the government, most recently, for example, on the question of whether employers should be required to provide insurance coverage for contraception. As submitted, the title of...
4/13/2012

Sirota Friday 4-13-12 Hour 1

Fort Collins teenager Connor Kelly is leading an effort to end use of teh term retard. In fact, President Barack Obama in October 2010 signed a bill called Rosa's Law, which removes the terms mental retardation and mentally retarded from federal health, education and labor policy and replaces them with such terms as individual with an intellectual disability and intellectual disability. Should pop culture stop using and joking about the term retard? Or does the campaign against the word...
4/12/2012

Sirota Thursday 4-12-12 Hour 3

At 9:05 Our special guest is Executive Director at One Colorado Brad Clark. The Colorado Secretary of State"s title board on Wednesday approved language for a religious freedom ballot initiative submitted last month by Colorado Springs-based evangelical organization Focus on the Family. The controversial initiative taps into the increasingly heated tug of war over social issues waging between Christian organizations and representatives of the government, most recently, for example, on the...
4/12/2012

Sirota Thursday 4-12-12 Hour 2

Jefferson Morley our special guest to talk about his Salon piece The Drones Are Coming To America. A drone is probably heading toward your personal airspace soon. With Congress requiring the Federal Aviation Administration to simplify and expedite drone applications from U.S. police departments by May 15, industry and watchdog groups agree: It won't be long before cops and first responders put them into action. Jefferson Morley is a staff writer for Salon and former editor at The Washington...
4/12/2012

Sirota Thursday 4-12-12 Hour 1

George Zimmerman charged with 2nd Degree Murder. Why did it take so long for prosecutors to charge George Zimmerman in the shooting of Trayvon Martin? Will Zimmerman be able to get a fair trial? Are views on Zimmerman already cemented?
4/11/2012

Sirota Wednesday 4-11-12 Hour 3

David read out some emails on our topics today and then went back to the Miami Marlins suspending Ozzie Guillen for saying he loved Castro. We tied it in with another story. A Marine facing dismissal for running a Facebook page criticizing the Obama administration is now backed by a team of lawyers and federal congressmen as he fights to stay in the military and test its age-old policy of limiting the free speech of service members. Sgt. Gary Stein will appear before a military board at Camp...
4/11/2012

Sirota Wednesday 4-11-12 Hour 2

We led off the hour with New Yorker staff writer David Owen to discuss his new book The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Effieciency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse. We then took listener reaction to the guest. He argues energy efficiency only encourages us to use more energy. He says sacrifices arethe only way. Do you buy his argument?
4/11/2012

Sirota Wednesday 4-11-12 Hour 1

David led off talking about the Ozzie Guillen suspension by the Miami Marlins for comments that were supportive of Fidel Castro. He said he loved Castro. He received a 5 game suspension. David laid out why this is disturbing on so many levels. Should Ozzie Guillen have been suspended for his comments about Fidel Castro? Did Major League Baseball violate his First Amendment rights? Why is it OK to publicly praise dictators that the U.S. government supports? At 7:50 Chris Mooney joined teh...
4/10/2012

Sirota Tuesday 4-10-12 Hour 3

New York Times food columnist and author Mark Bittman our special guest. He has a new opinion piece in the time on pink slime called The Pink Menace. Mark Bittman is the of several best selling books including How to Cook Everything, Food Matters and Food Matters Cookbook. We then updated the Tulsa killings and the Trayvon Martin shooting. Is vigilantism on the rise in America? Do people of color have something to fear from that? Are there similarities between the Tulsa massacre and the...
4/10/2012

Sirota Tuesday 4-10-12 Hour 2

Hospitals should stop including industry-provided samples of infant formula in new mothers" discharge bags because the distribution is unethical and violates good public health policy, Public Citizen said in letters, co-signed by more than 100 other organizations, sent to more than 2,600 hospitals across the country. The letters are part of a new, nationwide Public Citizen campaign that is aimed at both hospitals and major formula makers. At 8:05 our special guest is Public Citizen President...
4/10/2012

Sirota Tuesday 4-10-12 Hour 1

Homophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires, a series of physiological studies conducted by scientists at the University of Rochester, the University of Essex, England, and the University of California in Santa Barbara conclude. Do you think the most outspoken homophobes have repressed homosexual tendencies? Do you think this drives their homophobia? At 7:35 the man who...
4/9/2012

Sirota Monday 4-9-12 Hour 3

At 9:05 New York Times bestselling author Jonah Lehrer joins the show to talk about his new book Imagine: How Creativity Works. He will be at the Tattered Cover on Colfax this Wednesday April 11th at 730 PM and at the Boulder Bookstore on Thursday at 7:30 pm. At 9:25 Ask a Mexican Columnist and great friend of the show Gustavo Arrelano joined us to talk about his new book Taco USA. We closed out the show talking about Tim Tebow who said on an Easter sermon that he enjoys being able to have...
4/9/2012

Sirota Monday 4-9-12 Hour 2

Thomas Frank our special guest. The Baffler Magazine is back out and Thomas has a piece in it called Too Smart to Fail: Notes on an Age of Folly. It's about intellectual accountability, and the almost complete lack thereof over the last few years or so. After previous economic disasters, orthodoxies were chucked and dead wood was chopped. This time around: No way. David then talked about a study that show less and less young people are driving than any previous generation. According to...
4/9/2012

Sirota Monday 4-9-12 Hour 1

David opened up talking about Augusta and the Masters and how they do now allow women members. David has a problem with that. Do you? Why do PGA players and the sports establishment support it? At 7:35 Michael Kazin joins the show to talk about his piece in The New Republic Why Baseball is the Best and Least Exploitative American Sport.

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