Author: Lew Lorini

A detailed version of the proposed Trump budget was released this week and like the sketchy preview shown in March, it is heavy on cuts to programs that help Americans in need, ostensibly the forgotten men and women who will be forgotten no more, and light on taxation of the wealthiest among us.  Diane Yentel […]

The Surreal News will be all good this week with guests Pamela Goodman, President of the Florida League Women Voters and former CIA analyst and foreign policy and intelligence expert Mel Goodman (above) joining Steve and Lew.  While it is difficult to not stare in disbelief at the train wreck that is Washington DC, there […]

Joining Lew and Bill this week will be Matt Gertz, a senior fellow at Media Matters for America, a Web-based, non-profit organization that monitors the veracity of news coverage on conservative media outlets, which means they watch a lot of Fox News.  However, on the media landscape some things are changing with the progressive-identified MSNBC […]

The challenge of restoring voting rights for felons who have served their time took an important step forward this month with the approval of the language of a proposed amendment to the state constitution by the Florida Supreme Court. Desmond Meade and Neil Volz of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition  will join Bill Stoner and Lew […]

Military actions by the United States have been all over the news in past weeks with missiles flying in Syria and gigantic bombs dropping on Afghanistan, but the best may be yet to come with bellicose rumblings at North Korea, that is the nuclear-armed North Korea. Retired General John Douglass (above)  is joining Steve and Lew […]

Solving the puzzle that is cancer has been an important priority of the medical community since forever. One recent breakthrough called the GPS Cancer test is helping doctors identify the specific type of cancer afflicting a patient and prescribing the most effective treatment. Joining Steve and Lew is oncologist Dr. Steven Mamus  who has used […]

Among the many important groups being attacked by the current Republican-controlled government, none seem to be more vilified (for no good reason) than Planned Parenthood. Barbara Zdravecky (above),  president of Planned Parenthood of the Southwest and Central Florida is joining Steve and Lew to talk about how that group is surviving and continuing its work ensuring […]

While it is difficult to take one’s eyes off Washington (sort of like the compulsion to stare at a gory traffic  accident), there are things happening in Tallahassee that should concern Floridians. Florida League of Women Voters president, Pamela Goodman (above) will join Steve and Lew this week to update us on the League’s positions […]

With all the intrigue, both real and imagined, shrouding the White House these days, it is appropriate that Mel Goodman (above), former CIA analyst and Surreal News favorite, joins Steve and Lew this week to comment on it all.  Did President Obama “wiretape” Trump Tower?  Did the Trump campaign collude with the Russians to swing public opinion […]

Joining Lew and Bill Stoner who is sitting in for Steve this week will be Jennifer Ahearn-Koch (above), who is running for a seat on the Sarasota County Commission. Co-founder of STOP!, an organization dedicated to bringing the voices of the people back into local development decisions, her candidacy and significant win in the primary, […]