Author: Lew Lorini

Another week and a another large, steaming pile of  “issues” emanating from the White House that need explaining.  Paul S. Ryan (above), vice president of litigation for Common Cause in Washington DC will join Steve and Lew to help sort out the implications for a Federal Election Commission suit alleging the Trump campaign illegally took donations […]

The past eight years have been a time of advancement for the rights of the LGBTIQ community, but that is all about to change.  Maria Sjodin (above) deputy director of OutRight Action International,  a global gay human rights organization will join Steve and Lew to talk about the troubling signals coming from the new administration. […]

Joining Steve and Lew this week is Andy Mele (above), a Sarasota Water Keeper, to talk about the recent decision by Manatee County Commissioners to allow Mosaic phosphate miners to expand their operations. And as an environmentalist, Andy may also have something to say about the new head of EPA, Scott Pruitt from Oklahoma, who […]

Among the more troubling emanations coming from the White House these days is the goal of dismantling the financial regulation and oversight bill known as Dodd-Frank. Those of us with memories surpassing insects may remember what happen the last time the financial sector was left to his own devices on  the “honor” system.  Bart Naylor […]

Clicking off another one of his campaign promises, President Donald Trump issued an executive order at the end of January banning immigration from seven predominately Muslim countries. The ban itself and the way it was rolled out has been temporarily suspended by order of federal courts in Washington state and Minnesota, but it is not […]

Questions about the country’s foreign policy and the role the intelligence community has traditionally played in those decisions have become daily and dire in the past few weeks.  Surreal News favorite former CIA analyst, author and whistleblower Mel Goodman (above) will be joining Steve and Lew to hopefully explain how the bizarre talk coming out of the […]

Candace Clement (above) , the Internet Campaign Director at Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund, will join Steve and Lew this week to talk about an initiative that group is mounting to resist some proposals made by the incoming administration.  Among those issues will be maintaining net neutrality and protecting consumers by ensuring web access […]

Joining Steve and Lew this week will be  Craig Holman (above), a government ethics expert with Public Citizen in Washington DC. Considering his area of expertise, the next four years promises to be very busy for him. He was on the show a little more than a month ago to talk about potential conflicts of […]

For first show of the New Year, Steve and Lew will welcome Dianne Perry and Cathy Bryant, two of the organizers of the Sarasota Women’s March that is in solidarity with the planned Women’s March in Washington DC. Later in the show, Desmond Meade (above) President of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and Neil Volz […]

For (thankfully) the last show of 2016, Steve and Lew will be joined in the studio with some of the local contributors and guest hosts who helped get us through this eventful year. Bill Stoner, host of the Breakfast Bar, Kindra Muntz, tireless activisit and citizen reporter, and Francis Scheuer, occassional guest host and fulltime […]