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Grateful & Thankful

I began the show today with a big shout out of thanks and appreciation to all who have stepped up recently with financial support of the show. As I've reiterated often, I'll never put up a pay wall on this show. I know too many people who are struggling, and don't want to deny anyone access to the program. But with today's business/radio climate, the only way this show will survive is by virtue of your donations. And yesterday, a couple of listeners stepped up in a really big way. Erika from California has surprised and humbled me in [...]

By nicolesandler|May 13th, 2014|Tags: Bernie Sanders, GottaLaff, John Nichols, media, politics, POTUS run, progressive, radio, talk radio|1 Comment

Almost Blue

Today, we begin a new weekly segment on the show: The Steve Israel Hour, sponsored by Little Debbie , featuring Howie Klein of the Blue America PAC and Down With Tyranny. In case you didn't know about Blue America, it's a PAC run by Howie, Digby, and Crooks & Liars' John Amato, for the purpose of vetting and identifying the best progressive candidates out there, mostly in Congressional races, and help raise money for them. The sad fact is the today's Democratic Party - the DNC, led by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and the DCCC, chaired by Steve Israel, tend [...]

By nicolesandler|May 12th, 2014|Tags: Blue America PAC, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Howie Klein, marijuana, medical marijuana, meet the experts, politics, progressive, prohibition, red to blue, Robert Platshorn, Should Grandma Smoke Pot, Steve Israel|Comments Off

Protect Your Media

As I was preparing myself to hit the air this morning and hold myself together in the wake of losing my loving dog Sasha yesterday, I was hit with more bad news... Clear Channel is killing yet another of the remaining handful of progressive talk stations. This time, it's Denver's AM760 that's headed for slaughter. Back in October, I guest hosted the Gloria Neal Show - their local morning program. Glo informed her listeners of her show's demise and the planned format change this morning via Facebook: Gloria Neal 15 hours ago near Denver, CO If you know me, you know [...]

By nicolesandler|May 8th, 2014|Tags: AM 760 Denver, Amy Simon, climate change, FCC, FEC, Gloria Neal, net neutrality, progressive, progressive talk radio, right wing talk, Tim Karr, women's rights, Zoe Carpenter|Comments Off

Lessons Learned

Today on the show, we discussed the lessons we've learned thanks to the government's reactions to two completely different protest strategies. As the brilliant cartoon posted above shows, the nutjobs with guns get all the media attention, while the peaceful protesters demanding that we do something to insure the planet will still be inhabitable by humans when our grandchildren come of age are ignored. But that's the smaller lesson learned here. We also now know, thanks to actual events, that peaceful, nonviolent practitioners of civil disobedience as a means of protest against a corrupt system that reward the criminals and [...]

By nicolesandler|May 7th, 2014|Tags: Bundy ranch, climate change, Cliven Bundy, David Niewert, dogs, militia, Monica Lewinsky, right wing extremists, Susie Madrak|Comments Off

My Life With Dogs – Saying Goodbye to Sasha

The post below originally appeared here on June 9, 2013, the day we said goodbye to Pooh. I'm re-posting it today because this afternoon, we'll send Sasha - Pooh's sister - to the Rainbow Bridge where the other loyal, loving four-legged family members of my past are waiting... The really sad thing is that Sasha isn't sick. But her body is riddled with arthritis in every joint, and bone spurs run the length of her spine. We've been doing our best to mitigate the pain. Now that she's on large doses of morphine and is still hurting, I know it's [...]

By nicolesandler|May 7th, 2014|Tags: dogs, love|1 Comment

How To Do Your Homework & Double Check The News

Guest post by Shawn "Smith" Peirce If you ever wanted to know how Randi Rhodes - and other great broadcasters - do their homework? Here's the lesson you've been waiting for. With the end of 'The Randi Rhodes Show', many of Randi's listeners have been expressing deep concern about where they're going to find an information resource quite as effective as her legendary homework page. Thankfully, Randi's staff decided to take on that challenge recently, so her Assistant Producer, Shawn "Smith" Peirce joined guest host Nicole Sandler for a seven step walk-through on how Randi's listeners, Nicole's listeners, or really [...]

By nicolesandler|May 7th, 2014|Tags: homework, Randi Rhodes, research|Comments Off

So Much for that Separation of Church & State (5-6-14)

Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling allowing explicitly Christian prayers to open town council meetings across America struck a blow right down the line separating church and state, further taking America back to the days before the Declaration of Independence. The Republican Regressive Party won't be satisfied until we are ruled by the church, and once again belong to the flat-earth society. Today, the White House released the most comprehensive study on climate change ever, and the Regressives are, once again, denying science. Just take a look at the four geniuses Republicans vying for their party's nomination today to run against Sen. Kay [...]

By nicolesandler|May 6th, 2014|Tags: Annie Laurie Gaylor, Benghazi, climate change, Freedom from Religion Foundation, GottaLaff, Iraq, separation of church and state, war criminals|Comments Off

Monday Blahs

Welcome to Monday. Mondays are usually rough on a good day... but after one last week guest hosting The Randi Rhodes Show, followed by a weekend at the beach for my kid's 15th birthday, I could have used an additional day to get ready to return to the real world. But that didn't happen... so here we are. It was quiet day in terms of guests, but I'll get that fixed before tomorrow's show. We did get a new study this morning on waste, fraud and abuse in the publicly funded Charter school world. Put together by Integrity in Education [...]

By nicolesandler|May 5th, 2014|Tags: charter schools, christie, fraud, Integrity in Education, Joel McHale, Obama, public education, public prayer, White House Correspondents Dinner|Comments Off

One More For the Road, With Thanks

Today I'll be guest hosting The Randi Rhodes Show for the last time, as the show is going off the air two weeks from today. I've had the honor of sitting at Randi's microphone for 4 1/2 years now, and I never took for granted the trust or responsibility that entailed. Randi trusted me with her listeners, and I hope I never let her down. Randi is a pro - one of the very best in the business. She is more thoroughly researched and knowledgeable than anyone else on the air, and the fact that her voice will be missing [...]

By nicolesandler|May 2nd, 2014|Tags: David Cay Johnston, Divided, progressive talk radio, racism, Randi Rhodes Show, Tim Wise|Comments Off

The Vagina Dialogues (5/1/2014)

If you put three women together on a radio show with no rules and no limitations other than to talk like real women do, what would you call it? I actually liked Laffy's suggestion of The Vagina Dialogues, but Amy Simon didn't. But the three of us, GottaLaff of The Political Carnival, Amy Simon of She's History, and I spent most of the second hour of the show simply shooting the shit about life. We'll try it again, though I don't know what it'll be called. And we'll invite other women into the mix too. The idea to do something [...]

By nicolesandler|May 2nd, 2014|Tags: Amy Simon, GottaLaff, minimum wage, racism, Randi Rhodes, Susie Madrak, vagina dialogues, women|1 Comment

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