[image: image.png] opening thoughts:Heads up Vermonters. A 2022 study suggests Fox News viewers aren’t just manipulated and misinformed — they are literally being made ignorant by their consumption habits. (ps FOX refused to cover the Epstein presser-interesting don’t you think??? A Republican State senator bought a group of radio stations. Now, they play Fox News.“It’s a great nation,” said Sen. Russ Ingalls, R-Essex. “I want a news source that’s going to report and reflect (that) accurately.” part one Chris Tomlinson writes commentary about money, politics and life in Texas for Hearst Newspapers. In 2025, Tomlinson was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters, an honor society that recognizes distinctive literary achievement. In 2021, the Texas Association of Managing Editors awarded him columnist of the year, and the Headliners Foundation named him Texas’s Star Opinion Writer. He’s authored two New York Times Bestsellers, “Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth” and “Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name – One White, One Black.”Before joining the Houston Chronicle in 2014, he spent 20 years with The Associated Press reporting on politics, economics, conflicts and natural disasters from more than 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Europe. Trump blocked $18.6B in clean energy. Now your bills are going up.President Donald Trump and his Republican allies are blocking new power plants, just as demand for electricity is rising quickly. part two: *Bill Curry *was a Connecticut state senator, comptroller and two time Democratic nominee for governor who served as Counselor to the President in the Clinton White House. He has written for Salon, the Daily Beast, the Huffington Post and the Hartford Courant and has provided commentary on National Public Radio, MSNBC and many other news outlets. *Robert Hockett * is an American lawyer, law professor <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_education>, and policy advocate he teaches legal, financial and some philosophical subjects at Cornell University in New York, where I am the Edward Cornell Professor of Law and a Professor of Public Policy. He is also Senior Counsel at Westwood Capital, a socially responsible investment bank in midtown Manhattan, and a Fellow of The Century Foundation, a think tank near Battery Park in lower Manhattan. Robert’s principal research, writing, and practical concerns are with the legal and institutional prerequisites to a just, prosperous, and sustainable economic order Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, Vermont, Fox News, Chris Tomlinson, Texas, Houston Chronicle, Bill Curry, Robert Hockett
