Rob Lorei interviews author Jim Hightower
National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and New York Times best-selling author Jim Hightower has spent four decades battling the “Powers That Be” on behalf of the “Powers That Ought To Be” – consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.
Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom. Every month he pens a newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown, that lends a populist perspective on the events of the day.
Hightower is a New York Times best-selling author, and has written seven books, including Thieves In High Places: They’ve Stolen Our Country And It’s Time To Take It Back; If the Gods Had Meant Us To Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates; and There’s Nothing In the Middle Of the Road But Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos. His newspaper column is distributed nationally by Creators Syndicate.
Hightower was raised in Denison, Texas, in a family of small business people, tenant farmers, and working folks. A graduate of the University of North Texas, he worked in Washington as legislative aide to Sen. Ralph Yarborough of Texas.
Family Healthcare Foundation Executive Director Melanie Hall on the health of the ACA
Some in Washington say that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a disaster and that it will soon fail. Is this true? Rob talks with a local expert on the ACA named Melanie Hall. She brings more than 25 years of expertise in children’s health to complement her role as Executive Director of the Family Healthcare Foundation. Her organization provides health navigators for people who want to sign up for the ACA.
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