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Alan's Morning Commentary

Alan's Morning Commentary

  • WAMC’s Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on the state of Vermont allowing non-residents to use its assisted suicide law.
  • WAMC’s Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen saying that the United States could run out of money to pay its bills by June 1 if Congress does not raise or suspend the debt limit, putting pressure on President Biden and lawmakers to reach a swift agreement to avoid defaulting on the nation’s debt.
  • WAMC’s Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on a man in Texas who killed five people, including an 8-year-old boy, with an AR-15-style weapon Friday night in an angry response to his neighbors’ request that he stop shooting in his yard while their baby was trying to sleep.
  • WAMC’s Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on New York Governor Kathy Hochul announcing a “conceptual agreement” on a nearly 229 billion dollar state budget.
  • WAMC’s Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on a federal appeals court ruling that clears the way for former Vice President Mike Pence to testify before a grand jury investigating efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election, rejecting a bid by former President Donald Trump to block the testimony.
  • WAMC’s Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. telling Senate leaders Tuesday that he would “respectfully decline” to testify at a Senate hearing focused on the Supreme Court, offering instead a statement signed by all the justices in which they “reaffirm and restate foundational ethics principles and practices” to which they abide.
  • WAMC’s Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on the news that Tucker Carlson has been ousted at Fox News following the network's $787 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.
  • WAMC’s Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on a minor magnitude 3.6 earthquake that shook parts of upstate New York on Sunday.
  • WAMC’s Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on a North Carolina man authorities say is accused of shooting and wounding a 6-year-old girl and her parents. Robert Louis Singletary has been arrested in Florida after the children tried to retrieve a basketball that rolled into the 24-year-old's yard.
  • WAMC’s Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on Fox News settling the Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit and the likelihood that more challenges to libel laws are on the horizon.