Catch Me Up 2 Speed Podcast
1) Episode 20 - It HAS Happened Here - the 1876 election
We're back with our 20th episode - right in time for another fast moving election season. We're focusing on the growing concerns of post-Election Day issues, and reminding everyone that this, to has ...Show More
2) Episode #19: Affirmative Action & SCOTUS refresh
The Podcast returns with a look back at the two highly consequential decisions from the Supreme Court's last term: Affirmative Action and the 303 Creative case. Ed Blum speaks to Houstion Chinese A...Show More
3) Episode 18- the Courts & Constitution, Part II
We're back with the second installment of our Courts & Constitution episodes! In Part II we continue the discussion about SCOTUS' role in interpreting the Constitution, and the potential of the highly...Show More
4) Episode #17: The Courts & The Constitution, Part I
The first of a two-part series on the Federal Courts & the Constitution, Part I focuses on the history & ideologies driving SCOTUS decisions today. uscourts.gov - basic info on the Supreme Court Justi...Show More
5) Episode #16: Reset, Refresh, Review
We are back with Season #2 of Catch Me Up To Speed! Our second season begins with a review of our 5 news tips in action. We showcase the coverage of California primary election results as an example ...Show More
6) Episode #15: Exceptional women of Black History Month w/Kortnei Morris
Our first podcast of 2022 features special guest Kortnei Morris, who gets us up to speed on 4 exceptional black women as a fitting send-off to Black History Month: Ida B. Wells, Fannie Lou Hamer, Paul...Show More
7) Episode #14: The Forgotten foreign policies of FDR & JFK
We're back with Episode #14, where we take a look at how our foreign policy is shaped in politics & media, the array of think tanks that do the shaping, and two popular past foreign policy visions th...Show More
8) Episode #13: From Jim Crow to abortion: the courts & our rights
Some call the Texas Heartbeat Act a novel way to ban abortions. But this style of law, enforced by bounty hunters instead of state governments, isn’t new: It’s a return to laws during slavery and Jim ...Show More
9) Episode 12 - The News They DON'T tell you, Part II
We're back with the second podcast on our fifth news tip - seek out the news they DON'T tell you. In this episode we focus on three international news events that received differing, yet often incom...Show More
10) Episdode #11 -The news they DON'T tell you
We're back with the first of a two-part series on our 5th news tip - look out for the news they don't tell you. Our focus in this episode is on foreign policy, starting with Venezuela...and showin...Show More