November 5, 2024

Part One: An election day conversation with Bill Curry. Topics include: the DNC, Donna Brazille, Democracy, citizenship, debate, education and more.
Bill Curry writes at Salon, and was a White House Counselor to President Clinton. He is a two-time Democratic nominee for governor of Connecticut.

Part Two: German Lopez from Vox on his piece: Vermont Declared an Emergency Over the Opioid Crisis and Actually Did Something About it. A look at the “hubs and spokes” treatment model, that has dramatically reduced wait time for addiction treatment, and Vermont’s embrace of medication assisted treatment, which is considered the gold standard of opioid addiction care.