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The Reasonable Southerner
Hosted by Frances Coleman · EN
Long-time writer and essayist Frances Coleman shares her insights. The South is not all magnolias in the moonlight. Neither is it all racism and violence. Southerners are just like you. Listen and see.
Frances Coleman worked for newspapers for more than 40 years. She's been a reporter, editorial writer, columnist and editorial page editor. She has been heard on the BBC and the Rachel Maddow show, and had her column distributed nationwide.
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Back In 1913, A Lawyer Who Later Sat On The U.S. Supreme Court Called Sunlight The Best Disinfectant.
Oct 4, 202100:08:31Tap to summarizeThe Alabama Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement departments don't have to obey sunshine laws when it comes to bodycam footage. It falls only to bystanders with cell phones. Body camera footage is not subject to freedom of information act requests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Golly!!! Thanks!! You Didn't Shut The Government Down!
Oct 1, 202100:07:49Tap to summarizeShutting the government down as a part of political chest thumping is disgusting. Families who live paycheck to paycheck suffer for these political stunts. I've know about paycheck to paycheck living. Thankfully for me, politicians back in the day had not sunk as low as they have today. Disgusting. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Does Alabama Lock People Up To Be Raped And Brutalized?
Sep 29, 202100:10:30Tap to summarizeAlabama has a long and unhappy past concerning prisons. We've had the federal government take over our prison system in the past. Are we past that? Ask Governor Kay Ivey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Flood Insurance? Why Should I Pay To Insure Your Waterfront Property?
Sep 27, 202100:10:41Tap to summarizeFederal flood insurance is a program designed to keep whole communities from being destroyed beyond rebuilding by spreading the risk among all Americans. Now, those who get the benefit may have to bear more of the cost. It won't make them happy, but paying for what you get is just fair. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Is God Angry Enough With You To Give You COVID?
Sep 24, 202100:11:01Tap to summarizeThe notion that God is angry with us and is punishing us with COVID-19, hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes and war is just plain wrong. People take revenge on those with whom they are displeased. God does not. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Women Can Have It All! Can't They?
Sep 22, 202100:11:23Tap to summarizeBack in the day, the women's lib day, women were going to have it all. We have -- as they said -- come a long way. But the foolish mantra that you can do everything is an expectation that will crush you if you let it. Be the woman who makes her own choices. Isn't that really having it all, anyway? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Cost Of Stupidity: $17.19 Per American.
Sep 19, 202100:11:47Tap to summarizeCaring for those who refuse to be vaccinated against COVID costs lives and money. The people who refuse the vaccine are being aggressively stupid in a way that kills them, spreads the disease, and wastes a lot of money. I am as mad as hell about this. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Kids, I Am Too Buttoned Up -- I Didn't Talk To You About Sex.
Sep 17, 202100:10:03Tap to summarizeI'm not talking about the simple "here is where babies come from" talk. What about abuse, date rape, false accusations, and "me too"? I didn't talk to my children as I should have. Learn from my mistake Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Just Call Me Big Mama? Nothing Doing!
Sep 15, 202100:09:45Tap to summarizeThe name your grandchildren call you ought to be something that they pick out -- with some limits set by you. For once, leave off the contrived nonsense and let a child have a name for you - a very special person in that child's life. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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A Catholic Priest Murdered By A Protestant Preacher.
Sep 13, 202100:10:59Tap to summarizeA bit of good reporting of a 100-year-old murder of a priest by an angry preacher shows that hatred and bigotry are not a problem with a solution. Those things are a hateful corner of human existence that must be guarded against every day. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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