Good evening. This show begins tonight in the Keystone State, Pennsylvania, conversation

about Luzerne County. This is a hundred miles from Philadelphia, therefore well within the reach of the

Philadelphia media. Once upon a time Salina Zito tells me it was New Deal

Democrats, small manufacturing, shoe factories, dress factories, coal.

Now, transformation.

No longer heavily Democrat, about even, voted for Obama twice, voted for Trump and

16, voted for Biden and 20, representative of the non-urban counties of Pennsylvania.

Both Trump and Harris have been there recently.

Harris held an invitation only event at Wilkes University.

Trush Trump did his usual rally. Salina says it's heavily Trump voting now, but we shall see Pennsylvania determines the election.

I discuss Bill Signing Month with Bill Wayland, the Hoover Institution, the legislature in Sacramento ends its term at the end of August,

and the governor has a month to rack it on the bills.

All of them, hundreds of them, dozens in an event, a ceremony in California.

Small Business America with Gene Marks, we have great fun talking about the Federal Reserve. There is a weakness in jobs. It's not profound,

it's not recession scale, but it's a weakness. The Federal Reserve is responding to that.

We also talked about what to do if your small business has slow receivables. People owe you money.

And you have to balance the books at the end of the month and pay your employees.

One recommendation Gene has is when you do the work, bill.

Don't wait till the end of the month to bill. Bill then. Every time you have a bill to

send out, don't put it off. Do it. That'll keep the money flowing

so you don't have to write yourself a check you can't cash. Says Jean.

On to a strange story, Dimitri Symes was a personality much on television in the 20th century.

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