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🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Two Tennessee lawmakers are expelled after Republicans in the House reacted to a breach of decorum. Their districts reinstated them, but was this the right reaction to protests from the left?
Then, President Biden passed proposed changes intended to protect transgender athletes in schools, but no one is happy. Why wasn’t it a good compromise for those in the middle?
And, the 15-minute city is a seemingly innocuous urban planning idea, but it’s sparked fear and backlash. But what could be bad about reducing traffic?
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0:34.3 | Hey everyone, thanks for coming back for more Left, Right and Center. |
0:39.0 | I'm David Green, your host here on the show where we take a stand. |
0:43.3 | We say that we can talk about all the things, everything, even the hard things, and just |
0:47.7 | listen to different perspectives, all be in a room together and just talk and figure |
0:51.4 | stuff out. |
0:52.4 | And I want to dig this week into what we have been watching play out in Tennessee over |
0:57.1 | the past week or so and what it could mean for our politics, for our democracy, for our |
1:02.8 | ability as a country to come together and solve problems or might we say our lack of |
1:07.0 | ability to do that. |
1:08.8 | Expelling members from a legislative body, kicking people out of a job that voters put |
1:13.2 | them in almost never happens. |
1:15.2 | But the Tennessee House of Representatives expelled two Democratic lawmakers when they interrupted |
1:20.3 | House proceedings to join a protest calling for more gun restrictions. |
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