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The Ron Show

Welcome to the Ron Show - Atlanta"s only progressive audio platform airing five days a week on Georgia Now, M-F 4-6pm (replaying 8-10am the next weekday). Host Ron Roberts covers Atlanta, metro Atlanta, Georgia and national politics from a pretty unique lens ... he"s just your run-of-the-mill Georgia-born gay progressive cat-dad realtor & talk show host. Dime a dozen, right?

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00:44:32

KSU, Cobb Schools : the subtle messages to & about...

The Ron Show ·

2025/05/16

Kennesaw State University students and their supporters took to Atlanta - some 30 minutes (by car) south of their campus - Wednesday to protest KSU's announcement that they're eliminating black studies & philosophy majors outside the Georgia Board of Regents' offices. NAACP Georgia chapter president Gerald Griggs joined me to provide background & tell me what's next in the process & continued protest of this decision. ------Also in Cobb County, that school board's curious use of social

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00:44:30

I mean ... so Pete's (already) running, isn't he?

The Ron Show ·

2025/05/16

When a prominent politician does a town hall in Iowa, it sort of defines the unofficial start to the upcoming presidential cycle and their campaign in earnest to win the office. That's just ... tradition. So when former South Bend, Indiana mayor and U.S. Transportation Pete Buttigieg hosted a town hall with VoteVets Wednesday night, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a full 1,272 days before Election Day, November 7, 2028, it's as if we could say both that "he's running for President" and

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00:43:30

Hidin' Biden: book reveals more about us & party...

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2025/05/14

The book Washington insiders have been tongue-wagging about for days now - "Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again" - was leaked. It'll be a best-seller and have pundits and conservative snipers taking aim at a perceived "conspiracy" or "cover-up" in the Biden White House, but how much meat is even on this bone?All I've read (so far) is a lot of hindsight from the same folks who weren't saying much from

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00:44:30

Trump's really good day (that really wasn't)

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2025/05/13

On the surface, you'd think yesterday was a banner day for the second Donald Trump administration: his staff negotiated an end to the trade war he launched, he signed an executive order to mandate steep price cuts for prescription drug prices in the U.S., and who wouldn't have a good if they were given a $400 million luxury plane? Jon Stewart at 'The Daily Show' even confessed to having long-coveted the drug deal. About that ... ... the executive order, it turns out, isn't all

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00:44:29

In, out, left (center), right ... Georgians need...

The Ron Show ·

2025/05/13

It dawned on me yesterday, while showing a house in Kennesaw for a mom sending her kids off to college not far away, that Georgia's political inhibitions towards rail transit continues to cost families like this one thousands per month for years, and unnecessarily. It's that sort of lack of vision - at the city level in Atlanta, the metro region, and of course, the state, that puts an undo burden on everyday Georgia families and it just got me to thinking about Atlanta mayor Andre

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00:44:30

Acting, carpentry, politics & sewing: the...

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2025/05/08

I've followed Ethan Embry on Twitter/X (he's on Bluesky now) for years now, and have always been fascinated with how well-versed he is on political and social issues. Today, I finally got to sit down with the Atlanta-based California transplant best known for his acting in cult favorites like 'Empire Records,' 'That Thing You Do,' 'Can't Hardly Wait,' 'Sweet Home Alabama,' and notable most recently as 'Coyote' in the Netflix series 'Grace &

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00:44:30

What's not new from the 'New Deal Forum' Ideas...

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2025/05/07

Were it not for reporting by Ross Williams at the Georgia Recorder, none of us might've even known a 'Third Way'-backed centrist Democrat 'Ideas Summit' even took place in Atlanta earlier this week. State Senator Jason Esteves - the lone notable Democratic gubernatorial candidate (sorry, Keisha; until you announce 'for sure,' that's how it is ...) along with Senator Elena Parent, Representative Tanya Miller attended. Esteves, in fact, introduced 'Third Way'

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00:44:30

Josh aims at more - 'for Georgia' | State ethics...

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2025/05/06

State Senator Josh McLaurin put his name in the hat to succeed outgoing GOP Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones, announcing his candidacy at a Savannah port terminal Monday. He and I caught up today so I could ask him why he's the guy for the job, what he may have gleaned from watch Jones in the role all this time and why he made it his mission to inform the state Senate what the Trump presidency was up to while eh and his co-horts were in session. ------A recent $300,000 fine levied against a Stacey

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00:44:30

The Kemp decision and its domino effects in Georgia

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2025/05/05

Last week we learned Georgia voters only seem to have an appetite for 'change' in the US Senate if it comes via Governor Brian Kemp unseating Senator Jon Ossoff. Well, unfortunately for the Georgia GOP, Kemp's decided he, nor "Marty and the girls" are up for it. Why? Georgia Recorder op/ed writer Jay Bookman has a few ideas, and he joined me to explain how he correctly predicted Kemp's decision in late 2024 and elaborate further on his (I believe correct) assessment that

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00:44:30

May Day's organic distress signal, Marge's prospects...

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2025/05/02

Protests in Atlanta and elsewhere "May Day" Thursday were but another chapter in a growing saga of organic "distress signals" from activists deeply concerned about federal workforce and entitlement cuts and an executive branch showing disregard for the other two, and the rule of law. Joining me to give some background on the organic, unaffiliated nature of the '50501' movement is Georgia vice-chair Bri Boyd.But not before we look into the field set for Saturday's

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00:44:31

Polls indicate voters unaware their choices have...

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2025/05/02

With Rev. Senator Raphael Warnock preparing to host his own town hall Sunday in Fulton County, and with the fresh memory of dissatisfaction at Senator Jon Ossoff's hall last week, coupled with Georgia polling that shows how unpopular Democrats are right now, it bears asking: are voters aware that they voted for this mess and left Democrats with too-few tools to do anything about it? Laughably, even Republicans polled want Democrats to (somehow) do more to push back when their choice for

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00:44:30

Nothing peachy in polling for Trump, but Democrats...

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2025/05/01

First, a follow-up to yesterday's show as both Cobb Democrats won their special elections to serve on that county's commission, putting Democrats (again) in control of that county's governance (despite all the efforts at the state GOP level to undo the will of the majority). Also, after having a grousing parent removed from a school board hearing a little more than a week ago for bending the knee to the Trump administration and eliminating their D.E.I. initiatives, Decatur City Schools

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00:44:30

Cobb election today faces one more GOP tactic:...

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2025/04/29

First came the gerrymander, as Georgia's state GOP legislators redrew a majority liberal county's commission map to better favor Republicans. Then came the court battle to unseat the commissioner elected to serve, but drawn out of her district by said gerrymander. Today, with both the map and the vacancy now adjudicated (poorly, I might add), many Cobb County voters head to the polls today to fill the vacancy with either former state representative Erick Allen or Alicia Davis, whose leading

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00:44:28

That 60th minute, though & other 'fired but fighting'...

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2025/04/29

The "last minute" of last night's '60 Minutes' was worth the wait, as CBS News' Scott Pelley laid waste to his network's parent company's adding 'extra supervision' to the news magazine's content. I mean, it's not all that different from what I had to deal with as editor of my high school newspaper - except that it's already established that school students don't enjoy "freedom of the press" in their schools. Oh, and '60

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00:49:57

Ossoff's town hall: a stark contrast from Greene's...

The Ron Show ·

2025/04/26

Senator Jon Ossoff met with hundreds of constituents in Marietta at the Cobb County Civic Center Friday morning, with designs on pointing out the disparity in approaches on healthcare access and reproductive rights. Those in attendance - many recently fired (or "RIF'ed") CDC employees, others frazzled voters seething for impeachment - had questions completely divergent from the topics he set the table with.All the same, he answered questions for nearly an hour after an opening

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00:44:28

Stacey Abrams' silence is still somehow ... fit for...

The Ron Show ·

2025/04/26

With Senator Jason Esteves' announcement that he's officially in the 2026 race to be Georgia's next governor comes open speculation; where are the other Democrats for the field?The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's chief political reporter, Greg Bluestein, is notably fixated on whether Stacey Abrams wants in. ------Senator Jon Ossoff, with the 2026 cycle on his radar for obvious reasons, scheduled a town hall for constituents in Marietta Friday. While he opened the gathering wanting to

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00:43:29

On the air ... not the best to be breathing &...

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2025/04/25

Remember that 2020 pandemic "fresh air" vibe, that summer? How crisper, clearer and cleaner the air over Atlanta seemed? Well since then we've of course regressed; that's according to new American Lung Association report cards. Atlanta, in particular, slipped from C to F. On to discuss the results and speculate as to what could be done to reverse the trend, along with some disturbing signals in the current political climate, the ALA's Danna Thompson. ------The field appears to

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00:44:28

Money motivates Atlanta electeds at the expense of...

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2025/04/23

It's easy to grouse about "NIMBYism" in situations where organized neighbors push back against "progress," but in the case of Atlanta's Amsterdam Walk, the neighbors weren't against sensible development of a nearby commercial lot; in fact, they supported zoned usage. Instead, they were steamrolled by city council (with the mayor's blessing) and Portman Holdings, who now has the go-ahead to cram 1100 apartments and 1400-plus parking spaces and retail onto a parcel

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00:44:30

ATL 2025 City Council Election Series: meet Matt Rinker

The Ron Show ·

2025/04/22

With seven city council seats (eight if you count the Council presidency) and the mayor's office up for grabs in 2025, the otherwise sleepy "off cycle" calendar has some intrigue in Georgia's most populous city.To lean into it, I'm hosting a series of 'meet the candidate' shows between now and election day in November. Each announced candidate and incumbent will be (some already have been) invited on the show.First up: Council at-large 1 challenger Mat Rinker. Matt and

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00:44:29

On Francis, Jason Esteves, Joe Rogan, Pete Hegseth...

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2025/04/21

With the passing of Pope Francis comes a litany of American and global tributes - Marjorie Taylor Greene's awful tweet notwithstanding. Among them are the thoughts from DignityUSA's executive director Marianne Duddy-Burke, who joined me to opine on his somewhat-progressive papal legacy and provide some insights into where the Catholic Church will go, ideologically, next. ------I've mentioned him as the kind of quality candidate Georgia Democrats could succeed with atop their 2026 ticket,

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