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Thursday 06-19-25 Bill Meyer Show Guests and InformationTues
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6:35 Matthew Hoffman , legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom Two Grants Pass educators fired over their “I Resolve” campaign (LGTBQ Policy Trouble) just won a big victory in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The two will have their day in court with a jury trial. Matthew explains what happened…and what’s next.
7:10 Dr. Steven Goldberg serves as Chief Medical Officer of diagnostics giant HealthTrackRx. www.HealthTrackRx.com
New research shows some medications, including popular cold remedies, may be putting you at risk for dementia. More than 55 million people have dementia worldwide.While researchers don’t exactly know what causes it, some studies have linked certain medications to a higher risk of dementia. Anticholinergic medicines, which includes Benadryl, and others that treat allergies, asthma, Parkinson’s, overactive bladder, motion sickness, and more are suspect.
Opioids are another class of drugs that could up your chances of dementia. In a study that looked at a million people with chronic pain, opiate users had a 15-percent higher risk of developing dementia. Long-term use of the indigestion medicine omeprazole, benzodiazepines, which includes Valium and Xanax, are also thought to raise your risk of dementia if they’re taken for a long time.
So, what does this latest study mean?
7:30 Greg Roberts from www.RogueWeather.com and today he’s “Mr. Fire” with conversation on the Upper Appplegate wildfire.
8:10 Dr. Jared Ross, Do No Harm Medical Senior Fellow can do that time slot – please confirm him
Yesterday the U.S Supreme Court upheld a Tennessee law banning sex changes for minors. The Dr. and I dig into this story and its implications. www.DoNoHarmMedicine.org
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Wednesday 06-18-25 Bill Meyer Show Guests and InformationTues
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6:35 Eric Peters, automotive journalist from www.EpAutos.com and today’s Wheels Up Wednesday talk!
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/06/16/we-got-it-wrong/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/06/16/the-engine-cover-conspiracy/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/06/17/2025-range-rover-sport/
7:35 Nick Stark Executive Director Oregon Freedom Coalition
www.OregonFreedom.com
“No Tax Oregon” Launched to Stop Oregon’s Largest Ever Tax Increase
Payroll, gas tax hikes would crush working families.
Oregon Freedom Coalition (OFC) launched No Tax Oregon, a project dedicated to protecting Oregon’s working families from the largest tax increase in Oregon history. No Tax Oregon is dedicated to stopping the passage of HB2025, the so-called Transportation Reinvestment Package, which will cost the hard-working Oregon taxpayer $2 billion in new taxes.
“Oregon’s working families do not need more taxes,” said OFC Executive Director Nick Stark. “HB2025 is a laundry list of new taxes and fee hikes that punish working families for ODOT shortcomings that are the fault of lawmakers in Salem. Lawmakers should be focusing on tangible long-term solutions to ODOT’s budget, rather than using a quick fix that will cause more economic harm than good.”
By visiting the No Tax Oregon website, NoTaxOR.com, Oregonians can learn about the direct impacts of the transportation package’s tax increases on their household budgets and directly tell their lawmakers to vote ‘no’ on HB2025.
8:10 Jim Manley, State Policy Chief at Pacific Legal Foundation, we talk SB 974’s passage and how it will help housing here!
https://pacificlegal.org/staff/james-manley/
Pacific Legal Foundation applauds Oregon for passing SB 974 to accelerate housing approvals
Salem, OR; June 17, 2025: Governor Tina Kotek has signed SB974 into law, a bipartisan reform that will streamline residential development permitting and help address the state’s housing crisis.
SB 974 requires local governments and special districts to complete final reviews of engineering plans for residential developments within 120 days of submission. It also ensures that urban housing applications are treated as limited land use decisions—reducing red tape and increasing predictability for builders and homeowners.
“This bill is a win for Oregonians who are struggling with high housing costs and limited supply,” said Jim Manley, state policy chief at Pacific Legal Foundation. “By cutting unnecessary delays and limiting subjective design mandates, SB 974 removes key regulatory barriers that have made it harder and more expensive to build homes in Oregon.”
In testimony before the House Committee on Housing and Homelessness, PLF emphasized that SB 974 is a “crucial step toward addressing Oregon’s housing crisis” by ensuring that local governments act promptly and predictably on housing applications.
“SB 974 doesn’t just speed up permitting—it restores fairness and transparency to a system that too often favors delay over development,” Manley added. “We’re proud to support reforms that make it easier for families to find homes and for communities to grow organically.”
Pacific Legal Foundation applauds the Oregon Legislature and Governor Kotek for enacting SB 974 and urges other states to follow Oregon’s lead in removing regulatory barriers to housing. Oregon now joins Kansas in enacting building permit timeliness reforms this session; a bipartisan bill enacted in April, HB2088, put a 60-day shot clock on building permit applications in the Sunflower state.
Pacific Legal Foundation is a national nonprofit law firm that defends Americans threatened by government overreach and abuse. Since our founding in 1973, we challenge the government when it violates individual liberty and constitutional rights. With active cases in 34 states plus Washington, D.C., PLF represents clients in state and federal courts, with 18 wins of 20 cases litigated at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Tuesday 06-17-25 Bill Meyer Show Guests and InformationTues
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6:35 Mark J. Quann, author of Be Smart Pay Zero Taxes: Use the Buy, Borrow, Die Strategy to Get Rich and Stay Rich
American’s blueprint to pay zero taxes
Read Mark Quann’s article below:
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7:10 Kevin Starrett from Oregon Firearms Federation www.OregonFirearms.org
06.17.2025
HB 3076, a bill designed to close Oregon gun stores is back and moving.
The bill which imposes extreme, onerous, and punitive restrictions on Oregon’s FFL’s is now scheduled for a work session in the “Joint Committee On Ways and Means Subcommittee On Capital Construction”.
The work session is scheduled for tomorrow at 8.30 am.
In addition to the enormous fees it forces on all gun dealers and federal firearms license holders, the bill creates an impossible-to-comply-with list of conditions and restrictions that will close most if not all gun dealers in the state.
This bill creates Mexico style restrictive conditions in Oregon.
If this insanity passes in the closing days of the 2025 Legislative Session you can thank Oregon’s Republican Legislators.
ONLINE VERSION. https://www.oregonfirearms.org/gun-store-shutdown-bill-back
7:35 Former State Senator Herman Baertschiger – Today we talk state politics and the accelerating trend of our biggest businesses leaving Oregon.
8:40 Open for Business with Network in Action and Lisa McClease Kelly https://sonetworking.com/
Member guests today are Hope Smith manager for the Brisbane Project (Blues Band) www.TheBrisbaneProject.com and Dr. Jake Layer DDS www.LayerDental.com and we discuss his practice and special projects.
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6:20 Martin Porter & David Goggin, authors of BUZZ ME IN: Inside the Record Plant Studios
In the 1970s, Record Plant Studios was at the heart of the largest boom in record production in music history. Founded in 1968 by charismatic audio engineer Gary Kellgren and ace businessman Chris Stone, and with complexes in New York, Los Angeles, and Sausalito, and a fleet of remote recording trucks, Record Plant was everywhere there was music. In 1976 alone, the studio produced three No. 1 albums: Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life, the Eagles’ Hotel California, and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours.
\Written by veteran music journalists Martin Porter & David Goggin (who manage the popular Record Plant Diaries Facebook page), the fast-paced and engrossing new book BUZZ ME IN: Inside the Record Plant Studios (Thames & Hudson, June 17, 2025) tells the incredible story of the evolution of the studios tape by tape.
Starting on the west side of New York City with the 1968 recording of Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland, Record Plant expanded to L.A., where Stevie Wonder produced his greatest hits, and then to Sausalito where Sly Stone, Bob Marley, and Fleetwood Mac encamped; John Lennon made New York his post-Beatles home, and the Eagles conceived Hotel California while working in L.A. Each location showcased Record Plant’s founders’ proven formula of combining state-of-the-art audio, fantasy bedrooms, and group Jacuzzis, with sex, drugs, and celebrity jams.
Based on the memoirs and archives of Chris Stone, as well as interviews with more than 100 studio employees, music producers, and recording artists, BUZZ ME IN is a helter-skelter ride through more than a decade’s worth of high drama, hedonism, high tech, and musical genius-chronicling the behind-the-scenes stories of classic rock ‘n’ roll, as told by insiders working behind the iconic studios’ locked doors alongside the great rock stars of the 20th century.
6:35 Jason Isaac, CEO of the American Energy Institute is reacting to the death of the EV mandate
In another blow to the climate hysterics and Governor Gavin Newsom’s radical climate agenda, President Donald Trump has signed a trio of resolutions to end California’s electric vehicle mandate and radical emissions rules. The EV mandate, which would bar the sale of gas-powered vehicles in the state starting in 2035, would force consumers into spending more for electric vehicles and cost auto manufacturers billions of dollars. The president has also rescinded a 2023 EPA waiver allowing California to impose strict emissions regulations on heavy trucks. The Senate and President Trump’s actions marks a decisive blow against Blue State EV madness.
7:10 State Senator Noah Robinson shares his thoughts on the passage of legislation mandating “Climate Change” indoctrination in the public schools. Yep, yet another reason to pull your kids or grandkids out of them.
7:35 Ben Straka, who is on our Research & Government Affairs Team, Here’s what we talked about…Oregon Dems go all corrupt to protect unions.
Oregon Governor Signs Anti-Freedom Foundation Bill
Salem, OR — As expected, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek today signed a bill inviting abuse of the legal process in hopes of weakening the most impactful foe of her allies in the state’s powerful public employee unions.
The measure was approved on a party-line vote last month by both houses of Oregon’s Democrat-dominated legislature.
Dubbed the “Workers Fraud Protection Act”, House Bill 3789 might more accurately be called the “Sue the Freedom Foundation Bill” because it gives unions sweeping new powers to sue their chief opponent.
Proponents of the new law insist the Freedom Foundation’s marketing materials, which inform government employees of their First Amendment right to decline union membership, are designed to deceive the recipient into believing the communications were produced by the union itself.
Throughout the legislative process, however, neither the unions nor their friends in the legislature were able to cite a single example of the alleged fraudulent behavior.
“Democrats had a choice — protect workers or protect their political allies. They chose the latter,” said Senate Republican Leader Daniel Bonham (R-The Dalles) in an earlier press release from Senate Republicans. “This bill targets one side of a political debate while turning a blind eye to serious, proven misconduct from their friends in labor leadership.”
“This is legislatively sanctioned lawfare,” said Jason Dudash, West Coast Director of the Freedom Foundation. “Unions and the majority party are hoping to slow us down by tying us up in court.”
“It is shameful that the Governor and Democrat legislators are once again prioritizing the wishes of their largest donors over the several very real and pressing needs of Oregonians,” Dudash continued. “Oregon’s government unions may view this as a big win, but we won’t be slowing down any time soon.”
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8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers, “Where Past Meets Present” www.DennisPowersBooks.com
The City of Rogue River
By Dennis Powers
The town owes its start to a card shark named Davis “Coyote” Evans, who built cabins and a ferry in 1851 to cross the Rogue River near where Evans Creek poured into the Rogue. A swinging footbridge was later built for prospectors to cross at “Tailholt” and work for the gold on Evans Creek.
As the story goes, if miners didn’t want to pay the toll to cross the river, they crossed by pulling their horse into the river, and then grabbing its tail to hold on as it swam across. Thus, the name given to the tiny settlement was Tailholt. Some feel that the name meant more than crossing the Rogue. “Tailholt” could also mean, according to some, that the settlers had found a tough life, but that it was much more dangerous to let go, if they had made a “tail-hold” there: “A tailholt was better than no holt at all.”
Building a home and store of boards milled on Evans Creek in the early 1870s, John Woods picked the location at Tailholt. This was not only where people and mail were dropped off for the prospectors working Evans Creek, but also where folks crossed the Rogue headed for the other side. Although it wasn’t an official stage stop, Woods kept an extra team of horses for the stage line.
While the industrious Woods ran his general store and worked to add a post office, the population grew at that location. When the post office was established in 1876 in his home, and he became the town’s first postmaster, it took on the name of Woodville. When the Oregon & California Railroad came through the town, set up a station stop, with the next stop being Gold Hill, Woodville in 1884 gained in importance.
With nearby Medford and the surrounding areas undergoing the early-1900s Orchard Boom, the first bridge to allow wagons, buggies, and teams to cross to the other side was constructed in 1909. The town’s residents then decided in 1912 that a new name would be better for the times and voted for its incorporation as the City of Rogue River.
Mr. H.B. Taylor in 1910 bought John Wood’s place. Tearing down the old structure, he replaced it with a new one that he named the Waldorf Rooms Hotel. The hotel became a popular place for not only the “drummers” (the salesmen traveling up and down the railroad line), but for tourists and passers-by, alike.
As sawmills and farming gave way to tourism and commuting to outlying areas for employment, the Rogue River Rooster Crow was first put on in 1953 to publicize the city. Since that time, its National Rooster Crow Championship has been held on the last Saturday in June. The three-day festival kicks off on Friday with a dinner at the Rogue River Community Center and ends on Sunday with an antique and “sporty” car show.
A five-minute drive from the downtown, Orin Palmerton during this time had operated a plant and tree nursery with many domestic and exotic trees that eventually became the property of the city. Rogue River maintains this beautiful land with Evans Creek on one side as part of its park system. Palmerton Park is an arboretum (a place for the study and exhibit of trees) with 96 distinct tree specimens, including pines from Japan, cedars from the Mediterranean, and large coastal redwoods native to the Pacific Northwest.
Buildings and brides were replaced. For example, the Waldorf became the Walling Old Inn after World War II; Gulf Oil bought the Inn in 1967, tore it down, and built a service station. Located in the Hatch House constructed in 1909, the Woodville Museum in Rogue River opened in 1986 with numerous, interesting exhibits of the town’s life. The bridge over the river was replaced in 1950, and then again in 2006. This project attracted national attention, as the designers employed a “slow slide” to move the 550-ton, 300-foot long bridge into its final position.
Located some 20 miles northwest of Medford on I-5, it has survived the Rogue River floods of 1955 and 1964. Over 100 years later, the city of Rogue River is still known for its fishing, rafting, and beautiful scenery along the river, not to mention its history and future.
Sources: Bill Miller, “Keeping a ‘tailholt’ attitude,” Mail Tribune, January 17, 2010, at History of Rogue River; Cleve Twitchell, “A Woodville, A Rogue River or a Tailholt by any other Name,” Mail Tribune, February 10, 1991, at On Tailholt; see Randy Johnson, “City of Rogue River: The City of Rogue River’s Centennial Year,” at Centennial Video.