Friday 01/09/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Info
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6:35 Macy Petty, Legislative Strategist, Concerned Women for America, and a former NCAA volleyball player who had to play against a trans-identifying male [Ms. Petty signed an Amicus Brief along with former Olympians and female athletes.] We discuss the two cases over trans-identifying males participating on women’s sports before the Supreme Court (Little v. Hecox and West Virginia v. B.P.J.) on Tuesday, January 13. CWA submitted an Amicus Brief in support of the petitioners. CWA filed the first ever civil rights complaint against a college for rostering a male on the women’s team.
7:10 Greg Roberts, www.RogueWeather.com with today’s Outdoor Report. Greg also shares his harrowing experience having cops holding him at gunpoint twice in his life.
7:50 Kevin Keating, board member of the Jackson County Library Services. Kevin and I catch up on the actions taken so far in the Talent Library’s alleged patrion viewing naked kid pics and videos on public computers. The issue is upper management seemed more concern about the patron’s “privacy”. The district’s manager is on paid administrative leave, a final decision will be made at the January 21 board meeting. You can submit a comment to the board and let them know your feelings about the issue. Email board@jcls.org
To snail mail a comment:
Physical mailing address (for official correspondence):
Jackson County Library District Board of Directors
205 South Central Avenue
Medford, OR 97501
United States
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Thursday 01/08/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Info
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6:35 Jason Isaac, an energy expert and the founder & CEO of the American Energy Institute, is reacting to this incredible news below
After President Trump’s promise to use Venezuela’s oil reserves to bring down energy prices for all Americans & decapitate CCP influence in the region, the world is ignoring the other gold mine the US can now tap into: Venezuela’s critical minerals.
“Venezuela is not just an oil story. More importantly, it is a critical minerals and geopolitical leverage story. Beyond crude, Venezuela holds significant reserves of minerals such as gold, rare earth elements, and other strategic inputs that China has aggressively targeted across Latin America. While the West has focused on sanctions and oil licenses, Beijing has quietly expanded its footprint through mining deals, infrastructure financing and opaque joint ventures that operate outside transparent markets. Any U.S. engagement with Venezuela that ignores the critical minerals dimension risks ceding another strategic supply chain to China.”
8:10 Adam Withe, CEO of the Freedom Foundation www.FreedomFoundation.com
Freedom Foundation Sues to Block Oregon Law Silencing Worker Rights Speech
Union-Backed Law Threatens $1 Billion in Penalties for Telling Public Employees About Constitutional Opt-Out Rights
The Freedom Foundation filed a federal lawsuit challenging Oregon House Bill 3789, a law that hands public-sector unions the power to sue the organization into oblivion for doing what it’s done for years: informing public employees about their constitutional rights.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon on December 31, names Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield, the Oregon Employment Relations Board, and five major public-sector unions—including SEIU Local 503, Oregon Education Association, and Oregon AFSCME Council 75—as defendants. The Freedom Foundation asked the court to immediately block the law before it took effect January 1, 2026, and to strike it down permanently as unconstitutional.
HB 3789 lets public-sector unions sue the Freedom Foundation for $6,250 per piece of mail sent to workers explaining their right to opt out of union membership under the Supreme Court’s Janus v. AFSCME decision. One mailing to Oregon’s public employees equals approximately $1 billion in potential liability for the Freedom Foundation.
The unions wrote this law. The legislature passed it. The governor signed it. And it targets one organization.
“We’ve helped more than 35,000 Oregon workers exercise their Janus rights over the past seven years,” said Aaron Withe, CEO of the Freedom Foundation. “Those workers have saved—and their unions have lost—over $100 million in dues. Instead of making their case to workers, Oregon’s unions lobbied for a law designed to silence us. We’re not going to let that happen.”
The lawsuit argues HB 3789 violates the First Amendment by discriminating based on content and viewpoint, targeting political speech, forcing speakers to alter their messages, and operating as an unconstitutionally vague threat. The law gives unions the power to bankrupt their most effective critic while leaving unions free to send unlimited recruitment mail to the same workers.
“Oregon already has fraud laws on the books,” said Eric Stahlfeld, the Freedom Foundation’s Chief Litigation Counsel. “This law hands unions the power to bankrupt their most effective critic—the Freedom Foundation—through lawsuits. The First Amendment protects the Foundation’s speech, and we’re confident the court will strike this law down.”
Since the Supreme Court’s 2018 Janus decision struck down forced union dues as unconstitutional, the Freedom Foundation has helped hundreds of thousands of public employees nationwide understand they have a choice about union membership. The organization’s mailings explain how the opt-out process works and what it means financially for workers. If Oregon succeeds in enforcing HB 3789, it could become a model for other blue states across the country.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board weighed in on the controversy, writing that Oregon’s approach raises serious constitutional concerns about government suppression of speech.
“The Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that government can’t force workers to fund unions they don’t support,” said Mark Janus, the Illinois child support specialist whose case led to that landmark decision. “Oregon’s law does exactly what the Court said states can’t do. It lets unions punish anyone who tells workers their constitutional rights exist.”
The Freedom Foundation has already had to change its communications and delay mailings because of HB 3789’s threat. Without a court order blocking the law, the organization faces a choice: stop informing Oregon workers about their rights or risk bankruptcy.
The lawsuit asks the court to declare HB 3789 unconstitutional and block Oregon from enforcing it.
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Wednesday 01/07/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Info
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6:35 Eric Peters, automotive journalist from www.EPautos.com and a bunch of info today:
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/01/07/heres-what-lkas-can-do/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/01/04/2026-volvo-ex30/
7:20 JACOB SOBOROFF, author of FIRESTORM: The Great Los Angeles Fires & America’s New Age of Disaster
31 people died a year ago, 12,000 homes and businesses destroyed
A revelatory and searingly immediate report from the frontlines of the firestorm that consumed Los Angeles, from the MS NOW correspondent and New York Times bestselling author of Separated, who covered the fires on the ground as an LA native.
7:35 Dr. (Colonel Ret.) Josh McConkey is the Pulitzer prize nominated, award-winning author of “Be The Weight Behind The Spear”. He has practiced medicine across America and in some of the world’s most dangerous hotspots. Col. McConkey has served as a professor at Duke University and is Commander of the 459th Aeromedical Staging Squadron in the U.S. Air Force Reserves at Andrews Air Force Base.
Visit https://www.joshmcconkeyforamerica.com/
What U.S. running the country Venezuela entails following Maduro capture
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8:40 Open For Business with Randal Lee from Advanced Air – www.MyAdvancedAir.com 541-772-6866
Some of what we discussed:
-We haven’t had much of a winter yet and therefore not much of a heating demand. That will likely change in the coming weeks.
-Strategies for keeping your home warm include trying to keep heat pumps near set point rather a turning equipment on and off and limited electric resistance heat; keep filters clean (wash mini-split filters); make sure that carbon monoxide detectors and smoke detectors have fresh batteries—generally speaking it is best to keep equipment running that way there is less recovery needed and equipment isn’t working as hard.
-I’ve been hearing from clients that Pacific Power has been aggressively marketing their Cool Keeper program, putting a limiting device on outdoor units to control grid load. One client proceed with the program and needed about $1,600 in repairs after the switch was mis-wired and damaged their outdoor unit. Below is my article on the program:
-There are still great rebates available from Energy Trust Of Oregon
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Tuesday 01/06/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Info
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6:35 Julian Hagmann is the Chief Operating Officer, Caring Professionals, Inc. He recently testified before the New York State Senate Joint Committee of the Senate Standing Committee on Health and the Senate Standing Committee on Investigations and Government Operations on concerns regarding the mandate for a single fiscal intermediary and its impact on The Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP.)
The Next Election Will Be Decided by America’s Sick
7:10 Josephine County Commissioner Chris Barnett talks “SignGate”, why voters should choose NOT to recall him from office, and what’s next for replacing Andreas Blech on the board of Commissioners.
7:35 Former State Senator Herman Baertschiger – the crazy Jo County Politics, and he’s thrown his hat in the ring for replacing Commissioner Blech.
8:10
Richard C. Lyons, author of The DNA of Democracy and Shadows of the Acropolis.
The DNA of Democracy
An American Poet takes a novel look at Democracy through a series of essays in “The DNA of Democracy.” The author visits upon democracy’s rare occurrences in history, from its western origins in Athens and Rome, to its long evolutional growth in England, and the utterly unique establishment of democracy in America, where the combined influences of the Amerindian’s view of life, some revolutionary old-world philosophers and a generation of rebel, warrior poets wrought an unprecedented nation!
Shadows of the Acropolis
Do you wonder why, as a citizen, it seems that you are no longer represented? Do you wonder why half the nation is incensed no matter who is the President? Do you wonder why the nation feels so politically divided? Do you wonder why people in this country are polarized and enmity between each side is on the rise? Do you wonder why people in the media speak in many tongues providing different “truths?” Do you wonder why our politics have become a matter of name calling, closed-door maneuverings and political persecutions rather than a matter of respectful debate between parties of mutual respect and good intent? Do you wonder why we seem to be reaching for solutions, not through democratic processes, but through intrigue, hatred, and violence? You have the right book in your hands right now – As we must set about to actually “know” our nation as she is… at this pivotally important moment
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Monday 01/05/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Info
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6:35 Bill D’Agostino MRC Newsbusters Senior Research Analyst –
A new study by the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters found that ABC and NBC largely avoided serious coverage of the Minnesota Somali welfare-fraud scandal, while CBS stood out as the lone network delivering substantive investigative reporting on the alleged $1 billion theft of taxpayer funds.
Bill D’Agostino, MRC NewsBusters Senior Research Analyst, exposes how the broadcast networks differ dramatically in reporting the story — with ABC largely avoiding it and NBC only responding after independent reporting went viral.
Key findings:
- ABC’s World News Tonight spent just 25 seconds on the actual scandal and nearly five times more airtime framing Minnesota’s Somali community as victims.
- NBC’s Nightly News largely ignored the issue until a viral independent journalist video forced a two-minute report; before that, NBC gave the story only 65 seconds and focused on backlash rather than fraud.
- CBS Evening News delivered more than eight minutes of coverage, including three dedicated reports uncovering new details — showing that fair, investigative reporting is still possible within the legacy media.
7:10 Harry Snider lives on Agate Road in rural Jackson County and raises concerns about speeding, public safety, no to little posting of limits on the road.
7:35 State representative Dwayne Yunker responds to the Daily Courier’s thinly-veiled hit piece (my opinion btw) pointing out how State Rep. Yunker and Sen. Noah Robinson didn’t bring any money home to the district in the last legislative session. Undoubtedly the critics would prefer an unprincipled sellout who brings money in from Salem?
8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers – www.DennisPowersBooks.com with today’s “Where Past Meets Present”
The Medford Streetcars
By Dennis Powers
In the summer of 1913, not only did Spencer Bullis organize the Southern Oregon Traction Company (“SOTC”), but the city of Medford gave its approval for it to operate an electric trolley for the public around the city’s streets. SOTC received its first trolley in March 1914 that was a single-truck Birney.
After numerous changes and extensions, the SOTC’s trolley route in Medford by 1925 (when it was removed) extended from the intersection of West Main Street with Elm Street, across Bear Creek, followed East Main Street around Keene Way Drive, and ended at the prestigious Kensington Square.
Bullis wanted expand his line from his Medford route into Jacksonville, then through Phoenix and Talent, and on into Ashland. These routes were never created; however, the existing steam rail-line to Jacksonville was employed.
Established in 1891, the existing Rogue River Valley Railway’s (“RRVR”) tracks connected Medford and Jacksonville and was first used as a short steam line. In January 1916, Bullis had gained its control and electrified the route. He merged the RRVR tracks with his 2-1/2 mile SOTC system as both used standard-gauge track (4-foot, 8-1/2 inches wide).
Prior to Bullis coming in control of the RRVR, William Barnum had been operating the railway. Barnum had introduced public passenger service in 1905 when he put an 8-passenger auto car in use and on the tracks. Four years later, he replaced this with a 28-seat Black Crow that was powered by a gasoline engine and a combination freight and passenger car of his own design. Bullis then added another lighter streetcar and a double-truck car.
Despite the optimism of Bullis and his making a little money from the passenger fares, he went bankrupt in 1916. However, he retained control of the RRVR.
In July 1917, a 26-year-old train engineer, Denver Marsh, was maneuvering his locomotive in pushing two empty cars up the rails along Jackson Creek in a canyon west of Jacksonville. His destination was a log deck about three miles above the town, as Spencer Burris had begun extending the line into the timbered hills. While loading the cars with logs, the workmen yelled for the crew to move the engine backwards so they could load the second one. The fireman removed the blocks that kept the locomotive’s wheels from rolling backwards.
As Marsh slowly moved the engine backwards, the train began to roll back. Setting the airbrake didn’t work, nor did pushing the throttle full-forward. As the train sped backwards out of control, March pushed the fireman out of the cab. The locomotive with its log cars, one completely loaded, raced across a wood trestle that spanned a canyon one mile down from the log camp.
The cars plunged into the canyon, while the locomotive also derailed and crashed into a dirt bank. As Marsh jumped out, the engine followed and crushed his legs as it careened over on its side. The brave engineer died four hours later.
The wrecked train was removed, the line later abandoned, and the tracks and trestle removed. Decades later, volunteers had to hunt to pinpoint the place of the wreck where Denver Marsh had died.
Barnum regained control of the RRVC in 1918 upon its bankruptcy. When he gave up on passenger service in 1920—and the wreck could have been a large factor in Bullis’s financial problems—the trolley era in Southern Oregon had come to a complete end.
Although tiny sections of the old trolley track apparently remain, nearly all were ripped out in 1925. Most of that remainder was later paved over—eliminating what was once the evidence of Medford’s and Medford-Jacksonville’s streetcar experiment.
Sources: Bill Miller, “The Lost Railroad is found,” Mail Tribune, November 10, 2008; Mail Tribune, “Streetcar line didn’t last,” May 1, 2011; Richard Thompson, “Oregon Encyclopedia: Medford-Jacksonville streetcar system,” at its website;.
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Friday 01/02/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Info
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6:35 Dr. Gilda Carle, is a Spokesperson for the International Council of Men and Boys, and author of Real Men Don’t Go Woke: The Book They Would Not Publish. The Truth That Must Be Told.
While equality between men and women is a shared goal, the sexes have important physical, social, and psychological differences that give rise to complementary roles that sustain society (2).
Fathers: The Foundation of Family and Civilization
This year’s International Men’s Day, November 19, Dads4Kids (Australia) held a nine-hour livestream honoring fathers and mentors for their strength, kindness, and commitment to family life (3). It emphasized the importance of positive male role models in raising healthy children and building strong communities.
Across cultures, involved fathers help children develop resilience, emotional regulation, and problem-solving skills (4). UNICEF reports that father absence is linked to lower social and emotional well-being among children in developed nations like the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom (5). Father-engagement programs from India to Kenya and the Philippines show that when men are welcomed into family life, outcomes for boys and girls improve (6).
Peacemakers: Men Who Build and Defend Peace
Recently, in a historic achievement for diplomacy, the Trump Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity, signed by delegations from more than 20 nations, was negotiated entirely by men, underscoring their essential role as peacebuilders (7). In contrast, research by the National Bureau of Economic Research finds that European queens were historically more likely than kings to wage war (8), yet men are often mislabeled as the more violent gender.
Builders of Nations
The most recent U.S. labor report reveals that men accounted for over 91% of all workplace fatalities, reflecting their dominant presence in high-risk, essential jobs (9). This pattern holds globally, with recent studies confirming men face significantly higher occupational hazards in industries like construction and protective services (10)(11).
BIO: DR. GILDA CARLE (Ph.D.) is the author of Real Men Don’t Go Woke: The Book They Would Not Publish. The Truth That Must Be Told. She has appeared on most TV talk & news shows. She was the host of Fox’s “Dr. Gilda” TV show pilot, MTV’s “Love Doc,” and TV shows on Trinity Broadcasting Network. She wrote the “30-Second Therapist” column for the Today Show, the “Ask Dr. Gilda” column in the National Enquirer, the “Ask Dr. Gilda” column for Match.com, and she was the therapist in HBO’s Emmy Award winner, “Telling Nicholas,” featured on Oprah. She is a product spokesperson, keynote speaker, Professor Emerita of Business, and author of 19 books.
ABOUT: The International Council for Men and Boys is a non-governmental organization that is working to celebrate the contributions of men to society and to end the 12 sex disparities that affect men and boys around the world. Achieving #GenderEqualityForMen also will benefit women. https://www.menandboys.net/
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7:10 Mr. Outdoors, Greg Roberts from www.RogueWeather.com with the outdoor report and a great talk on the wolf issue in the Butte Falls area. Greg sends these two facebook links illustrating just how many wolves we’re talking about.
Greg’s Initial Call: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1B8ATL63t8/
Wolves Respond: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1B8ATL63t8/
8:10 Eric Peters, auto journalist from www.EPautos.com and we discuss all sorts of news including: https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/12/27/2026-mercedes-e450-wagon/
And https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/01/02/its-all-gms-fault/
And remember – https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/01/01/would-you-spend-11k-less-for-this/