Boston to New York Lickety-Split... Organizers of the North Atlantic Rail Initiative are trying to get the Biden Administration onboard a $105 billion high-speed rail project that would link Boston, Providence, Hartford, and New Haven to Penn Station, via a tunnel under the Long Island Sound. When finished the trip between Boston and New York will take about 100 minutes. Is this a good use of taxpayer money?
A Curriculum Too Far... All across America critical race theory is starting to be introduced into children’s classrooms. Parents such as New Yorker Andrew Gutmann find themselves very concerned about what they call the indoctrination of their children at the hands of educators. Gutmann wrote a letter to all the parents of his daughter’s private NYC school objecting to the school’s “obsession with race and the adoption of critical race theory”. The letter went viral prompting many parents to wonder if the obsession with race has seeped too far into the classroom. Andrew Gutmann joins Dan to discuss many parents’ concerns.
Panic at the Pumps. Virginia, Florida, and Georgia have all declared a state of emergency after a cyberattack by a Russian ransomware group called DarkSide shut down a major pipeline and left hundreds of gas stations across several states without fuel. Today the national gasoline price rose above $3 a gallon, the highest since October 2014. So far, the shortages have not been keenly felt in New England, but rising prices have started. What have you seen at the pumps? Are you going to fill your tank up just in case?
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