Roy Green Show
6,422 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsRoy Green’s resume is outstanding. He is a three time consecutive winner of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters national Gold Ribbon award, Canada’s most prestigious broadcast award. Listeners need not read his resume to know that Roy is a passionate advocate for the average Canadian, with an unshakable desire for justice and a deep and abiding love for his country. No wonder Roy’s show has been cited by Canada’s parliamentary newspaper as required listening for federal politicians. You can also listen to the Roy Green Show live on these stations: 900 CHML Hamilton, Global News Radio 640 Toronto, 980 CFPL London, 680 CJOB Winnipeg, 630 CHED Edmonton, 770 CHQR Calgary, 980 CKNW Vancouver, 650 CKOM, 980 CJME, & Radio NL.
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Episodes
Charles Adler in for Roy Green - Sat Feb 28 - Jim Toth
March 01, 2015 04:54 - 18 minutesJim Toth joins Charles Adler to talk about the latest news in sports. Last week Sidney Crosby was in a fight, Jim and Charles talk about how much the NHL has changed since Wayne Gretzky played. The Adrian Peterson case has recently finished, Charles and Jim discuss that outcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Charles Adler in for Roy Green - Sat Feb 28 - Warren Kinsella
March 01, 2015 04:31 - 13 minutesLawyer, author, musician, and former political strategist for the federal Liberal party, Warren Kinsella joined guest host Charles Adler. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Charles Adler in for Roy Green - Sat Feb 28 - Professor Ian Lee
March 01, 2015 04:10 - 6 minutesGuest host Charles Adler talks to Professor Ian Lee from the Sprott School of Business about the state of the Greek economy and tax free savings accounts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Charles Adler in for Roy Green - Sat Feb 28 - Amy Morlin
March 01, 2015 03:41 - 19 minutesAmy Morlin is a psychotherapist and author. Amy joined Charles today to talk about how negative people affect our lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Charles Adler in for Roy Green - Sat Feb 28 - Carol Dedelley
March 01, 2015 02:50 - 17 minutesCarol Dedelley is the mother of Tim McLean. Tim McLean was the man who was stabbed, beheaded and cannibalized on a Greyhound Bus just outside of Portage La Prairie, Manitoba on July 30th 2008. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Roy Green - Sun Feb 22 - Karen Cumming
February 23, 2015 05:12 - 5 minutesKaren Cumming, Roy's former producer, made the cut into the final 100 for astronaut training for the Mars One Mission. Karen is one of four Canadians. Karen was in Haiti after the earthquake, at Mother Teresa's Mission in Kolkata, has visited China, Central America and Africa. Now is it on to Mars? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Roy Green - Sun Feb 22 - Castle Doctrine
February 23, 2015 05:02 - 33 minutesLast weekend major caller, email and online reaction to question directed to Steven Blaney, federal Public Safety Minister by Green concerning the fact that Canadian homeowners who become victims of a violent home invasion and who use a legal firearm to defend themselves and their families are regularly criminally charged and face longer prison sentences than their attackers. There was much discussion about the Castle Doctrine and whether Canada should adopt the Castle Doctrine? Today we s...
Roy Green - Sun Feb 22 - Terror Threats
February 23, 2015 04:04 - 20 minutesSomali-based Islamist terror group al-Shabab has issued a threat against Western shopping malls, including the West Edmonton Mall. Also mentioned the U.S. Mall of America and Oxford Street in London. Al-Shabab is the organization responsible for the mass killings at Kenya's Westgate shopping mall. U.S. Secretary for Homeland Security today on CNN warned shoppers "I would say that if anyone is planning to go to the Mall of America today, they've got to be particularly careful." Are you perso...
Roy Green - Sun Feb 22 - Road Rage
February 23, 2015 03:33 - 18 minutes - 17 MBIt was billed as a particularly violent road-rage incident which ended in a drive-by shooting murder of a 44 year old Las Vegas wife and mother, Tammy Meyer. That was a week ago. Since then many twists and turns in this now international story. Meyer and her son, armed with a gun, went looking for a car involved in a supposed road-rage incident with Meyer and her daughter earlier. Meyer's son had wanted to call police, but Tammy Meyer told her son if he didn't go with her, she would go alone...
Roy Green - Sun Feb 22 - Oscars
February 23, 2015 03:04 - 6 minutesRoy talks the Oscars with guest Murray Pomerance on who will win the major awards tonight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Roy Green - Sun Feb 22 - Child Abandonment
February 23, 2015 02:57 - 32 minutesA Winnipeg mother was cleared of a criminal charge of child abandonment on Friday. She left her 6 year old son home alone for 90 minutes in the summer of 2013. There's more to the case, like the mother being home after 90 minutes because police contacted her. Will be explained by guest. Meanwhile, the Toronto mother of the four year old found wandering outside in -14 degree weather and taken in by a neighbour is out on bail after being charged with abandonment of a child under the age of 10....
Roy Green - Sat Feb 21 - Beauties and the Beast
February 22, 2015 04:59 - 19 minutesWeekly Beauties and the Beast segment. Two Ontario stories. The Sudbury by-election mess heading for the Premier's office? And the new provincial sex-ed curriculum in schools. the former Deputy Minister of Education charged with child pornography offences. And in Alberta, no charges will be laid against former Premier Alison Redford concerning her expense-spending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Roy Green - Sat Feb 21 - Robert Dziekanski//RCMP Officers
February 22, 2015 04:37 - 19 minutesConstable Kwesi Millington is the RCMP officer who fired a Taser at Robert Dziekanski eight years ago on the night the Polish immigrant lost his life at Vancouver International Airport. Yesterday Millington was found guilty of perjury and collusion with fellow RCMP officers prior to their testimony at the Braidwood inquiry into Dziekanski's death. Judge William Ehrke of the B.C. Supreme Court ruled Millington "patently lied"at the inquiry. All four RCMP officers involved where charged with...
Roy Green - Sat Feb 21 - Dr. Zuhdi Jasser
February 22, 2015 04:00 - 19 minutesThe White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism took place from Tuesday to Thursday of this week. 60 nations took part, including Canada. Why was the "terrorism" word not used in the name of the conference? President Obama has been criticized for not saying the West and allied nations are at war with "Islamic Terrorism" and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said publicly "I do not believe - and I know this is a horrible thing to say - but I do not believe that this President ...
Roy Green - Sat Feb 21 - Colonel Steve Day
February 22, 2015 03:38 - 19 minutesColonel Steve Day commanded Canada's special forces military unit, JTF2 (Joint Taskforce Two), including in Afghanistan. Colonel Day speaks to the threat of ISIS and what we must expect going forward as far as terrorist attacks are concerned. Also, which is the greater current threat, ISIS and other terrorist organizations, or Vladimir Putin and Russia. The U.K.'s top General and Deputy Commander of NATO this week declared Russia and Putin to be an "existential threat" to our way of life an...
Roy Green - Sat Feb 21 - Robyn Young's Story
February 22, 2015 03:04 - 7 minutesAnother case of Canada's military abandoning a veteran in medical distress? Robyn Young is a 24 year Navy veteran who for four years battled a brain tumour while a full-time member of the military. She reported symptoms to the base Medical Officer who refused to conduct a CAT scan during those four years. It was after Robyn passed out and was rushed to hospital that an emergency CAT scan discovered the brain cancer. By that time Robyn had reduced her reservist status (planning on attending n...
Roy Green - Sat Feb 21 - Is Your Home Spying On You?
February 22, 2015 02:57 - 13 minutesIt's not just your smart TV which may be spying on you. Your home is filled with gadgetry which performs that very function. Samsung's smart TV, when set up to respond to voice commands, beams everything you say in its proximity over the internet to Samsung and then to other companies with which Samsung decides to share your information.There are the smartphone apps. How many people switch off the requests of the app suppliers to access your passwords, microphones, camera, email communicat...
Roy Green - Sat Feb 21 - Elijah Marsh
February 22, 2015 02:45 - 19 minutesAfter the death of 3 year old Elijah Marsh who made his way out of his grandmother's apartment building in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, another Toronto little boy was found outside in the bitter cold, wearing no clothing, yesterday. The 23 year old mother has been charged with abandonment of a child under the age of 10. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Roy Green - Sun Feb 15 - High River Flooding
February 16, 2015 05:17 - 38 minutesThe Civilian Review and Complaints Commission report about RCMP action in private residences in High River, Alberta during and following the devastating June, 2013 flooding reveals hundreds of legally owned firearms were removed from those private residences by police without the requisite "legal authority." Firearms of law-abiding citizens were removed by police who had no warrants and without judicial oversight. Homes were "forcibly entered" as RCMP officers were ostensibly looking for fl...
Roy Green - Sun Feb 15 - Halifax Terror Plot
February 16, 2015 05:16 - 19 minutes: Two individuals have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder in relation to the alleged plot to assault a Halifax shopping mall with firearms. Nova Scotia RCMP laid charges against 23 year old Lindsay Kantha Souvannarath of Geneva, Illinois and 20 year old Randall Steven Shepherd of Halifax. A 17 year old was released without charges by remains under investigation. A fourth suspect committed apparent suicide at his parents home in Timberlea, N.S. Three long barre...
Roy Green - Sun Feb 15 - World's Worst Parents?
February 16, 2015 05:13 - 19 minutesWhat family would commit this kind of act? A Missouri mother and grandmother, aunt and co-worker of the aunt staged a kidnapping of the 6 year old son, grandson and nephew because his family felt he was being too nice to people. The little boy's family was lured into a pickup truck, tied up, threatened with a gun, taken to a basement where his pants were taken away and he was told he could be sold as a sex slave. The boy was told he would "never see his mommy again" and that he would be "n...
Roy Green - Sun Feb 15 - Free Speech
February 16, 2015 05:11 - 37 minutesWearing a niqab during a citizenship oath swearing issue. Huge reaction yesterday and all of it supporting the Prime Minister's declaration the fed gov will appeal the Federal Court decision a woman may wear a face veil while taking the citizenship oath. We revisit the issue with an invitation the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada to join the show and explain why the imam is urging the PM not to appeal the Federal Court decision. And an invitation to a female Muslim listener w...
Roy Green - Sat Feb 14 - Halifax Terror Plot
February 16, 2015 02:42 - 9 minutesPlot to attack and kill as many people as possible in Halifax today stopped by police after a warning from the public of a weapons-related threat. A 19 year old male is dead, a suspected suicide after police surrounded his parents home. A 23 year old woman from Illinois and a 20 year old male were arrested at Halifax airport. They and another 17 year old male are in custody. Speaking anonymously to AP a police officer said the target was a shopping mall. Federal Justice Minister Peter Mac...
Roy Green - Sat Feb 14 - SNL
February 16, 2015 02:41 - 9 minutes40 years of SNL. Tonight a special anniversary Saturday Night Live show reviews four decades of how SNL satirized the news and newsmakers and introduced us to the likes of Dan Ackroyd and John Belushi, Eddie Murphy and Tina Fey, Chevy Chase and Steve Martin. The list is long for a show which almost didn't make it at first. Guest: Professor Robert Thompson. Director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture, University of Syracuse. Learn more about your ad choices. V...
Roy Green - Sat Feb 14 - University Of North Carolina Murders
February 16, 2015 02:40 - 10 minutesThree Muslim students murdered at a residential complex at the University of North Carolina. Craig Stephen Hicks has been arrested and charged with three counts of first degree murder. His wife and lawyer say the murders were over a parking space dispute. Local police investigating this possibility while the FBI is investigating the possibility of it being a hate crime. There were accusations the media was uncaring in not covering the killings more directly. Guest: Dr. Ingrid M...
Roy Green - Sat Feb 14 - Repeat Offenders
February 16, 2015 02:39 - 10 minutesThe federal government announces no more statutory release for repeat violent offenders sentenced to at least five years in prison. No more getting out on parole after 2/3rds sentence served, which has been the law, except for those imprisoned indefinitely. Guest: Steven Blaney. Fed Minister for Public Safety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Roy Green - Sat Feb 14 - Minister Steven Blaney
February 16, 2015 02:37 - 19 minutesFederal Minister for Public Safety Steven Blaney. We play back my questions and his answers, as I twice asked him if it's fair that homeowners who are faced with a home invasion and the threat of, or the fact of physical violence are charged criminally if they are able to reach and use a legally owned firearm to defend themselves. The Minister said at one point "we live in a society that has rules and people have to live by those rules." As in, "don't use a legal firearm to defend yourself...
Roy Green - Sat Feb 14 - Al Jazeera
February 16, 2015 02:24 - 10 minutesHow does Al Jazeera react to bail for Canadian Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahdy? Also, Al Jazeera's reporting and reaction to Obama calling on Congress to support his plan to attack, degrade and destroy ISIS and Al Jazeera's coverage of the murder of the three young Muslims in a residential complex at the University of North Carolina. Guest: Abderrahim Foukara. Washington, D.C. bureau chief, Al Jazeera Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Roy Green - Sat Feb 14 - Minister Jason Kenney
February 16, 2015 02:17 - 28 minutesCanada's new National Minister of Defence is the public voice for what's going to arguably be the most high profile Ministry as the war on ISIS escalates and the fed gov sells Canadians on the need for Canada's continued and probably increased participation. Canada's JTF2 special forces engaged again in a firefight with ISIS. Guest: Jason Kenney. Minister of National Defence.Federal Court rules it is legal for a woman to swear citizenship while wearing a niqab o face veil. Th...
Roy Green - Sat Feb 14 - Weekly B&b Segment
February 16, 2015 02:15 - 20 minutesWeekly Beauties and the Beast segment. Catherine Swift, Linda Leatherdale and Michelle Simson. Michelle, the former Liberal MP is incensed Justin Trudeau has taken in Eve Adams as a Liberal MP, a sentiment expressed by more than a few Liberals. Is it more about Dimitri Soudas than Eve Adams? Soudas the former exec dir of the CPC. My point to Harper (on Twitter), "approach the more influential and angry former Liberal Senators turfed from the party by Trudeau and sign them up. But after ...
Roy Green - Sun Feb 8 - Brian Williams Story Continued
February 09, 2015 06:17 - 30 minutesBrian Williams continues to make headlines. The NBC News anchor has stepped aside from his anchor job for "a few days" (maybe for good?). Reports continue to circulate that NBC management asked Williams to stop telling his "stories" and Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times today "they were flummoxed over why the leading network anchor felt that he needed Henningwayesque, bullets-whizzing-by flourishes to puff himself up, sometimes to the point where it became a joke in the news divisio...
Roy Green - Sun Feb 8 - Yuri Felshtinsky
February 09, 2015 06:15 - 8 minutesUkraine. On the brink of war? As in is Russia on the brink of war with the West, with NATO? Something not entirely discounted by the former executive officer to General David Patreaus on yesterday's program. Guest: Yuri Felshtinsky. Historian and author of Blowing Up Russia (banned in Russia) and The Corporation (as in Putin's government). Felshtinsky's co-author of Blowing Up Russia was murdered by Russian secret police in London. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Roy Green - Sun Feb 8 - Making A Difference
February 09, 2015 06:14 - 19 minutesHis name is James Robertson. For years he walked the streets of Detroit alone, some 33km daily, to and from his $10.55 a hour job and no one knew or cared. Then James Robertson's story became synonymous with caring for this one man by people who knew only his story. He walked because his car had broken down and he couldn't afford a replacement, or insurance. A crowdfunding effort raised more than $300,000 for James Robertson, a car dealership presented him with his dream car, a Ford Tauru...
Roy Green - Sun Feb 8 - Sneaking Into Events
February 09, 2015 06:13 - 19 minutesOne week ago today it was Super Bowl 49! And while more than 100 million watched on TV, listened to radio broadcasts, two Irish fans just walked into the stadium in Arizona and wound up sitting in seats which would have cost $25,000. Apart from this being a messy story for security folks at the SB, it's a great story of "going for it"....(or is it)? Guest: Green. Personal stories of 'sneaking' into events. Habs games as a kid in the Forum in Montreal ....and great story f...
Roy Green - Sun Feb 8 - Crummy Jobs
February 09, 2015 06:12 - 19 minutesEvery teenager should be required to work a grubby job. And so they should because these jobs build character. Guest: Green solo. Crummy jobs I did. Maybe they built character, but mostly they put food on the table. Also heard university students openly bragging they would not take on farm labour jobs which were available. That was for the "migrant workers" they said. Instead the students were going to take advantage of social programs they were aware of. Learn more abo...
Roy Green - Sun Feb 8 - Mars One
February 09, 2015 06:11 - 19 minutesKaren Cumming is a former producer for the Green Show in Hamilton and Toronto. Karen is also an accomplished reporter/journalist who applied for an astronaut position on the Mars One mission. The Mars One goal is to establish a human settlement on Mars. Karen continues to move forward in the selection process and over the past year (since we last spoke with her on air) has been interviewed for a New York Times article, quoted in Popular Science and invited as a speaker at Moses Znaimer's Id...
Roy Green - Sat Feb 7 - Brian Williams Story
February 08, 2015 05:37 - 31 minutesNBC is investigating its nightly news anchor and claims he made about being aboard a helicopter shot down over Iraq. Williams has apologized and claims over 12 years he misremembered the flight he was on wasn't the flight forced out of the sky by RPG fire. Now Williams claims while reporting hurricane Katrina in New Orleans are also being skeptically viewed.Guest: Steve Liewer. Military reporter. Omaha World-Herald. Liewer was in Iraq in 2003 reporting for Stars and Stripes and embedded w...
Roy Green - Sat Feb 7 - Vaccinations
February 08, 2015 05:35 - 5 minutesThe concerns about an increase in the numbers of reported cases of measles. Has to do with the refusal by some parents to permit their children to be inoculated with the MMR vaccine. This still follows a 1990's study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield in the U.K. which claimed a link between MMR and autism in children. The study has officially been discredited, but still has supporters. Should vaccination be a legal requirement for all children? Guest: Dr. Jay Keystone. Infectious dis...
Roy Green - Sat Feb 7 - Assisted Death
February 08, 2015 05:35 - 38 minutesThe Supreme Court of Canada yesterday ruled unanimously patients suffering desperately have the right constitutionally to a physician-assisted death. a doctor-assisted death is constitutional for adults who consent to die under such circumstance and while under a physician's care. The patient must state he/she cannot tolerate the level of physical and/or psychological pain and suffering caused by an incurable illness, disease or disability. The SCC has given the government a year to present...
Roy Green - Sat Feb 7 - ISIS
February 08, 2015 05:33 - 19 minutesISIS committed an act of murderous barbarism against the Jordanian fighter pilot it captured and Jordan's King Abdullah promised to wage a massive counter to ISIS, to the extent his military is capable of carrying out. What about the rest of the world? Following a U.N. report which states ISIS is systematically killing, torturing and raping children and families of minority groups in Iraq, including mass executions of boys, as well as reported beheadings, crucifixions of children and burying...
Roy Green - Sat Feb 7 - B&b Segment
February 08, 2015 05:31 - 19 minutesWeekly B&B segment. Issues: What is this "Middle Class" politicians are clamouring about and claiming to defend and represent? Who makes up this middle class? Does the middle class need help? And... Canadians continue to pile up record debt (individual debt now totals more than $1.6 trillion), as do people around the world and national governments. According to the McKinsey Global Institute which looked at 47 countries. Canada is one of seven countries with "potential vulnerabilitie...
Roy Green - Sun Feb 1 - Joel Ifergan
February 02, 2015 06:24 - 19 minutesHis name is Joel Ifergan. He's a Montreal accountant who bought two quick-pick lottery tickets in 2008 and bought them before the 9pm deadline for that specific week's draw. Lotto Quebec machines take extra time to register a ticket and one of his tickets, which had all the correct numbers, was issued for the following week because the Lotto Quebec machine spewed it out 7 seconds after the 9pm deadline. Each court, including the Supreme Court of Canada (which refused to hear his case this ...
Roy Green - Sun Feb 1 - Are They 'just' Dogs
February 02, 2015 06:23 - 38 minutesEmma Paulsen of B.C. sentenced to six months in prison for the heat stroke deaths of six dogs in her truck, while under her care as a dog-walker. Paulsen was warned not to leave dogs in her truck. She dumped their bodies in a ditch, reported them stolen and only eventually was discovered to have been lying. Green tweet: "I have zero sympathy or empathy for Emma Paulsen" resulted in email response "Come on, Roy, they're only dogs." Also, April Dawn Irving had more than 2...
Roy Green - Sun Feb 1 - Johnnie Lee Savory
February 02, 2015 06:22 - 19 minutesJohnny Lee Savory was convicted of two murders when he was just 14 years of age in 1977. He spent close to 40 years in prison before having his sentence commuted 8 years ago and just a few weeks ago pardoned by outgoing Illinois Governor Pat Quinn. Savory wants to be exonerated in court by DNA evidence and is supported by the Illinois Center on Wrongful Convictions. Savory was tried twice. First conviction was overturned. Retried in 1981 and found guilty of double homicide. Two of three...
Roy Green - Sun Feb 1 - Super Bowl
February 02, 2015 06:21 - 19 minutesThe Super Bowl. the $$$ side of the game and cheating ....(Deflategate) and the atmosphere which encourages rule-bending long before players make it to the NFL. Players have skewed values. Mark Yost writes on the business of sport for the Wall Street Journal and Sports Illustrated and disagrees with the NFL's projection that the Super Bowl will bring $500 million into the local economy in Arizona. Says it will be much less. Speaks to 'wink, wink' attitude toward cheating.Also...the NBA A...
Roy Green - Sat Jan 31 - Anti - Terror Legislation
February 01, 2015 05:27 - 31 minutesWe live in a world where CCTV watches you in public places, where turning on your mobile phone locates and tracks you, where police routinely scan licence plates of vehicles on the road for possible outstanding warrants, but still tracking where you are driving.Is Stephen Harper and his government proving the Conservatives are the only political party capable of protecting Canadians from terrorists, or is this anti-terror bill just politics in an election year?GUEST:- Steven Blaney - Federal ...
Roy Green - Sat Jan 31 - Tim Hortons Firings
February 01, 2015 05:26 - 38 minutes350 head and regional office employees at Tim Hortons fired, three days after an internal letter to employees apologized for "stress" media reports of pending layoffs may have caused.CIBC fires 500 employees, Target Canada's closing of all its stores caused national job loss of more tan 17,000, Jones New York is closing its 36 Canadian stores. So what's going on, with Hortons and CIBC this week creating headline stories? Should corporations ever be concerned about a consumer backlash?GUESTS:-...
Roy Green - Sat Jan 31 - 'No Parole' Law
February 01, 2015 05:25 - 19 minutesThe federal government is to introduce legislation which will make parole from prison impossible for killers of on-duty police officers and prison guards, for anyone who kills during a sexual assault, for anyone who kills during a terrorist act or a kidnapping.How do two former Crown Attorneys see the 'no parole' law?GUESTS:- Scott Newark, Former Alberta Crown Attorney and former Executive Officer of the Canadian Police Association.- Jeff Manishern, Former Ontario Crown Attorney, now partner ...
Roy Green - Sat Jan 31 - B&b Segment
February 01, 2015 05:24 - 19 minutesTopics:Seattle Seahawks all-pro cornerback Richard Sherman's girlfriend many give birth to their first child during the Super Bowl. Should Sherman play in the Super Bowl or attend the birth of his son? The team is leaving the decision to Sherman. Much debate.Alberta Premier Jim Prentice and his cabinet ministers will take a 5% pay cut because of economic challenges in the province. MLA's will vote on whether they will follow suit next week and the public sector unions will be asked to joi...
Roy Green - Sun Jan 18 - The College 'education'
January 19, 2015 05:45 - 38 minutesU.S. high school graduates reading at grade 6/7 level. Math skills grade 8 level. Universities are accommodating this. Today's high school grads would be lost dealing with text books written in 1970. How are things in Canada? And how's this social promotion thing working out?Guests: Prof. Sandra Stotsky. Univ of Arkansas. "we are spending billions of dollars trying to send students to college and maintain them there when, on average, they read at about the grade 6 or 7 level. Remaissance Lear...