Frank Martz, who used to play with the Baltimore Orioles, is now the manager of Altamonte Springs, Florida. He and his team have led the city to international recognition for innovation, while maintaining one of Florida’s lowest tax rates, low utility costs, and more...
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One man’s inspiring trajectory from the Children’s Crusade to university presidency
Freeman A. Hrabowski, III's life trajectory, from his participation in the Children's Crusade in Birmingham, Alabama, in May 1963, and jailing, to the presidency of the University of Maryland, Baltimore Country, is extraordinary and inspiring. Host Llewellyn King and...
U.S. health economics
Thomas Campanella, a healthcare economist, says, "Our healthcare system is shaped by what you pay for and how you pay for it." At present, it is in terrible shape. How can this system become healthy? Campanella talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton...
Lisa Countryman-Quiroz talks about the current U.S. jobs slump, and how the organization she heads, JVS Bay Area, helps job seekers, from those just starting out to those starting over after a layoff. Llewellyn King and Adam Clayton Powell III co-host.
White House Chronicle: A European tech entrepreneur and longtime China resident tells the story of China’s dynamism
Topic: Trump and Putin; reclaiming the American Dream, and keeping the republic Summary: Hedrick Smith is a journalist in full: a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor, an Emmy award-winning producer/correspondent, and a best-selling author. Returning to "White...
White House Chronicle – Dir. of Research – Senior Scientist at Tall Timbers J. Morgan Varner – Benefits of Prescribed Burning – Aug 24 2025
The threat from wildfire is growing and prescribed burning -- the controlled application of fire to a specific area of land to achieve defined management objectives -- is an important and traditional tool for maintaining healthy ecosystems and reducing wildfire risks....
White House Chronicle – Crucial role of weather forecasting for electric utilities
Weather forecasting is crucial for utility companies, impacting everything from demand forecasting to storm readiness and renewable energy integration. David Naylor, who heads Rayburn Electric Cooperative, which serves the Dallas metroplex, and Hansi Singh, a...
White House Chronicle – Jeffrey Cole – AI – Is Superintelligence At Hand – Aug 14 2025
The consensus among AI savants is that 2027 will be a key year -- a year in which AI achieves some degree of "sentience": It won't want to be shut down, for example. The HAL scenario, in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" is coming. But Jeffrey Cole, director of the USC...
White House Chronicle – The Essentiality of Batteries- Aug 8 2025
Batteries are powering our future, from electric vehicles to data centers. There is a growing need for energy storage, and there are advances in battery technology. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss the "essentiality" of batteries with...
White House Chronicle – Harvey Castro – Exciting Potential of AI In Healthcare – Aug 2 2025
Harvey Castro is an emergency room doctor whose fascination with the potential of AI in healthcare led him to be an early adopter of the technology and a proponent through TEDx Talks and books, including the just-released "Critical Healthcare Infrastructure: :...
White House Chronicle – A Way Forward for Public broadcasting- July 25 2025
Public broadcasting "isn't going away" with the Trump cuts, Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III says reassuringly in this week's episode. Powell, who held managerial posts at NPR, PBS and CBS, and Host Llewellyn King take a look back at public broadcasting and offer a way...
White House Chronicle – David Naylor – Forecasting for Electric Utilities – July 19 2025
Weather forecasting is crucial for utility companies, impacting everything from demand forecasting to storm readiness and renewable energy integration. David Naylor, who heads Rayburn Electric Cooperative, which serves the Dallas metroplex, and Hansi Singh, a...
White House Chronicle – The betting heats up on a fusion-powered future – July 12 2025
The betting on a fusion-powered future is heating up with Google's deal to purchase 200 megawatts of power from Commonwealth Fusion Systems planned fusion power plant in Chesterfield County, Virginia. Rick Needham, chief commercial officer of Commonwealth Fusion...
White House Chronicle – Dr. Harvey Castro – The Exciting Potential of AI in Healthcare – July 4 2025
Harvey Castro is an emergency room doctor whose fascination with the potential of AI in healthcare led him to be an early adopter of the technology and a proponent through TEDx Talks, and books, including the just-released "Critical Healthcare Infrastructure:...
White House Chronicle – CEO and Co-founder Kevin Wolf – Wind Harvest – June 28 2025
Wind Harvest, a Davis, California-based company, has a technology (which actually dates back to the ancient Persians) that can capture the turbulent wind that flows nearer to the ground between ridges. The company's CEO, Kevin Wolf, talks with Host Llewellyn King and...
White House Chronicle – Blue Origin NS-32 crew member Jaime Aleman – This Traveling Life – June 6 2025
Jaime Alemán is a lawyer, a businessman, and a former Panamanian ambassador to the United States, but mostly he wants to be known as an adventurer. Recently, was part of the Blue Origin NS-32 crew and he talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell...
White House Chronicle – Author podcaster and former CBS News correspondent Dan Raviv – Journalists Life In Full – May 22 2025
Dan Raviv, author, podcaster, and a former CBS News correspondent talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III (who was a CBS News colleague), about his new book, his podcasts, and broadcast journalism in the time of social media.
White House Chronicle – Lawyer Roland Trope – Risks and Challenges of Generative AI – May 1 2025
Roland Trope, partner in the New York City offices of Trope and Schramm LLP, has concerns about Apple's asking users to opt-in for their emails to be sampled for training its generative AI model, Apple Intelligence. Trope, who has taught at the United States Military...
White House Chronicle – Pioneers in Cancer Treatment and Therapies for Age-related Diseases – May 2 2025
Imagine a new cancer treatment that also can make people younger. Then imagine therapies that can slow, halt or even reverse age-related disease progression in humans and animals. Dr. Jason R. Williams. founder of the Williams Cancer Institute, and R. Rex Parris,...
White House Chronicle – A Way Forward for Public Broadcasting – May 8 2025
In this episode, Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III dug into their broadcasting pasts -- including BBC, ITN, CBS, PBS and NPR -- to offer a way forward for public broadcasting, after President Trump targets funding.
White House Chronicle – AIs Potential In the Electricity Sector – May 24 2025
AI is fast becoming the essential technology in the electricity sector for cybersecurity, weather prediction, wildfire vulnerability assessment, grid risk reduction and other things. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III discuss AI's potential in the...
White House Chronicle – Lee Rainie – Our Even-closer Encounters of the AI Kind – June 21 2025
Lee Rainie, an author, a former Pew researcher and now the head of Elon University's Center for Imagining the Digital Future, discusses the findings -- many quite surprising -- from a recent Elon survey on the adoption of AI and its impacts. Llewellyn King and Adam...
White House Chronicle – Preserving Freedom to Write – Countering Disinformation – Tim Richardson – June 14 2025
Americans treasure their freedom of expression. But at this time, that jewel of our society is losing its glimmer -- as is the truth -- at a rapid rate. PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect freedom of expression in America...
White House Chronicle – Kevin Koym – Entrepreneur Helps Global Innovators Create Positive Impact – April 18 2025
Austin entrepreneur Kevin Koym began his career with Steve Jobs at NeXT. Now, as CEO and Founder of Tech Ranch Austin, Koym is on a mission to support pioneering entrepreneurs in Mexico and other countries to gain access to the markets, resources, and relationships so...