Earlier this year when Kaufman Development sold one of its “Gravity” apartment buildings in Franklinton, it was another canary-in-the-coal mine moment for a West Side activist. Just a month prior, the Columbus-based developer had sold the nearby Idea Foundry and Gravity Park Experience, which is best described as a playground for adults with its pickle ball courts.

“They are cheap-ass apartments from what we’ve seen at Gravity,” says Rebecca Hunley, a Franklinton homeowner and also the current chair of the Franklinton Area Neighbors Civic Association, an organization she founded. “Yet I don’t see anything telling me, or anybody from our neighborhood, we can move in. I have never paid a mortgage like what they are asking for rent. Gravity, the great flop that it is. It’s a failure.”

Why are so many Americans, especially young ones, depressed, bipolar, overweight, gender-stressed and "on the spectrum"?

Explanations range from endocrine disrupters, forever chemicals and plastics in the environment and food to electromagnetic fields from cell phones and microwaves to helicopter parents. That's before we get to Covid's forced 5-year social isolation and fetal and childhood exposure to prescription drugs. (For example, SSRI antidepressants contribute to bipolar diagnoses according to some research).

Our fabulous Poet Laureate MIMI GERMAN gives us her usual transcendent poem.

Singaporean native HEDY TRIPP talks of her father suffering through Japan’s Gulag & her decades of powerful No Nukes work ever since.

Noted film reviewer ED RAMPELL tells us of the powerful documentary “Atomic People” and its devastating impact on our view of the nuclear Bombings.

Radio host LYNN FEINERMAN questions the military calculations behind dropping those Bombs at all.

Network maven DAVID SALTMAN chimes in on the shocking availability of radioactive materials…& does a deep dive on the state of the modern news media.

All the above is followed by “America’s Mayor” HEIDI LAMPERT updates her battles for democracy in Waldport, Oregon.

Legendary co-host MIKE HERSH warns of the toxic power of the Big/Dark Money warping our elections.

Our erstwhile engineer STEVE CARUSO sticks it to both Columbia University & CBS for their lack of spine in standing up to dictatorship.

From Columbus, Ohio, we hear SANDY BOLZENIUS say she’s actually optimistic about the power of the people to fight back for democracy!