The Abe and Joe Talk Radio Show

Joe Uris hosts a discussion of BPA and a lack of regulation in the U.S.Bisphenol A (BPA) is an industrial chemical that has been present in many hard plastic bottles and metal-based food and beverage cans since the 1960s.BPA exhibits hormone-like properties at high dosage l... Read more

It seems that American and Canadian oil companies are producing more crude than their exissting pipeline network can carry. The answer, in the short term, has been to ship the oil by rail. The Vancouver, Wash. port commission last week cleared the way for the construction o... Read more

In America, it seems, one can gun down a fellow citizen if one feels threatened. Or if one thinks the fellow citizen is a tad bit dark-skinned to be in one's neighborhood. Or carrying some dime-store candy.Trayvon Martin's death at the hands of George Zimmerman was an entir... Read more

Host Joe Uris talks about the science fiction world of his childhood and the reality of today. It's about how it all came true and how awful it really is. Read more

Blowing the whistle on abuses of power used to be a laudable act, a hallmark of transparent democracy and a sign of a society's commitment to civil liberties and the rule of law. Not any more. Abe and Joe discuss Edward Snowden and the modern American surveillance state. Read more

Scott Fernandez joins Abe and Joe to discuss the city's plan to cover its open-air reservoirs. Read more

Abe returns having just experienced a major life event that included a brush with the modern American health care system. Tune in to hear he and Joe discuss the present and future of health care for Americans of all stripes. Read more

Host Joe Uris leads a discussion of the incredible story of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden and the leaking of top-secret documents disclosing extensive U.S. surveillance of telephone calls and Internet communications.  Read more

Joe Uris hosts a discussion of the cost of living, Social Security and the shafting of the old and poor. Read more

Alaska's proposed Pebble Mine is a textbook case of ecological health vs. economic gain. A rich vein of porphyry copper, gold, and molybdenum lies beneath Soutwest Alaska, and a multinational mining corporation wants to dig a hole two miles wide to get at it. Problem is, th... Read more