Rich Galen joins Jim Blasingame to report on some of the issues created by a government shutdown – who doesn’t get paid – and if this drags on, who gets the blame.

Rich Galen joins Jim Blasingame to report on the many investigations going on in Washington, the ugly politics, lack of leadership/statesmanship being demonstrated.

Rich Galen joins Jim Blasingame to remind that history in mid-term elections is not on the side of White House occupants, and to predict that the GOP will likely lose the majority in the house, but not the Senate.

Mike Brosig joins Jim Blasingame to offer advice to employees on how to behave if they find out the company they work for might be sold.

Mike Brosig joins Jim Blasingame to offer advice to employers on how to help employees continue to do their jobs during the period of transition when a business is being sold.

John Swanciger joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the process that Amazon is going to through to find the location of their 2nd headquarters, and why some locations are more likely than others.

John Swanciger joins Jim Blasingame to report on the likely location of the new Amazon headquarters, as well as what their new “cashier-less” stores will look like.

John Swanciger joins Jim Blasingame to on how Amazon is filling the vacuum left by the retreating legacy retailers with actual stores, which is shrinking the grace period for Main Street retailers to claim their turf.