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Mar 6, 2020 • 59min

Markets Meet the Coronavirus

Reuters Money editor Lauren Young on how the coronavirus outbreak is coursing through the global economy and markets.
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Feb 28, 2020 • 59min

From Big Tobacco to Big Nicotine

UVA history professor Sarah Milov (The Cigarette: A Political History) and pediatrician Dr. Danny Avula, director of Richmond's health department, on the public-health and policy implications of Big Tobacco's pivot to vaping, heat-not-burn and other newfangled nicotine-delivery devices.
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Feb 13, 2020 • 59min

A Figure of Hope

Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton has been fighting the odds ever since he was adopted as a newborn. Now in his 60s, he has fought cancer and dedicated his life to helping others struggling with illness and loss. As an author. Businessman. Advocate. Philanthropist.
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Feb 7, 2020 • 59min

The Battle of Navy Hill

VPM city hall reporter Roberto Roldan and Richmond For All's Chelsea Higgs Wise on how an ambitious public-private plan to replace Richmond's decrepit Coliseum both divided and united the city.
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Jan 30, 2020 • 59min

The Journey of Jorge Valdes

A poor Cuban immigrant's journey from honors student and star at the Federal Reserve Bank of Miami to obscene wealth with the Medellin cocaine cartel; to torture and federal prison; to a PhD and book publishing.
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Jan 24, 2020 • 59min

Making BizSense of It All

Richmond BizSense editor Michael Schwartz on scaling the digital journalism upstart; the Navy Hill debate; #RVADine; donuts; Scotts Addition; Manchester; Publix and much more.
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Jan 17, 2020 • 59min

The Reinvention of Mike Ledesma

Quits the grind of brokerage life; goes surfing in Hawaii; aces culinary school; washes dishes; busts tail at various restaurants in Honolulu, Baltimore, West Virginia and Richmond -- working up to opening his very own, Perch, in the ruins of an ancient Chinese restaurant. How Chef Mike Ledesma hustled.
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Jan 10, 2020 • 59min

Stoney's Points

Richmond, VA mayor Levar Stoney on his 2020 agenda. We discussed Monument Avenue, Navy Hill, schools, poverty, housing and the state of the Democrats in Virginia -- and nationally, into the presidential election.
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Dec 19, 2019 • 59min

In Studio with Silversun Pickups

The evolution of Silversun Pickups, the LA band that went from gigging for lunch money to registering 10 Top 20 hits on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart -- on top of selling over a million records in the US. Founding members Brian and Nikki perform an acoustic set at RVA's RainMaker Studios. Footage to come...
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Dec 11, 2019 • 59min

The Life of Chika

Bestselling author Mitch Albom on his latest, Finding Chika: A Little Girl, An Earthquake and the Making of a Family -- which documents his life-changing experience as guardian for a sick orphan from Haiti.

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