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Please join Krista Kafer, sitting in for Ross Kaminsky on this week’s Backbone Radio. We have a full lineup of fascinating guests and intriguing topics.

We’ll talk with Dr. Wayne Brough, the Vice President for Research and Chief Economist at FreedomWorks about the impact of collective bargaining by state employees on state budgets and taxpayers’ pocketbooks.

Ben DeGrow of the Independence Institute will talk to us about the labor scene here in Colorado and in particular the teacher union’s power and influence.

Charcie Russell and Pam Mazanec of the Great Choice Douglas County foundation, no strangers to union obstruction of good ideas, will speak about the Douglas County’s innovative school choice proposal.

An analyst at the Health Care Compact Alliance will fill us in about state health care compacts. With the pernicious costs of Obamacare to health care freedoms looming on the horizon, will state compacts provide a way out?  We’ll get the details.

In between hearing from these experts, we’ll find some time to talk about turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa, the perils of mounting US government debt, and my take on the sure-to-be-exciting Leadership Program of the Rockies annual retreat.

Please join us by listening to (and calling in to) this week’s Backbone Radio program from 5 PM to 8 PM on 710 AM KNUS in Denver and 1460 AM KZNT in Colorado Springs.

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