The Jim Gearhart Show

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Bag the bans? Let's ban the bags, right away Mar 11, 2020

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Jim Gearhart is wholly behind effort to ban single-use plastic bags in New Jersey. But he asks ... why wait 18 months? Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

We need more immigrants? How about we keep the people we have? Mar 04, 2020

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From 2010 through 2018, New Jersey lost about 443,000 due to outmigration, a Rutgers study finds. And it makes the case that without enough people moving in -- including immigrants -- our economy and way of life could be in rough shape. Jim Gearhart asks: Why don't we just try to keep those 443,000 people around? Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

Tax the millionaires? They're not going anywhere Feb 26, 2020

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Get ready for Gov. Phil Murphy to propose a millionaire's tax ... again. Opponents say it'll push job-makers and big taxpayers out of New Jersey, leaving the rest of us on the hook. But does the math really work out? Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

In defense of having kids impersonate slaves Feb 19, 2020

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A Toms River, New Jersey teacher came under fire this month for a lesson in which, according to some students, he had children impersonating slaves. Some said he made whip sounds and made students lay on the floor, pretending to be on a slave ship. But, Jim Gearhart asks ... what's so wrong with that? Watch Jim on Facebook Live : https://www.facebook.com/nj1015/videos/531074327760166/ Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

What kind of a 'sanctuary state' is this? Feb 12, 2020

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ICE recently rounded up more than 100 people in New Jersey who were suspected of being in the country illegally. The list included "everything but jaywalking and sabbath-breaking," Jim Gearhart says. Watch Jim on Facebook Live : https://nj1015.com/what-kind-of-a-sanctuary-state-is-this-opinion/ Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

There's a prize more valuable than the presidency Feb 05, 2020

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This week, the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate is almost surely going to vote to acquit President Donald Trump, closing out his impeachment trial. The vote will down party lines or awfully close to it. But, Jim Gearhart says in his weekly Facebook Live show and podcast, the real battle isn't for the presidency. It's for a position with much more lasting power. Watch Jim on Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/nj1015/videos/188329778915122/ Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

It was so cold in NJ ... but how cold was it? Feb 04, 2020

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First of all, an apology from those of us here at New Jersey 101.5. We're a bit belated in getting you this podcast edition of Jim Gearhart's Jan. 23 Facebook Live show. We were a little short-handed, and had an awfully busy week. But as they say, what's old is new again, with the unusually warm weather we've seen over the last few days getting pushed aside -- Dan Zarrow tells us we might even see a little wintry mix. So perhaps it's fitting that Jim Gearhart's partner in his weekly show, Bob Williams (who, like Jim, has been part of the New Jersey 101.5 family for nearly 30 years), told us on Jan. 23 ... just how cold it was. See Jim's full Facebook Live video here.

I get the vaccine debate. I also remember polio Jan 22, 2020

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Jim Gearhart has a lot of sympathy for parents worried about mandatory vaccines. Protesting parents managed to get the state Senate to punt on a bill that would have removed religious exemptions to vaccine requirements for public school students -- a get-out-of-shots card legislative leaders say was being abused by people with no real religious objections, at the potential peril of herd immunity that protects us all against dangerous diseases. Medical exemptions, for students with known health complications that prevent them from safely getting vaccines, would not have been affected by the bill. "There is something that goes against the grain with the government forcing anything on us," Jim says in this week's episode of his weekly Facebook Live show and podcast. Watch Jim on Facebook Live:https://www.facebook.com/nj1015/videos/816100255529645/ Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

You're worried about what's in vaccines? How about our food? Jan 14, 2020

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If you've been on the Internet this week -- heck, if you've listened to the radio, turned on the TV or even left the house this week -- you've heard a lot about vaccines. Protesting parents scored a major victory this week, convincing enough state senators not to support a bill that would have eliminated a religious exemption to the state's requirement all public school students be vaccinated. While Senate leaders say it's a necessary public health measure, upset parents say they want control over what goes in their children's bodies. Jim Gearhart sees a lot of sides of that debate, but he worries about something else we're putting in our bodies, much more often than vaccines -- processed foods. Watch Jim on Facebook Live:https://www.facebook.com/nj1015/videos/816100255529645/ Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

She called some Jews 'brutes.' Jim says she nothing wrong Jan 07, 2020

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If there's one thing that offends Jim Gearhart, it's how easily some people get offended. The Jersey City Board of Education is operating in the wake of two scandals. In one, its president has been accused of corruption by state officials. And in another, board member Joan Terrell-Paige has been roundly criticized for a Facebook group in which she referred to some religious Jews moving into the community as "brutes." See Jim's full episode on Facebook. Get the Jim Gearhart Show podcast on the New Jersey 101.5 app. ... iTunes https://goo.gl/hF855A ... and Google Play: https://goo.gl/7GnJzZ

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