And look who's here, Denise Lockwood, owner of Racine County, I, the, the daily planet
of Racine.
Good morning.
Great Caesars Coast.
It's Denise Lockwood.
I want Superman every day.
The TV series.
Yeah, I watch it every day.
I love it.
And Perry White, every time I see Perry White, I think that's Denise Lockwood sitting
at that desk.
I have to get out the bulldog edition of the daily.
You know, so that's a great metropolitan newspaper.
That's how they, it's a great, only three reporters, only three people there.
Jimmy Olson, Lois Lane and Clark Kit.
That's it.
I get it.
They put out a daily great metropolitan newspaper every day.
My, my dream has been fulfilled because now I now have more staff than the daily planet.
The daily planet.
Great Caesars Coast.
Okay.
Big year in news.
Very big year in news.
We were not for once of things to write about.
Let's talk about it.
Let's, let's see what you got here for this year so far.
Yeah.
So I think the biggest takeaway was what did the federal government?
What are making sense of a lot of, of change and how people were impacted?
I think you've got a lot of development and you know, you've got just, you've got the
snap benefits and, and who's on Medicaid and just a lot of change and how people responded
to it at the end of the day.
There was a government shutdown.
Who do I thought that would be happening?
For so long.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you've also got massive amounts of change.
So that, that was the big thing was change and a lot of it.
Is the big word for 2026 going to be insurance?
Yes.
Yes.
Very much so insurance.
Well, and just to kind of frame it out.
So we're seeing County and I like to, I'm a data girl, right?
So there are 38,000 people who are on Medicaid currently in Racine County.
Now, Medicaid is the state version.
It's badger care.
Right.
Yeah.
It's a state version of insurance.
You don't have to be a senior to get it.
Right.
Well, and actually of that 38,000 people, half of those people are children under the age of 18.
We take that, that remaining half, you slice it into thirds.
So third of that remaining half is are people who are elderly, people who are disabled,
and the other third are people who are of working age that, and of that little sliver
left of those people that are of working age, 75, 70% of those people are already working.
Yeah.
And we don't want to confuse those Medicare.
People who Medicaid, Medicare is different than Medicare.
Medicare is for people who are elderly.
It's a federal program.
Right.
Right.
You have to say elderly.
Yes.
Yes.
How about people over the age of 65?
65.
Yes.
I'm ahead of myself quite frankly.
Not everybody who's over 65 is elderly.
Yeah.
You know, I'll be the big five, six in a few weeks.
Oh, wow.
I know.
I know.
There it comes.
Wheelchairs, canes, and walkers are coming right in your, trying really hard not to have that.
I'll give you a walker for your birth.
Okay.
So that's going to be the big word insurance.
And people are starting to panic a little bit now.
Because January 1st, it can quadruple in what you're going to pay.
Right.
Well, and a lot of that is, you know, the credits, the ACA credits, which is the American Care Act credits are expiring.
That's what the big showdown was in the fall.
And so one of these things, the impacts of this are a lot of small business owners were on Badger Care, which is Medicaid.
But also, they were buying also from the marketplace.
And so that's going to impact Main Street.
You're going to have an impact on people going without health insurance.
And one of the things that's really interesting, Don Rosen, is I've noticed you've got two federally qualified health care centers that are going to be opening in 2026.
One is a partnership with an outfit out of Milwaukee.
And it's called outreach.
And it's out there opening on the ascension campus.
And then you also have pillar health.
The community center and health care center is opening in the Lincoln King neighborhood.
And those are federally qualified.
So if you don't have health insurance, there's actually going to be places for you to go, which I thought was really compelling.
It's like they knew this was coming.
Well, what happens when God forbid you need surgery?
Yeah.
I mean, that's going to be expensive.
Well, and I think the thing, if you are in a situation where you have to go to more of a high risk plan or need to go without health insurance, God forbid, you need to make sure you're taking very good care of yourself.
And I'm a big fan of that because I have congestive heart failure nose or it's other goodies.
Life dealt me, but pay attention to your health and wellness because I think that's going to be a big topic that we're going to be writing a lot about because we're seeing County I is focused on solutions based journalism.
So we are there in the fight for all of those things that we need to pay attention to with our bodies.
Well, something to a friend, he said, what did you do, you know, back when you were here with your parents have health insurance?
You didn't need it because the doctor, and this is long Island money here, we're talking about, it was $4 to visit the doctor.
These people are $4 out of your wallet, and that was the, and if you had medication, it was a buck and a half, two bucks to get.
You didn't need insurance to pay for this stuff, even the hospital stays weren't that expensive.
So insurance wasn't, you know, you're out of the doctor today.
It's a hundred bucks just to show your face of the door. And after that, they keep adding on getting on.
But for four bucks, I remember, and I think I may have mentioned this before, my mother took me to the doctor.
I was a little kid and the parents was screaming at the receptionist because they put up a sign said the visits will increase from $4 to $6 a visit.
That was a lot of money back then.
And it's active wise. Yeah.
Well, I wasn't born of the 1920s.
Anyway, it was an outrage how dare you charge $6 a visit.
Okay, so what are the, some of the, let's, uh, that's insurance. We're panicking enough about that.
Well, you had snap benefits.
Um, so snap benefits is, is how we feed people who are, uh, people who are not making enough money.
And one of the things I think that was really interesting in how this played out here locally, because that's my lens, um,
is you had a massive outpouring of people who said, oh, we don't want hungry people.
We want to make sure people get fed.
So I'm on the board for rotary and on Friday morning, we hosted, uh, the, the breakfast at our space in Bell City.
And, um, Stephanie Skilba, the, the head of the Racine County Food Bank was there.
So she was talking about the number of people they're serving is at a higher level.
Um, and so you, but she said that they're, they're making it work and, and being able to respond to that.
She said there were, they were feeding about 5,700 people every month.
And so there's about 197,000 people in Racine County.
So just to put that in perspective.
Let's see these police shows and they stopped somebody, especially a woman bothers me.
And I say, well, what's your address?
My address is this car, right?
I want to cry.
I mean, you live in your car.
She's, and they're like older women.
She said, I have nowhere to go.
I can't get a job.
My age, I don't have the skills for it.
I was married all my life.
My husband passed away.
And now I don't have anything.
I live in my car.
My clothes were in the back seat.
And I, you know, wash up at gas stations and convenience stores.
And don't you want to cry when you hear something like that?
I turned to journalism.
So I want to make sure that people understand what's at work here.
And so yes, do I want to cry?
Yes, I do because I'm, I'm human being first journalist second.
But at the end of the day, I also want to make sure that people are aware.
So of these community conversations,
because oftentimes we hear about these federal policies
and we don't understand how they impact us.
Okay.
So just to kind of frame out a couple of different buckets of story
that we are very much in the thick of it is how are people going to be okay
and be fed and work and things along that line,
especially with a lot of manufacturing companies
that are specifically focused on producing things
that are made out of steel.
They're still getting, they're having issues logistically
with getting steel.
And I'm hearing about a couple of companies in, in Racine
that are laying people off because they can't get the steel.
And so that's creating some other pressure as well
with, we're paying attention to the unemployment rate,
we're also paying attention to places like Halo
and Hospitality Center, Hospitality Center.
We just wrote a story last week about how they want to move
about a black and a half.
And that's getting some pushback from the city that says.
North or South, they want to move.
Just South, they want to go to the old YWCA.
Oh yeah, okay.
And so that particular space is an old,
an former, formerly a church.
And so the, the folks at Hospitality Center are saying,
well, it's already zoned for faith-based support
for community services.
Is that going right across from the courthouse?
Yes.
My wife was just there for a Christmas show last year.
Well, actually, that's first, you might be talking
about First Presbyterian, which is right next door.
It's the old YWCA.
Okay, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right, right.
Yeah.
Denise Lockwood, founder of Racine County,
I joining me this morning talking about the year
in review, what's coming up, what's been happening.
Development.
Now, we're going to talk about that.
I want to talk about that, that big thing that's going on there
in the Mount Pleasant that started years ago.
And it's got nowhere.
I mean, it did pivoted.
It pivoted.
I know, but it didn't dance.
That was supposed to be the God savior.
Billions and billions of jobs coming in.
And all we got was that round little dome.
Okay, so I'm the nerd who reads all the developers agreements.
And the construction permit, all of that kind of stuff.
So there are some that did happen.
The globe happened.
Some warehouses happened, but it wasn't what they said.
It was definitely was not what was said.
So I just always want to qualify because I'm a reality girl, right?
And so at the end of the day, Microsoft purchased that,
a good chunk of that property they've been building.
They paused in the beginning of the year.
And then they reset.
And now they're gangbusters in building the data center.
I know personally of a lot of people who are now hired by Microsoft.
And they are actually looking at several other sites for new data centers.
And there was one that was proposed in Caledonia, but that didn't fly.
And you know what?
I think the biggest thread when I look back at 2025 is the truth telling
and how people are very keyed in to understanding how things impact them.
So it's been a very interesting newsier from that perspective
as well we shifted from politics to in 2024.
But now we are focused on the policy of what does it mean to us?
And then 2026, we're going to see the reality of these policies come into play
and see what does this really mean to me at the end of the day.
But Microsoft, we got more grocery stores.
We got woodmins.
And now we're going to get a Myers.
And you've got just a lot.
There is a ownership change of festival foods.
A lot of grocery stores.
Yeah, that's now that got because festival foods was constant owned.
Right.
Now it's not anymore.
And don't ask me who bought it because I, I, I, I,
do very deep in the Denise filing cabinet.
Yeah, but it's not a Wisconsin company now.
No, it's festival foods.
Good, good foods.
I love their deli.
I mean, it's really a nice well-run chain of food stores.
I just hope it remains that well-run chain of food stores.
Me too.
You never know.
They get that big shopping card in the Fourth of July parade every year.
Well, and then you've got like a commitment now from Foxconn to do more AI.
Is Foxconn still involved in anything here?
Yes, they are.
Yes, they are.
Well, they're not super media accessible.
That is one thing that when they came on to the stage of Wisconsin,
they are, they are not very media accessible.
But also one of the things, so you have to understand what Foxconn is.
And it'll make sense.
So Foxconn is an electronics contract manufacturer.
So they don't actually dream it, design it, do it.
They're the do it, people.
So the phones that we have, the TV screens, they make the stuff, right?
And they contract with different, different companies to do that.
They bought the bank building, the BMO bank being on the street.
They did.
And the bottom floor was being renovated to be a welcome center.
That was two and a half years ago.
You know what's still there now?
Wood.
And the solar horses, you know that that's never happened.
Two and a half years, all those great plans and out the window.
And that kind of speaks to the trust issues that we have when these developments come.
Remember Scott Walker was governor Walker was digging the hole with Donald Trump.
The eighth wonder of the world.
Foxconn.
Yeah.
Where is it now?
Well, and that is going to be something we're going to follow extensively.
See, they got you on their table.
Like a pit bull.
I'm not letting go.
Like a little chihuahua.
We're not letting go.
I'm a nice one.
I'm a nice one.
You're a little chihuahua.
I'm your favorite pain.
You're hanging out to that pants leg and you won't let go.
Yeah.
So this is supposed to be the savior now with these jobs that we're talking about.
I don't look okay.
So I.
Let's.
Let's try to kind of zoom out because these data centers are not employment heavy facilities.
We're talking maybe a couple hundred people.
However, what it does do is it's going to shift.
You've got a massive investment from Microsoft into the data AI economy.
And we have to, and I'm going to underscore this, have to pay attention to this shift.
And here's why is the.
We're seeing county when you look at demographics of education.
In the city of receiving one out of every six people doesn't have a GED.
Okay.
This is a massive problem.
And when we talk about the economic viability of how people attain jobs and be able to pivot,
that's going to be an issue.
And Microsoft knows this.
Right.
So that's one of the reasons why you're seeing a lot of investment in Parkside and Gateway.
And you've got this conversation and also a development of AI tools and apps is a big thing right now.
In fact, I don't know if I'm ready to say that because that's not an official thing.
But you're going to see a lot more investment.
I think with Microsoft.
I do wish AI was around when you went to school.
No, I wouldn't have thought.
You know, I remember going to the library, the copy out of the encyclopedia Britannica.
Because the encyclopedias we had were from 1939.
And you know, World War II hadn't started yet.
My mother said, well, you're going to encyclopedia.
You see, yes, but they never heard of World War.
It was the great war.
No, we did not have encyclopedias.
However, I, I friended my friend to next door.
She had encyclopedias.
So I slept over to her house specifically so that I could.
Well, my mother got a little golden book in encyclopedias.
That doesn't go over well when you're in high school.
So I had one teacher that said to me, you can copy out of the encyclopedia.
But you better footnote it at the bottom of the page where you got that paragraph from.
And then it's okay.
Right.
Attribution.
Yeah, but it better not be all from the encyclopedia.
But if you take a paragraph out, let me know where you got it from.
And there's no problem.
Today, I don't, how can they tell if you're writing and getting an AI or a chat.
There's tools.
There are tools for that.
However, I want to, this is one of the things that I also want.
Well, that thought.
Okay.
We're going to talk about cheating in school.
To remember that thought.
The knee slot.
Not that you did.
Okay.
Other people.
The knee slot would founder of Racine County.
I is here this morning.
So I'm going to zoom out just a little bit and then kind of circle back.
On why local news is really important right now because.
Hey, I, I don't think people are aware of this.
So at the national level, you've got all of these news websites.
And they all get the same press releases or executive orders.
And they write about a lot of the same things, right?
They might have a little different nuance or a little different take.
But that's what they do.
And AI has kind of hijacked a lot of that audience.
And so a lot of these news websites at the national level are seeing a big impact in their audiences disintegrating.
And so with local news, we don't have a lot of people that are doing the same things we are.
Because they may not have, you know, 20 people that are going to go to the municipal government and county government.
And so AI doesn't impact us as much as it does at the national level.
So I see a big impact on from AI on the news, which is one of the reasons why Racine County.
I is focused on more community engagement and really trying to kind of get people to talk to each other and noodle things out and ask bigger, better questions, right?
So we're doing this in a couple of different ways where we've got some things called made in Racine, which is an event that a monthly event that we're going to start back up in February about history and things, civic engagement and pride, right?
And how we dealt with things and how we're dealing with things and where we're going.
And so that's one of the things that we're really focused on for 2026.
The other thing they elephant in the middle of the room is they have midterm elections, right?
But you also have the local elections and we really need to pay attention to these beat that drum pretty consistently.
And the reason why is because as these federal policies take root and filter down from the faith feds to the state, to the counties, to local governments,
you're going to have a lot of pressure on the importance and relevance of how we deal with problems.
Now, I do not care how people vote.
What I do care about is that we have really strong understanding of what our community purpose and political will is in policy making and that's an entirely different lens, right?
So why we are doing a lot of these in-person conversations is a to really talk to people about what's important to them, what their challenges, their successes, what do they see as a successful community,
and really driving threading that through our decision making when we talk about what stories to write.
So that's why local news is where we need to be right now.
And you know, and we're very lucky to have seen county guy in this station because nobody does local news anymore.
It's so expensive.
It is hard.
It's expensive. You're going to have real news people in there who know how to write a story, who know how to get a story, know what's important and funds it and funds it.
So it cost me about a half a million dollars.
Yeah.
When I first got started the radio, we had a six full time newscasters in our radio station, plus we belong to the Long Island Radio Network.
They had about six and it was everything was based on local news.
Now you have the new big New York city stations doing that. There's news, but on Long Island, we were it.
Right.
Nobody else did local news.
And so that's how we became what we are.
And I think that's why WRJ and still around for 99 years, because we still do local news and like we do it now where you know we're talking.
Community conversations are so important.
And one of the things that like even even at the the federal level on those races that are pertaining to like the first congressional district and the state levels races.
You're going to have some pretty interesting pieces and one of the things that we're watching right now is the filing of papers at the state level with like Robin Voss and Van one guard.
Are they going to run again?
We had one of the people running against Van one guard in here.
Trevor.
Yeah.
He was in here.
And I say, well, who's your opponent said nobody yet?
Yeah.
Nobody filed yet to run it, you know, for that for the office.
And that's a lot of institutional knowledge to lose.
You know, we have really received county has benefited from having that influence that that because Robin is the speaker of the house.
Right.
So he he tends to set the tone for a lot of policy making that Republicans do.
And so you can love or hate whatever that is, but that's the reality is is that Racine County has enjoyed that that influence in state.
We get a major of the governor right now running again.
Right.
So we we had one of the candidates in the building.
He wasn't on this station. He was on our other station in the building WAUK.
But I mean, that's a big job.
The governor's coming up.
And if you have Republican assembly and you know, state senate and you have a Democratic governor, nothing's going to get done.
It just doesn't.
And if you have the opposite way, nothing's going to get done.
So I don't know what's going to happen with that.
It's going to be interesting.
That's all.
And they just found they just found one of the judges guilty the other day.
That was that that was in Milwaukee County.
Yeah.
Great.
Judge Dugan.
Yeah.
And the there's going to be some some really interesting conversations about how.
The other big thing that the state legislation, the Democrats just proposed doing away with property taxes.
Well, that just paid my property tax bill.
I don't know that that's going to fly.
Like I seriously have some questions about what that.
But I think there's a plan to pay for fire police garbage collection road constructs on the on the rich.
Okay.
That's fine.
I don't have a problem.
I mean, I mean, there's I think one of the things that we need to start really asking is some of these fundamental questions of who pays for insurance?
Who pays for health care?
Who pays for because the who the question of who pays for insurance and who pays for health care are two very different questions.
Well, how do all the other countries in the world deal with Canada pays for and how do they pay for it?
But that's such a fundamental piece.
But one of the things that I am and I want to kind of give some some light at the end of the tunnel because I see some really good community conversations around these federally qualified health care centers.
That's going to make a huge difference because instead of paying $150 a visit, it's going to be anywhere from like five to $40 a visit.
So that has a huge impact on somebody's health and well-being that if you don't have insurance, where do you go?
And the but we need to be aware of it.
We need to really keep that mindset that we need to keep to keep taking care of ourselves, right?
But it's hard.
Now, I want to tell people you do not get your news from Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat.
You don't get you that's not where you get your news from.
That's where you might get opinion from, but you don't get news from those sources because I talk to people.
Listen, I get them from Facebook.
You don't get news from Facebook.
You get opinion from Facebook.
That's what you get people's opinions.
You get reactions.
Yeah, get reactions to the stories and people claim facts in there that just aren't true.
Well, another thing is.
And you can't argue with them because you know.
Well, Facebook also deprecated the news.
So that what that means at the end of the day is instead of your newsfeed being the nursing county I stories.
It's it's gone. That news tab is gone.
We have a comedian.
We run here Brian Regan.
He says something amazing happened today.
Somebody actually changed a mind of somebody on social media.
Wow.
There were arguments.
Wow.
I see your point.
I am now officially changed.
Denise Lockwood joining me now.
She is from Racine County.
I just been here for a while and now we're going to wrap it up with a few discussions.
Join or die.
What is that about?
So the at the Golden Rendell a few months ago.
There was a community event in it.
They showed parts of a documentary called Join or Die.
And it was based on the research by a fellow.
And I'm going to watch this and I apologize because I have not had coffee at this morning.
Don Rosen.
It was based on the work of a fellow that had written a book called Bowling for One.
And it's funny because Robin Voss and I were talking.
And he actually recommended that book to me.
And that's definitely on my Christmas list.
So Mr. Janice needs to buy me that book.
Anyway.
So.
So it's the concept of why we are so at odds with each other.
And it was really the whole entire theater at the Golden Rendell was packed.
Okay.
And there was a lot of groups that were represented there.
One of them was a group that I belong to, which is Rotary.
Okay.
And it's a lot of how disconnected we really are versus what we think we are on social media.
And there's a big movement that's taking place in Racine County to really encourage us more civic engagement, community conversation,
and knowing your neighbors, you know, things along that line.
And so Rotary is really stepping up.
And we're going to have an expo at the end of January to really connect people with volunteer opportunities.
And to show up and solve the problem because at the end of the day, we do not get the community.
We want if we stay hunkered down on just social media, right?
We may tell ourselves that, but it's not the truth.
And there's a lot of data around that of how connected we are through local news, through actively participating in community discussions,
which is why Racine County is also kind of setting the table for more of that to happen in our brand new space.
And so I think that's really important as we think about 2026 of how we navigate politics and policy and purpose.
And you can tell I'm a deep thinker.
These are the things that like keep me up at night.
Even without coffee.
I know, even without coffee.
You know what really breaks my heart?
What the people I was talking to at our church and stuff.
Their biggest disappointment is having to meet with families this holiday season because politics just huge.
They tore the families apart.
I said, well, there were three things you can't discuss in mixed company, the holiday party.
You can't discuss religion, politics, and the amount of Christmas music to play on the radio because nobody will agree on it.
If you look at violent about those three topics.
Gotcha.
Throw on hand on Christmas music.
One of the guys was telling me he just dreads having to meet with a family because he's got the half the Trump people and the Democratic people.
And they fight.
And you can't.
I said the way the best way to get out of it I read was just say, huh, interesting point.
By the way, how's that job new job going?
Change the topic.
Yeah, give it out of that topic.
Yeah.
And it's very difficult because people get so rabid when you start discussing politics and he shouldn't do it at a holiday party, family party.
Right.
Because you tear in the family apart.
Right.
And you know, there's there's a lot of opportunity, I think, though, to have that shared knowledge be the rock that we kind of cling to.
And when I say shared knowledge, I'm not saying you like the pain that people are going through because the there's a lot of struggle that's going to happen.
And it's going to be over the next like year.
As we see what happens with specifically health care and access to food that we can afford.
Access to food that a lot of a lot of food desert, we don't understand the impact that that has not only on our health and wellness, but also in our capacity to learn.
Right.
And we're going to pull another subject for another show.
But when we are not seeing each other's struggles, the humanity of where we are.
And looking through the lens.
So here's an example of what I oftentimes see on my Facebook pages is that, oh, well, people don't want to work.
And somebody might be working two, three jobs, just trying to stay afloat or they're saying, wait.
If I've got two kids that's, you know, two to three thousand dollars a month out of a paycheck that I'm not getting that to pay off.
So I'm going to choose to not be part of the workforce and not seeing the whole picture.
And I want to encourage people to do that, especially as we get together over the next week or so and seeing the humanity of of where we're at.
So that's my love and peace kind of message.
Look up at Racine County.
I beg you for you huge because you moved into new digs.
And it looks beautiful.
You have not been by yet.
No, I get lost in that little area there.
And I have a friend of mine who works in the coffee shop there.
Inclusive being.
Inclusive being.
Yeah, if somebody works there.
One of my favorite places.
And I've been there before.
There was an art place there.
We went to once.
And so I've seen I'm not that far away from it either.
I should stop by and see the new digs and you hired more people too.
Yeah, we did.
We did.
Yeah.
This will be the daily planet before you know it.
You more of reports are daily planet, right?
Right.
So more.
So what's in news?
What's in store for the.
Racine County.
I.
Okay.
So.
Okay.
This is the Denise dream for for next year is I want to hire two more reporters.
But we have to make money to do that.
So we're going to be doing a lot more fundraising.
But I want to hire a government accountability reporter.
I want to hire a business and tech reporter to really dig into how we're using AI.
How we're using AI in education and policy making around that.
So those are the Denise dreams.
So.
But we also have slated.
We're probably about nine years ago.
We did a video series called black men speak.
And we're going to bring that back.
But it's going to be re kind of imagined.
We're going to call it black Racine speaks.
And the reason why is because as federal policy shifts.
And we defund a lot of the the divide diversity equity and inclusion programming.
I want to give.
I think it's really important that we.
I think it's really important.
And I think that's really important as we connect through story.
And so art howl.
Shut out to the retired police chief said to me, you need to bring this back.
And when he talks, I listen.
Are we supposed to be afraid of AI or supposed to embrace AI or just keep our eye on it?
I think it's all of the above.
I think you have to be really focused on critical thinking in AI.
And it's only as good as the question you ask it.
No, when I go to Google now and ask a question, the AI thing pops up.
That's what I was talking about.
And I got news for you.
I love it.
Of course.
It gives me.
I give it to the most minor information.
Like last night I was I couldn't think of this song.
I said, British singer shot a video with the Beatles.
And they came up with the song.
Alan Shapiro.
Right.
And I said, the most limited information.
And it's, oh, here's this one.
And if you if you if you do the same with a news topic, it avoids my website of which I.
Why?
Because it doesn't take traffic to my website.
So that's how I monetize my site is by gathering audience.
Right?
That's what I do.
And so the way that we fund journalism also has to shift.
Which is one of the reasons why we will still not be behind a paywall.
But if you are so inclined to support local journalism, now is your time, friends.
And so I think you've got got some challenges that we need to acknowledge that.
This is going to change things much like a lot of other types of technology has.
But we also know how to do that change, but we have to be prepared for it.
Right.
So that's why we're going to do a lot of stories around education and AI.
And so if you are so inclined to fund my work, our work.
This is one of those moments where we really do need you to step up and pay for journalism.
Thanks for coming in for the hour.
Thanks for having me for.
I love having you here.
I am so grateful for this relationship in the in the partnership that we have with WRJN.
Yeah, when Stuart gives a headline story or a small story, he always says dig deeper.
And we're seeing County.
I love it.
And I'm going to give the website.
Recene County I UIE dot com.
