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Is It a Law? Taken from today's CITY SQUARE-03-30-16

Is it against the law to fish with your hands in Kansas?  Or walk barefoot in Texas without a $5 permit?  Take the IS IT A LAW challenge in our weekly public policy show THE CITY SQUARE along with our guest this week, Orange County's elected Auditor-Controller Eric Woolery as he sharpens his pencil and breezes thru this test, getting 4 out of 5 right.  How about you?  Only on Orange County's only community radio station, www.OCTalkRadio.net.  Brought to you by the Association of California Cities-OC and the OC's largest law firm, Rutan and Tucker.

Let's look deeper at The Fed

This week, we take a deep look at The Fed including it's history, structure and purpose. Who owns the Fed?  What's is it's relationship to the 12 Federal Reserve Banks and what do they do?  And (most importantly) what powers does the Fed have to increase or decrease money supply and affect the overall Monetary Policy of the United States.  Join our hosts Hamid and Fay Hamadanchy as they pick up from last week and dive deeper into this mysterious, quasi-governmental body (after first reviewing this week's economic indicators and likely Fed action).  Only on The OC HOUSING CONNECTION, here on Orange County's only community radio station, www.OCTalkRadio.net.

Is It a Law? Taken from today's CITY SQUARE-03-23-16

OK boys and girls.  IS IT A LAW that you can't curse in front of a corpse in Texas? Or engage in turtle racing in Key West, Florida?  Find out from our full house of experts including Mission Viejo Mayor Frank Ury and Paul Simonds, chair of the South Orange County Economic Coalition as they play IS IT A LAW on this week's installment of THE CITY SQUARE, hosted by the Association of California Cities-OC and sponsored in part by Orange County's largest law firm, Rutan and Tucker.  Only on Orange County's only community radio station, www.OCTalkRadio.net.

Power of Hosting Your Own Show

Here is a powerful testimonial on the power of hosting your own radio show, particularly as it helps you open doors you otherwise couldn't open and meet anyone you want to meet.  As described by Stu Heinecke, author of the new best seller "How to Get a Meeting With Anyone"  and a host himself of CONTACT MARKETING RADIO here on www.OCTalkRadio.net.  As heard on one of our other syndicated shows, THE SALES LEAD MANAGEMENT RADIO HOUR, with host Jim Obermayer.

Tax Tips for Home Owners

It's tax season, which means figuring out how to use your home to its maximum tax advantage.  So our experts, Hamid and Fay Hamadanchy, spend this episode of the OC HOUSING CONNECTION discussing tax considerations to home ownership with some tangible tips on how to maximize your home deductions (or at least not overlook the obvious!)

What are the different rules for deducting closing costs or the different rules concerning home improvement loans or energy saving programs?  They even talk about different ways to structure your PMII (private mortgage insurance) so it may become deductible or exotic things like deducting your land lease costs (if there are any...something we typically only see in places like Irvine, Monarch Beach and Costa Mesa).  Think of this show as a "tax tuneup"with tips, ideas and information you'll want to review with your CPA or certified tax planner.  Only on Orange County's only community radio station, www.OCTalkRadio.net.

Is It a Law? Taken from today's CITY SQUARE-03-09-16

Is it illegal to get a fish drunk in Oklahoma?  And are there "John Schools" in LA (sort of like "Traffic Schools") that allow you to wipe out your conviction for soliciting a prostitute?  Find out on this week's episode of THE CITY SQUARE as they put Donna Boston, Director of the OC Sheriff's Emergency Management Division, to the test during this popular segment of our weekly public policy show.  Wednesdays at 9am PST only on Orange County's only community radio station, ww.OCTalkRadio.net.  Hosted by the Association of California Cities-OC and brought to you by OC's largest law firm,Rutan and Tucker along with the other show sponsors Waste Management, West Coast Arborist and the HERO program for financing home improvements on your property tax bill.

Discover what sofware MongoDB uses to measure marketing success

Hear the "Silver Surfer of Sales", Matt Heinz from Heinz Marketing as he talks with Meagen Eisenberg from MongoDB (one of the hot new databases emerging in the so-called "NoSQL" movement) as she quickly lists all the marketing software she uses to analyze her team's performance, track social engagement and improve her website and overall marketing performance. Only on Orange County's only community radio station, www.OCTalkRadio.net and our show "Sales Pipeline" (part of a block of programming we stream live from the SLMALive Radio Network)...

Welcome to THE GRIEF GIRL

Check out our newest show, THE GRIEF GIRL, hosted by Kristi Hugsted which tries to pull back the curtain and remove the stigma attached to one of our final taboo topics, grief and the grieving process.  Having been there herself after her husband's dramatic suicide, Kristi transformed herself into a survivor and grief counselor to help others understand and learn how to deal with grief and keep it from overwhelming us.  So join us twice a month as she brings in real people with real grief stories and how they handled them from dramatic losses like those suffered by parents of teenage suicides to the day-to-day losses we all suffer and try to bury like job loss and marital breakups in the hope that we'll all learn to handle them better and live through the natural grieving processes attached to each. Only on Orange County's only community radio station, www.OCTalkRadio.net.

University of Michigan a leader in Cyber Crime Training

Morgan Wright, a leading expert on cybercrime  and cybersecurity whose executive leadership for CISCO and Alcatel-Lucent and work for the Departments of Justice, Defense and Homeland Security have made him a featured guest on national media outlets like Fox News (where, in fact, he was appearing on Greta Van Susteren's show right after his turn today on OC Talk Radio) was a guest on this week's edition of THE CLOUD where he said that the University of Michigan (my alma mater!) was one of the leading university's teaching the new field cybercrime and cybersecurity.

So for all you Wolverine fans, here's one more reason to be proud of our school. And for everyone else, listen to Morgan's interesting take on the controversy surrounding the government attempting to get Apple to unlock the phone found on one of the San Bernardino terrorist shooters. Only on Orange County's only community radio station,www.OCTalkRadio.net.

Is It A Law? Taken from today's CITY SQUARE 02-24-16

OK all you public policy wonks.  See if you can match our resident "boy genius" who got all five questions right today in our regular IS IT A LAW segment on our weekly public policy show (THE CITY SQUARE, Wednesdays at 9am) including such queries as "Is it against the law in Hawaii to insert pennies in your ears" and "in Conyers, Georgia, is is against the law to shout 'two fried eggs and a fritter for 25 cents' " (HINT: they're both RIGHT!)  Can you correctly guess the others? Only on Orange County's only community radio station, www.OCTalkRadio.net.