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THIS WEEK’s RADIO SHOW LINEUP: CFIF’s Renee Giachino Hosts “Your Turn” on WEBY Radio 1330 AM

Join CFIF Corporate Counsel and Senior Vice President Renee Giachino today from 4:00 p.m. CDT to 6:00 p.m. CDT (that’s 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. EDT) on Northwest Florida’s 1330 AM WEBY, as she hosts her radio show, “Your Turn: Meeting Nonsense with Commonsense.”  Today’s guest lineup includes:

4:00 CDT/5:00 pm EDT:  Roger Ream, President and Chief Operating Officer, The Fund for American Studies - Capitalism, Individual Responsibility, Freedom and Free Markets;

4:15 CDT/5:15 EDT:  Michael Cox, Director of the O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at Southern Methodist University's cox School of Business - The Fund for American Studies video, "How Nations Succeed: What's the Secret to Ending Poverty;"

4:30 CDT/5:30 pm EDT:  Quin Hillyer, CFIF Senior Fellow and…[more]

May 20, 2013 • 03:59 pm

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