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Tom Sherwood – Analyst, WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi Politics Hour and Former WRC TV Politics Reporter

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Tom Sherwood on what he tells journalism students when asked about making Journalism a career:

I tell every journalism student intern that I meet that one thing about being journalist, it opens doors to everything and anything that you want to see or do. I mean, I’ve been places and seen things . . . I never would have access to had I not fallen into the news business.”

Tom Sherwood, Analyst, WAMU's Politics Hour and Former WRC TV Politics Reporter with host Andy Ockershausen in-studio interview
Tom Sherwood, Analyst, WAMU’s Politics Hour and Former WRC TV Politics Reporter and host Andy Ockershausen in-studio interview

Andy Ockershausen: This is Our Town. This is Andy Ockershausen, starting part of what we hope will be a long fifth season. We are especially, especially… I mean this because I’ve been trying to get this guy for [Read more…] about Tom Sherwood – Analyst, WAMU’s Kojo Nnamdi Politics Hour and Former WRC TV Politics Reporter

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Stephen S. Fuller, Ph.D. – Expert, Greater Washington Regional Economy

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Stephen S. Fuller, Ph.D. on Amazon and future job and economic growth in Our Town~

They worked together to make this happen, and it will benefit the region broadly, but it isn’t the final, it isn’t all that is coming. This is just the beginning. We expect there to be almost 400,000 new jobs in the next 15 years and this is just 25,000 of them.

Stephen S. Fuller, Ph.D. and Our Town host Andy Ockershausen in-studio interview
Stephen S. Fuller, Ph.D. and Our Town host Andy Ockershausen in-studio interview

Andy Ockershausen: This is Andy Ockershausen and this is Our Town. I have been so excited to know that we could talk to this man and we could talk to him away from his usual role as the head of some meeting or group because I have been following him through the Washington Board of Trade [Read more…] about Stephen S. Fuller, Ph.D. – Expert, Greater Washington Regional Economy

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Our Town Podcast Season 4 Wrap Up and Who’s Next

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Our Town podcast Season 4 through a millennial’s eyes. Liz Bubes shares her views on Season 4 of Our Town podcast interviews~

“Well, as a millennial and for someone who had never heard of a vast majority of these people but learned way more than I thought. . . I think that the highlight of Our Town podcast for me was having Monique Samuels on and getting on the Real Housewives of Potomac. . . Getting all the cameras all set up, and getting mic’d up and you know, being near a celebrity.”

Our Town Season 4 Wrap Up - Andy and Janice Ockershausen in studio
Our Town Season 4 Wrap Up – Andy and Janice Ockershausen in studio, Looking Forward to Season Four

Andy Ockershausen: This is Andy Ockershausen. This is Our Town podcast and unfortunately this is the last of our Season 4. Our Town, we’ll be starting Season 5 sometime in this late Summer, early Fall. But this has [Read more…] about Our Town Podcast Season 4 Wrap Up and Who’s Next