Episode 47
The part nobody says out loud about the budget
The line item everyone agreed to and nobody read. I walk through the three pages that matter, who wrote them, and why the people who benefit are counting on you finding this boring.
Then: a listener in Dayton sent me her water bill, and it turns out it's a national story.
How an episode runs
One story, no setup. Straight in.
The week's biggest story, taken apart slowly.
What they said then. What's true now. Tape, not paraphrase.
The local story the national desk drove past.
Two minutes, no notes.
About Lizzy
I spent eleven years in local newsrooms being told to cut the part where I said what I thought. The part where I said what I thought was usually the reason the story mattered. So I built a studio in the back room of my house and stopped cutting it.
I'm not neutral and I'm not going to perform it for you. What I will do is show my work — where the number came from, who said it first, what I got wrong last week. You can disagree with me and still know exactly what I based it on. That's the deal.
