It’s just basically a good thing when good, new, progressive people run in primaries against incumbents. Even if that incumbent isn’t a horrible human being and has a decent voting record—compared of course to the rest of the politicians out there. Today we get to hear from a darn good candidate, Albert Lee, who’s taking on a long-time incumbent.

And, guess what? Women are still paid a lot less than men—I take a look at how grocery chain Fred Meyer is ripping off women in a chat with Tom Chamberlain, president of the Oregon AFL-CIO.

And, lastly, since the Federal Reserve Board is wrapping up its July meeting today and won’t be meeting again until September and is likely to be announcing a cut in interest rates—as I record this the official announcement has not come but the markets have already “priced in” an interest rate cut—I thought it would be useful to re-run the recent deep dive chat about the Fed with Dean Baker, senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research. that segment again for those who missed it.