Today's Echo Essentials Podcasts includes video clips of elected officials and a citizen presenter making comments at the June 18 North Bay City Council and Committee meeting. Co-hosts Scott Clark and Dave Dale provide their thoughts to add insight and perspective, as well as adding some context.

Before the clips are played, Scott asks Dave about his city council beat role at the Nugget, when it started and how it ended. Dave says he replaced a reporter who was eventually fired for killing with ink a former mayor of Mattawa and then adding fake colour into a court case story. And Dave explains why he referred to the reporter as a 'scab' who crossed a picket line in Calgary before being hired by the Nugget.