LOUIE TODAY: Laura and Marice revisit, Youngstown BOE member, and Franko Friday

Today's Brainfood will include segments co-hosted by Vindicator Editor Todd Franko reviewing the news of the day and week and a peek at what's coming Sunday.

Also, Laura Schroff and Maurice return to talk about "An Invisible Thread."

The story follows the unlikely friends from their meeting on 56th street in Manhattan in 1986, when Laura was a 35-year-old single, successful ad sales executive, and Maurice was an 11-year-old homeless panhandler. Maurice asked Laura for spare change; she ignored him and kept walking. But something made her stop, and turn around, and go back to him, and that day Laura took Maurice to lunch. They met the Monday after that, and every Monday for the next four years, and hundreds of times after that. Today, 25 years later, they are still great friends.

"An Invisible Thread" is a tale of the mysterious, unseen connections that exist between people who are destined to meet, and how, if only we open our eyes and our hearts to them, these connections can be the great blessings of our lives.

Maurice made an incredible impact on Louie at their last visit when Louie asked: "Where did you learn your manners?"  Tune in for this powerful story.

ThenLouie will talk with Andrea Mahone, Youngstown School Board member and finance committee chairwoman, about confronting board President Lock P. Beachum Sr. and schools Superintendent Connie Hathorn, as well as the state of the city district, education in the city, violence  and efforts to prevent violence and increase  the peace.