Friday, Nov 28, 2008

ENCORE:CLASSROOM DISCRIMINATION: Through the Eyes of Peers

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ENCORE:CLASSROOM DISCRIMINATION: Through the Eyes of Peers Originally aired November, 2007 We turned over our microphones to six 7th-graders (now 8th) from St. Paul-based Twin Cities Academy to explore their chosen topic of how their peers of color and gender may be treated differently than white students. TTT's Andy Driscoll and Lynnell Mickelsen step aside for Madeline Driscoll, Tessa Ferguson, Abby Ewen-Schofner, Anna Eastep, Emily Syverud and Ana Schaff to inquire as to why children of color are treated differently in elementary and secondary classrooms. GUESTS: • STATE REPRESENTATIVE CARLOS MARIANI, Executive Director, Minnesota Minority Education Project; • JEANNE NORDSTROM, Retired Teacher, Webster Magnet School, St. Paul; • NISSAN BROWN, Minneapolis student attending Edina High in The Choice Is Yours desegregation project.

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Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008

FORECLOSURE TSUNAMI: Thousands More in the Streets?

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FORECLOSURE TSUNAMI: Thousands More in the Streets? Even as Washington ducks and dodges the real issues of the descending recession, bailing out criminally irresponsible banking enterprises with hundreds of billions of tax dollars, the detritus of their folly resides in some seven million foreclosures nationwide and thousands across Minnesota. Rural and city dwellers alike find their housing values tanking while interest rate rises and fraudulently issued mortgages are turning the American dream into the nightmare we should have seen coming. Has the American penchant for getting something for nothing once again come home to roost in the streets and pocketbooks of even the once-dominant middle class? Who's really responsible for this disastrous and despairing loss of simple shelter for so many of us? TTT's ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN explore the ways in which our need and desire for home-ownership and real estate investment as the core of our economy have collapsed under the weight of greed and incompetence. GUESTS: • JEFF CRUMP - Associate Professor, Housing Studies, UofM College of Design • ED NELSON - Marketing/Communications Manager, Minnesota Homeownership Center • CASSANDRA WESLEY - Foreclosure Counselor, City of Saint Paul Planning & Economic Development Housing Office (INFO: 651-266-6626) *RESOURCES FOR HOUSING TROUBLES* (see St. Paul's and Homeownership Center's above): – DON’T BORROW TROUBLE Minnesota – FEDERAL RESERVE BANK of MINNEAPOLIS FORECLOSURE RESOURCE CENTER

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Wednesday, Nov 12, 2008

Transportation Forum

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LIVE from the WILDER CENTER: COMMUNITY SHARES TRANSPORTATION FORUM (NOTE: Technical Difficulties delayed the live radio airing of this program for some minutes. This Podcast is extracted from the audio portion of a concurrent television taping of the forum, but was truncated because KFAI's program schedule forced an end to the show. The final program is 48:30 in length.)
Almost three years into its development, the Central Corridor Light Rail Project remains the Twin Cities' primary transportation development effort. Burning questions remain over issues pitting community and neighborhood services against the line's projected costs and our willingness to acquire the necessary funding to meet the transportation and housing needs and demands of neighborhoods adjacent to the Corridor.
TTT's ANDY DRISCOLL moderates a discussion between two elected officials who also sit as members of the Central Corridor Management Committee of the Met Council and a panel of three Community Shares member organizational representatives. "Community Shares of Minnesota is a workplace giving organization that turns up the heat. On discrimination. On situations that reinforce poverty. On attitudes that look the other way at inequality." The public is invited to attend this forum LIVE from the Wilder Foundation's St. Paul Headquarters at University Ave. and Lexington Pkwy. GUESTS: • Ramsey County Commissioner TONI CARTER and Hennepin County Commissioner PETER MCLAUGHLIN with ANDREA LUBOV – Jewish Community Action SARAH MULLINS – ISAIAH; TIM MUNGAVAN – Executive Director, West Bank Community Development Corporation

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Wednesday, Nov 05, 2008

TTT's ElectionPostMortem

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It's Over!! No matter the result - it's over Tuesday night – for the time being, and with the end of the interminable elction season comes relief - win, lose, or draw. TTT's ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN will bring to this hour the results, the cheering of wins, the weeping and gnashing of losses, and some analysis of who and what made the differences in the outcome of this historic exercise in democracy after what is likely the most rancorous raft of contests ever to hit the political stage. How well will we have seen the elections have been conducted? Will we have elected this nation's first African-American president? Will the state's first-term incumbent US senator be unseated by a comedian whose serious side surprised many? Will Minnesota help tip the Congressional balance more heavily to Democrats than once possible or expected? What about the State House? The School referenda? The Constitutional Amendment? The Judicial races? We'll have interviews from Election Night parties and reports from KFAI's field correspondents. GUESTS: • TOM O'CONNELL - Metro State Political Science Professor - and lifeline to several grassroots organizations who will give us their take on the results. • MIKE DEAN - Director of Common Cause Minnesota • MARK HALVORSON - Citizens for Election Integrity • JEANNE MASSEY - FairVote/Minnesota (Instant Runoff) • AHNDI FRIDELL - KFAI News Director • PAUL SCHMELZER - State Director/Managing Editor, Minnesota Independent • JIM LEINFELDER - Free-lance Media/News Producer

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Wednesday, Oct 29, 2008

OCT 29: Arts & Environment Sales Tax Amendment & Secy of State MARK RITCHIE on Election Numbers

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OCT 29: Arts & Environment Sales Tax Amendment & Secy of State MARK RITCHIE on Election Numbers

1) SHALL WE PLACE FUNDING MANDATES IN THE CONSTITUTION? A debate on the pluses and minuses of a proposed Constitutional amendment to raise the sales tax in favor of arts and environmental programs. The question goes deeper than adequate arts and environmental funding – and that’s the rub: is the Constitution the proper place for programmatic funding mandates? Or should advocates come down harder on legislators who ignore their issues?

GUESTS: • KEN MARTIN, Campaign Manager, YES for MINNESOTA (proponents) • PAUL GILJE - Coordinator, CIVIC CAUCUS (opponents) • JOHN MILTON - former State Senator; Author, "Time to Choose." • JOHN HOTTINGER - former MN Senate Majority Leader • PATRICIA MITCHELL - CEO, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts • DENNIS ANDERSON - Outdoors Editor/Columnist, Star Tribune 2) Registration & Turnout will feature an update from Minnesota Secretary of State MARK RITCHIE on our record registration and, perhaps, expected all-time high voter turnout in this important, nay, critical, election year. Joining him is MIKE DEAN, Minnesota Director, Common Cause.

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Wednesday, Oct 22, 2008

TTT#0843-MINNEAPOLIS SCHOOLS: COMPOSITION REFERENDUM

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MINNEAPOLIS SCHOOLS: COMPOSITION REFERENDUM 1) Minneapolis Schools face two important ballot questions in November. This week, the ABC Amendment: whether or not to reconfigure the city’s school board from an all-at-large body to a combination of citywide and subdistrict directors. Friends are divided on these questions and we’ll talk with some of them:

GUESTS: • REP. JIM DAVNIE, Author and advocate of the Minneapolis Schools ABC Amendment • JUDY FARMER, former Minneapolis School Board Chair- OPPONENT of school board reconfiguration • TOM MADDEN, Minneapolis School Board Podcasts are available for all archived Truth to Tell shows.

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Wednesday, Oct 15, 2008

MINNEAPOLIS SCHOOLS: FUNDING REFERENDUM and KIDS VOTING

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1) Minneapolis Voters face two important ballot questions in November, the first being the largest of several referenda around the state to raise revenue in the face of declining state aid and increased costs.

GUESTS: • TOM MADDEN, Minneapolis School Board member; • STEVE KOTVIS, Communication Chair, Strong Schools, Strong City Steering Committee

2) KIDS VOTING is the quadrennial exercise giving children their first taste of civic responsibility – even when it doesn’t really count right now. Hear some kids talk about the experience as well program coordinators’ encouraging words.

GUESTS: • ROBERTA WORRELL, Executive Director -Kids Voting Minneapolis • AUTUMN CHMIELEWSKI, Kids Voting Minneapolis • MICHELLE BIERMAN - Board member, Kids Voting Saint Paul Executive Director and St. Paul Public Schools Social Studies Program Director • JANE KOSTIK - Former IB Program Coordinator for Patrick Henry High • SAM QUINCY - KIDS VOTING Alumnus (now voting in his first election) and his father, John

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