Wednesday, Aug 29, 2007

TTT#9-Rock-Tenn

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TTT’s Andy Driscoll and co-host Craig Cox talk with principal players in the controversy over just how St. Paul’s paper-recycling Rock-Tenn Corporation will replace its sorely needed steam supply when Xcel Energy’s downtown St. Paul coal-fired plant shuts down forever. Guests include State Sen. Ellen Anderson, Chair of the Minnesota Senate Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Budget Division of Senate Finance, Nina Axelson, Rock-Tenn Community Advisory Panel staff person, Justin Eibenholzl, Energy and Environmental Justice advocate, Southeast Como Improvement Association (SECIA) and member of Rock-Tenn Community Advisory Panel, Jack Greenshields, Rock-Tenn Corporation Senior Vice President and General Manager, Nancy Cohen - Neighbors Against the Burner (NAB), and Rick Evans, Xcel Energy Government Affairs Director.

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Tuesday, Aug 21, 2007

TTT#8-Central Corridor2

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TTT’s Andy Driscoll and guest co-host, writer Lynnell Mickelsen will update listeners on the status of the Central Corridor light rail project, talking line and development issues with Denise Fosse, Goodwill/Easter Seals and Central Corridor Community Advisory Committee (CCCAC) member; Georgia Giles, Community Stabilization Project, member of University Avenue Community Coalition (UACC); Jim Erkel of the MN Center for Environmental Advocacy, member of St. Paul’s University Ave. Central Corridor Development Task Force (CCDTF), and member UACC Steering Committee; Anne White, President of District Councils Collaborative of St. Paul & Minneapolis, member of CCCAC and the CCDTF. Also appearing: Kirsten Beach, Co-Chair of the CCCAC.

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Wednesday, Aug 15, 2007

TTT#7-Addiction and Mental Health Parity

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TTT’s Andy Driscoll and co-host Craig Cox talk with David Wellstone, son of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, crusader for parity; Congressman Jim Ramstad, co-author of the HR 1424, the House Mental Health Parity Bill; William Cope Moyers, author of “Broken: My Story of Addiction & Redemption," Hazelden Foundation Vice President, and son of Bill Moyers; Jim Klobuchar, recovering former columnist and author of “Pursued by Grace” about addiction, recovery and the status of the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Parity Act (HR 1424) that tries to even the playing field between physical and mental illness in health insurance coverages.

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Wednesday, Aug 08, 2007

TTT#6- Wealth and Race

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TTT’s Andy Driscoll and guest co-host, KFAI News Director Lauretta Dawolo talk with Author and Prof. Rose Brewer; Vic Rosenthal of the Equal Access Working Project; St. Paul Council President Kathy Lantry about missing and present economic trends, issues, and opportunities in and for the Black Community. Dr. Brewer’s book, The Color of Wealth, addresses the disparities of economic security between whites and communities of color here and across the country.

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Wednesday, Aug 01, 2007

TTT#5-Cops-MH

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TTT’s Andy Driscoll and guest co-host Ann Alquist talk about Cops and the Mentally Ill with:

• Mark Anderson, Executive Director of The Barbara Schneider Foundation (named for the woman Minneapolis police shot and killed in 2000);

• Advocate Renee Jenson of the Ramsey County Human Services Advisory Subcommittee on Mental Health and a consumer of mental health services;

• Cathy ten Broeke, Coordinator to End Homelessness for Minneapolis and Hennepin County;

• Assistant Minneapolis Chief of Police Sharon Lubinski;

• Sgt. Josh LeGo of the St. Paul Police.

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