Wednesday, Feb 27, 2008

TTT#0809-Peace Crimes-MN8

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Politics Intersect with Art in a new History Theatre play –Peace Crimes: The Minnesota 8 vs. The War at Rarig Center. PEACE CRIMES played at Rarig Center, University of Minnesota. Seven of the Minnesota 8 are still around and still working on peace issues after their arrests and convictions for messing up and destroying documents in Selective Service offices in several Minnesota cities. They copped to it and served a couple of years for it. The Doris Baizley play draws from a FRANK KRONCKE memoir. KFAI’s own DON OLSON (Northern Sun News) is another surviving member. The Eight were represented by Attorney Ken Tilsen, a Minnesota progressive icon. GUESTS: • Minnesota Eight members FRANK KRONCKE and DON OLSON • Playwright DORIS BAIZLEY • History Theatre Artistic Director RON PELUSO, Director, Peace Crimes. • Actor ANDREW THOMPSON (as MN 8 member Bill Tilton)

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Thursday, Feb 21, 2008

TTT#0808-God's Politics

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Evangelist and author of God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It, JIM WALLIS,, CEO and Executive Editor of Sojourners, talks about his latest book, The Great Awakening – Joined by TONY JONES of Edina, National Coordinator of Emergent Village and author of The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life, and his latest, The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier. TTT’s Andy Driscoll and Lynnell Mickelsen welcome these national spokespersons for a new view of how religion and faith play – or should play – into our nation’s politics public life and how some evangelists have distorted the role of faith and following in politics, declared conservative ideology the word of God, and George W. Bush as one of “God’s chosen people.”

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Wednesday, Feb 13, 2008

TTT#0807-LocGovtFinance

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Eight years of budget cuts, especially state LGAs – Local Government Aids – may have satisfied conservative tax-cutters and allowed Gov. Pawlenty to live up to his nasty pledge to one organization never to raise revenue. But municipalities, especially the urban core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, have been left to severely cut services, which they have (much to the consternation of their constituents) and/or raise property taxes (much to the consternation of their constituents). But most constituents don’t understand how cities are financed and why lowering one tax must push up the balloon on the other end.

TTT’s Andy Driscoll and Lynnell Mickelsen try to sort out this mess with officials forced to deal with the exigencies of state and local government funding. GUESTS: • State Sen. DICK COHEN, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee; • Minneapolis MAYOR R.T. RYBAK; • St. Paul MAYOR CHRIS COLEMAN.

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Wednesday, Feb 06, 2008

TTT#0806 - BIOFUELS

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FEB 6: : What are they really? And will something work? TTT’s Andy Driscoll and Lynnell Mickelsen examine the implications of rushing to any old so-called biofuel as peak oil and other fossil fuels are exposed for both pollution potential and dropping capacities. Are biofuels as we have them now better than the status quo, no matter what their impact? What are the pros and cons of various renewable alternatives and is anything safe to burn or digest in the pursuit of a silver bullet killing fossil fuel uses? GUESTS: • State Rep. BILL HILTY, Chair, MN House Energy Finance Committee • MARK ANDERSON, Linden Hills Power&Light • JOHN CURRY, St. Paul Neighbors Against the Burner

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