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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Wednesday, Oct 08, 2008

TOM HAYDEN TALKS to the TWIN CITIES

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TOM HAYDEN, founder of Students for Democratic Society, is an American social and political activist and politician, most famous for his involvement in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. Hayden’s continued influence in American culture spans fifty years. A famed sixties radical, Hayden became a long-term California state senator, an acclaimed author ( and teacher at many universities, and was once married to actress/activist Jane Fonda. TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN continue the conversations Hayden had with students and the public over two days at Metropolitan State University, October 7 and 8, 2008. Joining Tom Hayden on TTT: Metropolitan State University Political Science ProfessorTOM O’CONNELL.

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Wednesday, Oct 01, 2008

TTT OCT 1: GOODBYE MEL DUNCAN HELLO

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October 1: GOODBYE MEL DUNCAN HELLO

Nonviolent Peaceforce Founder and Executive Director MEL DUNCAN is stepping down after establishing a global network of programs and peace advocates.

TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL talks with Duncan about life as a progressive organizer, former Executive Director of Minnesota Alliance for Progressive Action (now part of TakeAction/Minnesota), and his philosophy of citizen action. Not all of us founders are willing to let go of our “babies.” Mel Duncan has done it twice. Why? And What now? What's behind the Nonviolent Peaceforce?

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