Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009

TTT JAN 28-GLBT: What do Minnesota's Gays Want?

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JANUARY 28 - GLBT: What do Minnesota's Gays Want?

Not an easy question to ask for this legislative session. Some advocates are pushing hard for a marriage bill and have a raft of stellar legislative co-sponsors in both houses in their corner, BUT, other groups are concerned about backlash and want to eliminate discriminatory statutes one-by-one. Just what do Minnesota's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender activists want - and will division in the ranks fragment or dilute support for any one legislative agenda? TRUTH TO TELL seeks to bring issues often confined to directly affected constituencies and their media outlets to a more general audience.

TTT's ANDY DRISCOLL & LYNNELL MICKELSEN talk with a variety of GLBT organizations and advocates about this legislative session's agenda around human rights issues and their differing approaches to ensuring equal treatment and recognition of same-sex families in housing, employment, health care, financial and estate matters.

GUESTS:• STATE SENATOR JOHN MARTY - Author, SF 3880, Marriage and Family Protection Act; • LAURA SMIDZIK - Executive Director, PROJECT 515; • JOHN TOWNSEND - Co-Host, KFAI's "FRESH FRUIT" and writer on GLBT issues.; • AMY JOHNSON, Executive Director, OUTFRONT MINNESOTA, GLBT Advocacy Group

Can't get us on the radio? Stream it from KFAI's Home Page. GLBT GRAPHIC by DJ-SLT.

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Wednesday, Jan 21, 2009

TTT JAN. 21: RETURNING FELONS

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JANUARY 21: RETURNING FELONS: How Can We Repatriate Offenders?

Millions of prisoners are released back into society each year and yet society often rejects them despite having paid their court-imposed debts. Is this not completely counterproductive - and costly? Why should returning felons not enjoy the full benefits of citizenship after living out their sentences? How can a civilized society believe anyone is irredeemable?

TTT's ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN talk with a former felon active in re-entry issues and advocates for major change in creating a post-incarceration climate of productive citizenship and a crime-free life.

GUESTS:

• DANNY GIVENS – former felon, Men's advocate, African-American Men's Project and Northpoint Health Center, now studying for the ministry.

• ROBERT HOPE, Workforce Development Manager, Goodwill Easter Seals ReEntry Services

• SARAH LAGESON - Researcher, Council on Crime & Justice

• RICH DEMMERS - Former Felon, Alternatives to Violence Project

• DEAN ZIMMERMANN-former Mpls City Councilmember and recent Federal inmate

Lobby to give everyone a

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Wednesday, Jan 14, 2009

TTT JAN 14: MPR & CENTRAL CORRIDOR

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JANUARY 14: CENTRAL CORRIDOR: Is It Really Going to Kill MPR?

Minnesota Public Radio, in the person of President/CEO Bill Kling has flooded the media with letters and announcements on MPR's airwaves that the Central CorridorMAP light rail alignment down Cedar Street MAP in St. Paul is going to rattle the studio walls and penetrate soundproofing with intolerable noise and vibration by its 12-foot proximity to his headquarters, built and expanded on with several millions of public dollars.

Now that Mr. Kling threatens to sue and/or leave the city if the line stays on this path without "mitigation" has critics up in arms, not the least of which are Met Council, Ramsey County and St. Paul public officials insisting his complaint comes too late – whether they agree with the basic premise or not. Kling's history with public and private officials hasn't made it easy to accept his assertions that all of this is based on too little information early on and that revealing data garnered as late as April, 2008, proves his point.

But where was he when all the arguments over alignment and specifications were published and debated for months on end over a five-year period? Kling says he started then. Others beg to differ.

GUESTS:

• MICHAEL NOBLE, Executive Director, Fresh Energy and Member, Mayor's Downtown Central Corridor Task Force

• JOHN MILTON - author, "Time to Choose," and former Minnesota State Senator

• DICK REES - Sound Engineer and KFAI Volunteer

GUESTS - SCHEDULED BUT CANCELLED:
• PETER BELL, Chair of Metropolitan Council
• RAMSEY COUNTY COMMISSIONER JIM MCDONOUGH, Chair,

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Wednesday, Jan 07, 2009

TTT/09 JAN 7: GOODBYE TO THE STAR TRIBUNE?

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JANUARY 7: GOODBYE TO THE STAR TRIBUNE? - Workers and Management at Loggerheads WILL THEY OR WON'T THEY? The Star Tribune was threatening its workers with bankruptcy if deep concessions fail to take hold in the newsrooms, in the press room and on the trucks. (As of January 9, unions refused to concede) Many observers see Strib owner Avista Capital Partners heading for Chapter 11, or 7, either way. Then why concede up to 40% of your wages if the paper goes belly-up? And just why is an investment company trying to run a newspaper, anyway?

TTT'S ANDY DRISCOLL and LYNNELL MICKELSEN (a former Guild writer herself) query Strib members of the Rank-and-File Newspaper Union Solidarity Committee [Newspaper Guild (editorial) and the Graphics Communications International Union-GCIU (pressmen and drivers)] about the latest battle over contracted wages and benefits.

GUESTS: • CHRIS SERRES - Reporter and Newspaper Guild Representative on the Solidarity Committee • DAN GANLEY, retired 30-year veteran Pressroom Operator and GCIU member • DOUG RZESZUTEK, 30-year Pressroom Worker and GCIU Representative • STEVE PIETRZAK, 42-year Pressroom Worker and GCIU Representative (INVITED but not appearing): CHRIS HARTE, Publisher and/or NANCY BARNES, Editor/Sr. Vice President - Star Tribune)

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