A Knee Jerk Liberal
Sorting Out Our School Levy Referendum – Nov. 8
Economy Talk with Rep. Mindy Greiling
Listen in Wed. October 26, at 6pm when I talk education funding with Rep. Mindy Greiling on KYMN radio 1080 AM or you can join us online at KYMNradio.net. As soon as the program is archived I will post the link. Former Education Finance Chair, Rep. Greiling says the result of the last session is: [...]
Economy Talk with Rep. Tom Rukavina
Listen in Wed. October 19th at 6pm on KYMN radio 1080 AM or on line at kymnradio.net. We’ll be talking about higher education and workforce development in Minnesota and the effects of growing inequality in Minnesota and the rest of the country. Rep. Tom Rukavina was a contender for the DFL nomination for Governor. A [...]
Economy Talk with Dr. Richard A. Levins
My guest for this coming Wednesday’s installment of Economy Talk is Dr. Richard A. Levins, author, lecturer and Emeritus Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Levins has been doing a lot of thinking about the middle class and he is working with me on a re-write of my book, The Middle [...]
Economy Talk with Don Hill
Economy Talk, Wednesday Sept. 14th, join me for a conversation with former MEA President and public education advocate, Don Hill. We’ll talk about the importance of labor unions to our economy and give some talk back to all the public employee bashing we hear from the extreme right. Maybe we’ll even talk about the recent census data, [...]
Checking the Health of the Middle Class
MN2o20 published a commentary I wrote, here is the beginning and a link to it: Checking the Health of the Middle Class August 15, 2011 By David Bly, Guest Commentary Ask any public official or private manager these days and they’ll tell you, “The increasing cost of providing health care access is killing us.” It [...]