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, [...]
Economy Talk 5: Building a Local Economy
This Wed. May 4, at 6pm listen to my conversation with Reginaldo (Regi) Haslett-Marroquin, Program Director, Rural Enterprise Center and founder of Hillside Farmers Cooperative. Regi launched the Rural Enterprise Center program of Main Street Project in 2006, but has a long history of successful transnational entrepreneurial leadership. He began working on economic development projects [...]
Rally for the People
In early April I joined about a hundred other concerned citizens to express concerns about policies across the country that undermine the rights of citizens. Several spoke including myself and former Senator Kevin Dahle. Here is the text of my speech on that day: We are in the “best of times and [...]
Renewing a promise
Recent news from Wisconsin and Ohio show a growing willingness of people to draw together to speak out against what they perceive as injustice and a denial of democracy. The issues are somewhat misrepresented in the larger media siding with the New Republican Governor’s wanting to take away the rights of public employee union members [...]