Climate Change: What Difference Can a City Make?

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On July 22, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges joined 60 mayors from around the world for a meeting with Pope Francis on climate change.  The meeting was more than ceremonial.  The Pope believes cities have the power to make a significant contribution to the fight against climate change as well as the often-related issues of extreme[...] Read More »

TruthToTell, Monday 10-14-13-9AM ENCORE- TruthToTell: Community Connections VIII- Who Runs Minneapolis? Who Should? – KFAI FM 90.3/106.7/streaming @ KFAI.org

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  It’s week one of KFAI’s Fall Pledge Drive! Call in on Monday morning to pledge your support at 612-341-9030 or donate now online. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With all the media attention the upcoming, highly-contested Minneapolis Mayoral Race is getting, isn’t it about time we all ask ourselves, how important is the mayoral office in implementing change? TTT’s[...] Read More »

10-9-13 TruthToTell: Community Connections VIII- Who runs Minneapolis, Who should?

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Who are the key people, or institutions that are making things happen in Minnesota’s biggest city? More importantly, we’ll discuss with our panelists and audience members ‘Who should run Minneapolis?’ We’ll consider what all of our roles are as citizen, voters, tax-payers, parents, students, and the like. How do we make Minneapolis a city that[...] Read More »

TruthToTell, Sept 9: Minneapolis Mayor’s Race- Can Rank Choice Voting Meet the Test? – Audio Here – Video Coming

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PLEASE DONATE $10 to HELP TTT HERE! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In 2009 Minneapolis became one of the nation’s largest cities to implement Ranked Choice Voting. Led by the citizen’s organization, Fair Vote Minnesota, proponents argued that RCV offered voters greater choice.  Just four years later, Minneapolis voters do indeed have greater choice—in fact thirty five candidates for[...] Read More »

TruthToTell, Sept 5: CORRIDOR HOUSING: Assuring Affordability as Rails Go Down–AUDIO BELOW; VIDEO UNDER ARCHIVES

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Watch us from Studio 5! TruthToTell is now seen live on Livestream and later on Blip.tv or in iTunes HELP US BRING YOU THESE IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST – PLEASE DONATE HERE! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Central Corridor light rail system is taking shape – too slowly for many, fairly quickly for others. Rails have already been laid down close to the storage and maintenance facility[...] Read More »