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TTT1852 Dec 31 Peter Callahan - Cali Her sp.?

TruthToTell host Tom O’Connell looks back on some of the most significant stories in 2018 and speculates about what’s in store for 1019. Special guests: Peter Callaghan, Minnesota politics and government reporter for MinnPost, and Kaohly Her, newly elected representative from District 64A in St. Paul.
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TTT1851 Dec 24 Jim Rogers encore presentation

The end of the year often elicits a recollection of those we've lost during the previous 12 months and encourages a discussion of how we remember them. In this encore broadcast, TruthToTell host Tom O’Connell talks with James Silas Rogers, author of "Northern Orchards: Places Near the Dead".
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TTT50 Dec 17 Climate Change -Political Hip-Hop

The news of late has not given much comfort to those who believe that dramatic action now is necessary to save the climate. Recent scientific studies have confirmed that the climate is warming at even a faster rate than earlier predicted. The Trump Administration's determined efforts to disrupt global action have slowed climate agreements negotiated in Paris just a few short years ago. Yet, here in the United States a growing movement of cities and states are stepping in to fill the void. Will efforts to move states to a 100-percent clean energy future take hold? Are ambitious efforts like the Green New Deal, possible? Will DFL gains in Minnesota create openings for change on the scale necessary to move the dial on climate change? A growing number of climate-change activists believe major change is possible. Joining TruthToTell to explain why is Chelsea DeArmond, a member of the Leadership Team of MN350.
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TTT1849 Dec 10 Celebrating local Writers Booksellers

Minnesota has a well-deserved reputation as a center for literary creativity. In this holiday special, TruthToTell celebrates the independent voices that bring the power of story to readers of all ages and backgrounds.  Guests include: • Historian, poet, and essayist Joe Amato, who combines history and fiction in an imaginative tour de force in "Buffalo Man: The Life of a Boy Giant on the Minnesota River." • Singer, songwriter, and poet Prudence Johnson, a staff member at Minnesota’s premier center for Native American literature, Birch Bark Books and Native Arts.
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TTT1848 Dec 3- 3 Young Women Political activists

From Congress to the State Legislature, in big cities and rural and suburban communities, an amazing number of people from under-represented populations have stepped forward to run for public office and take on positions of public leadership. What does this changing of the guard mean for our communities? To find out, TruthToTell talks to three Minnesotans who personify this cultural and generation shift: Nikki Villavicencio, a disability rights activist and candidate for the Maplewood City Council Cheniqua Johnson, the 22-year-old African-American candidate for House District 22B in southwestern Minnesota Andrea Duarte, creator of Stories from Unheard Voices, a project that documents the lives of Latinos in her hometown of Worthington, Minn.
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TTT1847 Nov 26 Media Benjamin Rico Morales guest host

We'll hear from Medea Benjamin, cofounder of Code Pink, speaking about U.S. and Middle East issues from her speech last July at the Eastside Freedom Library in St. Paul.
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