TruthToTell Monday, April 14- 9AM: COMMUNITY CABLE UNDER SEIGE: Comcast Wants to Strip Your Channels Away – AUDIO PODCAST is UP HERE

Air date: Apr 14, 2014 @ 12:00am

Tags: Andy Driscoll, cable franchise, Cable Wars, Chad Johnston, community programming, Cor Wilson, CTV North Suburbs, Disability Viewpoints, franchise, Mark Hughes, Metro Twin Cities, PEG, production funding, Roseville, Siobhan Kierans, spnn, St. Paul Neighborhood Network, TTT

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Call and join this conversation – 612-341-0980 – or Tweet us @TTTAndyDriscoll or post on TruthToTell’s Facebook page. PLEASE DONATE $10 to HELP TTT HERE! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The so-called cutthroat “Cable Wars” of the early 1980s throughout the Metro Twin Cities as core cities – Minneapolis and St. Paul – along with clusters of groups of[...] Read More »

TruthToTell Monday, March 3- 9AM: COMMUNITY SOLAR GARDENS: New Kid on the Block – KFAI FM 90.3/106.7; Streaming @ KFAI.org

Air date: Mar 3, 2014 @ 12:00am

Tags: Andy Driscoll, community solar garden, Ken Bradley, Lynn Hinkle, Minnesota Community Solar, Minnesota Solar Energy Industries Association, power grid, Public Utilities Commission (PUC), ratepayers, renewables, Siobhan Kierans, solar arrays, TTT, wind farms, Xcel Energy

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AUDIO PODCAST IS UP HERE This week we welcome to TTT a new cohost and associate producer: Siobhan Kierans, a solid broadcast producer and co-host of her own show, Malarkey, on KFAI. We’re proud and happy to have such a fine talent join the crew. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Call and join this conversation – 612-341-0980 – or[...] Read More »

TruthToTell August 20: COMMUNITY CABLE & ACCESS: Can We Keep a Grip on It? – PODCAST BELOW

Air date: Aug 20, 2012 @ 12:00am

Tags: Andy Driscoll, cable access, cable channel, Comcast, community program, Eden Prairie, equipment, franchise, Jeff Strate, Michael Fallon, Mike Wassenaar, Minneapolis Telecommunications Network, mtn, production, Saint Paul Neighborhood Network, spnn, television programming, TPT, TruthToTell, TTT

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This program features a SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE by NIRVANA bassist, KRIST NOVOSELIC, talking about his work in support of ranked choice voting and his Thursday appearance at a FairVote/Minnesota fundraiser at Traffic Zone Center for Visual Arts. We even play a few bars of a Nirvana song made popular by the grunge rock trio – a career cut[...] Read More »

TruthToTell March 19: FLOODING THE BALLOT: Legislating by Constitutional Amendment – Audio Podcast BELOW

Air date: Mar 19, 2012 @ 12:00am

Tags: Andy Driscoll, castle doctrine, citizens for a safer minnesota, government operations and elections committee, hf2175, house file 2562, initiative, marriage amendment, Michelle Alimoradi, minnesota constitution, minnesota council of nonprofits, mn afl-cio, phyllis kahn, protect minnesota, referendum and recall, right-to-work, s.f. no. 2017, shar knutson, shoot first, supermajorities, susie brown, TTT, voter id

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HELP US BRING YOU THESE IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST – PLEASE DONATE HERE! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Photo by Shekleton (Shekshots) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Are we becoming California by a back door? California law is peppered with voter-passed initiatives and referenda. Is this true democracy? Or a denigration of representative government? The Minnesota Constitution does not allow what California’s does: passing and[...] Read More »

TruthToTell Feb 20: SELECTING OUR JUDGES: Retention? Or Election? – Audio BELOW

Air date: Feb 20, 2012 @ 12:00am

Tags: Andy Driscoll, BRIAN RUSCHE, Canon #5, Canon of Judicial Ethics, Coalition for Impartial Justice, English Common Law, Gregory Wersal, Joint Religious Legislative Coalition CHIEF JUSTICE ERIC MAGNUSON, Minnesota Supreme Court, RYAN KELLY, SARAH WALKER, second chance coalition, TTT, U.S. Supreme Court

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Remember – call and join the conversation – 612-341-0980 – or Tweet us @TTTAndyDriscoll or post on TruthToTell’s Facebook page. HELP US BRING YOU THESE IMPORTANT DISCUSSIONS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST – PLEASE DONATE HERE! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Minnesota’s system of electing judges once relied on an important caveat in the little known law known as the Canon of Judicial Ethics or Minnesota Code of[...] Read More »

TruthToTell May 16: LABOR’S UNTOLD STORIES: History Belies Successes

Tags: Andy Driscoll, Beer, Darrow, El-Kati, Gilligan, Kersten, labor, Michelle, race, Randolph, TTT, Untold stories, workers

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Many of us know and understand the struggles working people fought when corporations and managers abused their workers, the 100-year effort to improve wages and working conditions, to organize craftsmen and laborers, the police-supported thugs hired to prevent them from it. We know how labor unions that emerged from all that conflict gave us[...] Read More »

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TruthToTell Monday, April 14- 9AM: COMMUNITY CABLE UNDER SEIGE: Comcast Wants to Strip Your Channels Away – AUDIO PODCAST is UP HERE

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TruthToTell Monday, March 3- 9AM: COMMUNITY SOLAR GARDENS: New Kid on the Block – KFAI FM 90.3/106.7; Streaming @ KFAI.org

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TruthToTell August 20: COMMUNITY CABLE & ACCESS: Can We Keep a Grip on It? – PODCAST BELOW

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TruthToTell March 19: FLOODING THE BALLOT: Legislating by Constitutional Amendment – Audio Podcast BELOW

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TruthToTell Feb 20: SELECTING OUR JUDGES: Retention? Or Election? – Audio BELOW

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