Conflict of Interest

A former mayor and a non-profit housing leader team up figure out our housing challenge.  One wants to build faster with a lot less regulation.  The other wants to make sure some of that housing is affordable forever.  Miro Weinberger and Angie Harbin agree and disagree.  And there lies the solution. 

Whether it's AI, Peak Oil, the Strait of Hormuz, or climate disruption, our future will be vastly different than how we grew up and what we know today. A Great Simplification is coming. And futurist/podcaster/systems thinker Nate Hagens previews his September 29 keynote talk at the University of Vermont. 

https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/about/nate-hagens

In our latest LIVE audience show Vermont, the former chair of the DNC and presidential candidate says he would vote for AOC for president, that Vermont should consider becoming a Canadian province, and explores how the democrats lost themselves.  

Join me for our latest LIVE show in Montpelier where we solve the housing problem with former Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger and Angie Harbin from Downstreet Housing.  

Tickets are here. https://www.mpa-hub.org/events/conflict-of-interest-4

It is not the street crime that is wrecking the country. It is the corporate criminal violence that we ignore in favor of putting small-time criminals in prison while the CEO's profits off the rest of us. Gottschalk's new book "Crime and No Punishment - Wealth, Poverty and Violence in America'', is also a personal reckoning and a teaching moment for how we can all do more.

The reform prosecutor in Burlington, VT opposes cash bail and favors treatment and community justice over prison and prosecution.  As communities struggle on homelessness and small crime, is George Justice the future?

Aly Richards and Amanda Janoo come from the same county and went to rural elementary schools. But their approaches to government are different. We lay it all out and give them a chance to explain themselves.

The Peabody winning journalist/podcaster talks about small town Vermont life and the characters that make life real.  And we did it LIVE before a packed house at the Montpelier Performing Arts HUB.

Check our Erica's hit podcast:

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We don't actually know much about the progressive icon and that is exactly the way he wants it. But for those who want more, who need more, it is all there in Dan Chiasson's new memoir about growing up in Burlington, VT as Bernie came to power. Turns out it takes an accomplished poet to do the digging and talk to the people who were there at the beginning of the Bernie story. It can be maddening, hilarious, and inspiring to be around this guy. And it's all there in this great new book. 

The corporate overlords that own Ben & Jerry's want the profits but not the social responsibility. Cohen says he wants "less money - more justice.'' He joined me in Montpelier, VT for the first LIVE episode of the Conflict of Interest podcast.

Turns out shortly after birth. My psychologist classmate explains how MAGA got that way. And a lot more.