4th Street Forum
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January 2010 Schedule
DOES AMERICA NEED AN ECONOMIC BILL OF RIGHTS? A decent home, a job, a fair business atmosphere.
These are among the economic rights proposed sixty years ago.
Does the crisis today call for a Second Bill of Rights?
Forum Date: January 14, 2010 Broadcast Dates: January 15 and 17, 2010 MPTV Show Number: 811 Click to View Now:www.mptv.org/video/watch/?id=238
And Guests JIM BURKEE, PhD
Associate Professor of American Political History and Economics
Concordia University Wisconsin www.cuw.edu
JIM OTT
23rd Assembly District State Representative
Republican www.legis.state.wi.us
MICHAEL ROSEN, PhD
Professor of Economics
Milwaukee Area Technical College, www.matc.edu
President, American Federation of Teachers Local 212 www.local212.org
BARBARA TOLES
17th Assembly District State Representative
Democrat www.legis.state.wi.us
MADE IN MILWAUKEE: NEW BUSINESS/NEW JOBS What will Milwaukee produce in the 21st Century? Will we innovate?
Will government, business and education cooperate?
Our economic future could depend on smart strategies for business creation.
Forum Date: January 21, 2010 Broadcast Dates: January 22 and 24, 2010 MPTV Show Number: 812 Click to View Now:www.mptv.org/video/watch/?id=231
With Host SONYA JONGSMA KNAUSS
Editor and General Manager
MilwaukeeMoms.Com
Journal Interactive www.milwaukeemoms.com
MARC LEVINE, PhD
Senior Fellow and Founding Director,
Center for
Economic Development www.uwm.edu/Dept/CED
Director, Center for Canadian-American Policy Studies
Professor of History, UW-Milwaukee, www.uwm.edu
TIM SHEEHY
President
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce www.mmac.org
CHARLENE YAUCH, PhD
Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering
Milwaukee School of Engineering www.msoe.edu
ONE YEAR WITH PRESIDENT OBAMA America and Wisconsin have been rocked by economic trouble, dismayed
by partisan stalemate, worried about expensive and expanding war.
Where are we headed? A Wisconsin report card and crystal ball on
Obama’s presidency.
Forum Date: January 28, 2010 Broadcast Dates: January 29 and 31, 2010 MPTV Show Number: 813 Click or copy and paste – www.mptv.org/video/watch/?id=239
With Host ENRIQUE FIGUEROA, PhD
Director
Roberto Hernández Center
UW-Milwaukee www.uwm.edu
ANNE GURNACK, PhD
Professor of Political Science
UW-Parkside www.uwp.edu
Eugene Kane
Metro Columnist
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel www.jsonline.com
GARY SHELLMAN, PhD
President
Greater Milwaukee United Nations Association www.wnpj.org
Febuary 2010 Schedule
CRISIS TIME AT MILWAUKEE COUNTY The parks languish, pensions become millstones, bureaucrats bumble,
politics trump solutions.
Is Milwaukee County dysfunctional? Should it, can it, be fixed?
Forum Date: WEDNESDAY, February 3, 2010 Broadcast Dates: February 5 and 7, 2010 MPTV Show Number: 814 Click or copy and paste – www.mptv.org/video/watch/?id=252
And Guests STEVE BAAS
Director of Governmental Affairs
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce www.mmac.org
ELIZABETH COGGS
Milwaukee County Supervisor, 10th District
Chair, Finance and Audit Committee www.milwaukee.gov
ROB HENKEN
President, Public Policy Forum www.publicpolicyforum.org
Author of “Downsizing Local Government”
PATRICIA JURSIK, JD
Milwaukee County Supervisor, 8th District
Serves on Finance and Audit Committee
and Transportation and Public Works Committee www.milwaukee.gov
FAILURE TO INVEST: OUR CRUMBLING INFRASTRUCTURE The 21st Century green economy needs a modern foundation.
New infrastructure creates jobs and a base for healthy growth.
We don’t want to pay for it. But if we don’t, we will.
Forum Date: February 11, 2010 Broadcast Dates: February 12 and 14, 2010 MPTV Show Number: 815
With Host ENRIQUE FIGUEROA, PhD
Director
Roberto Hernández Center
UW-Milwaukee www.uwm.edu
And Guests PETER BEITZEL
Vice President of Business Development
Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) www.mmac.org
JACKY GRIMSHAW
Vice President of Policy
Center for Neighborhood Technology www.cnt.org
OUR SLOWLY SINKING MIDDLE CLASS A sea of debt, disappearing jobs, stagnant incomes.
Middle class people fight to stay afloat in this global economy.
Have they been cast adrift by government and business?
Forum Date: February 18, 2010 Broadcast Dates: February 19 and 21, 2010 MPTV Show Number: 816
With Host SONYA JONGSMA KNAUSS
Editor and General Manager
MilwaukeeMoms.Com
Journal Interactive www.milwaukeemoms.com
And Guests SHEILA COCHRAN
Chief Operating Officer and Secretary Treasurer
Milwaukee County Labor Council, AFL-CIO www.milwaukeelabor.org
WILLIAM HOLAHAN, PhD
Chair and Professor, Economics Department
Associate Director of the Center for Economic Education www.uwm.edu
ERIC ISBISTER
Chief Executive Officer and Co-owner
GenMet Manufacturing www.genmet.com
AVRUM LANK
Credit Counselor
Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Greater Milwaukee www.creditcounselingwi.org
Former Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Journalist
Covering Business, Personal Business, Government, and the Economy
BAD HABITS, MEDICAL COSTS
and INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY Too much weight, liquor, and smoking.
We choose our lifestyles.
But should everybody else pay when the medical bills come due?
One Week Only - 4th Street Forum "On the Road" Medical College of Wisconsin – Alumni Auditorium - 12 PM
In collaboration with Wisconsin’s Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute
BYO lunch or buy it there. Parking across from MCW.
Forum Date: February 25, 2010 Broadcast Dates: February 26 and 28, 2010 MPTV Show Number: 817
With Host ENRIQUE FIGUEROA, PhD
Director
Roberto Hernández Center
UW-Milwaukee www.uwm.edu
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