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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
 With Host
DENISE CALLAWAY
Director of Communications
Greater Milwaukee Foundation
www.greatermilwaukeefoundation.org
 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
Click or copy and paste – www.mptv.org/video/watch/?id=263
 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
 KAREN ROYSTER
Executive Director
Institute of Wisconsin’s Future
www.wisconsinsfuture.org
 KENNETH YUNKER
Executive Director
Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC)
www.sewrpc.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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