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4th Street Forum
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, THURSDAYS, NOON
Join the audience at Historic Milwaukee Turner Hall.
(4th and Highland, across from the Bradley Center. Elevator access off the parking lot.)
Ask questions of the panelists!
www.4thStreetForum.org 414-272-2833
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Fridays, Channel 10.1 at 10pm & Sundays, Channel 36.1 at 3pm
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March 2009 Schedule
MAKING IT IN WISCONSIN:
MANUFACTURING OUR FUTURE
Throughout the 20th century, Wisconsin was an industrial power.
What’s required to make us innovative, efficient, and profitable in the 21st century?
Forum Date: March 19, NOON
MPTV Broadcast Dates: March 20 and 21
MODERATOR
DENISE CALLAWAY
Director of Communications
Greater Milwaukee Foundation
www.greatermilwaukeefoundation.org
WITH GUESTS
MARY ISBISTER
President and Co-owner
General MetalWorks Corporation
www.genmet.com
RICHARD MEEUSEN
President and Chief Executive Officer
BADGER METER, Inc
www.badgermeter.com
MICHAEL TOWNSEND, PhD
Vice President
Milwaukee Area Technical College, Mequon Campus
www.matc.edu
CHARLENE YAUCH, PhD
Associate Professor
Industrial and Mechanical Engineering
Milwaukee School of Engineering
www.msoe.edu
SHOULD BUSINESS AND HEALTH
INSURANCE DIVORCE?
Companies struggle with high premiums or can no longer provide health insurance for their workers. Millions go without. Is there a bold 21st century solution to this national problem?
Forum Date: March 26, NOON
MPTV Broadcast Dates: March 27 and 29
MODERATOR
ENRIQUE FIGUEROA, PhD
Director
Roberto Hernández Center, UW-Milwaukee
www.uwm.edu
WITH GUESTS
WAYNE COREY
Executive Director
Wisconsin Independent Small Businesses
www.wibiz.org
SUSAN GIAIMO , PhD
Visiting Professor, Political Science Department and Author of Markets and Medicine:
The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States
Marquette University
www.marquette.edu
BILL JENKINS
President, Jenkins and Associates
Former President and CEO of Aurora Sinai Medical Center
Former CEO, Milwaukee County Medical Complex
JEFF STONE
Wisconsin State Representative, 82nd Assembly Distric
Committee on Health and Healthcare Reform
www.legis.wisconsin.gov
SHOULD WISCONSIN DECLARE
A NEW WAR ON DRUGS?
Unfair sentencing, violence, desperate neighborhoods.
Can we ensure safety and embrace a new, public health approach to drugs?
Forum Date:
March 31, TUESDAY, NOON
MPTV Broadcast Dates: April 3 and 5
MODERATOR
JACK MURTAUGH
Co-chair
4th Street Forum Executive Committee
WITH GUESTS
LATRICE BUCK BRIGGS, MSW
Director, Milwaukee Women’s Center
www.mwcinc.org/
A Division of Community Advocates
www.communityadvocates.net
JOHN CHISHOLM, JD
Milwaukee County District Attorney
www.county.milwaukee.gov/DistrictAttorney7715.htm
DUNCAN SHROUT
Vice President
Public Policy and Government Relations, IMPACT, Inc
www.impactinc.org
KELLI THOMPSON, JD
Deupty State Public Defender
www.wisspd.org
Questions?
Deidre A. Martin
Director
4th Street Forum
414-272-2833
4thStreetForum@gmail.com
www.4thStreetForum.org
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