conversations with constituents - January 19, 2023
Missed the Conversations with Constituents? Here is a link to the recording.
LWVRA looks forward to welcoming the mayors from Falcon Heights, Lauderdale, Little Canada, Maplewood, and Roseville, along with Ramsey County Commissioners from District 1, 2, 3 and 7 to our annual Conversations with Constituents. Never lacking local "issues" like public safety, representative governance, housing, and
CMAL Metro County Commissioner PANEL - January 14, 2023
If you missed the event, here is the recording link and passcode: CMAL recording. Passcode: y$vA=Ar9.
Council of Metropolitan Area Leagues of Women Voters (CMAL) invites all League members and members of the public to attend the Metro County Commissioner panel on Saturday, January 14 at 10:00 AM.
January 2023 Voter
Windows and Mirrors - Stolpersteine - Florence Sprague - January 2023
Big injuries require big responses, right? Perhaps not always. The Holocaust engineered by Nazi Germany murdered millions, mostly Jewish, men, women, and children, but also the Romany, homosexuals, persons with disabilities, and political enemies of the regime. Such an immense crime must not be forgotten, but that very immensity makes it particularly difficult to grapple with. Some communities in Germany and across Europe have chosen a way of recognizing the lives lost which is more personal, both for the lives destroyed and the living. They place stolpersteine, or stumbling stones, into the sidewalk.
Windows and Mirrors - College Worthy - Florence Sprague - November 2022
Earlier this fall the radio program This American Life rebroadcast an episode from 2015, “Three Miles” (listen at https://www.thisamericanlife.org/550/three-miles or read the transcript at https://www.thisamericanlife.org/550/transcript). It is the story of several students whose schools were a mere three miles apart in New York City, but whose lives felt thousands of miles apart. A pair of friends
Firearms in Minnesota Study, Discussion/Consensus Meeting, December 1, 2022
Join with other LWVRA members on Zoom to listen, learn, discuss and vote on consensus questions on the LWVMN Firearms in Minnesota 2022 Study. Materials are now available in the Member Resources section of the LWVMN website: https://www.lwvmn.org/member-resources.
November - December 2022 Voter
2022 Candidate Forums
Previously Recorded Candidate Forum links:
- District 44 Senate and House A & B: http://vod.maplewoodmn.gov/CablecastPublicSite/show/1228?channel=1
- Roseville Mayor and City Council: https://ninenorth.org/speak-outs/
- Maplewood Mayor and City Council: http://vod.maplewoodmn.gov/CablecastPublicSite/show/1229?channel=1
- District 40 Senate and House A & B, conducted by LWV-White Bear Lake: https://ninenorth.org/speak-outs/
- Arden Hills Mayor, Council, and Special Election: https://ninenorth.org/speak-outs/
- District 66 Senate and House A & B: https://ninenorth.org/speak-outs/
- Little Canada Mayor and Council: https://ninenorth.org/speak-outs/
- Lauderdale Mayor and Council: https://ninenorth.org/speak-outs/
- School District 622: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6oqrnu9Ruo&t=34s
- Ramsey County Commissioner District 3: https://ninenorth.org/speak-outs/
- School District 622: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6oqrnu9Ruo&t=34s
- Ramsey County Commissioner District 3: https://ninenorth.org/speak-outs/
- District 65 Senate and House A & B: https://youtu.be/14P2rSmuTAY
Ranked Choice Voting, September 20, 2022 6:30 PM
If you were not able to attend this informative presentation, Ramsey County Library has provided a link to the recording: https://my.nicheacademy.com/rcladult/course/53766/lesson/154720
The League of Women Voters of Roseville Area, co-hosting with the Ramsey County Library, will host a panel of experts on ranked choice voting (RCV) with emphasis on how it works in cities. RCV allows voters the option to rank candidates in order of preference. We are fortunate to have as speakers: