Windows and Mirrors - Stolpersteine - Florence Sprague - January 2023

Stolpersteine: A history of Germany's Holocaust remembrance stumbling stonesBig 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

2022 Candidate Forums

Previously Recorded Candidate Forum links: 

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:

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