Unit Meeting February 21 and 22 - Housing Panel
League of Women Voters of Roseville Area will host a panel of housing experts at the February 21 meeting. Speakers will discuss “How to have fair housing for all our community members.” League members are studying affordable housing and its availability in the cities of Falcon Heights, Lauderdale, Little Canada, Maplewood and Roseville. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m., and will take place at Centennial Methodist Church, 1524 W. County Rd. C-2 in Roseville. The meeting is co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of St. Paul and Centennial Methodist Church. The event is free and open to the public.
LWV members Sherry Hood, Judy Stuthman and Martha O'Toole were presenters to Roseville Area High School's American Studies classes on the history of Voting Rights and New Citizenship process in the U.S. All RAHS seniors take this eleven-week American Studies class.
State Senator John Marty will speak at the Oct. 18 meeting of the League of Women Voter of Roseville Area. His talk is titled “It's called an Election, not an Auction... yet it feels like we are selling our democracy to the high bidders.” Sen. Marty is the chair of the Senate Environment and Energy Committee and the co-chair of the Legislative Energy Commission. He has been a leading advocate for clean elections and fair campaign funding throughout his career.