Politics

Workers are renovating a number of public housing units in Minneapolis these days due to an infusion of cash from the federal stimulus package passed in February. With critics questioning the stimulus bill’s effectiveness in helping the economy, President Obama sent one of his cabinet members to Minnesota on Friday to join Democratic lawmakers in defending the bill.

The Minnesota Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in the contested Senate race between Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken. KFAI Political Correspondent Marty Owings brings us the story.

06-01-09

Tune in Wednesday, February 25th at 11 am to hear Truth to Tell’s dicussion Power Play over the Greenway: Green Ways to Up the Voltage?.

Minneapolis’ Midtown Greenway:http://www.midtowngreenway.org* converted a rail bed below 29th Street through the core of the city’s south side to bike trails and walking paths with an eye to eventually putting a transit rail line from Uptown to the R

At 11 am on Wednesday, November 12th, Truth To Tell broadcasts a Community Shares Transportation Forum at the Wilder Center.

Almost three years into its development, the Central Corridor Light Rail Project remains the Twin Cities’ primary transportation development effort.

While the race between John McCain and Barack Obama has captured the nation’s attention, other parties have presidential candidates on the ballot too. KFAI’s Micheal Bracher spoke with Alyson Kennedy, the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Socialist Party.

10-28-2008

On October 28th, Sam Jasmine and Martha Hage interviewed 5th disrict congressperson Keith Ellison, the first African-American congressperson from Minnesota and the first Muslim congressperson ever. Listen to it on the Disabled and Proud archive.

Veteran activist Tom Hayden stops by KFAI on Wednesday, October 8th at 11 am to talk about his book Ending the War in Iraq on Truth to Tell:node/682.

Ed Felien talks about his revolutionary book Take the Streets! this Friday at 11 am on Catalyst:node/57. He can also be heard Sunday, September 28th at 3 pm at May Day Books, 301 Cedar Ave., Minneapolis.

This Wednesday Andy Driscoll and Lynell Mickelsen talk with practitioners of the time-honored art of community organizing on Truth to Tell:node/682. They’ll discuss its true nature and importance as a tool of civic and political engagement in these times when so many of us rely on mass media for our news and make decisions about who is responsible for change and public policy.

Join the KFAI News Team for alternative coverage of the closing night of the Republican National Convention (RNC) on Thursday, September 4th from 6 to 10 p.m. KFAI’s citizen journalists will be inside the Xcel Energy Center and out in the streets of Saint Paul covering the evening’s events.