Kate Tepper is running for State Rep. in the 142nd District. Kate explains why she's running to represent the people in Norwalk and New Canaan:
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Stream of Conscience goes on location to the Discovery Magnet Elementary School in Bridgeport to interview Claire Gold, "Godmother" of the Bridgeport magnet school movement. Host John Hartwell talks to Claire about her years as Superintendent of Westport Schools and her involvement reaching out to inner-city kids through Westport's Project Concern and how those experiences led to her push to build three new magnet schools in Bridgeport.
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We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Public health researcher Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust.
Stream of Conscience heads to the State Capitol to visit Connecticut's Lieutenant Governor Nancy Wyman. Nancy talks with host John Hartwell about the Malloy Administration's first 17 months in office, the fiscal challenges of digging out of a $3.6 billion deficit, the move to GAAP accounting, the Earned Income Tax Credit, Education Reform and more.
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Host John Hartwell welcomes CT State Comptroller Kevin Lembo to Stream of Conscience. Kevin discusses the state's struggle to pay down the $3.5 billion deficit that the Malloy administration inherited in 2011 while at the same time moving the state on to Generally Accepted Accounting Practices (GAAP). He also talks about the new Earned Income Tax Credit program and the Malloy administrations efforts to reform health care coverage in Connecticut.
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Rabbi Ron Fish and Imam Kareem Adeeb visit Stream of Conscience to shine a light on religious cooperation in Norwalk. Rabbi Fish is the spiritual leader of Congregation Beth El in Norwalk and Imam Adeeb is a spiritual leader at Al-Madany Islamic Center, also in Norwalk. Co-hosts John Hartwell and Tom Hedberg explore the great overlap between Judaism, Christianity and Islam - three traditions rooted in one Abrahamic religion - and the rabbi and the imam discuss their efforts to bring their two communities together in the spirit of brotherhood and understanding.
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Nancy Alderman, Founder and President of Environment and Human Health, Inc. returns to Stream of Conscience to discuss the results of EHHI's 2012 Connecticut legislative initiatives to ban the use of tanning beds for minors, to curb the use of Outdoor Wood Furnaces and to return local control to cities and towns to regulate the use of pesticides on private lawns. Nancy takes us through the process of trying to get each of these initiatives through the complex and political maze that is the Connecticut Legislature and ultimately to get them signed into law to improve and protect the environmental and human health of Connecticut citizens.
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Daisy Franklin and Alberta Witherspoon of the Public Housing Resident Network discuss their organization which advocates on behalf of public housing tenants across Connecticut.
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Daisy Franklin and Alberta Witherspoon of the Public Housing Resident Network discuss their organization which advocates on behalf of public housing tenants across Connecticut.
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John Hartwell offers a Stream of Conscience Commentary that asks: If Republicans are so supportive of the free market, then why are they ignoring the markets support for US debt. Why are we not leveraging the cheapest money in decades to rebuild our infrastructure and put people back to work? Why indeed!!
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A Democracy for America panel discussion of the Institute for Policy Studies "America is Not Broke -- How to Pay for the Crisis While Making the Country More Equitable, Green, and Secure" (www.ips-dc.org) detailing 24 policy suggestions to secure $824 billion of deficit reduction every year.
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DFA members Mike Toto and Ann Galloway discuss their disappointments with Pres. Obama and the value of supporting a Democratic primary challenge.
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Environmentalist Daphne Dixon discusses her efforts to promote eco-friendly, sustainable communities in Bridgeport and southwestern Connecticut. She highlights her Green Towns initiative and the Green Drinks eco-netowrking get-togethers.
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Stream of Conscience host John Hartwell interviews Matt Lesser, Connecticut State Representative from the 100th Assembly District, about the secretive, right-wing organization ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. ALEC is getting tax-free donations from wealthy individual and corporate donors to wine and dine our state legislators and direct legislation in their favor.
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John Hartwell makes a "Radical Tax Proposal" to simplify our tax code and make it fairer for all in a Stream of Conscience Commentary.
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Back in August, Jonathan Pelto visited Stream of Conscience to discuss Gov. Dannel Malloy's first year in office.
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Stream of Conscience host John Hartwell interviews Henry Lowendorf, President of the Greater New Haven Peace Council. Henry has been a peace activist for over 40 years and he discusses the current state of US militarism and what we can all do to reign in our war economy and convert it to a peace economy serving the social needs of citizens in the US and around the world.
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