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Ep 26: A reflection on Youth and Civics
This episode: Returning from my trip across the country in the fall of 2020, and before I moved up to New Hampshire to serve...
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Ep #25: Municipal borrowing - is rising debt a problem in your community?
While millions of Americans are in debt or behind on high-interest credit card payments, many trillions of dollars is owed by governments at various...
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Ep #24: Problems with "perpetual adversarialism" and what we can do
On Wednesday, March 9th, I hosted a workshop and discussion with the New Jersey Municipal Management Association entitled “How to use the internet to...
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Ep 23: Five Minute Book Review: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Join Alex for a new episode in the 5 Minute Book Review subseries of Rethinking! This is Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi...
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Ep 22: Five Minute Book Review - Semiosis by Sue Burke
Join Alex for a new episode in the 5 Minute Book Review subseries of Rethinking! This is Semiosis by Sue Burke. It was filmed/recorded...
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Ep 21: What's the deal with online news paywalls?
Increasingly, bad discourse is preventing communities from effectively addressing problems they face. Are online news paywalls contributing to this by exaggerating echo chambers and...