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Do Your Town's Parking Lots Sit Empty Even on Black Friday?

PR for People Team
November 28, 2019

Do Your Town's Parking Lots Sit Empty Even on Black Friday? Here Are Four BETTER Uses for Them.

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Politics
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Quid Pro Quo?

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Peter Corning
November 25, 2019

How do we explain Trump’s puzzling behavior toward the likes of Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia?  Follow the money!

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Politics
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Politics and Truth

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Rongqing Dai, Ph.D.
November 23, 2019

The ignorance of the true nature of politics has been causing many to believe the political propaganda of various political organizations about their quest or fight for the truth. Many people devoted their life to the political causes of those organizations because they truly believed that they were fighting for the truth of human civilization. However, seeking truth has never been the essence of politics, and knowing this could help us to better understand the political reality in life around the world……

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Politics
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“The Rule of Lies” Why it Matters. What Can We Do?

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Peter Corning
November 20, 2019

A lie serves the liar’s interests, often at the expense of others.  It also destroys social trust and undermines our democracy.  How can we redeem our civic discourse after Trump? Looking beyond the immediate political crisis, we should begin even now to think about how to repair the damage.  What can we do?

 

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Books
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The Sumner Library | Serving Immigrants

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Patricia Vaccarino
November 15, 2019

One of the forty-one libraries in the Hennepin Library System, the Sumner Library is a Carnegie Library that dates back to 1915. Built in a Tudor Revival Style of architecture, the famed brick L-shaped library features coved ceilings and a central tower.  The Library is named for Charles Sumner, who was a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts and a passionate abolitionist. This Minneapolis library has had a long history of serving immigrants. In the early Twentieth Century, the library was a hub for Jewish immigrants.

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Books
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NOTES FROM THE WORKING-CLASS: History Does Matter

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Patricia Vaccarino
November 15, 2019

 The  garbage room in my condo holds more than trash bins. Next to the bin designated for paper a six-foot-tall bookcase sits flush to the wall. People put the books they no longer want on the bookshelf. Most books cycle through and find a home.  Few books stay here forever with the possible exception of Bill Clinton’s memoir My Life. So last week I was astonished to find an old hardcover book stuffed inside a trash bin. It was unthinkable that anyone would throw away a book. 

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World Views
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Who’s Afraid of Global Governance?

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Peter Corning
November 14, 2019

Who’s Afraid of Global Governance? If it’s done right, it’s neither utopian nor an authoritarian menace.  And it’s needed urgently.  It could be a matter of life and death for us all. 

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Tech
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Risk, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

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Annie Searle
November 13, 2019

Recently, probably because of local elections and the national political climate, I’ve spent more time reading and thinking about how to “backstop democracy,” – I strongly recommend reading The Brookings Institution’s new white paper, The Democracy Playbook: Preventing and Reversing Democratic Backsliding.

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