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BROADCAST DATE: Friday 1 February 2008
TIME: 6:00 p.m. EST/3:00 p.m. PST
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The infamous LS Group reutns to talk about Super Tuesday, the Clinton-Obama dust-up, John McCain -v - Mitt Romney and much more! Please tune in for a real romp!
BROADCAST DATE: Wednesday 23 January 2008
TIME: 3:00 p.m. EST/Noon PST
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Tina Gasperson, 45, has been writing about Linux and FOSS since 1999, and was one of the original staff members at Newsforge.com, a groundbreaking site that was one of the first to feature original reporting on the up and coming open source software scene. Today, she is fascinated with finding out how businesses are using Linux and open source to get a jump on traditional proprietary methodology. More important, Tina is a wife, mother, grandmother, and child of God. She writes from her home in Tampa, where she homeschools three of her five kids and is trying to train a rambunctious puppy which end of the leash is boss.
BROADCAST DATE: Tuesday 15 January 2008
TIME: 4:30 p.m. EST/1:00 p.m. PST
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Silona Bonewald is the founder of the League of Technical Voters, a 501c3. Before this she started her own company, ElecTech that created specialized software for political campaigns, and ran a web consulting business where she was one of the first people to create websites for hire, and to successfully optimize her clients' websites for usability and top search engine ranking. She has also worked in the gaming industry, creating high visibility web presences, content management systems, and large database back-end integrations.
Silona volunteers for the ACLU and EFF on technology-based civil liberties issues, and has lobbied on various issues. The combination of her involvement in political activism, educational activism, psychometrics for gaming communities, lobbyist work, netizen activities and web design make her uniquely suited to envision the framework that will make the LoTV system all possible.
Probably the most visible project she is working on currently is the Illuminatedbudget.org with Texas Forums, Bill Bradley and Jimmy Wales. They are creating software similar to wikipedia where the community (both groups and individuals) can document the Federal Budget. It will have an underlying Open Source Social Network so that people can vet the citations and choose for themselves what to believe.
Taylor Willingham is a public engagement and change management consultant and co-founder and director of Texas Forums, an initiative of the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum. She lives in Texas but through the power of technology, she is an adjunct faculty for the Graduate Library and Information Sciences program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
She teaches Change Management and has a fellowship to develop a course on Civic Entrepreneurship starting THIS Thursday! Her other research interests include public deliberation, civic evaluation, social networking and innovative applications of technology in democracy.
Willingham has consulted with Bill Moyers Public Affairs Television, the National Coalition for Literacy, American Library Association, the Texas State Library, and KERA Public Radio and Television. She has conducted workshops for the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Enquirer, the Government of Thailand, public libraries in Russia, and public policy institutes across the country. Her offices are in Salado Texas, seat 20D on American Airlines, and any one of a number of wifi Austin Coffee Houses!
BROADCAST DATE: Thursday 3 January 2008
TIME: 3 p.m. EST/Noon PST
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Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Utah and graduated in 1978 with a J.D. degree from The George Washington University Law School.
Anderson practiced law for twenty-one years in Salt Lake City, specializing in civil litigation. He was lead attorney in several seminal civil rights and consu mer protection cases, including Bott v. Deland, which established, for the first time, a private cause of action for damages occurring from the violation of the Utah Constitution and that ruled the Utah Legislature may not set a limit on recoverable damages for such violations.
Since taking office in 2000, Anderson has been an outspoken advocate for protecting the environment. As Mayor, he committed Salt Lake City, in its own operations, to abide by the Kyoto Protocol, and implemented numerous programs to improve air quality and reduce emissions of global warming pollutants. By 2005, Salt Lake City far exceeded its Kyoto goal, seven years before the Protocol's 2012 target date. To date, in its municipal operations, Salt Lake City has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 31% from 2001 levels.
Along with Robert Redford and the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI), Mayor Anderson founded and hosted the Sundance Summit in July 2005 and again in 2006. The Summit has brought together seventy mayors from across the U.S. to discuss and plan action on climate change.
Anderson has been a strong advocate for the rights and interests of minority communities in Salt Lake City. In December 2001, state and federal officials organized a raid at the Salt Lake City Airport that selectively enforced immigration laws against undocumented employees, who were arrested, imprisoned, and lost their jobs. In response, Anderson created the Family to Family program, which made it possible for Salt Lake City families to provide direct emotional and financial assistance to the airport workers and their families. Additionally, the Mayor spearheaded a challenge to English-only legislation in Utah in 2000, and in 2006 spoke at two large demonstrations for comprehensive immigration reform.
For his leadership, Anderson received the League of United Latin American Citizens's first-ever "Profile in Courage" award, as well as the National Association of Hispanic Publications' Presidential Award, in 2006.
Anderson signed an executive order in 2000 implementing a full-fledged affirmative action program in City hiring. This program has led to historic levels of ethnic minority hiring and retention in City government. The City employs 34% more ethnic minorities compared to 1999, with a 90% increase in members of the ethnic minority community holding executive and administrative positions. Members of the minority community comprise more than one-third of his staff and more than one-third of his nominations to City boards and commissions.
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Anderson also signed executive orders that extend benefits to domestic partners of City employees, and ban discrimination against City employees on the basis of race, creed, gender, or sexual orientation. He co-convened the Alliance for Unity, a non-partisan group of religious and community leaders working to build bridges between people throughout Utah.
Anderson has been an outspoken advocate for drug policy reform, speaking at several national conferences and receiving the Drug Policy Alliance's 2005 Richard J. Dennis Drugpeace Award for outstanding achievements in the field of drug policy reform. He has also pushed for better security at the nation's airports, overseeing Salt Lake City International Airport's effort to become the first in the nation to screen all checked baggage for explosives.
William Purcell is an artist and photographer living in Oakland, CA. who holds academic degrees in business and art. The past 30 years of his professional career have been an exploration of the intersection between the two disciplines, most recently as a manager at The New Lab, a premier commercial photographic lab in San Francisco. His technical expertise and business knowledge have allowed him to earn his daily bread without compromising his artistic interests.
He is currently working on a series of documentary landscape photographs of Mountain View Cemetery, which was designed by New York's Central Park creator Frederick Law Olmsted. This project examines the nature of social stratification in a classic 19th Century cemetery.
William has a passion for art history, with a particular interest in photography as a catalyst for social change. This potpourri of professional and personal interests has led to a rather unique perspective on the business we call Art, which he loves to debate with anyone willing to have the conversation.
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