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Send us a textIn this episode of the Grow Clinton Podcast, Jenny and Andy are joined by Kari White and Megan Dove of the Downtoan Clinton Alliance (DCA). The DCA hosts a fantastic concert series called Music on the Avenue, which closes the 200 block of 5th Avenue South, right in the heart of Clinton's Downtown. Enjoy live music, dancing, a car show, food vendors, and refreshments (keep the cooler at home)!Be sure to follow Music on the Avenue on Facebook --> https://www.facebook.com/MusicOnTheAvenueClintonIA.Starts June 12th through August 14th, 2025.Food Vendors: 5:30 p.m.- 8:00 p.m.Live Music 6:00 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.Music on the Avenue would not be possible without the support of sponsors. If you're interested in sponsoring the event series, please email musicontheavenueclinton@gmail.com. To promote your member business or organization on the podcast, contact the Grow Clinton office at 563.242.5702 or visit us online at www.GrowClinton.com. Grow Clinton's mission is to promote business growth, build community, and advocate for the sustainable economic success of the Greater Clinton Region.

Send us a textIn this episode of the Grow Clinton Podcast, Andy and Jenny are joined by Clinton Rotary Club representatives to discuss food security and the upcoming summit. Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025Time: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PMLocation: Clinton Community College Career Advancement Center, 1210 11th Avenue South, Clinton, IowaFind the event on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/share/1Br98pTQ8Z/As part of her presidential project, Carrie, with help from the Rotary Foundation, has organized a county-wide food security summit. The four discuss the meaning of food security, details regarding the summit, and the desired goals. We will also share information on The Resource Room, define the county social agencies, and discuss the work already being accomplished. The Rotary Club of Clinton is a dedicated member of Grow Clinton, and we are excited to help their team promote the critical topic.If you want more info on promoting your member business or organization on the podcast, contact the Grow Clinton office at 563.242.5702 or visit us online at www.GrowClinton.com. Grow Clinton's mission is to promote business growth, build community, and advocate for the sustainable economic success of the Greater Clinton Region.

(The Center Square) – King County Metro is resuming bus services at a Seattle location that became an increasing public safety concern at the end of 2024. King County Metro closed bus stops along 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street in Seattle's Little Saigon neighborhood on Dec. 16. The department previously told The Center Square that the area was flagged as a safety concern for riders, transit operators and facilities employees. Support this podcast: https://secure.anedot.com/franklin-news-foundation/ce052532-b1e4-41c4-945c-d7ce2f52c38a?source_code=xxxxxx Read more: https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/article_391602a0-f08b-11ef-a6db-73123fd2125f.html

Seattle's escalating public safety crisis has forced King County Metro to shut down bus stops at a notoriously dangerous intersection near 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street. The area, plagued by rampant drug activity, theft, and violence, has seen mass stabbings and other serious crimes, creating unsafe conditions for drivers and passengers. In a tragic turn, a veteran Metro driver was stabbed to death during a confrontation in the University District, underscoring the urgent need for action. Critics argue Seattle's lax law enforcement and inadequate responses to homelessness and mental health crises have allowed the situation to spiral. This latest incident highlights the broader consequences of defunding police initiatives and ineffective crime policies. As King County officials emphasize transit safety, conservative voices call for restoring law and order and prioritizing public safety over progressive experiments that leave communities vulnerable.

Around 3:00am today, a King County Metro driver was fatally stabbed near the 4100 block of University Way in Seattle’s U-District. At a press conference this morning, King County Executive Dow Constantine said that the loss is being felt by everyone in county transit. "We are not always able to keep what's happening out on the streets away from the transit that operates on those streets," said Constantine. "We are doing everything that we can, and will continue to ramp up our efforts, to make sure that transit is safe for everyone. Including, especially, for our brave operators who are out on the streets every day." Greg Woodfill is the local president of the Amalgamated Transit Union #587. He said he’d like to see more regional resources dedicated to transit safety. "I don't have all the answers. This is a difficult, societal problem. What I know is that we're not doing enough," said Woodfill. "This is bigger than Metro, this is bigger than Seattle, this is the whole community that we serve." The attack comes just a couple days after Metro cut service to a cluster of stops around 12th Avenue South and South Jackson Street in the Chinatown International District because of ongoing “safety concerns.” For the latest, Soundside was joined by KUOW reporter Ann Dornfeld, who attended a press conference with transit and public officials in Tukwila this morning. Guests: Ann Dornfeld, reporter on the KUOW investigations team. Related links: KUOW - King County Metro bus driver killed in fatal U District stabbing King County Metro cites safety in closing Little Saigon bus stops | The Seattle Times Thank you to the supporters of KUOW, you help make this show possible! If you want to help out, go to kuow.org/donate/soundsidenotes Soundside is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're No Dam Experts: True Crime Edition. Get ready for some spooky tales on this episode! Megan Sanford with The History Museum has compiled a decade of research to create the "Grim Tales of Great Falls," including everything from a ransom note to a box of bones. Take a self-guided tour of the locations where these stories happened! Goodbye Goldie: Rosebud Alley, 217 1/2 1st Alley South Walter Holmes' freight accident: F.J. Giles & Co, 217 2nd Avenue South Dave Smith last seen: corner of 1st Avenue South and 2nd Street South Box of bones first found: Murphy Maclay Building, 7 2nd Street South Box of bones second found: Bach Cory Building, 103 Central Avenue Inspiration for baby's ransom: Conrad Bank, 324 Central Avenue Murdered husband: Davenport Hotel, 518 1/2 Central Avenue James Wilber hangs himself in jail: 311 3rd Avenue South Pick up a list with a map (keep in mind some addresses/buildings have changed) from The History Museum or our office at 15 Overlook Drive in Great Falls, Montana. The History Museum: https://visitgreatfallsmontana.org/listing-item/the-history-museum/

In an era defined by rapid technological advancements and pressing global health challenges, leaders like Seema Kumar stand at the forefront of innovation, wielding their expertise to forge transformative paths in healthcare. As CEO of Cure and with a distinguished career spanning Johnson & Johnson, and more, Seema Kumar embodies a commitment to integrating cutting-edge innovation with compassionate healthcare solutions. Join us as we delve into her insights on bridging innovation and healthcare to drive meaningful global impact. [02:01] - About Seema Kumar Seema is the CEO at Cure.  She has spent 20 years at Johnson & Johnson and has a background spanning NIH, Broad Institute, Whitehead Institute, and Hopkins. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tbcy/support

This content is for Members only. Come and join us by subscribing here In the meantime, here's some more details about the show: It's a warm welcome then to the man himself: Dr. Brad Stone - the JazzWeek Programmer of the Year 2017, who's here every Thursday to present The Creative Source - a two hour show, highlighting jazz-fusion and progressive jazz flavours from back then, the here and now, plus occasional forays into the future. Please feel free to get in touch with Brad with any comments or suggestions you might have; he'll be more than happy to hear from you: brad@soulandjazz.com or follow him via Facebook or Twitter. Enjoy! The Creative Source 20th June 2024 Artist - Track - Album - Year Maria Parker Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble    Sol de Barcelona    Windows Through Time    2024 Sergio Pamies feat. Dave Liebman    Miold Man    Time to Say    2024 Win Pongsakorn    Caipirinha    Time Has Changed    2024 Luke Stewart Silt Trio    The Slip    Unknown Rivers    2024 Jon Gordon    Paradox    7th Avenue South    2024 Lauren Henderson    Venas    Sombras    2024 Jo Harrop    A Love Like This    The Path of a Tear    2024 Lisa Rich    A Timeless Place (The Peacocks)    Long as You're Living    2024 Anthony Branker & Imagine    Three Gifts (From a Nigerian Mother to God)    Songs My Mom Liked    2024 Clarence Penn    Growing Trade    Behind the Voice    2024 EYM Trio    No Madness    Bangalore    2023 Buffalo Monroe    Willie Meets the Bull    Meets Willie Waldman    2024 Scott/Grant 5    The Tamarind Tree    Horizon Song    2024 Something Else! Featuring Vincent Herring    Driftin'    Soul Jazz    2024 Amina Figarova & Matsiko World Orphan Choir    Paper Kites    Suite for Africa    2024 Antonio Adolfo    You Do Something to Me    Love Cole Porter    2024 Andrea Wolper    Sobe e Desce    Wanderlust    2024 Fernando Huergo Big Band    Vidalita    Relentless    2024 Tomy Romano    Cadillac Green    Three Card Monte    2024 Olin Clark    Veronica    Ephemera    2024 The Haas Company Featuring Andy Timmons    Arrow of Time    Galactic Tide    2024 Natsuki Tamura & Jim Black    City of Night    NatJim    2024 The post The Creative Source (#CreativeSource) – 20th June 2024 appeared first on SoulandJazz.com | Stereo, not stereotypical ®.

This content is for Members only. Come and join us by subscribing here In the meantime, here's some more details about the show: It's a warm welcome then to the man himself: Dr. Brad Stone - the JazzWeek Programmer of the Year 2017, who's here every Thursday to present The Creative Source - a two hour show, highlighting jazz-fusion and progressive jazz flavours from back then, the here and now, plus occasional forays into the future. Please feel free to get in touch with Brad with any comments or suggestions you might have; he'll be more than happy to hear from you: brad@soulandjazz.com or follow him via Facebook or Twitter. Enjoy! The Creative Source 20th June 2024 Artist - Track - Album - Year Maria Parker Indo Latin Jazz Ensemble    Sol de Barcelona    Windows Through Time    2024 Sergio Pamies feat. Dave Liebman    Miold Man    Time to Say    2024 Win Pongsakorn    Caipirinha    Time Has Changed    2024 Luke Stewart Silt Trio    The Slip    Unknown Rivers    2024 Jon Gordon    Paradox    7th Avenue South    2024 Lauren Henderson    Venas    Sombras    2024 Jo Harrop    A Love Like This    The Path of a Tear    2024 Lisa Rich    A Timeless Place (The Peacocks)    Long as You're Living    2024 Anthony Branker & Imagine    Three Gifts (From a Nigerian Mother to God)    Songs My Mom Liked    2024 Clarence Penn    Growing Trade    Behind the Voice    2024 EYM Trio    No Madness    Bangalore    2023 Buffalo Monroe    Willie Meets the Bull    Meets Willie Waldman    2024 Scott/Grant 5    The Tamarind Tree    Horizon Song    2024 Something Else! Featuring Vincent Herring    Driftin'    Soul Jazz    2024 Amina Figarova & Matsiko World Orphan Choir    Paper Kites    Suite for Africa    2024 Antonio Adolfo    You Do Something to Me    Love Cole Porter    2024 Andrea Wolper    Sobe e Desce    Wanderlust    2024 Fernando Huergo Big Band    Vidalita    Relentless    2024 Tomy Romano    Cadillac Green    Three Card Monte    2024 Olin Clark    Veronica    Ephemera    2024 The Haas Company Featuring Andy Timmons    Arrow of Time    Galactic Tide    2024 Natsuki Tamura & Jim Black    City of Night    NatJim    2024 The post The Creative Source (#CreativeSource) – 20th June 2024 appeared first on SoulandJazz.com | Stereo, not stereotypical ®.

Today, Thursday, June 13 on Urban Forum Northwest :*April Sims, President of the Washington State Labor Council (WSLC) AFL CILO and Cherika Carter Secretary Treasurer of the Washington State Labor Council AFL CIO are co sponsors of Race, Labor, and Reparations that Juneteenth Celebration will be held Saturday, June 15 1:00-2:30 pm in front of the WSLC Office at 321 16th Avenue South. Reverend Dr. Robert L. Jeffrey, Sr. and Reparations Advocate Larry Gossett will speak.*Michael Woo and Harley Byrd were both leaders in the United Construction Workers Association UCWA, they pay tribute to Tyree Scott, Silme Domingo, and Gene Viernes who will be remembered for their activism at LELO's Annual Awards Dinner "No Separate Peace" on Saturday, June 15 at 5:30 pm at the Brockey Center at South College.*Apostle James E. Sears III and KL Shannon invite you today's 6:00 pm Unity March from Jimi Hendrix Park to Garfield High School. This is in response to the murder of Garfield High School student Amarr Murphy-Paine. The community showed up to greet students back to the school on Tuesday morning after being closed last Friday and this Monday.*Reverend Dr. Leslie Braxton invites you to Juneteenth Songs of Black Folks-Music of Resistance and Hope on Sunday, June 16 at 7:00 pm (PDT) at Seattle's paramount Theater. The event will feature local and national artist. Ramon Bryant Braxton is the Artistic Director and Conductor.JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS*Reverend Dr. Linda M. Smith invites to Renton's Juneteenth Celebration "A Freedom Celebration" Saturday, June 15 11:00 am-6:00 pm at Liberty Park.*Cherryl Jackson Williams is one of the coordinators of the Skyway Juneteenth Celebration and Festival on Saturday, June 15 at the Campbell Hill Elementary School field 641 124th Street.*Tana Yasu, Convener, Joe Brazil Legacy Project invites you to the Wednesday, June 19 Juneteenth Celebration 3:00-7:00 pm at Rumba Notes Lounge in Columbia City. The event will feature Phyllis Talley, Then-N-Now, Lonnie Williams, CT Thompson, and DJ Zeta.Urban Forum Northwest streams live at www.1150kknw.com. Visit us at www.urbanforumnw.com for archived programs and relevant information.Like us on facebook. Twitter X@Eddie_Rye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Today, Thursday, June 13 on Urban Forum Northwest : *April Sims, President of the Washington State Labor Council (WSLC) AFL CILO and Cherika Carter Secretary Treasurer of the Washington State Labor Council AFL CIO are co sponsors of Race, Labor, and Reparations that Juneteenth Celebration will be held Saturday, June 15 1:00-2:30 pm in front of the WSLC Office at 321 16th Avenue South. Reverend Dr. Robert L. Jeffrey, Sr. and Reparations Advocate Larry Gossett will speak. *Michael Woo and Harley Byrd were both leaders in the United Construction Workers Association UCWA, they pay tribute to Tyree Scott, Silme Domingo, and Gene Viernes who will be remembered for their activism at LELO's Annual Awards Dinner "No Separate Peace" on Saturday, June 15 at 5:30 pm at the Brockey Center at South College. *Apostle James E. Sears III and KL Shannon invite you today's 6:00 pm Unity March from Jimi Hendrix Park to Garfield High School. This is in response to the murder of Garfield High School student Amarr Murphy-Paine. The community showed up to greet students back to the school on Tuesday morning after being closed last Friday and this Monday. *Reverend Dr. Leslie Braxton invites you to Juneteenth Songs of Black Folks-Music of Resistance and Hope on Sunday, June 16 at 7:00 pm (PDT) at Seattle's paramount Theater. The event will feature local and national artist. Ramon Bryant Braxton is the Artistic Director and Conductor. JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS *Reverend Dr. Linda M. Smith invites to Renton's Juneteenth Celebration "A Freedom Celebration" Saturday, June 15 11:00 am-6:00 pm at Liberty Park. *Cherryl Jackson Williams is one of the coordinators of the Skyway Juneteenth Celebration and Festival on Saturday, June 15 at the Campbell Hill Elementary School field 641 124th Street. *Tana Yasu, Convener, Joe Brazil Legacy Project invites you to the Wednesday, June 19 Juneteenth Celebration 3:00-7:00 pm at Rumba Notes Lounge in Columbia City. The event will feature Phyllis Talley, Then-N-Now, Lonnie Williams, CT Thompson, and DJ Zeta. Urban Forum Northwest streams live at www.1150kknw.com. Visit us at www.urbanforumnw.com for archived programs and relevant information. Like us on facebook. Twitter X@Eddie_Rye.

Today, Thursday, June 13 on Urban Forum Northwest : *April Sims, President of the Washington State Labor Council (WSLC) AFL CILO and Cherika Carter Secretary Treasurer of the Washington State Labor Council AFL CIO are co sponsors of Race, Labor, and Reparations that Juneteenth Celebration will be held Saturday, June 15 1:00-2:30 pm in front of the WSLC Office at 321 16th Avenue South. Reverend Dr. Robert L. Jeffrey, Sr. and Reparations Advocate Larry Gossett will speak. *Michael Woo and Harley Byrd were both leaders in the United Construction Workers Association UCWA, they pay tribute to Tyree Scott, Silme Domingo, and Gene Viernes who will be remembered for their activism at LELO's Annual Awards Dinner “No Separate Peace” on Saturday, June 15 at 5:30 pm at the Brockey Center at South College. *Apostle James E. Sears III and KL Shannon invite you today's 6:00 pm Unity March from Jimi Hendrix Park to Garfield High School. This is in response to the murder of Garfield High School student Amarr Murphy-Paine. The community showed up to greet students back to the school on Tuesday morning after being closed last Friday and this Monday. *Reverend Dr. Leslie Braxton invites you to Juneteenth Songs of Black Folks-Music of Resistance and Hope on Sunday, June 16 at 7:00 pm (PDT) at Seattle's paramount Theater. The event will feature local and national artist. Ramon Bryant Braxton is the Artistic Director and Conductor. JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS *Reverend Dr. Linda M. Smith invites to Renton's Juneteenth Celebration “A Freedom Celebration” Saturday, June 15 11:00 am-6:00 pm at Liberty Park. *Cherryl Jackson Williams is one of the coordinators of the Skyway Juneteenth Celebration and Festival on Saturday, June 15 at the Campbell Hill Elementary School field 641 124th Street. *Tana Yasu, Convener, Joe Brazil Legacy Project invites you to the Wednesday, June 19 Juneteenth Celebration 3:00-7:00 pm at Rumba Notes Lounge in Columbia City. The event will feature Phyllis Talley, Then-N-Now, Lonnie Williams, CT Thompson, and DJ Zeta. Urban Forum Northwest streams live at www.1150kknw.com. Visit us at www.urbanforumnw.com for archived programs and relevant information. Like us on facebook. Twitter X@Eddie_Rye.

Thursday, May 9 on Urban Forum Northwest:*Hamdi Mohamed, president, Seattle Port Commission invites constituents to participate in the Port of Seattle Budget 101and the South County Impact Fund process on May 9 6-8 pm at El Centro de la Raza, 2524 16th Avenue South, Seattle,98144 and May 16 6-8 pm at Green River College, 417 Ramsay Way, Suite 112, Kent WA 98032.*Maria Doucettperry, Sound Transit's Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer and Edson Zavala, Sound Transit's Director of Economic Development. Both play a crucial role in holding the agency accountable to advancing and elevating the agency's values and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Ms. Doucettperry was the Director of Equal Opportunity and Title IX at the University of Nevada, Reno. Mr. Zavala held a similar position with the City of Seattle.*Attorney Jesse Wineberry, Sr. is Co Founder, Washington Equity Now Alliance (WENA) and is a Delegate to the Washington State Democratic Convention that will be held at the Meydenbauer Center June 21, 22 & 23. Attorney Wineberry and supporters of the Reparations Resolutions that is on the agenda is expected to get a lot of support for passage.*Ramon Bryant Braxton, Artistic Director/Conductor 2024 Songs of Black Folks:Music of Resistance and Hope that will feature Special Guest Artist John Stoddart, Crystal Akin, several recording artist, 40 Voice Choir, a 50 Piece Orchestra. This Fathers Day & Juneteenth event will he held at Seattle's Paramount Theater on June 16 at 7:00 pm (PDT).Urban Forum Northwest streams live at www.1150kknw.com. Visit us at www.urbanforumnw.com for archived programs and relevant informatiom. Like us on facebook. Twitter X@Eddie_Rye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Thursday, May 9 on Urban Forum Northwest: *Hamdi Mohamed, president, Seattle Port Commission invites constituents to participate in the Port of Seattle Budget 101and the South County Impact Fund process on May 9 6-8 pm at El Centro de la Raza, 2524 16th Avenue South, Seattle, 98144 and May 16 6-8 pm at Green River College, 417 Ramsay Way, Suite 112, Kent WA 98032. *Maria Doucettperry, Sound Transit's Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer and Edson Zavala, Sound Transit's Director of Economic Development. Both play a crucial role in holding the agency accountable to advancing and elevating the agency's values and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Ms. Doucettperry was the Director of Equal Opportunity and Title IX at the University of Nevada, Reno. Mr. Zavala held a similar position with the City of Seattle. *Attorney Jesse Wineberry, Sr. is Co Founder, Washington Equity Now Alliance (WENA) and is a Delegate to the Washington State Democratic Convention that will be held at the Meydenbauer Center June 21, 22 & 23. Attorney Wineberry and supporters of the Reparations Resolutions that is on the agenda is expected to get a lot of support for passage. *Ramon Bryant Braxton, Artistic Director/Conductor 2024 Songs of Black Folks:Music of Resistance and Hope that will feature Special Guest Artist John Stoddart, Crystal Akin, several recording artist, 40 Voice Choir, a 50 Piece Orchestra. This Fathers Day & Juneteenth event will he held at Seattle's Paramount Theater on June 16 at 7:00 pm (PDT). Urban Forum Northwest streams live at www.1150kknw.com. Visit us at www.urbanforumnw.com for archived programs and relevant informatiom. Like us on facebook. Twitter X@Eddie_Rye.

Thursday, May 9 on Urban Forum Northwest: *Hamdi Mohamed, president, Seattle Port Commission invites constituents to participate in the Port of Seattle Budget 101and the South County Impact Fund process on May 9 6-8 pm at El Centro de la Raza, 2524 16th Avenue South, Seattle, 98144 and May 16 6-8 pm at Green River College, 417 Ramsay Way, Suite 112, Kent WA 98032. *Maria Doucettperry, Sound Transit's Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer and Edson Zavala, Sound Transit's Director of Economic Development. Both play a crucial role in holding the agency accountable to advancing and elevating the agency's values and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Ms. Doucettperry was the Director of Equal Opportunity and Title IX at the University of Nevada, Reno. Mr. Zavala held a similar position with the City of Seattle. *Attorney Jesse Wineberry, Sr. is Co Founder, Washington Equity Now Alliance (WENA) and is a Delegate to the Washington State Democratic Convention that will be held at the Meydenbauer Center June 21, 22 & 23. Attorney Wineberry and supporters of the Reparations Resolutions that is on the agenda is expected to get a lot of support for passage. *Ramon Bryant Braxton, Artistic Director/Conductor 2024 Songs of Black Folks:Music of Resistance and Hope that will feature Special Guest Artist John Stoddart, Crystal Akin, several recording artist, 40 Voice Choir, a 50 Piece Orchestra. This Fathers Day & Juneteenth event will he held at Seattle's Paramount Theater on June 16 at 7:00 pm (PDT). Urban Forum Northwest streams live at www.1150kknw.com. Visit us at www.urbanforumnw.com for archived programs and relevant informatiom. Like us on facebook. Twitter X@Eddie_Rye.

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#CRE: #SCALAREPORT: The $1.00 office building on Park Avenue South at 26th. Chris Riegel, Scala.com. #STRATACACHE https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/who-could-be-next-largest-canadian-pension-fund-sells-manhattan-office-tower-1 1911 Brooklyn to Manhattan

PREVIEW: #CRE: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Chris Riegel of Scala.com re the report of a Canadian pension fund selling a well located  26th and Park Avenue South NYC office building fior $1.00 plus taking over the loan servicing.  More of this later today. 1900 Ottawa

This week for What Where Wednesday, we discuss Cannery Hall with general manager Brent Hyams. The site off 8th Avenue South formerly known as Cannery Ballroom, Mercy Lounge and the High Watt, sold to a New York-based real estate company back in 2019. After undergoing renovations for the new space, the new Cannery Hall is set to start running shows starting tonight. Hyams discuss the process and vision for the venue.

Jim Field visits with Dona Tuel, who operates the non-profit, "Prom Closet."  The project accepts donations of floor-lengthy gowns and gives those who might not otherwise be able to afford a prom dress the opportunity to select free, pre-used dresses.  The Prom Closet is located at the Ascension Lutheran Church in Coon Rapids (406 5th Avenue South).  You can reach Dona at 712-830-7825.  Free Shopping Days are scheduled for: Saturday, February 3 from 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Saturday, February 10, from 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Saturday, February 17, from 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Saturday, February 24, from 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Sunday, February 18, from 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Sunday February 25, from 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Gasoline will be sold for $3.82 a gallon at a Kent service station for two hours tomorrow, Wed. September 13th, from 10am-noon. KVI's John Carlson interviews the architect of the $3.82 a gallon gas plan, Dann Mead Smith, with the group Future 42. Mead Smith explains the restrictions and guidelines for drivers who pull up to the Jackson's Shell Station at 22588 84th Avenue South. Here's the link for the Jackson's Shell station location. https://www.mapquest.com/us/washington/jacksons-269941696

Hacks & Wonks will return next Friday with a regular week-in-review! In the meantime, please enjoy this re-air where Crystal is joined by Mike McGinn of America Walks and Coté Soerens of Reconnect South Park to learn about their work with the Freeway Fighters Network. Mike shares a broad overview of the movement's efforts to remove crumbling highway infrastructure while addressing the climate, health, and equity issues these concrete structures have caused. As a resident of Seattle's South Park, Coté reflects on the throughline of Highway 99 running through the middle of her community – connecting a history of red-lining, displacement, and racism to the present-day impacts on the neighborhood's livability, pollution exposure, and life expectancy. Mike and Coté call out the lack of imagination exhibited by the country's attachment to highways and paint a compelling vision that replaces underutilized thoroughfares with vibrant, connected communities. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Follow us on Twitter at @HacksWonks. Find the host, Crystal Fincher, on Twitter at @finchfrii and find Mike McGinn at @mayormcginn and Coté Soerens at @cotesoerens.   Mike McGinn Mike is the Executive Director of national nonprofit America Walks.  He got his start in local politics as a neighborhood activist pushing for walkability. From there he founded a non-profit focused on sustainable and equitable growth, and then became mayor of Seattle. Just before joining America Walks, Mike worked to help Feet First, Washington State's walking advocacy organization, expand their sphere of influence across Washington state. He has worked on numerous public education, legislative, ballot measure and election campaigns – which has given him an abiding faith in the power of organizing and volunteers to create change.  Coté Soerens Coté Soerens calls herself a midwife to a thriving local coffee shop that has become a hub for community organization and activism. Living in the South Park neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, a community filled with immigrants and people of color where opportunities are limited, Soerens felt called to create spaces of belonging. In 2017, while hosting a dinner for neighborhood friends, Soerens realized that, even without secured funding, she had all she needed to create a local coffee shop, where local youth could find employment and where neighbors could meet to discuss local issues and organize. Soerens, along with the neighborhood, has even bigger dreams. Reconnect South Park initiative's dream is to ultimately decommission the highway which cuts the neighborhood in half and to reclaim those 44 acres for equitable development.   Resources Freeway Fighters Network   Reconnecting Communities Campaign | America Walks   Reconnect South Park   “South Park Joins Growing Movement to Dismantle Freeways” by Agueda Pacheco from The Urbanist    “Seattle residents drive movement to tear out Highway 99 in South Park” by David Kroman from The Seattle Times   “Feds award money to study removing Highway 99 in one Seattle neighborhood” by David Kroman in The Seattle Times   Transcript [00:00:00] Crystal Fincher: Welcome to Hacks & Wonks. I'm Crystal Fincher, and I'm a political consultant and your host. On this show, we talk with policy wonks and political hacks to gather insight into local politics and policy in Washington state through the lens of those doing the work with behind-the-scenes perspectives on what's happening, why it's happening, and what you can do about it. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get the full versions of our Friday almost-live shows and our midweek show delivered to your podcast feed. If you like us, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review wherever you listen to Hacks & Wonks. Full transcripts and resources referenced in the show are always available at officialhacksandwonks.com and in our episode notes. Well, today I'm thrilled to welcome two guests to the podcast. The first, Mike McGinn - you're used to hearing him on Fridays, as we do weeks-in-review. But today we are talking about what's in his wheelhouse, really, in America Walks, the organization that's helping to build a nationwide movement to reconnect communities divided by wide roads and overbuilt arterials - that hosts the Freeway Fighters Network, which calls for increased investment in walkable, equitable, connected, and accessible places by divesting from polluting highways. And Coté Soerens with the Freeway Fighters Network - representing a broad coalition of public and private sector leaders, community activists, and multidisciplinary professionals - dedicating ourselves to championing design, equity, and policy principles that center people before highways. Welcome to you both. As we get started, I just wanted to start with you, Mike, and what got you involved with this work? [00:01:53] Mike McGinn: Oh my God, it just depends where you want to start. Probably a big starting point for me was the realization, as a climate advocate, of the role of transportation in climate emissions, which - when I was working in the mid-2000s on Seattle's Climate Action Plan, transportation was 40% of all emissions because we had hydropower. We'd already gotten off of coal. What's fascinating now is that as the nation is getting off of coal, which is great and renewables are the way to go - it's just the cheapest, best way to go - that's now what's happening nationwide. Transportation is now the largest source of emissions. But then once you start getting into it, even the littlest bit, you also see tremendous equity issues, like who has access to the transportation system. Right now it requires a car mainly - and if you have to walk, bike, and use transit, you're denied of a lot of opportunities because we've built a system that's very hostile to getting around that way. And oftentimes it's hostile because it's wide, fast roads, it's freeways that have divided communities, lack of sidewalks, not having bus lanes, they're not prioritizing transit, all of that. So huge equity issues, huge health issues as well. Apartment buildings tend to be, and residences tend to be near those wide roads - and all the pollutants you breathe in has tremendous negative effects on the health of everyone living nearby. And again, that's an equity issue as well. We intentionally do this. You'll hear people argue for this - the apartment buildings belong next to the arterials to protect the single-family neighborhoods. So in other words, the people of lower incomes need to breathe more pollution so that we, in the leafy green neighborhoods, who are better off can breathe less pollution. It's - yeah, the whole thing is just an extreme failure of public policy, and planning, and building for the future. And of course, it's not even a good transportation system. Obviously when you're excluding a huge portion of the population that doesn't drive because of age, because of ability, or because of income - already it's bad. That's not a way you raise all boats, so to speak. That's not a rising tide that lifts all boats. It's something that divides us, but it's also extraordinarily wasteful and expensive. Which kind of brings us back to the freeway work as well. We're at the stage now - and the Alaska Way viaduct on our waterfront was an example of that - where after you've had that concrete structure around for 50 or 60 years, it's ready to be replaced. It's gonna fall down. It's gonna take a big expenditure to replace it. And what more and more places are realizing is - Let's not replace it with another highway. Let's replace it with a surface street, or maybe no street at all. And let's put the dollars we would have spent into rebuilding this inequitable, polluting, climate-changing monstrosity of infrastructure - let's put the money into walking, biking, transit, or geez, how about affordable housing? How about letting people live back in communities again - live near jobs and services? And those are all the arguments. We've had no shortage of arguments - good, really good ones - why we should do this. We're starting to see them take hold, but the US still has not let go of its highway-building mania with all its negative effects, but we are starting to see some cracks, so to speak, in the unity that's been around highway building for decades. And we're actually seeing the beginning of a freeway removal moment, and at the very least, we should be stopping highway expansion, and I get to do that work now at America Walks, too. [00:05:26] Crystal Fincher: And Coté, how did you get involved in this work and why is it important to remove freeways? [00:05:31] Coté Soerens: Well, I got involved in this work by living in a neighborhood that was cut in two by a highway that was never actually very popular. For residents in South Park, this portion - it's a portion of Highway 99 State Route - was fought very proactively by the residents of South Park back in the '50s, but Washington State Department of Transportation at the time decided to go with it anyway. What I do love about this movement of highway removal and walkability is basically the emergence of a new imagination, nationally, around how life should be lived. It seems that if you look at the time that this highway in my neighborhood was built back in the '50s, the imagination then was - Let's expand car availability - and there were different values that were being worked at the time. And now, 70 years later, we want different things as a society, we need different things. We tried the car designs, urbanism, and we have found that it's not equitable, it's also horrible, and also - it's funny - you have to pay a premium for a walking score of 90. Now it's like a privilege to live in a walkable neighborhood. So back to the question how I got involved in this. I've lived in South Park for 10 years. I've raised three boys in this neighborhood and South Park, actually, it's a pretty interesting place in Seattle. It's been a red-lined neighborhood back in - if we get a little wonky with history - back at the turn of the century. And then I feel that I find this history of South Park fascinating because it seems to be a history of government consistently missing out on what residents of our community are saying. It seems like - We hear what you're saying, and yet we don't care. We're gonna move forward anyway. So this story has been replicating itself around this highway. Back in the 1900s, South Park was a farming community - it was its own little town in Seattle. And it was a thriving neighborhood of farmers that actually started the Pike Place Market, which is very famous nationally. And it's always been a community after - the Duwamish were here originally in the ancestral lands - then it's been a community of immigrants, and it's been a community of Italian immigrants back at a time where Italians were not considered white. And in the planning map of the town, of the time, South Park is seen as "hazardous," which is a word that has been used in planning before to say it's non-white. And now that it's environmentally challenged, we see the word "hazardous" and would say - Oh wow, yes, of course, there is a Superfund in it - there is the Duwamish River. But if you go back to the time - no, it was a farming community, which changes the meaning of "hazardous." So at the time, Seattle wanted to annex this little town of South Park into the city with very different expectations than the residents had. So at the time, Seattle City Council thought - Well, there is a river in the park that is really good for industry. So we're going to annex this neighborhood to make it industrial and push out all the residents. The residents, on the other hand, were thinking - Whoa, if we get annexed to Seattle, we can get better permits for our sewer system and other amenities. So they both entered into this "agreement" and with very different expectations. Now, the City of Seattle - wanting to make this place industrial - what got accomplished out of that was the Duwamish River became a Superfund site and then industry was started popping around. And by the time the plans for the highway to cross this residential core were conceived, it was thought of as a very convenient way to discourage the residential - so that we could continue with the work of making this area industrial. So all the protests of the time, in the '50s, of residents were sorely ignored. That highway didn't make any sense and it still doesn't make any sense. It's a very redundant grid. Many people don't know this, but when we talk about removing the portion of Highway 99, people think that we're talking about this other one - this 509 - which is what people use to get to the airport. And it's not that one. You can still get to the airport. It's a portion that connects I-5 and 509 and it goes right connected to it. So I'm totally not answering your question, Crystal, about how I got involved. So the way I got involved was Cayce James and the City at the time, put together a group of people - stakeholders in the neighborhood - to walk around the neighborhood. And we were making different tours of different places around the neighborhood - the community center, the library. And on every stop, people will be talking about problems caused by this portion of the highway. So I remember looking around to my tour partners and saying - Hey guys, you all realize that all these problems go away if you just shut the dang highway, right? And the reaction was a reaction that I often get, which was to look at me and say - Cute, moving on. They really didn't think of this as a viable solution - to just cut an underutilized highway in order to resolve issues such as pollution, safety, lack of walkability, lack of access for kids to their school, and other problems this highway creates. And what that did for me was to see firsthand the problems with the illusion of permanence. People do see a highway and they think it's been there forever and it will be there forever. They don't think about it like - No, this was actually an expression of certain values that we hold as a society, and when our values change, we can also change our built environment. We can change the highway. At some point, I remember Cayce James, who hosted this tour around the neighborhood, reached out and we started talking and she said - Hey, you know what? I've been thinking about this too. I think it's possible to remove this highway. So we started talking and then we got connected with the folks from PlacemakingUS, who I just mentioned this idea - Hey, Madeleine Spencer and Ryan Smolar. Hey, how about - I've been thinking about removing this highway. What do you think? They said - Hey, there is a whole movement across the country on highway removal. And we were connected with Freeway Fighters, and then we started learning that across the country, so many communities were having this idea of reconnecting communities, thinking about land differently, really considering the opportunity cost of having a highway crossing the neighborhood. For us in Seattle, we have had problems with affordability for a long time. The City has not been effective at creating policy that will stabilize the real estate market and actually preserve cultural space, preserve housing, affordable housing - particularly for communities of color. When thinking about this portion of the highway crossing South Park, you can see 44 acres of land that could be utilized in a different way. That, to me, creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity to actually make more land for equitable development. So for all these reasons, I am particularly excited about getting this highway out of our neighborhood. And another thing that I need to mention is that this highway - it's so interesting how it was designed - it goes through every single place where kids play. It goes right next to the community center, the skate park, the library, and the elementary school. It seems to have been designed to cut children's life expectancy by 13 years, which it does. There are studies about this. So I can talk to you for three hours about reasons why this highway needs to be removed. [00:12:35] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, it's really important. It makes a difference. And both of you touched on the racialized history of highways and just the impact that this has on communities, on families, and particularly on health. Transportation is the number one polluter in our state, in our area. And what you just talked about - I feel like sometimes people hear statistics and they don't really apply it to people's lives. But when you talk about a life expectancy that is that much shorter - in Seattle - it feels neglectful. It feels criminal almost. It feels wrong that we know that these types of harms are being forced upon our children. And we aren't taking that into account so often when we have these repeated conversations every single year about what highways we're gonna build, expand, put in. And these are conversations that aren't just - they certainly absolutely started in the '50s and we started that whole domino effect rolling. But now we have the chance to review what we're doing to make modifications, whether it's Highway 99 in South Park, whether it's the Interstate Bridge Replacement between Washington and Oregon. We had this out - and Mike McGinn is notorious and has been pretty much vindicated, it looks like - for fighting against the Highway 99 tunnel in Seattle. But we seem to so easily dismiss the negative harms that this has on neighborhoods, on affordability, on health, on just our quality of life. How do you view just the importance of really taking all of these factors into account as we make these policies, Mike? [00:14:19] Mike McGinn: Well, first of all, I just have to say that as a mayor, you're not supposed to have any favorite neighborhoods. But if I had a favorite neighborhood, South Park would be pretty darn close. I spent a lot of time down there as mayor, but I also spent time there before mayor - my kids played basketball in the rec leagues and I played ultimate frisbee in the schools. And I'd be down there in those playing fields at South Park Community Center. And yeah, you're right next to the highway. And that highway doesn't carry that many cars either. The reason people confuse it with 509 is because it's not really that useful a section of highway, but it certainly carries enough cars for the noise and pollution to be meaningful. And it's also not at all surprising, tragically, that it's a community like South Park that gets a highway like this. What you see is - when you look at where freeways were built across the country, they almost always went through Black or Brown or poor neighborhoods - because that was where there would be the least political resistance to building it. And they oftentimes would get a little more convoluted in the route to avoid wealthy neighborhoods. So it's worth thinking about that - would you - and take a look at where the, take a look at the property values near big bustling highways and the ones further away. I'm not talking about downtown, which has its own economic thing - but even there, the properties right next to the highway were the last to develop. And the ones that are a few blocks away developed faster. And if you look at Seattle, the wealthiest neighborhoods are the furthest from the highway. So we built a system that was designed to speed people in and out of the city at the expense of other people. And the equity issues are really tremendous. And South Park - it's a textbook case, really, of that - when you see all the highways going through South Park. And then of course they're under the airport and everything else - under the airport flight routes. So you'd like to think that decisions about how to build a transportation system and how to route highways and all the rest were based on rigorous analysis of the data - what's the most public good we can generate from this. And certainly we dress it up that way - that there's a plan and it was done for a certain way. But anytime you dig into it, you found that it's really a reflection of who did have power in the political system at the time and who did not. So we speed the commute of people from wealthier places and we subsidize that with the lungs and health of poor people where those highways go through. And if it were your neighborhood, you wouldn't stand for it. So of course South Park would like to see it removed. And we're talking about SR 99 here, right - which is kind of a weird route - it's not 509, but they intend to extend 509 to connect with I-5 right now. This is underway. And when that connection is complete - they've been working on this for years - they call it now the Puget Sound Gateway Project, used to be called the SR 509 extension. It's been labeled nationwide as a highway boondoggle - it's a nationally known highway boondoggle - the 509 extension. That's gonna siphon off tens of thousands of cars a day from I-5 to send them to a back way into Seattle, which is not gonna be that fast 'cause that back way is gonna run right into the First Avenue South Bridge, which is always backed up. And so where will that traffic jam be - at the First Avenue South Bridge? It's gonna be in South Park again. I mean, honestly - WSDOT should rip out 99 just as an apology for building the 509 extension 'cause they're actually making it worse right now. [00:17:55] Coté Soerens: So you do have, yes - the equity issues are so blatant when you look at the highway grid in Seattle. Even if you have wealthy neighborhoods next to the I-5, you have sound barriers and other appropriate ways to mitigate the effects of it. But there are things in the history of this particular portion of the highway that are really painful. For example, the land upon which it was built - it was conveniently left vacant by the Japanese internment. Much of that land was built on homes that belonged to Japanese farmers. There is a house actually that was transported from South Park to the Hiroshima Museum of the Japanese-American Experience. So there are these undertones to this highway that, in a way, make it a monument to racism. And as we are removing monuments across the country, this one might be one of the ones that we can remove. But also what I find very concerning is the lack of imagination - 'cause that's also part of it. I don't see anybody at Department of Transportation being - Hey, let's be as racist as we can. I think it might be, it is often an issue of - We know to do highways, so we're going to just do highways. And when it came to the decision of building this portion of 99 across South Park, the history of it tells us the story of residents making their case that it shouldn't be built. And Washington State Department of Transportation said - Yeah, we know, but we already started. We have the plans, we're about to start, so we're gonna do it anyway. And it was supposed to be a federal highway, but it was so underutilized - as it is today - that nearly six years later, six years after its completion, it was demoted from a federal highway to a state route, which to us is a smoking gun right there. Yes, it's a very irrelevant piece of highway in the grid. The need for a new imagination, the need for people to think of a better way to live life that does not rely on highways and to be able to invite departments of transportations across the nation to think differently about transportation - I think that's a really great opportunity that this movement has. And I think that Pete Buttigieg has really, really done the movement a favor in the sense of making this idea more mainstream in ways. There is a lot of room to grow, of course, with the Reconnecting Communities Initiative, but I'm actually hopeful about the ability of people in communities to think of new ways about how to build their communities. I'm really hoping that this is a good means for neighborhoods and cities to think differently. [00:20:34] Crystal Fincher: Now, I want to talk about the how of this really - 'cause there's still a lot of people, and a lot of the general conversation for people who don't follow this for their job is - Hey, you know what? You just said that this highway will take some pressure off of I-5 and man, I'm sick of sitting in traffic on I-5. So isn't that a positive thing? And wow - this is supposed to connect people and help people get from A to B faster? What does it mean to remove a highway? Does nothing go in its place? Where do those cars go? Is it going to be a burden for everyone? How do you answer that, Mike? [00:21:12] Mike McGinn: Well, the first thing you have to realize is that we've created - if the idea was that by building a freeway system through populated places, we would make transportation work really smoothly - I think we got about 50 or 60 years of evidence that it's a failure. Any economically successful place cannot possibly accommodate all of the mobility needs of its residents through limited access freeways and through single occupancy vehicles. And it's not a question of ideology or even climate or health or anything else - it's really just a question of geometry. A car that holds 1-1.5 people per trip on average - there's not enough room for all the cars, which is why we also saw so many downtowns kind of get the parking crater around their downtown office buildings, where you got - parking lots had to be built to accommodate all the vehicles. And it's not something that can be met. The other thing you do when you do a system like that is you really encourage everybody to sprawl out over the landscape. Whereas before you needed to be within a closer proximity for transit to work, or maybe walking to work, or streetcars to work - now you can live in more distant places. So those freeways then fill up again, 'cause what you've done is you've filled up the landscape with people that have to drive, right? They have to spread all over the place. So now once you do that for 50 or 60 years, as we've done, it's kind of reasonable for people to go - Well, how could you do something differently? We're now at a point where people, for most of them in their lifetimes, have not lived in an environment in which that wasn't true. But we can look at other places around the globe, or we can look at smaller units of our country, and see where many more people are moved by a combination of walking, biking, and transit - particularly if you put the housing closer to the destinations. So that's what we haven't done. Now, what we've seen, now let's just - now that may sound all pie in the sky. Well, that'll take forever to build all that transit and do all that housing. But let's take a look at SR 99 on the waterfront. How many times did we talk about the Carmageddon that would come when the viaduct closed, as it did for lengthy periods of time for construction reasons, and it never materialized. And it didn't materialize because actually a lot of those auto trips are by choice. People could choose a different time of day. They could choose a different place to go. They could combine trips, or they could choose an alternative like transit. So what you saw every time the viaduct was closed was that in fact, everything worked a little more smoothly, believe it or not, because people - it turns out people have brains and they will not mindlessly drive into traffic and they will adapt their behavior. And that's what we see happen again and again - not just on the Seattle waterfront, but every place this is predicted. And those cities that have removed highways, what they find is that the Carmageddons don't materialize, but they regain this land just as Coté was talking about. They regain this land for, really, all these other great purposes. One of the best purposes would be housing - what we know is so many people - our young people, our immigrant and refugee communities, our Black and Brown communities that have been lower income communities, service workers pushed out of the city by higher housing prices. What if we started investing those dollars in making it easier for people to drive from further and further away? We say easier, but you got to own a car for that. You got to pay all the expenses of that. What if instead we put people closer where they could actually use transit and could be taxpayers in the city? What a crazy concept, right? Okay, so for all you fiscal conservatives out there, WSDOT isn't paying taxes to the City of Seattle for all that land. So if you're a fiscal conservative, you should love this idea because you bring a bunch of new housing in there - you got sales taxes, you got property taxes, you've got all the other taxes that people who live in a city pay as taxpayers - and you have all the economic activity that goes along with that. And you've reduced household expenses because people can live in a place without a car. This is - the fiscal prudence of this alone - if you are not convinced by health or climate or anything else, if all you do, if all you care about is hard line, bottom line, dollars and cents considerations, the last thing you want to do is invest in a freeway through a populated part of your town. [00:25:52] Coté Soerens: That's why this is such a great idea because you have arguments on every side. So yes, we do need - there are more progressive causes that are pushed by these initiatives such as affordable housing and environment. But also fiscally - I really - I'm worried about seeing the City of Seattle consistently spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on mitigation strategies to deal with this highway - that is underutilized. One of the reasons we decided to move forward with this Hail Mary initiative - let's see if we can pull it off - was when we saw the traffic counts. Hey, this is not something that is necessary to anyone we are aware of. Again, there is a feasibility study underway, but so far with the data we have, we calculated that it would maybe add 7 minutes to a commute, which again - compare 7 minutes to 13 years of life expectancy of children. This is the youngest neighborhood in Seattle, but nothing in the built environment will tell you that. Most children live per square foot in South Park than anywhere else in the city. Also there is - particularly in South Park, because of the disinvestment that the City has practiced over South Park - because they want it to be industrial, so we have like 100 years of disinvestment on affordable housing and other amenities - and we pay the same taxes. There are people - the residents in South Park have consistently had to organize to make things happen in this neighborhood. So you have generations of immigrant families who have really put sweat equity in the development and livability of South Park that now are being pushed out. That to me was a tragedy and something I felt we needed to do something about. So making more land available in this neighborhood for families who have invested their lives here to be able to remain and thrive in place - that, to me, is a big win that this project could bring, among other things. But I love what you said, Mike, about the fiscal aspect of this - the amount of revenue that we will bring as far as property taxes, businesses. Somebody at the Legislature, Washington Legislature, mentioned this opportunity cost that I thought it was a really important point when we think about land being used for cars. [00:28:06] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, really for cars versus the community. And you're right, it absolutely makes a humongous difference. It is absolutely fiscally responsible and it has a stimulative effect to the local economy. There's just a - gosh, I'm trying to remember this study - I'll find it, I'll try and put it in the show notes resource section. But there was a study done for local business owners, who we all - who employ most people in cities, small businesses employ most people in the area - and they asked them to estimate how many people arrive to their stores and shops via car, versus via foot, on bike. And they all overestimated how many people arrived by car to the tune of 4-5x as much. They estimated 60, 70, 80%, and it was uniformly under 20%. I think people underestimate how much a community connection makes a difference to the local and regional economy. And that's absolutely something that makes a difference. I live in an area close to a freeway that really cuts us off from a significant portion of the city, or just makes it really, really inconvenient. And is a 5 minute detour by car, is a 20 minute detour to 30 minute detour to walk around - and just walk across the street, walk three blocks one way, if there was not a freeway there. What does it mean to South Park? And you talk about the opportunity with the additional land - South Park is, as you said, the youngest neighborhood in Seattle with almost a third of the residents being under 18. What will it mean to kids and families, and really the future of this area and region, to be able to reclaim that space? [00:29:54] Coté Soerens: Well, we'll see because - so something that is really important to mention is that the process that we're engaged in right now is a community envisioning process - to provide the opportunity to South Park residents to say what ought to happen in these 44 acres. So we have - because we're part of this neighborhood and we've heard people speak for years - we have a hunch that it will be about affordable housing, first and foremost, but also places for children to play. Infrastructure for kids is not great, and it's actually - compared to other places in Seattle - it's upsetting to see the quality of the community center and the playgrounds. Again, I have three school-aged children and I have stories about the places they have access to play, or the places we have access to bike. It's very dangerous to bike, to connect from South Park and other places. So the opportunity of these 44 acres - to actually let the neighborhood have a say on what the built environment should look like - I think it's incredibly powerful. And it's one of the benefits of engaging a whole neighborhood into a community envisioning process, which now we have just started the contract with the City to begin this process. There will be three or four big meetings and we have partnered with very skilled community organizers and - that do understand the importance of clear communications across the neighborhood and the ability of people to say their opinion in an equal playing field with others about what ought to happen in this 44 acres. In the Reconnect organizing team, we have shied away from saying what needs to happen because we are basically quarterbacking the project. We are kind of bringing the resources together and bringing the platform together, but the conversation needs to occur within South Park by South Park people. So I have opinions about what I would like to see on this 44 acres, but I think the most powerful work will happen when everyone in the neighborhood is given the chance to say - I would like this to happen, or I'm concerned about that. There's some people who are concerned about - Hey, if we shut that portion, then will the traffic be diverted to 14th Avenue South? How are we going to deal with that? Those are all incredibly important questions. So what is important right now - the way we see it at Reconnect South Park - is the dialogue. How are we able to host a democratic dialogue within the neighborhood is the most important. And then at the end, the story of government completely ignoring the voice of the residents and not being accountable to it, does the story want to change? And also we, as residents, also can use a dose of imagination as well. 'Cause for many of us, it's been like - Oh, there is a highway there, whatever. No, hey - you deserve better. So engaging people in that conversation - that I think it's - I'm a retired therapist, so I see things as therapeutically speaking. So I think that's a nice therapeutic process for this neighborhood's healing. [00:32:56] Crystal Fincher: Excellent. That makes complete sense. So as we get close to drawing this conversation to a conclusion - Mike, for people who are looking to get involved, who understand the importance, or just want to make their voice heard here - how can they get involved? And also as importantly, as we consider the several city council candidates - including in District 1 in Seattle, which includes South Park - what should we be looking to hear from those candidates, and how can we hold them accountable to listening and serving this community? [00:33:33] Mike McGinn: Well, the question answers itself, doesn't it? But let's just first start by saying - to celebrating the fact that there is now a grant from the federal government to study this, the Reconnecting Communities grant. But a study is a long way from success. And there will be powerful interests locally that will fight to maintain the highway. We're already hearing from the Port that somehow or another this is essential to them, but I'm sure they're not prepared to pay the costs of all of those shortened lives. It's not worth that much to them. So I think you do have to understand that there will be a fight here. And you'll never be able to push this through the State Legislature in that fight without strong local champions. So first of all, support Coté and everybody down there in South Park in the effort. It's gonna take public demand. Second, let's get people on the record. Do we need a highway in South - do we need that SR 99 in South Park? Get them on the record. And I really think it's not just the city council candidates, but the mayor as well. 'Cause if you can get the City united around that, there'll be a fighting chance with WSDOT. But that's gonna be extremely difficult - because let's be really clear that it is not just the Port businesses. It's a lot of labor unions down there at the Port too that believe in this stuff. They've still got 1950s and 60s outdated notions of what should happen and that highways are good. So against that combined political might, it's really gonna take a significant public demand to move elected officials. And now's the best time to make those demands as elections are occurring. [00:35:11] Crystal Fincher: Thank you for listening to Hacks & Wonks, which is co-produced by Shannon Cheng and Bryce Cannatelli. You can follow Hacks & Wonks on Twitter @HacksWonks. You can catch Hacks & Wonks on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts - just type "Hacks and Wonks" into the search bar. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get the full versions of our Friday almost-live shows and our midweek show delivered to your podcast feed. If you like us, leave a review wherever you listen. You can also get a full transcript of this episode and links to the resources referenced in the show at officialhacksandwonks.com and in the episode notes. Thanks for tuning in - talk to you next time.

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On this midweek show, Crystal is joined by Mike McGinn of America Walks and Coté Soerens of Reconnect South Park to learn about their work with the Freeway Fighters Network. Mike shares a broad overview of the movement's efforts to remove crumbling highway infrastructure while addressing the climate, health, and equity issues these concrete structures have caused. As a resident of Seattle's South Park, Coté reflects on the throughline of Highway 99 running through the middle of her community – connecting a history of red-lining, displacement, and racism to the present-day impacts on the neighborhood's livability, pollution exposure, and life expectancy. Mike and Coté call out the lack of imagination exhibited by the country's attachment to highways and paint a compelling vision that replaces underutilized thoroughfares with vibrant, connected communities. As always, a full text transcript of the show is available below and at officialhacksandwonks.com. Follow us on Twitter at @HacksWonks. Find the host, Crystal Fincher, on Twitter at @finchfrii and find Mike McGinn at @mayormcginn and Coté Soerens at @cotesoerens.   Mike McGinn Mike is the Executive Director of national nonprofit America Walks.  He got his start in local politics as a neighborhood activist pushing for walkability. From there he founded a non-profit focused on sustainable and equitable growth, and then became mayor of Seattle. Just before joining America Walks, Mike worked to help Feet First, Washington State's walking advocacy organization, expand their sphere of influence across Washington state. He has worked on numerous public education, legislative, ballot measure and election campaigns – which has given him an abiding faith in the power of organizing and volunteers to create change.  Coté Soerens Coté Soerens calls herself a midwife to a thriving local coffee shop that has become a hub for community organization and activism. Living in the South Park neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, a community filled with immigrants and people of color where opportunities are limited, Soerens felt called to create spaces of belonging. In 2017, while hosting a dinner for neighborhood friends, Soerens realized that, even without secured funding, she had all she needed to create a local coffee shop, where local youth could find employment and where neighbors could meet to discuss local issues and organize. Soerens, along with the neighborhood, has even bigger dreams. Reconnect South Park initiative's dream is to ultimately decommission the highway which cuts the neighborhood in half and to reclaim those 44 acres for equitable development.   Resources Freeway Fighters Network   Reconnecting Communities Campaign | America Walks   Reconnect South Park   “South Park Joins Growing Movement to Dismantle Freeways” by Agueda Pacheco from The Urbanist    “Seattle residents drive movement to tear out Highway 99 in South Park” by David Kroman from The Seattle Times   “Feds award money to study removing Highway 99 in one Seattle neighborhood” by David Kroman in The Seattle Times   Transcript [00:00:00] Crystal Fincher: Welcome to Hacks & Wonks. I'm Crystal Fincher, and I'm a political consultant and your host. On this show, we talk with policy wonks and political hacks to gather insight into local politics and policy in Washington state through the lens of those doing the work with behind-the-scenes perspectives on what's happening, why it's happening, and what you can do about it. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get the full versions of our Friday almost-live shows and our midweek show delivered to your podcast feed. If you like us, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review wherever you listen to Hacks & Wonks. Full transcripts and resources referenced in the show are always available at officialhacksandwonks.com and in our episode notes. Well, today I'm thrilled to welcome two guests to the podcast. The first, Mike McGinn - you're used to hearing him on Fridays, as we do weeks-in-review. But today we are talking about what's in his wheelhouse, really, in America Walks, the organization that's helping to build a nationwide movement to reconnect communities divided by wide roads and overbuilt arterials - that hosts the Freeway Fighters Network, which calls for increased investment in walkable, equitable, connected, and accessible places by divesting from polluting highways. And Coté Soerens with the Freeway Fighters Network - representing a broad coalition of public and private sector leaders, community activists, and multidisciplinary professionals - dedicating ourselves to championing design, equity, and policy principles that center people before highways. Welcome to you both. As we get started, I just wanted to start with you, Mike, and what got you involved with this work? [00:01:53] Mike McGinn: Oh my God, it just depends where you want to start. Probably a big starting point for me was the realization, as a climate advocate, of the role of transportation in climate emissions, which - when I was working in the mid-2000s on Seattle's Climate Action Plan, transportation was 40% of all emissions because we had hydropower. We'd already gotten off of coal. What's fascinating now is that as the nation is getting off of coal, which is great and renewables are the way to go - it's just the cheapest, best way to go - that's now what's happening nationwide. Transportation is now the largest source of emissions. But then once you start getting into it, even the littlest bit, you also see tremendous equity issues, like who has access to the transportation system. Right now it requires a car mainly - and if you have to walk, bike, and use transit, you're denied of a lot of opportunities because we've built a system that's very hostile to getting around that way. And oftentimes it's hostile because it's wide, fast roads, it's freeways that have divided communities, lack of sidewalks, not having bus lanes, they're not prioritizing transit, all of that. So huge equity issues, huge health issues as well. Apartment buildings tend to be, and residences tend to be near those wide roads - and all the pollutants you breathe in has tremendous negative effects on the health of everyone living nearby. And again, that's an equity issue as well. We intentionally do this. You'll hear people argue for this - the apartment buildings belong next to the arterials to protect the single-family neighborhoods. So in other words, the people of lower incomes need to breathe more pollution so that we, in the leafy green neighborhoods, who are better off can breathe less pollution. It's - yeah, the whole thing is just an extreme failure of public policy, and planning, and building for the future. And of course, it's not even a good transportation system. Obviously when you're excluding a huge portion of the population that doesn't drive because of age, because of ability, or because of income - already it's bad. That's not a way you raise all boats, so to speak. That's not a rising tide that lifts all boats. It's something that divides us, but it's also extraordinarily wasteful and expensive. Which kind of brings us back to the freeway work as well. We're at the stage now - and the Alaska Way viaduct on our waterfront was an example of that - where after you've had that concrete structure around for 50 or 60 years, it's ready to be replaced. It's gonna fall down. It's gonna take a big expenditure to replace it. And what more and more places are realizing is - Let's not replace it with another highway. Let's replace it with a surface street, or maybe no street at all. And let's put the dollars we would have spent into rebuilding this inequitable, polluting, climate-changing monstrosity of infrastructure - let's put the money into walking, biking, transit, or geez, how about affordable housing? How about letting people live back in communities again - live near jobs and services? And those are all the arguments. We've had no shortage of arguments - good, really good ones - why we should do this. We're starting to see them take hold, but the US still has not let go of its highway-building mania with all its negative effects, but we are starting to see some cracks, so to speak, in the unity that's been around highway building for decades. And we're actually seeing the beginning of a freeway removal moment, and at the very least, we should be stopping highway expansion, and I get to do that work now at America Walks, too. [00:05:26] Crystal Fincher: And Coté, how did you get involved in this work and why is it important to remove freeways? [00:05:31] Coté Soerens: Well, I got involved in this work by living in a neighborhood that was cut in two by a highway that was never actually very popular. For residents in South Park, this portion - it's a portion of Highway 99 State Route - was fought very proactively by the residents of South Park back in the '50s, but Washington State Department of Transportation at the time decided to go with it anyway. What I do love about this movement of highway removal and walkability is basically the emergence of a new imagination, nationally, around how life should be lived. It seems that if you look at the time that this highway in my neighborhood was built back in the '50s, the imagination then was - Let's expand car availability - and there were different values that were being worked at the time. And now, 70 years later, we want different things as a society, we need different things. We tried the car designs, urbanism, and we have found that it's not equitable, it's also horrible, and also - it's funny - you have to pay a premium for a walking score of 90. Now it's like a privilege to live in a walkable neighborhood. So back to the question how I got involved in this. I've lived in South Park for 10 years. I've raised three boys in this neighborhood and South Park, actually, it's a pretty interesting place in Seattle. It's been a red-lined neighborhood back in - if we get a little wonky with history - back at the turn of the century. And then I feel that I find this history of South Park fascinating because it seems to be a history of government consistently missing out on what residents of our community are saying. It seems like - We hear what you're saying, and yet we don't care. We're gonna move forward anyway. So this story has been replicating itself around this highway. Back in the 1900s, South Park was a farming community - it was its own little town in Seattle. And it was a thriving neighborhood of farmers that actually started the Pike Place Market, which is very famous nationally. And it's always been a community after - the Duwamish were here originally in the ancestral lands - then it's been a community of immigrants, and it's been a community of Italian immigrants back at a time where Italians were not considered white. And in the planning map of the town, of the time, South Park is seen as "hazardous," which is a word that has been used in planning before to say it's non-white. And now that it's environmentally challenged, we see the word "hazardous" and would say - Oh wow, yes, of course, there is a Superfund in it - there is the Duwamish River. But if you go back to the time - no, it was a farming community, which changes the meaning of "hazardous." So at the time, Seattle wanted to annex this little town of South Park into the city with very different expectations than the residents had. So at the time, Seattle City Council thought - Well, there is a river in the park that is really good for industry. So we're going to annex this neighborhood to make it industrial and push out all the residents. The residents, on the other hand, were thinking - Whoa, if we get annexed to Seattle, we can get better permits for our sewer system and other amenities. So they both entered into this "agreement" and with very different expectations. Now, the City of Seattle - wanting to make this place industrial - what got accomplished out of that was the Duwamish River became a Superfund site and then industry was started popping around. And by the time the plans for the highway to cross this residential core were conceived, it was thought of as a very convenient way to discourage the residential - so that we could continue with the work of making this area industrial. So all the protests of the time, in the '50s, of residents were sorely ignored. That highway didn't make any sense and it still doesn't make any sense. It's a very redundant grid. Many people don't know this, but when we talk about removing the portion of Highway 99, people think that we're talking about this other one - this 509 - which is what people use to get to the airport. And it's not that one. You can still get to the airport. It's a portion that connects I-5 and 509 and it goes right connected to it. So I'm totally not answering your question, Crystal, about how I got involved. So the way I got involved was Cayce James and the City at the time, put together a group of people - stakeholders in the neighborhood - to walk around the neighborhood. And we were making different tours of different places around the neighborhood - the community center, the library. And on every stop, people will be talking about problems caused by this portion of the highway. So I remember looking around to my tour partners and saying - Hey guys, you all realize that all these problems go away if you just shut the dang highway, right? And the reaction was a reaction that I often get, which was to look at me and say - Cute, moving on. They really didn't think of this as a viable solution - to just cut an underutilized highway in order to resolve issues such as pollution, safety, lack of walkability, lack of access for kids to their school, and other problems this highway creates. And what that did for me was to see firsthand the problems with the illusion of permanence. People do see a highway and they think it's been there forever and it will be there forever. They don't think about it like - No, this was actually an expression of certain values that we hold as a society, and when our values change, we can also change our built environment. We can change the highway. At some point, I remember Cayce James, who hosted this tour around the neighborhood, reached out and we started talking and she said - Hey, you know what? I've been thinking about this too. I think it's possible to remove this highway. So we started talking and then we got connected with the folks from PlacemakingUS, who I just mentioned this idea - Hey, Madeleine Spencer and Ryan Smolar. Hey, how about - I've been thinking about removing this highway. What do you think? They said - Hey, there is a whole movement across the country on highway removal. And we were connected with Freeway Fighters, and then we started learning that across the country, so many communities were having this idea of reconnecting communities, thinking about land differently, really considering the opportunity cost of having a highway crossing the neighborhood. For us in Seattle, we have had problems with affordability for a long time. The City has not been effective at creating policy that will stabilize the real estate market and actually preserve cultural space, preserve housing, affordable housing - particularly for communities of color. When thinking about this portion of the highway crossing South Park, you can see 44 acres of land that could be utilized in a different way. That, to me, creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity to actually make more land for equitable development. So for all these reasons, I am particularly excited about getting this highway out of our neighborhood. And another thing that I need to mention is that this highway - it's so interesting how it was designed - it goes through every single place where kids play. It goes right next to the community center, the skate park, the library, and the elementary school. It seems to have been designed to cut children's life expectancy by 13 years, which it does. There are studies about this. So I can talk to you for three hours about reasons why this highway needs to be removed. [00:12:35] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, it's really important. It makes a difference. And both of you touched on the racialized history of highways and just the impact that this has on communities, on families, and particularly on health. Transportation is the number one polluter in our state, in our area. And what you just talked about - I feel like sometimes people hear statistics and they don't really apply it to people's lives. But when you talk about a life expectancy that is that much shorter - in Seattle - it feels neglectful. It feels criminal almost. It feels wrong that we know that these types of harms are being forced upon our children. And we aren't taking that into account so often when we have these repeated conversations every single year about what highways we're gonna build, expand, put in. And these are conversations that aren't just - they certainly absolutely started in the '50s and we started that whole domino effect rolling. But now we have the chance to review what we're doing to make modifications, whether it's Highway 99 in South Park, whether it's the Interstate Bridge Replacement between Washington and Oregon. We had this out - and Mike McGinn is notorious and has been pretty much vindicated, it looks like - for fighting against the Highway 99 tunnel in Seattle. But we seem to so easily dismiss the negative harms that this has on neighborhoods, on affordability, on health, on just our quality of life. How do you view just the importance of really taking all of these factors into account as we make these policies, Mike? [00:14:19] Mike McGinn: Well, first of all, I just have to say that as a mayor, you're not supposed to have any favorite neighborhoods. But if I had a favorite neighborhood, South Park would be pretty darn close. I spent a lot of time down there as mayor, but I also spent time there before mayor - my kids played basketball in the rec leagues and I played ultimate frisbee in the schools. And I'd be down there in those playing fields at South Park Community Center. And yeah, you're right next to the highway. And that highway doesn't carry that many cars either. The reason people confuse it with 509 is because it's not really that useful a section of highway, but it certainly carries enough cars for the noise and pollution to be meaningful. And it's also not at all surprising, tragically, that it's a community like South Park that gets a highway like this. What you see is - when you look at where freeways were built across the country, they almost always went through Black or Brown or poor neighborhoods - because that was where there would be the least political resistance to building it. And they oftentimes would get a little more convoluted in the route to avoid wealthy neighborhoods. So it's worth thinking about that - would you - and take a look at where the, take a look at the property values near big bustling highways and the ones further away. I'm not talking about downtown, which has its own economic thing - but even there, the properties right next to the highway were the last to develop. And the ones that are a few blocks away developed faster. And if you look at Seattle, the wealthiest neighborhoods are the furthest from the highway. So we built a system that was designed to speed people in and out of the city at the expense of other people. And the equity issues are really tremendous. And South Park - it's a textbook case, really, of that - when you see all the highways going through South Park. And then of course they're under the airport and everything else - under the airport flight routes. So you'd like to think that decisions about how to build a transportation system and how to route highways and all the rest were based on rigorous analysis of the data - what's the most public good we can generate from this. And certainly we dress it up that way - that there's a plan and it was done for a certain way. But anytime you dig into it, you found that it's really a reflection of who did have power in the political system at the time and who did not. So we speed the commute of people from wealthier places and we subsidize that with the lungs and health of poor people where those highways go through. And if it were your neighborhood, you wouldn't stand for it. So of course South Park would like to see it removed. And we're talking about SR 99 here, right - which is kind of a weird route - it's not 509, but they intend to extend 509 to connect with I-5 right now. This is underway. And when that connection is complete - they've been working on this for years - they call it now the Puget Sound Gateway Project, used to be called the SR 509 extension. It's been labeled nationwide as a highway boondoggle - it's a nationally known highway boondoggle - the 509 extension. That's gonna siphon off tens of thousands of cars a day from I-5 to send them to a back way into Seattle, which is not gonna be that fast 'cause that back way is gonna run right into the First Avenue South Bridge, which is always backed up. And so where will that traffic jam be - at the First Avenue South Bridge? It's gonna be in South Park again. I mean, honestly - WSDOT should rip out 99 just as an apology for building the 509 extension 'cause they're actually making it worse right now. [00:17:55] Coté Soerens: So you do have, yes - the equity issues are so blatant when you look at the highway grid in Seattle. Even if you have wealthy neighborhoods next to the I-5, you have sound barriers and other appropriate ways to mitigate the effects of it. But there are things in the history of this particular portion of the highway that are really painful. For example, the land upon which it was built - it was conveniently left vacant by the Japanese internment. Much of that land was built on homes that belonged to Japanese farmers. There is a house actually that was transported from South Park to the Hiroshima Museum of the Japanese-American Experience. So there are these undertones to this highway that, in a way, make it a monument to racism. And as we are removing monuments across the country, this one might be one of the ones that we can remove. But also what I find very concerning is the lack of imagination - 'cause that's also part of it. I don't see anybody at Department of Transportation being - Hey, let's be as racist as we can. I think it might be, it is often an issue of - We know to do highways, so we're going to just do highways. And when it came to the decision of building this portion of 99 across South Park, the history of it tells us the story of residents making their case that it shouldn't be built. And Washington State Department of Transportation said - Yeah, we know, but we already started. We have the plans, we're about to start, so we're gonna do it anyway. And it was supposed to be a federal highway, but it was so underutilized - as it is today - that nearly six years later, six years after its completion, it was demoted from a federal highway to a state route, which to us is a smoking gun right there. Yes, it's a very irrelevant piece of highway in the grid. The need for a new imagination, the need for people to think of a better way to live life that does not rely on highways and to be able to invite departments of transportations across the nation to think differently about transportation - I think that's a really great opportunity that this movement has. And I think that Pete Buttigieg has really, really done the movement a favor in the sense of making this idea more mainstream in ways. There is a lot of room to grow, of course, with the Reconnecting Communities Initiative, but I'm actually hopeful about the ability of people in communities to think of new ways about how to build their communities. I'm really hoping that this is a good means for neighborhoods and cities to think differently. [00:20:34] Crystal Fincher: Now, I want to talk about the how of this really - 'cause there's still a lot of people, and a lot of the general conversation for people who don't follow this for their job is - Hey, you know what? You just said that this highway will take some pressure off of I-5 and man, I'm sick of sitting in traffic on I-5. So isn't that a positive thing? And wow - this is supposed to connect people and help people get from A to B faster? What does it mean to remove a highway? Does nothing go in its place? Where do those cars go? Is it going to be a burden for everyone? How do you answer that, Mike? [00:21:12] Mike McGinn: Well, the first thing you have to realize is that we've created - if the idea was that by building a freeway system through populated places, we would make transportation work really smoothly - I think we got about 50 or 60 years of evidence that it's a failure. Any economically successful place cannot possibly accommodate all of the mobility needs of its residents through limited access freeways and through single occupancy vehicles. And it's not a question of ideology or even climate or health or anything else - it's really just a question of geometry. A car that holds 1-1.5 people per trip on average - there's not enough room for all the cars, which is why we also saw so many downtowns kind of get the parking crater around their downtown office buildings, where you got - parking lots had to be built to accommodate all the vehicles. And it's not something that can be met. The other thing you do when you do a system like that is you really encourage everybody to sprawl out over the landscape. Whereas before you needed to be within a closer proximity for transit to work, or maybe walking to work, or streetcars to work - now you can live in more distant places. So those freeways then fill up again, 'cause what you've done is you've filled up the landscape with people that have to drive, right? They have to spread all over the place. So now once you do that for 50 or 60 years, as we've done, it's kind of reasonable for people to go - Well, how could you do something differently? We're now at a point where people, for most of them in their lifetimes, have not lived in an environment in which that wasn't true. But we can look at other places around the globe, or we can look at smaller units of our country, and see where many more people are moved by a combination of walking, biking, and transit - particularly if you put the housing closer to the destinations. So that's what we haven't done. Now, what we've seen, now let's just - now that may sound all pie in the sky. Well, that'll take forever to build all that transit and do all that housing. But let's take a look at SR 99 on the waterfront. How many times did we talk about the Carmageddon that would come when the viaduct closed, as it did for lengthy periods of time for construction reasons, and it never materialized. And it didn't materialize because actually a lot of those auto trips are by choice. People could choose a different time of day. They could choose a different place to go. They could combine trips, or they could choose an alternative like transit. So what you saw every time the viaduct was closed was that in fact, everything worked a little more smoothly, believe it or not, because people - it turns out people have brains and they will not mindlessly drive into traffic and they will adapt their behavior. And that's what we see happen again and again - not just on the Seattle waterfront, but every place this is predicted. And those cities that have removed highways, what they find is that the Carmageddons don't materialize, but they regain this land just as Coté was talking about. They regain this land for, really, all these other great purposes. One of the best purposes would be housing - what we know is so many people - our young people, our immigrant and refugee communities, our Black and Brown communities that have been lower income communities, service workers pushed out of the city by higher housing prices. What if we started investing those dollars in making it easier for people to drive from further and further away? We say easier, but you got to own a car for that. You got to pay all the expenses of that. What if instead we put people closer where they could actually use transit and could be taxpayers in the city? What a crazy concept, right? Okay, so for all you fiscal conservatives out there, WSDOT isn't paying taxes to the City of Seattle for all that land. So if you're a fiscal conservative, you should love this idea because you bring a bunch of new housing in there - you got sales taxes, you got property taxes, you've got all the other taxes that people who live in a city pay as taxpayers - and you have all the economic activity that goes along with that. And you've reduced household expenses because people can live in a place without a car. This is - the fiscal prudence of this alone - if you are not convinced by health or climate or anything else, if all you do, if all you care about is hard line, bottom line, dollars and cents considerations, the last thing you want to do is invest in a freeway through a populated part of your town. [00:25:52] Coté Soerens: That's why this is such a great idea because you have arguments on every side. So yes, we do need - there are more progressive causes that are pushed by these initiatives such as affordable housing and environment. But also fiscally - I really - I'm worried about seeing the City of Seattle consistently spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on mitigation strategies to deal with this highway - that is underutilized. One of the reasons we decided to move forward with this Hail Mary initiative - let's see if we can pull it off - was when we saw the traffic counts. Hey, this is not something that is necessary to anyone we are aware of. Again, there is a feasibility study underway, but so far with the data we have, we calculated that it would maybe add 7 minutes to a commute, which again - compare 7 minutes to 13 years of life expectancy of children. This is the youngest neighborhood in Seattle, but nothing in the built environment will tell you that. Most children live per square foot in South Park than anywhere else in the city. Also there is - particularly in South Park, because of the disinvestment that the City has practiced over South Park - because they want it to be industrial, so we have like 100 years of disinvestment on affordable housing and other amenities - and we pay the same taxes. There are people - the residents in South Park have consistently had to organize to make things happen in this neighborhood. So you have generations of immigrant families who have really put sweat equity in the development and livability of South Park that now are being pushed out. That to me was a tragedy and something I felt we needed to do something about. So making more land available in this neighborhood for families who have invested their lives here to be able to remain and thrive in place - that, to me, is a big win that this project could bring, among other things. But I love what you said, Mike, about the fiscal aspect of this - the amount of revenue that we will bring as far as property taxes, businesses. Somebody at the Legislature, Washington Legislature, mentioned this opportunity cost that I thought it was a really important point when we think about land being used for cars. [00:28:06] Crystal Fincher: Yeah, really for cars versus the community. And you're right, it absolutely makes a humongous difference. It is absolutely fiscally responsible and it has a stimulative effect to the local economy. There's just a - gosh, I'm trying to remember this study - I'll find it, I'll try and put it in the show notes resource section. But there was a study done for local business owners, who we all - who employ most people in cities, small businesses employ most people in the area - and they asked them to estimate how many people arrive to their stores and shops via car, versus via foot, on bike. And they all overestimated how many people arrived by car to the tune of 4-5x as much. They estimated 60, 70, 80%, and it was uniformly under 20%. I think people underestimate how much a community connection makes a difference to the local and regional economy. And that's absolutely something that makes a difference. I live in an area close to a freeway that really cuts us off from a significant portion of the city, or just makes it really, really inconvenient. And is a 5 minute detour by car, is a 20 minute detour to 30 minute detour to walk around - and just walk across the street, walk three blocks one way, if there was not a freeway there. What does it mean to South Park? And you talk about the opportunity with the additional land - South Park is, as you said, the youngest neighborhood in Seattle with almost a third of the residents being under 18. What will it mean to kids and families, and really the future of this area and region, to be able to reclaim that space? [00:29:54] Coté Soerens: Well, we'll see because - so something that is really important to mention is that the process that we're engaged in right now is a community envisioning process - to provide the opportunity to South Park residents to say what ought to happen in these 44 acres. So we have - because we're part of this neighborhood and we've heard people speak for years - we have a hunch that it will be about affordable housing, first and foremost, but also places for children to play. Infrastructure for kids is not great, and it's actually - compared to other places in Seattle - it's upsetting to see the quality of the community center and the playgrounds. Again, I have three school-aged children and I have stories about the places they have access to play, or the places we have access to bike. It's very dangerous to bike, to connect from South Park and other places. So the opportunity of these 44 acres - to actually let the neighborhood have a say on what the built environment should look like - I think it's incredibly powerful. And it's one of the benefits of engaging a whole neighborhood into a community envisioning process, which now we have just started the contract with the City to begin this process. There will be three or four big meetings and we have partnered with very skilled community organizers and - that do understand the importance of clear communications across the neighborhood and the ability of people to say their opinion in an equal playing field with others about what ought to happen in this 44 acres. In the Reconnect organizing team, we have shied away from saying what needs to happen because we are basically quarterbacking the project. We are kind of bringing the resources together and bringing the platform together, but the conversation needs to occur within South Park by South Park people. So I have opinions about what I would like to see on this 44 acres, but I think the most powerful work will happen when everyone in the neighborhood is given the chance to say - I would like this to happen, or I'm concerned about that. There's some people who are concerned about - Hey, if we shut that portion, then will the traffic be diverted to 14th Avenue South? How are we going to deal with that? Those are all incredibly important questions. So what is important right now - the way we see it at Reconnect South Park - is the dialogue. How are we able to host a democratic dialogue within the neighborhood is the most important. And then at the end, the story of government completely ignoring the voice of the residents and not being accountable to it, does the story want to change? And also we, as residents, also can use a dose of imagination as well. 'Cause for many of us, it's been like - Oh, there is a highway there, whatever. No, hey - you deserve better. So engaging people in that conversation - that I think it's - I'm a retired therapist, so I see things as therapeutically speaking. So I think that's a nice therapeutic process for this neighborhood's healing. [00:32:56] Crystal Fincher: Excellent. That makes complete sense. So as we get close to drawing this conversation to a conclusion - Mike, for people who are looking to get involved, who understand the importance, or just want to make their voice heard here - how can they get involved? And also as importantly, as we consider the several city council candidates - including in District 1 in Seattle, which includes South Park - what should we be looking to hear from those candidates, and how can we hold them accountable to listening and serving this community? [00:33:33] Mike McGinn: Well, the question answers itself, doesn't it? But let's just first start by saying - to celebrating the fact that there is now a grant from the federal government to study this, the Reconnecting Communities grant. But a study is a long way from success. And there will be powerful interests locally that will fight to maintain the highway. We're already hearing from the Port that somehow or another this is essential to them, but I'm sure they're not prepared to pay the costs of all of those shortened lives. It's not worth that much to them. So I think you do have to understand that there will be a fight here. And you'll never be able to push this through the State Legislature in that fight without strong local champions. So first of all, support Coté and everybody down there in South Park in the effort. It's gonna take public demand. Second, let's get people on the record. Do we need a highway in South - do we need that SR 99 in South Park? Get them on the record. And I really think it's not just the city council candidates, but the mayor as well. 'Cause if you can get the City united around that, there'll be a fighting chance with WSDOT. But that's gonna be extremely difficult - because let's be really clear that it is not just the Port businesses. It's a lot of labor unions down there at the Port too that believe in this stuff. They've still got 1950s and 60s outdated notions of what should happen and that highways are good. So against that combined political might, it's really gonna take a significant public demand to move elected officials. And now's the best time to make those demands as elections are occurring. [00:35:11] Crystal Fincher: Thank you for listening to Hacks & Wonks, which is co-produced by Shannon Cheng and Bryce Cannatelli. You can follow Hacks & Wonks on Twitter @HacksWonks. You can catch Hacks & Wonks on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts - just type "Hacks and Wonks" into the search bar. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast to get the full versions of our Friday almost-live shows and our midweek show delivered to your podcast feed. If you like us, leave a review wherever you listen. You can also get a full transcript of this episode and links to the resources referenced in the show at officialhacksandwonks.com and in the episode notes. Thanks for tuning in - talk to you next time.

Welcome back to Sermon Notes, a podcast that dives deeper into the sermons of each of our campus pastors. In this episode, we're joined by Aaron Bryant from the Church at Avenue South. We'll start off with a fun Christmas game, and then dive into Aaron's sermon on Isaiah 11:1-10. This passage is a reminder of the hope we have in Christ. Through him, we can have peace and harmony with God and with one another. We can experience the fullness of God's kingdom on earth, and we can be filled with the knowledge of the Lord. Aaron encourages us to look upward instead of inward in order to find the peace that God promises us, and also reminds us that peace is not the absence of conflict.

In this episode, Pastor Aaron Bryant (The Church at Avenue South) joins hosts Amy-Jo Girardier and Evan Kunz to talk about being hungry for the Word of God. Plus, they play a fun game of Would You Rather?! Come to Scripture with expectation. We are strengthened with joy in community. Your identity is tied to His Word. You have full access to God, so what keeps us from getting to know Him? Remember this: You're not just engaging a book; you're engaging Jesus. https://readkaleidoscope.com/ https://brentwood.church/masterclass/ https://brentwood.church/podcast/

Seattle's Chinatown International-District residents and business owners are "coalescing" in opposition to a proposed 500 bed homeless shelter and services complex that has been quietly unveiled by King County officials including the Regional Homeless Authority and Executive Dow Constantine, according to news reporter, Jonathan Choe. KVI's John Carlson interviews Choe about what he's discovered regarding the proposed homeless facility that would be located near 6th Avenue South and Airport Way in the SoDo neighborhood, just south of the CID. Choe notes that this complex was "quietly announced in March" but government officials have avoided mentioning it to avoid drawing attention to it. The large proposed homeless complex has neighbors and business owners nearby "going to war", according to Choe, to stop its completion. Back in 2017 Choe cites a public trust incident in CID's Little Saigon for a safe injection site and Carlson points out the incongruity of the proposed homeless complex with both a "sobering center" and "safe injection site" at the same complex. Choe adds, the complex gives "drug dealers a new location to prey on these lost souls."

Dr. Jenifer Jones-Dees joins Amy & JJ for this month's "IMA Doctors Show". In this episode: dangerous heat, dehydration, COVID vaccines, ADHD, mallet toe and more! IMA Healthcare is located on 45th Street and 32nd Avenue South in Fargo, ND. You can reach them at 701-280-2033 or visit www.imahealthcare.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Minneapolis police say officers fatally shot a man Thursday morning following a lengthy standoff. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating the shooting that happened at about 4:30 a.m. near 21st Avenue South and Franklin Avenue. This is a morning update from MPR News, hosted by Cathy Wurzer. Music by Gary Meister.

Learn about the latest in local public affairs in about the time it takes for a coffee break! Brian Callanan of Seattle Channel and David Kroman of the Seattle Times discuss how the City's goal of zero fatalities by the year 2030 is heading in the opposite direction, what new rate increases mean for City Light ratepayers, a response to Mayor Harrell's first veto, an approval voting measure, and a three-plus-year stalemate over a repair on 4th Avenue South. If you like this podcast, please support it on Patreon! 

Transformed by a 1960s urban relief program, the former synagogue has fostered generations of Black artists even as the neighborhood around it changes. For the first half of the 20th century, the building at the southeast corner of 17th Avenue South and East Yesler Way in Seattle's Central District housed a Jewish synagogue. But by the late '60s, the neighborhood demographics looked much different, and fighting urban poverty had become a government priority. This, combined with the vision and effort of local citizens, gave the building a second life as Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute. Federal money from the Model Cities Program helped the majority-Black Central District create a community hub and creative outlet for themselves. In the 50 years since, that hub has served as much more than just an arts space for generations of Black Seattle. And it has also continued to give young people a space to find and explore their artistic passion. But the Central District is significantly less Black now than it was back when the institute first opened in 1972. So the venue, now operated by the nonprofit LANGSTON, had to change to meet the needs of Black people displaced across King and Pierce counties while also fighting to stay a Black space. It was a battle worth fighting because, for many Black people in and around Seattle, that former synagogue is too important to lose. For this episode of the Black Arts Legacies podcast, host Brooklyn Jamerson-Flowers explores the origins of Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute and speaks to several artists who found a platform for authentic expression there. They each help to frame the institute's importance and visions of its future. See the full Black Arts Legacies project, featuring profiles, photography and videos.  --- Credit Host/producer: Brooklyn Jamerson-Flowers Story editor: Sara Bernard Executive producer: Mark Baumgarten Audio support: Jonah Cohen

Seattle police are investigating after one person was stabbed and shots were fired in a homeless encampment in the Chinatown-International District on Monday. Police responded to an encampment near 13th Avenue South and South Lane Street around 10 a.m. for multiple reports of a man shooting a rifle. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3KBUDSK

A troublesome homeless camp that's been the source of several violent crimes near Seattle's Little Saigon neighborhood was cleared again on Friday. It's part of a campaign led by the Mayor's office to remove encampments that have been declared a public safety hazard and an obstruction.About 50 structures and tents had been erected on a hillside at 10th Avenue South and Dearborn Street over the last several months.  The camp has been removed several times before over the last several years, but it always repopulates.LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3fs6dBU

In the last three days, there have been four shootings in Seattle, all near the downtown districts of the city.On Friday, Seattle Police say a suspect shot an employee during a robbery at Key Bank in the SODO District. It happened around 1 p.m. on the 1900 block of 1st Avenue South. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3fs6dBUSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/seattlerealestatepodcast)

It's still a few years away, but plans are being made to extend Veterans Boulevard from Fargo's 52nd Avenue South to Horace's 100th Avenue South.

From early 2016 through mid-2021, Win was the Director of Marketing at London Bay Homes. Today, he consults a variety of builders and developers, and also keeps his Realtor's license at John R. Wood Properties' 5th Avenue South office in Naples, FL.Today's conversation focuses heavily on the timeless principles of brand development and longevity. Win also speaks on the art of value proposition, in which the key is “to touch someone's identity, and how they wear the brand for themselves.”Through leading campaigns for some of the biggest brands in the world today, Win has learned to always steer the conversation away from, “What's in it for the company?” to, “What's in it for the consumer?”In a similar vein, he criticizes businesses who have strayed too far into the realm of political correctness at the expense of their brand identity. Companies who embrace pure, unadulterated authenticity fare far better, especially in the long-run, than those who rely on hollow messaging in an effort to ride on the coattails of certain cultural trends.Brand is the cornerstone of longevity. To build repetitional excellence, especially as a service business, it all stems from doing what you say and say what you do, and simply being transparent and authentic.Topics Discussed:[05:47] What brought Win to Naples from New York and his early successes[14:51] Marketing “affordable luxury”[17:09] Other prestigious companies and individuals that Win has worked with[21:06] What sets a brand apart[28:51] Lessons learned from working with some of the biggest brands of our time[33:01] Hollow messaging from businesses and Ronald Reagan's authenticity[37:30] How Red Bull developed an incredible culture[39:04] What is on the horizon for the Naples real estate market[46:39] Solidifying your brand for generations to come[53:52] How best to interact with your team and your customers or clients[58:22] The future of the tradesConnect with Build Magazine:Website - https://www.buildmagazine.com/Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/buildmags/?hl=enFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/BuildMags/Key Quotes by Win:Pricing power is what Wall Street wants to see. [...] The big winners that can defend their pricing power are the brands that have the loyalty from the consumers that have an association with it.Who are we talking to? What do they think about us? What will they think about us after this piece of communication? We need them to have a deeper loyalty.The creative matters. It isn't creative if it doesn't sell.Take out the marketing-ese. Develop colloquialism and ease of messaging. Tone it down: Use layman's language when you're talking to consumers. They're a lot smarter than you think they are.

Criag Bjur, from the Fargo Park District Foundation, joins Amy & JJ to talk about where they are at in the planning process of the Fargo Sports Complex - a highly impactful community recreation facility planned on 100 acres just west of Interstate 29, between 52nd Avenue South and 64th Avenue South. You can be a part of the story - Craig explains the generous match offered to them going into Giving Hearts Day.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

60-year-old Wanda Faye Walker was last seen leaving her residence in the 1400 block of 11th Avenue South in Nashville, Tenessee on October 4, 2016. Wanda's car was located one week later in the 1000 block of Wade Avenue and contained many of her personal belongings. Wanda is described as a black female, 5'7" tall, 180 lbs, with brown eyes and brown hair that was dyed bleach blonde at the time of her disappearance. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone involved in this case. If you have any information, including photos or potential sightings of Wanda, please contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI or anonymously online at tips.fbi.gov. You may also contact Nashville CrimeStoppers at 615-742-7463. Wanda Faye Walker-FBI

Surfside Beach won a 2021 Achievement Award from the Municipal Association its infrastructure and streetscaping project on a historically overlooked commercial street. Director of Public Works John Adair explains how the project was funded and planned, and what it has meant for the area's business development. See the video at vimeo.com/575511738.

Please join us and download our new upcoming podcasts as I welcome two major Movers & Shapers, who are making a huge impact on Fifth Avenue South and the Naples community overall.  You'll meet two very talented people with diverse backgrounds and expertise. Marlissa Gardner, founder and owner of Emillions Art on Fifth, discusses her successful art showroom featuring established and emergent international artists in all genres: painting, photography, mixed media, sculpture and works on paper, as well as her foray into the world of cryptocurrency.  Chris Rozansky, Executive Director of Naples Airport Authority, oversees one of the most important private airports in the country. Chris explains the crucial role the airport plays in attracting residents and businesses to SWFL, especially on 5th Avenue South.

Podcast Features Bob Gibbs and Kristen Coury, local Naples Florida IconsEpisode 3: Urban Retail legend Bob Gibbs, CEO of Gibbs Planning Group - Gibbs has helped develop more than 1,000 town centers and historic districts worldwide. If architect Andres Duany is considered the Father and visionary of Fifth Avenue, then Bob Gibbs is its kindly Uncle who worked alongside Duany in the Avenue's initial planning and has continued to shepherd it through expanded growth for decades. We will talk about Fifth Avenue's attributes, including walkability, accessibility, natural beauty and urban retail in meeting the needs of the community. We will trace the Avenue's historic beginnings, its case study development, and explore its future.Episode 4: Kristen Coury, CEO and Producing Artistic Director, Gulfshore Playhouse - Gulfshore Playhouse has grown from fledgling artistic startup to world-class production company, with Coury's visionary plans to build a state-of-the-art, 45,000 square foot new home for the theater, which is scheduled for completion in late 2023, as her priority. Kristen will discuss how the Playhouse has raised almost $60 million for construction and what this incredible undertaking means in terms of Naples' culture and economic impact.

After more than a year on the run, the man accused of fatally shooting 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson inside the six-block area that last summer was known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone was arrested Monday in Des Moines.Seattle police identified Marcel Long as the man suspected of killing Anderson within a day of the June 20, 2020, shooting at 10th Avenue and East Pine Street and learned Long, now 19, had fled the state, according to the first-degree murder charge filed against him in August. He had been wanted on a $2 million arrest warrant since then.Members of the U.S. Marshal's Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force recently determined that Long was staying at a Des Moines apartment complex, a Monday news release said. Long was seen walking on South 216th Street, near 14th Avenue South, and was arrested after a brief foot chase.Long was booked into the King County Jail at 4:25 p.m., jail records show.Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic.Support the show (https://buymeacoff.ee/seattlepodcast)

Jim jests the News with Dave Martin  (https://davemartinworld.com/) and Ian Sirota (see him June 25, Summer Comedy Concert Series at Hernder Estate, 1607 8th Avenue South, St Catharines); Jim and Mike are then joined by Richard Crouse with his weekly movie reviews and ratings.

Dr. Mark Yohe, a physician who specializes in men’s health with a special interest in joint injections and arthritis. Melissa Christianson is a certified physician assistant, specializing in the treatment of rheumatic conditions. IMA Healthcare - 701-280-2033 and www.imahealthcare.com  Located on 45th Street and 32nd Avenue South, across from Mexican Village. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's Masters week and The Golf Show with Jeff Kolpack taps into the PGA mind of professional golfer Tom Hoge and gets an update on Tom's game as he heads into an intense spring and summer stretch of tournaments. Mark Johnson, a great Masters tournament mind, joins the show in studio with some exciting career news as he transitions into the new Suite Shots golf facility going up at the corner of Interstate 29 and 52nd Avenue South in Fargo.  Catch the Golf Show with Jeff Kolpack on Saturdays at 10 a.m. on 740 The Fan and 107.3 FM.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Movers & Shapers is the official podcast of the 5th Avenue South Business Improvement District in Naples, Florida. The show focuses on the people that make the most impact in the city of Naples and on 5th Avenue South.  Hosted by Bruce Barone, Jr., the Executive Director of the 5th Avenue BID, guests will include business owners, restaurateurs, politicians, city officials, entrepreneurs and more.  The first episode of Movers & Shapers profiles Veljko Pavicevic the Co-Owner & Founder of Sails Restaurant located at 301 5th Avenue South and Mayor Teresa Heitmann, the Mayor of the City of Naples.

*Airdate 8/31/2020 Your host, Greg Lewis, talks to Laurie Spradley, Vice President of Operations and Brand Development at Goo-Goo Candy Company located in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1912, in a copper kettle at the Standard Candy Company at Clark & First Avenue in Nashville, TN, America's first combination candy bar was invented. A roundish mound of caramel, marshmallow nougat, fresh roasted peanuts and real milk chocolate the Goo-Goo was a treat that I couldn't wait to enjoy as a child. I still enjoy them today!!! Goo-Goo continues to be owned and operated by the Spradley Family. Their Goo-Goo Shop and Desert Bar located at 116 3rd Avenue South in Nashville is a must stop on your next trip to Music City USA. In this episode of Family Business Today Laurie Spradley will share: What's in a name? You can hear the story here! Why the back story of a family brand is important to future generations and to those they serve Hear Laurie's story of her journey home from New York to join the family business How boundaries are established between work and personal/family relationships Advice to Mom and Dad on inviting their children to join the family business And much more…. To learn more about Goo-Goo Candy visit their website at www.googoo.com. At the Tennessee Center for Family Business our passion is to help business owners create a positive environment in which their family THRIVES, their business performs and one day celebrate a successful transition. Family Business Mastermind Groups are now forming for the Fall. To learn more and join a group follow the link. To learn more about the Tennessee Center for Family Business visit www.tncfb.com. Until next time, There's No Business Like Family Business…..We Know! Podcast made with help provided by Visual Media Co. https://www.visualmediaco.com/

Jazz great Bob Mintzer joins Tim to talk about  his career in jazz, his body of work, his life in music. Bob is one of the world's leading jazz saxophonists. He's classically trained, but a self-taught jazz artist, who talks about the music and how the current pandemic is setting the stage for what's next. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shapingopinion/Bob_Mintzer_Jazz_auphonic.mp3 Bob Mintzer is a saxophonist, he's a woodwind specialist, he's a composer and arranger, and he's a music educator. Music has been a part of his life from an early age. H started by learning to play piano by ear. He moved on to guitar, the clarinet, drums, and then finding the instrument that would help define his musical legacy, the saxophone. And while many may fall in love with music at a young age, for Bob, he realized that music would be his life's work in 1969 when he was a teenager. That's when he received a scholarship to attend the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, and where he saw the kind of commitment was required to become a full-time musician. At Interlochen, Bob met Peter Erskine, who became a colleague and a friend for life. Links Bob Mintzer website Bob Mintzer, USC Yellowjackets Jazz About this Episode's Guest Bob Mintzer Bob Mintzer Bob Mintzer is a saxophonist, woodwind specialist, composer/arranger, educator, born January 27 1953 in New Rochelle, New York. He formed a connection to music at a very early age, primarily through playing piano by ear, and later moving on to guitar, clarinet, drums, and eventually saxophone. Bob played clarinet and later saxophone in school band programs while playing guitar and keys in garage bands through high school. The turning point which solidified Bob's connection to music as a life long endeavor came in 1969, when he received a scholarship to attend the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. There he saw first hand what kind of commitment was involved in becoming a full time musician. It was at Interlochen that Bob met Peter Erskine, who became a colleague which continues to this day some 50 years later. Bob attended the Hartt School of music 1970-72 and the Manhattan School of Music 72-74. He was a clarinet major in both institutions while teaching himself jazz and getting together with musicians outside of school. Hartford had a small band of musicians playing jazz every night, which provided an opportunity for Bob to play regularly. In NYC the loft scene was in full swing, and Bob developed many connections in the loft sessions that were taking place nightly, sometimes until 6 in the morning. In 1974, upon finishing his year at MSM, bob joined the Tito Puente Orchestra and simultaneously did some touring with Eumir Deodato. 1975 brought an opportunity for Bob to join the Buddy Rich band and toured steadily with that band for 2 plus years. The ability to play every night, travel the world, and begin to write arrangements was a golden opportunity. By 1978 Bob was playing with several small jazz groups (Stone Alliance, Teruo Nockamura, a short encounter with Art Blakey, Joe Chambers, Mike Manieri) and was asked to join the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. Bob played with Thad and Mel for 6 months, and later with Mel, as Thad had moved to Europe. In 1980 Bob arranged a project for the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra to be recorded live at the Montreal Jazz Festival of the music of Herbie Hancock. In 1981 through 1982 Bob was a member of the Jaco Pastorius Word of Mouth band., playing tenor sax, bass clarinet, and doing some arranging/composing for both the big and small band components. There are several recordings and videos of this band out and about. In 1983 Bob started his big band in NYC which consisted of many of the finest musicians in town (Michael and Randy Brecker, Marvin Stamm, Lou Soloff, Barry Rogers, Dave Taylor, Don Grolnick, Will Lee, Peter Erskine, Roger Rosenberg). The band performed regularly at 7th Avenue South (club o...

Jazz great Bob Mintzer joins Tim to talk about  his career in jazz, his body of work, his life in music. Bob is one of the world’s leading jazz saxophonists. He’s classically trained, but a self-taught jazz artist, who talks about the music and how the current pandemic is setting the stage for what’s next. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/shapingopinion/Bob_Mintzer_Jazz_auphonic.mp3 Bob Mintzer is a saxophonist, he’s a woodwind specialist, he’s a composer and arranger, and he’s a music educator. Music has been a part of his life from an early age. H started by learning to play piano by ear. He moved on to guitar, the clarinet, drums, and then finding the instrument that would help define his musical legacy, the saxophone. And while many may fall in love with music at a young age, for Bob, he realized that music would be his life’s work in 1969 when he was a teenager. That’s when he received a scholarship to attend the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, and where he saw the kind of commitment was required to become a full-time musician. At Interlochen, Bob met Peter Erskine, who became a colleague and a friend for life. Links Bob Mintzer website Bob Mintzer, USC Yellowjackets Jazz About this Episode's Guest Bob Mintzer Bob Mintzer Bob Mintzer is a saxophonist, woodwind specialist, composer/arranger, educator, born January 27 1953 in New Rochelle, New York. He formed a connection to music at a very early age, primarily through playing piano by ear, and later moving on to guitar, clarinet, drums, and eventually saxophone. Bob played clarinet and later saxophone in school band programs while playing guitar and keys in garage bands through high school. The turning point which solidified Bob’s connection to music as a life long endeavor came in 1969, when he received a scholarship to attend the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. There he saw first hand what kind of commitment was involved in becoming a full time musician. It was at Interlochen that Bob met Peter Erskine, who became a colleague which continues to this day some 50 years later. Bob attended the Hartt School of music 1970-72 and the Manhattan School of Music 72-74. He was a clarinet major in both institutions while teaching himself jazz and getting together with musicians outside of school. Hartford had a small band of musicians playing jazz every night, which provided an opportunity for Bob to play regularly. In NYC the loft scene was in full swing, and Bob developed many connections in the loft sessions that were taking place nightly, sometimes until 6 in the morning. In 1974, upon finishing his year at MSM, bob joined the Tito Puente Orchestra and simultaneously did some touring with Eumir Deodato. 1975 brought an opportunity for Bob to join the Buddy Rich band and toured steadily with that band for 2 plus years. The ability to play every night, travel the world, and begin to write arrangements was a golden opportunity. By 1978 Bob was playing with several small jazz groups (Stone Alliance, Teruo Nockamura, a short encounter with Art Blakey, Joe Chambers, Mike Manieri) and was asked to join the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. Bob played with Thad and Mel for 6 months, and later with Mel, as Thad had moved to Europe. In 1980 Bob arranged a project for the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra to be recorded live at the Montreal Jazz Festival of the music of Herbie Hancock. In 1981 through 1982 Bob was a member of the Jaco Pastorius Word of Mouth band., playing tenor sax, bass clarinet, and doing some arranging/composing for both the big and small band components. There are several recordings and videos of this band out and about. In 1983 Bob started his big band in NYC which consisted of many of the finest musicians in town (Michael and Randy Brecker, Marvin Stamm, Lou Soloff, Barry Rogers, Dave Taylor, Don Grolnick, Will Lee, Peter Erskine, Roger Rosenberg). The band performed regularly at 7th Avenue South (club o...

Your host, Greg Lewis, talks to Laurie Spradley, Vice President Operations and Brand Development at Goo-Goo Candy Company located in Nashville, Tennessee.In 1912, in a copper kettle at the Standard Candy Company at Clark & First Avenue in Nashville, TN, America's first combination candy bar was invented. A roundish mound of caramel, marshmallow nougat, fresh roasted peanuts and real milk chocolate the Goo-Goo was a treat that I couldn’t wait to enjoy as a child. I still enjoy them today!!!Goo-Goo continues to be owned and operated by the Spradley Family. Their Goo-Goo Shop and Desert Bar located at 116 3rd Avenue South in Nashville is a must stop on your next trip to Music City USA.In this episode of Family Business Today Laurie Spradley will share:What’s in a name? You can hear the story here!Why the back story of a family brand is important to future generations and to those they serveHear Laurie’s story of her journey home from New York to join the family businessHow boundaries are established between work and personal/family relationshipsAdvice to Mom and Dad on inviting their children to join the family businessAnd much more….To learn more about Goo-Goo Candy visit their website at www.googoo.com.At the Tennessee Center for Family Business our passion is to help business owners create a positive environment in which their family THRIVES, their business performs and one day celebrate a successful transition. Family Business Mastermind Groups are now forming for the Fall. To learn more and join a group follow the link. To learn more about the Tennessee Center for Family Business visit www.tncfb.com.Until next time, There’s No Business Like Family Business…..We Know!

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I'm joined again with Beatty Carmichael.  Beatty is the CEO of Master Grabber and the creator of Agent Dominator. He's one of the top marketing experts in the real estate field. And Beatty, I'm super excited that you're joining me today. A little bit different than you for us, but what do you have for our listeners today? Yeah, so this is a little bit different, if you'll pardon me, while I remember to turn my phone off so it doesn't ring over there. This is actually a zoom meeting. So for those of you who are listening strictly online, then if you want to actually see what we're doing, see what Penny looks like, because most people say I’ve probably never seen Penny. You can watch this podcast online. But the most important part is we're going to be doing a training session on how to dominate a geographic farm, basically what we call geographic farming mastery. And this is the basics of getting into it. Everything on how do you market to it at a high level? What are the things that causes it to drive results all the way down to how do you pick a farm that gets you even more results? So this whole call and talk is to really take someone who's thinking about geographic farming or maybe haven't thought about it at all and say, here's how you do it and let's make it work. Well, great. [00:01:32] Oh, I'm excited. This this is going to be a really good topic for our listeners. [00:01:37] Yes. So I was doing a call recently, Penny, and doing actually this very same workshop. And it was real interesting because there were a lot of really high income earners, real estate agents on the call. And the couple the comments that came out of it was where were you four years ago? You know, as we start to explain, here's how you do marketing, OK? And then as I started to explain, how do you pick out a farm, it's like all these light bulbs started to go on because most people have never really understood the art of farming. And it's really not an art. It's a science. So I thought I'd walk us through it today. So, yeah, I'm excited. OK, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to share my screen. [00:02:29] Oh, the joys of technology, right? [00:02:31] Yes, absolutely. Now, can you can you see my screen OK? I can, yes. OK, this is blocking agent dominate our logo right there, but we'll move this around. OK, so let's get started. So what I want to do is, by the way, for you all who don't know, this is actually Penny, just a couple of years ago before she had her guide on TV. [00:02:56] Ok, so how do you dominate the geographic form? I want to first talk about how do you market for listings, because whether it is in a geographic farm or whether it's in your personal list or whether it's a expired list or whether it's any type of list, what you find is people respond the same. And so I want to walk you through this at a high level marketing for listings. [00:03:22] And because of that, I want to talk about beer. Penny, have you ever heard of Schlitz beer? [00:03:29] I have, yeah. I was asking someone recently, just a couple of months ago about that. [00:03:35] And they never had they were young, you know, more millennial type person. And so Pabst Blue Ribbon bought Schlitz, I think it was in the 90s. Wow. And so that's why the name went out to recognize it. [00:03:52] I think it's a Yankee beer. I was actually born in Massachusetts, so I recognize it as being one that was popular. [00:04:00] Yes, very much so. So it is sort of a Yankee beer. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was their home office area. And now here's the big question, Penny. What in the world does beer have to do with getting listings? [00:04:16] Oh, I don't know, you're going to have to tell me that one. [00:04:20] Well, you invite some friends over, you pop open a beer and you have a good time and you build relationships. [00:04:26] Is that it? Maybe that would be my my easy guess. [00:04:30] Because your easy guys. Well, that's a wrong answer. If that was the actual answer. So beer has a lot to do with it. Not just all beer, but in particular Schlitz beer. So so is in Milwaukee, used to be called the Milwaukee Brewing Company is one of the commercial agents up in Milwaukee told me. And what's real interesting is at the turn of the century and for our millennial friends, no, that's not the return of 2000. This is the chart of nineteen hundred. OK, but at the turn of the nineteen hundreds slits, beer was number eight and the nation number one was Budweiser. OK, wrong side No. One was Budweiser. And do you have any idea the difference between number one and number eight when you're talking about market share? I don't. OK, so just a real quick business lesson number one. And number two, control the vast majority of the market. So in any place, if you have number one and number two, they typically own and control 85, 90, 95 percent of the market. Wow. OK, then number three is way down from there. Number four is even further down. And by the time you get down to number eight, you're a nobody hears probably a good way to kind of understand this. [00:06:04] If you were to look at a geographic farm, for example, a large farm where maybe there are some really strong agents and and you got to look at a farm where you got some really strong agents, where they pretty much are dominating the market. You'll find that the number one agent, if they if they dominate the market, is probably like 50 percent. OK, I mean, I'm talking about a strong agent and then number two from there is probably going to be down at 15 percent by the time you get to number one, our number eight, that person probably has maybe one listing a year in that farm. So what we're talking about is a huge disparity. Sure. OK, and Slick's wanted to grow, so they hired a guy named Claude Hopkins and now the name probably doesn't ring a bell. But let me ask you a question. Um, let's talk about income for for a moment, Penny. OK, if if you were earning a hundred and eighty five thousand dollars a year today, is that a lot of money? [00:07:13] Today, yeah, I would consider that to be a pretty good, pretty good income. [00:07:21] Yeah, one hundred eighty five thousand dollars is more than most real estate agents make take home pay. OK, so now let's go back a hundred and ten years ago. If you were earning one hundred and eighty five thousand dollars and nineteen ten, would that be a big income? Yes. OK, yes, that's what this guy's salary was, a hundred and eighty five thousand dollars a year. And the only thing he did is he wrote marketing copy to get people to buy his client's brand name. So Schlitz Beer hired Claude Hopkins. And I wanted you to see the story because what he did with Solich is the same thing that if you do in your geographic farm or anywhere else, you're going to quickly dominate that area. OK, so so what Claude did is the first thing he did, by the way, let me also walk you through just a few more years, the Great Depression, 1930, 1931, 1933. In that time frame, a lot of people were unemployed, right? Yes. A lot of businesses out of business and a lot of incomes had dropped a lot because there's a lot of the market was gone. So would you like to take a guess of what Claude Hopkins salary was in the early 1930s during the peak of the depression? [00:08:54] Wow. OK, so is this is this before the one eighty five a year salary or after this is after. [00:09:02] So 185 was actually 1987, OK, when he was just getting started in marketing. OK, essentially. And then you fast forward, you have the stock market crash, the Great Depression and everyone's out of work, a lot of people. And he's still doing marketing copy. Would you like to guess what his salary was at that point? [00:09:27] I'm going to guess it was higher. I'm going to guess is higher than one eighty five. [00:09:31] Ok, good guess. Now the question is at what? What level? [00:09:36] Oh, gosh. Can I give you a percentage? Sure. [00:09:46] Ok, I'm going to go with I'm going to go with twenty five. I mean, Great Depression, 25, 30 percent higher. [00:09:53] Ok, so 25, 30 percent would put him about a quarter million dollars. His salary was over one million dollars a year during the Great Depression. [00:10:06] Wow, that's amazing. [00:10:08] And the reason I want to share that is I want you to understand that what he did was Schalit was so effective that when he did it with every single other company, company she would never have heard of, like Palmolive, Palmolive or what are those beans that come in a can do you remember? [00:10:28] I can't lay any beans. Yeah. [00:10:32] And anyway, Dove Soap, Palmolive, all of these brands that we have today, he was the guy that launched them. Wow. OK, so, um, so what happened with with with Claude is the first thing he did is he went through the slick brewery and took a tour and they showed him everything that happened through the process of making beer, because if you're going to market beer, you got to kind of understand the process. So they started with the fact that they have several 4000 foot deep wells that's almost a mile deep. They had several of those where they pumped up the very poorest of the pure water that they could get so that the beer was pure. Now, let me also share one other thing back in this time frame from all the beers for promoting, we have purity in our beer. Our beers are pure. But the question is, how do you define pure? Yeah, they most of our agents out there are saying, you know, I'm a great agent. But the question is, how do you define a great agent? OK, everyone's using the same verbiage here, but no one knows how to define it. Unless you can define it, then you can't really sell it. Does that make sense? Yeah, absolutely. OK, so they showed him how they have these several four thousand foot wells to bring up only the purest of the pure water. Then they take it through this process and then when they are cooling the beer down, they had these huge plate glass windows that are protecting the cooling area from everything else. [00:12:20] And they use only filtered air so that there's no impurities to come involved. Then they showed him how they take their beer bottles and they clean them not only once or twice, but four times with superheated steam to make sure all of the bacteria is gone so that there could be nothing that would spoil the purity of the taste. And then they also showed them in their laboratory, the mother yeast cell, that they went through one thousand and eighteen different experiments developing this mother yeast cell to have the purest of the taste. And all of the yeast that the beer is made from comes from that mother you sell. Well, then they also show that the filters that they use to filter out the beer from all of the barley and everything else and clean it are made from a very expensive white oak. I believe I've got my story right, white oak, that they had to claim two or three times a day to keep it really pure. OK, then they would store the beer in a cask and the casks were made out of very special wood that were aged before they would put the beer in there. And so all of these very deliberate, very elaborate steps so that when the beer comes out on the other end, it's extremely pure to the standards of Schlitz beer. Does that make sense? [00:13:49] Well, yes. OK, so now as I'm describing this, you're going wow. And as I'm watching your expression, you're going, wow, OK, I'm just like, it's so it's so much like step after step. [00:14:00] And it's like I just kept expecting you to be like, finished. And then it was like, one more thing. [00:14:04] Yes. Well, now I truncated it as well. Obviously a lot more sets, but those are the key things. So when Claude finish coming through the tour, here's his reaction was just like yours and mine. My gosh, this is amazing. You do all of this just to make it pure. And then he asked the question. Why don't you tell the public about this man? And do you have any idea what the Spear guys said when he asked that question? They probably thought he was a fool. No, he said almost. Almost. He's they said, well, Claude, this is how all beer is made. We don't do anything different. I don't do anything unique. And then Claude came back and this is the problem, OK? And this is also the problem with a lot of real estate agents. Well, Betty, all good real estate agents do these best practices. And from your perspective as the real estate agent, you don't do anything special, but what Claude understood that the big guys did not understand is that the public did not understand that OK? And he said whoever educates the public first is going to own that market share. It's going to own that what we call positioning in the mind. Now, let's talk about positioning real quick, because this is real important. OK, so positioning is a marketing term. If you've ever read a book, millionaire real estate agent, have you ever read that? I know because I know you guys have been and do things with real estate as well. So millionaire real estate agent talks about a concept called market share dominance. He actually pulls that. The concept of that from a book called Positioning by Ellery's and a guy named Fred. And that book was written in the 1980s as a fabulous read, if you are excited about marketing. But it basically says this, that the typical consumer can only remember two or maybe three brands and nothing else. Wow. So let's do a quick test. Can we test this out on you? [00:16:16] Yes, but I'm probably not the one you want to test. I'm really good at brands. [00:16:20] Ok, good. So let's say you're the good one to test. I want you to think about toothpaste, for example. OK, all right. Tell me the brand of toothpaste that come to mind. [00:16:31] Crest Colgate, Aquafresh. It's red and white. Hold on. [00:16:38] Ok, you can start there. OK, three came to mind instantly. Yes. Most people when asked only to come to mind. But you had a real bad chance time trying to figure out that fourth one that you could picture, but you couldn't come with a name yet. How many toothpaste brands do you think are on the market? [00:16:57] Oh, my word. [00:16:59] I it's got to be well over 25 oh, it's in the thousands. [00:17:05] Ok, right, OK. So at least in the multiple hundreds. But here's so here's what happens. As a consumer with all of these brands, you only quickly come up with three. Uh, what do you think's happening in that geographic farm when you ask a homeowner, give me the name of every real estate agent you think of one to. [00:17:32] Maybe three, yeah. [00:17:33] If you're not one of those names, you have zero chance of getting a phone call when they're thinking about selling. Does that make sense? [00:17:41] Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah. [00:17:43] So this is what is so important about this whole idea of marketing for listings is it's all about how do you get your name in that consumer's mind so that they think of you first? And that was the challenge that Spear was having. They were number eight for a reason. No one thought of them. OK, yeah. So what Klau did is he starts writing copy and here's an example called Bottled Purity. And they always have these. By the way, he did a thing on orange juice later. I saw and it says Drink oranges from a bottle. You know, this is keep in mind, back in that time, there was no orange juice you'd buy off the shelf, you'd always squeeze it. So so these headlines create an immense curiosity, bottled purity. And then what he starts to do is he starts to on the ad, he starts to explain these things that slick beer did to bring purity to their beer. He talked about the four thousand foot wells. He talked about the white oak filters. He talked about the plate glass room with only filtered air. He talked about all of these things. And would you like to guess what happened? [00:19:05] He started making more money. [00:19:08] Well, OK, let's talk about expertise. Would you like to guess what happened with Spir? [00:19:13] I probably could not guess some of what you tell me. [00:19:16] Ok, you're afraid to guess what's going on. It is. [00:19:24] So what happened is in less than one year. They jumped nationally to the number one selling beer. [00:19:35] Wow. Oh, my word. Wow. [00:19:38] Think about the impact from a nobody to no one in less than a year leapfrogging over Budweiser. Wow. How do you do that? You do that by giving people an understanding of what pure beer is all about. [00:19:56] And then I'm going to this book written. So there is a real famous I forget the marketing straight, but up in New York, there is a very famous advertising agency called Lordan Thomas, and they are the ones that brought out all of these brands. And Claude worked for him, was president of Lord and Thomas during the years of the Great Depression. It's my understanding, but I know you worked there and the owner of Lordan, Thomas, was talking about he's on a train. You got to go back to the early nineteen hundreds. [00:20:35] There were no interstates, OK? And so if you want to go from city to city, you hopped on a train. So the owner of Lordan, Thomas, was on a train with his I guess it was a preacher, a priest or pastor, depending on the denomination. But this guy had never had any beer in his life and he kind of stayed away from alcohol. And on the train there, you know, riding along and reading the newspaper and and he's reading another ad for Schlitz Beer and talking about the purity and the pure taste and the crispness of the taste. [00:21:11] And he said to and I wish I remember the guy's name, but the owner, Lauren Thomas, he said, you know, I've been reading about this beer so much, I just got to go get it. [00:21:22] I just got to go try it. So he gets up and goes buys his first beer. OK, that's how effective Claude Hopkins was in writing marketing copy about a beer that would persuade homeowners to choose that beer over every other beer out there. Like now, can you start to see some similarities maybe with what's going on there, with what you can be doing with your real estate business? Yes, absolutely. Yeah. So what comes to mind? Anything your editor, strategic, high level or maybe even specific granular level? [00:22:02] High level. I would just be something like you said earlier, something that's going to set you apart, but really draw the attention of the person that you're trying to market to. Clearly, his copy at this time was drawing the attention of readers and people that we're looking through the paper and so forth. And it was intriguing to them. Maybe it was something that had not been done prior to this, you know, to really, like you said, describe the process of the beer and the way the beer taste and all that. Instead of just putting a picture with Budweiser across it, he's actually giving some information on the beer. And so people were inquisitive. [00:22:43] That's kind of what comes to mind. [00:22:45] Yeah, exactly. So now, if we were to relate this to real estate, what do most real estate agents do now? Let me ask you this question. Let me ask the question. [00:22:54] This one, I'm going to get a lot of agents to hate me if I give that answer. [00:22:58] So let me ask you so let me ask a more politically correct question, OK? OK. If you were to get 10 postcards from 10 real estate agents as a consumer. Is there typically anything on those postcards that would persuade you why, to choose one agent over another? Probably not. Probably not. Therein lies the problem. Yeah, all real estate agents do what all real estate agents do because that's what they're taught to do. There's a great book. I don't know if you've ever read it, called Rhinoceros Success, Not J something. Alexander So Rhinoceros is a success. Great book. I highly recommend it. It's a short read just a couple hours or less. And but it talks about how do you really beat the crowd and it's in any one of the main truisms there. So any time you see the crowd going one way, you always go the other way, OK? And this is especially true with real estate. Any time you see all real estate agents doing this same type of practice, do something different now that they're all sending these cars, that all look alikes do something different because otherwise you run in the same problem that you listed. So let me show you what's going on right now. [00:24:23] A quick note on that. I have to I have to solidify that point. I remember about three or four years ago, we got something very different in the mail from a real estate agent, way different than any other agents had done. And if I were if I had been in the market to buy a home at that point, I would have called that agent immediately because it was something that no one else had been doing. It totally caught my attention and I actually liked it. [00:24:51] Yes. So I stand out from the crowd. Yes, it worked. Yeah. So if you can say this, if you're watching the video, you know, all of these people look the same as just silhouettes, OK? Nothing to differentiate. But in marketing, this is really the issue. In marketing, there's a concept known as outside perception versus inside reality. And this is the same thing that Shlosberg was running into and the same thing that all of our listeners are running into right now. That is the outside perception of your marketplace assumes you are just like everyone else you're inside. Reality is, you might be a lot different, but the perception is different. So people question, OK. When you make a sale, the people buy you on perception or on reality, reality, OK, if they've never used you before, do they have anything to buy on reality with. [00:25:56] No. So they have to buy on perception. Yes. OK, so it's a trick question because if you've done business with someone before or they've done business with you, let's say you're a real estate agent, they've done business with you before, then if you're a good agent, they liked you. You did a great job. They're going to use you again and again because they now know your reality. Does that make sense? Absolutely. OK, but they've never used you before. Then what they're doing is they're hiring you based on perception. So perception is the key to engaging that first relationship. I got to tell you a story. [00:26:36] One the one of our clients with Agent Dominator signed up with us. [00:26:44] She put her her past clients and friends on our list to market. And, you know, we have a money back guarantee that you'll get results or we'll give all your money back. OK, and but one of those one of the keys that guarantee is that there has to be at least enough selling activity within your list, that we can guarantee something, you know, sort of like Jesus, he never created something out of nothing. He always took the little that you have and then produced the abundance, you know, five you know, five loaves and two fish to feed five thousand. But he didn't just start with nothing. And we can't create something out of nothing either. So this agent's name, I forget it. I was just going to use first name. But anyway, she came to us at the end of the year. She didn't get any sales, so she complained. She said, I want my money back. And so we go through our process. And one of the questions asked was, you know, how many listings actually came out of that list, whether you got them or not. And there was only one. So, well, that doesn't meet the threshold, OK, because in the in the contract, it says that there's got to be X and but here's A and I'm going somewhere with this, OK? This person that listed their home was a recent past client of this agent. [00:28:12] And chose someone else. Wow. OK, so that shows you how bad that agent was. OK, so that homeowner chose the agent initially on perception, but reality was not good enough to repeat. Wow. So so typically your business comes from reality if it's repeat and it's coming from perception if it's not. So this is the challenge that spearhead the outside perception of all of the beer drinkers was that Sloots was just another beer and the inside reality. The perception is that when Claw's started to explain step by step, those things that they did, then the public's perception of slick beer increased and now they started buying it. This is the same thing with real estate agents. So let me ask you a question. Assume for a moment, Penny, that you are a you're one of our clients, OK? Assume that you maybe you've been selling real estate for 15 or 20 years. You do 30 to 50 transactions a year. You do an excellent job for your clients, OK? And now you want to do geographic farming and you go to this farm and they've seen your signs, you know, over the years. [00:29:35] You might even do some advertising and you're in the grocery store and things of that sort. OK, so here's the question, by and large, to those homeowners. Do they believe that you are any different or any better than any of the other agents? No, no. See, here's what happens. The homeowner's perception is that all agents are the same and all they do is stick a sign in the yard, list the home in the MLS and just sit back and wait for someone to bring a buyer. Does that make sense? Absolutely. OK, so if they believe that to be true, then it makes no difference which agent they choose because their home is going to sell for the same price in the same amount of time. Is this making sense? Absolutely. OK, so now put yourself back in that top producers corner and let me ask you this question, OK? If those homeowners out there understood the skill, the expertise and the experience that you bring to the table for your clients, and they understood that skill, expertise and experience to the same degree that you understand it about yourself, would they realistically choose any other agent besides you? [00:30:52] No. No. So that is your inside reality now becoming their perception of who you are? Yes. Yeah. If you can make Dariya their perception, become your reality, then they would choose you every time. The fact that they're not choosing you every time is because their perception is different. And to the degree that your reality is different than their perception is to the degree of how few listings you'll get from that market. Are these making sense? OK, yeah. So then the question is how in the world do you take your inside reality and help them understand your reality? [00:31:37] What do you think? How do you do that? [00:31:41] Well, I keep I hear my grandmother say the proof is in the pudding, so there's got to be something that I'm going to be doing that will prove to them that that perception is a reality. [00:31:55] Very good. So we got to somehow communicate it. So this is what Claude did. He went through and analyzed each step, the process of making excellent beer, and then he wrote marketing copy that educated the consumer on each of those steps. It wasn't flamboyant marketing copy. It wasn't flowery language. It was here's what we do. And it's so impressive just by itself that people go, wow, that's a lot of effort. This beer must be really great. Does that make sense? Yeah. So we started working on this back in 2013. We start analyze what causes someone to change their perception about a real estate agent. And what we found was a real simple thing. If you want to make your inside reality become their outside perception of who you are, then it really boils down to three things. And we call them the three S's. OK, and I want to kind of walk through these, but the three S's very simply are you have to show off your sales. You have to explain the secrets to those cells, and then you have to have some sort of unique selling proposition or or some unique service that you do that gives them to remember you. And I think we probably ought to just end the podcast right now. We'll come back in a few weeks and finish this up. [00:33:26] What do you think now? [00:33:30] Ok, so I've also got to tell you this this other story. OK, OK, so showing off your cells, we found this was the number one thing most important. In fact, back in 2012 and then 2013 when we just started working exclusively with real estate agents. I don't know if you know this or not, Penny, but we are focus at that time was exclusively geographic farming. And let me back up and share the conundrum with geographic farming. I think the easiest way to explain it, Andina, what conundrum means a pitfall before problem? [00:34:11] I think it's a real word. It may just be made up. I'm not really. I think it's real. [00:34:15] Ok, so the conundrum, OK, in geographic farming is best described by what Mike Feri said. Now, let's test your knowledge again. Do you know who Mike Ferry is? [00:34:31] I do recognize that name. Maybe he was an agent. I don't know. [00:34:36] I think he was an agent, but he is his claim to fame is he has the largest, longest, most successful real estate coaching organization in the world called the very coaching organization or very organization. [00:34:51] So like that, if you go to the website, I haven't been there in a couple of years, but real prominently it says over one million individual hours of coaching conducted. Wow. That's a lot of time. That is a lot of time. A lot of people have heard of Tom Ferry, which is his son. OK, so you have that connection. But Mike Ferry was asked about postcard marketing, geographic farming, and his comment was, if you're going to do postcard marketing and I'm assuming this has meaning for that geographic form. So you have to do nonstop marketing for at least two or three years before you can expect the homeowner to actually remember your name. Wow. That's that Mindshare dominance. [00:35:31] Yeah. Pick up the phone and call you. OK, so the conundrum in real estate, in geographic farming is it takes time because what we're trying to do is we're trying to change the thinking of those homeowners. [00:35:43] We're trying to get their perception that you are not just any other agent, but you are a special agent worthy of being, you know, selling their house. So when we enter this market, the common belief was if you're going to do geographic farming, you market, market, market, market, and your first listing will come maybe by the end of the first year and definitely somewhere more than likely by the second year. And then it would take somewhere between three to five years before you had a lot of volume coming in and you just kind of had a good foothold on that market place. So that's and if you think about even launching a new brand, it takes a long time to get that brand launched. And so that's basically what geographic farming is, is launching your brand. So so when we started geographic farming, would you like to guess how long it took for our average client to get their first listing? [00:36:45] Uh oh. [00:36:50] Two months, pretty clear, pretty accurate somewhere in that one, two, three month time frame, we had most of our clients getting the first listings there. We had a number of clients pick up, you know, sell a couple of million dollars in real estate and their first several months. And a number of clients would actually be maybe a few in the first several months that quickly. But we had a number of clients that would earn seventy five to one hundred thousand dollars in commissions in their first 12 months in geographic farming, which is totally unheard of. [00:37:30] And that process has nothing to do with what I'm sharing here. OK, I'm going to show you that process in just a moment. But but they all interconnected together. So back to this. So as we're signing up real estate agents, we would always ask him, have you ever done geographic farming before? And most of them would say no. Some would say yes. We would then ask those who said yes, was it successful? And most would say no and some would say yes. And we would ask them those that said it was successful. Well, what were you doing that made it successful 100 percent? Of everyone who answered that question, gave the same answer. And would you like to guess what 100 percent of the agents who had success in geographic farming in the past, what was the one answer that they gave? Do you would you like to guess? [00:38:27] My guess, and this is just based on my own personal experience, they were available. [00:38:34] Well, most agents are available because most agents don't have enough business to begin with. I don't know if they'll look at the slide. It's number one of the three S's. [00:38:44] Oh, they showed off their sale. Yeah. And how do you show off a sale if you're a real estate agent? [00:38:52] Signings, marketing, you mail out a Jessell postcard. [00:38:57] Yeah, OK, you show off your sale, OK. And that's what they were doing. And that's the number one most important thing. Here's what I learned from that. Homeowners want to know that you're actively selling them. [00:39:09] Think about this. If you're going to sell your home, do you want to sell it with an agent who rarely sells homes or one that is always selling homes or one that's always selling homes? Yeah. [00:39:20] So the one who never advertises that they're always selling the perception is they I never see them. So they must not be selling. [00:39:30] Yes. OK. [00:39:31] And if you see them then maybe they're selling. So that's the number one thing. So the three Rs is the number one is show off your sales all the time. [00:39:40] And and here's something real interesting about geographic farming. We will definitely have to break on this call. So I want to I want to take us to the end of this, but we'll break and come back another time because I want to show you how to start implementing and executing on this. But I'll I'll stop on this topic and we won't get into the other stuff. But the weather was like, oh, I'm showing off your sales. So most agents believe, wrongly, that you only send Jessell postcards around the sale that you just sold them. [00:40:17] So if I'm doing a geographic farm over here, let's just call it, you know, Cahaba Heights as my geographic farm. Then if I make a sell over in Hoover, I can't show that sell off in Cahaba Heights because Cahaba Heights, they want to see sales that are in their neighborhood. So I can't start showing off sales in that neighborhood until I start getting sales. And so now I'm at the catch twenty two. If I don't have sales, I can't show off it. I don't show my face, I don't get sales is not a problem. Yes. So the simple solution is those homeowners don't care, they just want to know that you're selling. So if you've got a sale from another area, send a Jessell postcard into that farm that you're targeting because any sale is better than no sale. Yeah, I agree with that 100 percent. [00:41:13] I mean, as a consumer, I would be thrilled to see an agent that's selling all over the city because to me that would be a sign that they can sell no matter where you are. [00:41:22] That's right. Exactly. But now there are some. So the closer you get to home. The more that homeowner is going to trust you. Meaning if you sold their next door neighbor's home and three doors down, you sold that home. And one street over, you saw another home. Do you think they'll trust you more than if all your homes are 20 miles away? Probably, yeah, yeah, so proximity does make an impact, and that's why most agents say, well, I need to sell homes here for them to trust me here. So I've got a solution. Would you like to know what that solution is? Yes. OK, so now let's go back and let's first articulate the conundrum, OK? Because these are always conundrum problems we're trying to solve. OK, so the conundrum is, when I sell a home that's 20 miles away, it may have a completely different architectural style than the homes in the neighborhood I want to target. So it becomes obvious that where I sold is nowhere near where they are. OK, makes sense. Yes. The other conundrum is, let's say and Cahaba Heights, all the streets are names like Rosemary Lane and Jackson Boulevard. But where I just sold a whole home, it's all numeric names like Twenty Fourth Street or 1st Avenue South. Mm hmm. So when I show off that sale into this geographic neighborhood, it's very obvious that sticks out like a sore thumb. This has nothing to do with where I live. Is that making sense? Absolutely. So how do you solve this problem? Now, we do this on our postcards that we fully customize for our agents when we go through this whole process, we become the Claude Hopkins' for them and I identify what is they do and we create custom postcards and we include sales. We do it on their postcards. Any idea what that is? [00:43:39] Just putting the name of the street that's part of it goes deeper and then maybe stating like how many days they sold it and if it's sold for five thousand overprice or is part of it. [00:43:55] Ok. Right. So so let me let me I'm going to peel back the onion, OK? I'm going to ask some description. I might open the kimono, OK, and let you see what's actually on the inside of what goes on with all this stuff. OK, so the first thing is the outside architecture of the home is usually the first indication that that home doesn't fit this neighborhood and. But once you go inside the home. That kitchen, the master bedroom, that master bath, the den, the living area, you can't tell what type home they are outside architecture is simply by looking at an inside photo. So if you want to take that sale and make it transferable to another neighborhood when the outside doesn't look the same. Take an inside photo and then that homeowner can't discern if there was a you know, they think it's a neighborhood sale because you send it to them in that neighborhood. Does that make sense? [00:44:56] Yes, it's brilliant. [00:44:59] So that's why we do that. It also helps in some other areas. [00:45:05] The the other thing that we do. Is now this comes into a higher level of marketing understanding. OK, so let me back. Let me explain. Let's first talk about fights, we have normal, which is black print on white copy on white background, and we have reverse font, which is white print on a dark background. Which font do you think is easier to read? Normal font or reverse font normal? That's right. It's eight and a half times easier to read normal font than it is reverse font. Most people don't read reverse font. What about if you look at all caps or let's say upper and lower case versus all caps, which is easier to read if you have a sentence, a sentence in upper and lower case versus a sentence in all caps, which is easier to read upper and lower just because it's more natural. That's right. Or natural. And then italics, not in italics or italics. If everything was in non italics or everything was in italics, which is easier. That's right. [00:46:19] So if you want them to pay attention to the street. [00:46:25] You do it in normal font, upper and lower case, non italics, yeah, but if you want them to not pay attention to the street, so don't even hit their brain. Because you kind of feel obligated, you need to know where the cell was, OK, then you put it in reverse font. All caps, italics are, and in that way it's there, but that homeowner, it doesn't register in the brain. So now you can take a cell from 20 miles away if we use that example. Yeah, you can show just the inside photo. And then for the street, you put it in smaller font, you put it in reverse font, all caps, italics, and so now is satisfies the curious, OK, they posted what I address, but they don't they don't even register. Well, this is in a house near here. Yeah. It just goes right by them. So now you can use cells from anywhere and show off cells in that farm and now you have success in that. Cool. [00:47:32] That's great. I love that. [00:47:34] Yeah. So we're going to have to stop. [00:47:37] Oh, OK. But let me tell you where we're going. [00:47:41] Just to whet your appetite to want to come back is we haven't gotten into how do you start to execute on it. So we're going to talk a little bit further on the next session. Now, that's just showing ourselves we're going to start talking about what are the secrets that you start to explain? What are the things that Claude Hopkins' approach to get people to actually trust you, to know that your beer is pure or your real estate is is excellent. We're going to talk about how do you create a unique selling proposition, what it is, and then how do you start to execute on it? And then later in the session in the series, we're going to then talk about how do you start to identify sellers? What did we do with our clients that got them listings faster than ever before when the general norm was is we're going to take a year or two to get listings and our clients were getting them in the first month or two. How do you do that? And then we're going to move further down into this mastery course and talk about how do you actually pick a farm, because you can't just say eeny, meeny, miny, mo. You point to that area and say that's where we're going to farm because it may not be productive. You know, there's things that you can do. So that's kind of where we're going in this tees it up. Has this been exciting so far? [00:49:04] This has been great. And I just want to encourage our listeners if they want to get all those juicy details and learn how to be successful. So please join us again for the next one so they can get the rest of the story. [00:49:19] Baby, thank you so much for again, just putting all the effort into really trying to make people better and make them successful. And this has been a great podcast. I look forward to the next one so we can finish out our discussion and hear all the good the good details. [00:49:38] Yes. And let me also make a couple plug number one. Yes. If you haven't subscribe to our podcast, subscribe to it so you don't miss anything. Number two, I heard a top producing agent who makes like on average about seven hundred and fifty thousand a year personal production. Take home pay, OK, almost almost take home pay. And he teaches a course and part of his course, he talks about if you think hiring a professional is expensive, try hiring an average year. OK, so I'm teaching you what you know, but I'm not teaching you what we know. OK, so if you want to really master this, if you want to have the highest chance of success, I'd love to have you check us out. You can go either to our podcast website. Getler is calling you dot com and click on the tab. Agent Dominator, you just go to agent nominator dot com and see what we do there. And otherwise, thanks for listening in and come back next time for more of the rest of the story. [00:50:43] Awesome. Thanks, baby. And we look forward to just hanging out again next time. All right. Y'all have a blessed day. Thank you. Bye bye. 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I wrote this song back in 2000 when I first moved to Nashville. I was living in a tiny basement on 17th Avenue South - or Music Row Junior as I call it. The woman who lived upstairs had a little white dog that did nothing but bark. It nearly drove me crazy. But instead of losing my mind, I wrote Thinkin' About Home, my very first Nashville composition. I have an old studio recording of it with some great pickers including Dave Pomroy on upright bass. We recorded at Jay's Place studio just a few blocks away - also on 17th. But about a year ago I realized the song needed an important lyric change plus a short bridge and so, nearly 20 years later I re-release this song with just me and my old 1976 Gibson MK-35 guitar. One day when I have some money, I'll get back into the studio to re-record it but for now this simple version will have to do. That's my dog Maxwell in the photo. He's over 13 years old and still going strong despite his limitations. Man I know the feeling. : ) I hope you enjoy this song which is also known as The Doggie Song. John Barrett July 8, 2020 Nashville, Tennessee

December, 2016. The Sunshine State. St. Petersburg, Florida; a vacation destination for most. But not all. Like many other bustling U.S. cities, St. Petersburg has its dark spots as well. And for one man; he was about to see firsthand, just how dark this area can be. It was about 7:30am on the morning of December 22, 2016 - just three days before Christmas, when he stumbled upon the deceased body of 22-year-old Taylor Anne McAllister. She was dumped in an alley located at 2102 63rd Avenue South in Pinellas County. Discarded as if she were trash. She was lying there with nothing by a gray t-shirt pulled up around her neck. The condition that her body was in made it clear to investigators AND the medical examiner that this was homicide.However, to this day; despite confessions from those involved in her death having been made, nobody has been charged with homicide in her death.Visit our Facebook page for further discussions and details: https://www.facebook.com/statuspendingpodcast/ Email us at statuspendingpodcast@gmail.com Follow the podcast on Instagram @statuspendingpodcastFollow the podcast on Twitter @pending_statusFollow Heather on Twitter @XCaliCat03X Follow Scott on Twitter @FullerOnAir

Welcome back to The Reese Show! Aw man, we missed you guys! Reese and Really welcome back The Reese Show alumni Nyema Clark, of the Nurturing Roots Farm and Avenue South. Really and Nyema jump on Reese about dating light skinned women, Nyema tells us about her about what she's doing on the farm and how we can support, we talk about friends taking it to the next level, and men having roommates. Join the conversation!

In this bonus episode of the Hustleburg podcast, we compiled the audio from 5 Zoom video chats with small businesses here in Saint Petersburg about their creative ways to stay OPEN for business. You can see these video chats on YouTube.Donnie and Jackie Minchillo from Joy of CleaningJoy of Cleaning Florida 260 1st Avenue South, Suite 200, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701Mon – Sat 8 am to 6 pm; late night available for commercialYou can find out more at their website, call them directly, connect on Facebook, or engage on Instagram.Bayboro Brewing’s James ColemanBayboro Brewing 2390 5th Ave S, Saint Petersburg, FL 33712T & R To-Go Hours: 4PM-7PM, Sat: 2PM-6PM Sunday: 2PM-4PM – Take-Out OnlyYou can find out more at their website, call them directly, connect on Facebook, or engage on Instagram.Rick Herbert from Ace High PrintingAce High Printing 3801 16th St N, Saint Petersburg, FL 337039AM-4PM – Essential/Business as UsualYou can find out more at his website, call Ace High Printing directly, e-mail Rick, connect on Facebook, engage on Instagram, and keep up on Twitter.Cycle Brewing’s Doug DozarkCycle Brewing 534 Central Avenue St. Petersburg, FL 3370112-7 Daily – Take-Out & Delivery OnlyYou can order online at the Cycle Brewing website, connect on Facebook, engage on Instagram, and keep up on Twitter.Trent A Smith, RealtorYou can find Trent online, connect with him on Facebook, engage on Instagram, find him on YouTube, or give him a call.Start Marketing Your Business Online With These Three Easy StepsIf you’re just getting started marketing your business online, Beyond Your Side Hustle offers a FREE Getting Started Guide.Find out more about Beyond Your Side Hustle here:WebsiteHustleburg Listener CommunityFacebookInstagramBrett’s LinkedInIf you enjoyed what you heard in this episode, please take a moment to subscribe, rate, and review this podcast on your favorite player. Each episode is available on its own post, with the entire catalog here. It’s available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast catcher. We listen to this show and our favorites on Castbox. It’s hosted by Podbean. We appreciate your attention, and we can’t wait to have you back for the next episode. Be a Guest on HustleburgIf you have any questions you’d like to have answered on an upcoming Q&A episode, please take a moment to visit beyondyoursidehustle.com/podcastquestion and ask there. If you’re a St. Pete businessperson who’d like to sit down for an interview, please reach out to us here. 

*Senator Bob Hasegawa provides an update on his legislation that would create a state owned bank. *Mian Rice, Director, Port of Seattle's Diversity in contracting Office comments on his role to bring about equity and inclusion in the port's contracting opportunities. *Representative Sharon Tomiko Santos comments on the implementation of House Bill 1918 that created the Central District Community Preservation Development Authority (CD CPDA) that will be known as the McKinney Center for Community and Economic Development located at the former SVI/SOIC property at 22nd Avenue South and Jackson Street. *Jamie Elmore, Editor in Chief,Bald Life Magazine "When Bald is Universal" will be joined by Margo Jones as the discuss the inaugural edition of the magazine.

Join Cassie and Carly as we discuss the impact and coping with COVID19. Information Free Lunch Pick-Up On Wednesday, two hundred breakfast and lunch meals will be available for pick-up per site (see below for sites). Children present will receive one cold breakfast meal and one cold lunch meal.  Household names, residency, and home school are not needed for pick up.  Meals will be available for children up to the age of 18 or older if receiving special education services.  All children who are present will receive the free meals while supplies last; parents need not be present to receive meals.  The free meal distribution will be solely for the pick-up of meals; meals will not be consumed at the site.  Locations providing free meals: Ed Clapp Elementary School, located at 3131 28th Street South Wednesday through Friday, 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Enter the bus drop off loop in front of the school off of 28th Street South Madison Elementary School, located at 1040 29th Street North Wednesday through Friday, 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Enter the bus drop off loop on the north side of the school off of 11th Avenue North Jefferson Elementary School, located at 1701 4th Avenue South Wednesday through Friday, 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Enter the parent drop off loop on the south side of the school off of 4th Avenue South North High School, located at 801 17th Avenue North Wednesday through Friday, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Enter the student parking lot on the south side of the school off of 17th Avenue North South High School, located at 1840 15th Avenue South Wednesday through Friday, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Enter the student parking lot on the south side of the school off of 17th Avenue South

The much anticipated 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucus became an unmitigated electoral mess as the first in the nation contest remained unresolved a day before the New Hampshire primary. Brent Leatherwood joins Jeff Pickering and Steven Harris to talk about what happened, what's next, and how Christians can be salt and light in a polarized partisan season. Guest Biography Brent Leatherwood serves as the Director of Strategic Partnerships. Before coming to the ERLC, he served as the executive director of the Tennessee Republican Party from December 2012 to December 2016, where he managed the organization's campaign apparatus at the federal, state and local levels. In addition, Brent has worked on Capitol Hill as a senior legislative aide to former Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla). He and his wife Meredith have three children and are members of The Church at Avenue South, where Brent serves as a deacon. Resources from the Conversation Brent's Recommendations on journalists to follow Amy Walter, CPR Dave Wasserman, CPR Josh Kraushaar, National Journal Jonathan Martin, New York Times Brent's Recommendations on newsletters to subscribe Axios Politico Playbook POLITICO | 'It's a total meltdown': Confusion grips Iowa with no official results in sight New York Times | ‘A Systemwide Disaster': How the Iowa Caucuses Melted Down ERLC | Capitol Conversation Podcast

The much anticipated 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucus became an unmitigated electoral mess as the first in the nation contest remained unresolved a day before the New Hampshire primary. Brent Leatherwood joins Jeff Pickering and Steven Harris to talk about what happened, what’s next, and how Christians can be salt and light in a polarized partisan season. Guest Biography Brent Leatherwood serves as the Director of Strategic Partnerships. Before coming to the ERLC, he served as the executive director of the Tennessee Republican Party from December 2012 to December 2016, where he managed the organization’s campaign apparatus at the federal, state and local levels. In addition, Brent has worked on Capitol Hill as a senior legislative aide to former Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla). He and his wife Meredith have three children and are members of The Church at Avenue South, where Brent serves as a deacon. Resources from the Conversation Brent’s Recommendations on journalists to follow Amy Walter, CPR Dave Wasserman, CPR Josh Kraushaar, National Journal Jonathan Martin, New York Times Brent’s Recommendations on newsletters to subscribe Axios Politico Playbook POLITICO | 'It’s a total meltdown': Confusion grips Iowa with no official results in sight New York Times | ‘A Systemwide Disaster’: How the Iowa Caucuses Melted Down ERLC | Capitol Conversation Podcast

Today Bekah Stoneking shares with us about her journey to becoming the Research Specialist and Content Editor for Explore the Bible: Kids at LifeWay Christian Resources. She encourages us on to engage big theological questions for little hearts and to bring kids alongside us in the big truths of God as we all live on mission for His Kingdom. You can follow her on Twitter at @BekahStoneking Bekah Stoneking serves as the Research Specialist and Content Editor for Explore the Bible: Kids at LifeWay With experience as a children's minister and elementary school teacher, Bekah is passionate about teaching, learning, making disciples, and equipping others to do the same. She holds a master of arts from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and is currently completing her doctoral dissertation on mind, brain, and education research, also at SEBTS. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee and teaches first and second graders at The Church at Avenue South.

Jeff Pickering welcomes Brent Leatherwood of the ERLC and Paul Miller of Georgetown University to discuss their research project exploring what American adults with evangelical beliefs think about civility and politics. Guest Biography Paul D. Miller is a professor of the practice of international affairs at Georgetown University, a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, and a research fellow with the ERLC. Miller also taught at The University of Texas at Austin and the National Defense University and worked at the RAND Corporation prior to his arrival at Georgetown. Before his career in academia, Dr. Miller served as Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan on the National Security Council staff; worked as an intelligence analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency; and served as a military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. Miller holds a PhD in international relations and a BA in government from Georgetown University, and a master in public policy from Harvard University. Brent Leatherwood is no stranger to our podcast but as a refresher, he serves as the ERLC's Director of Strategic Partnerships. Before coming to the ERLC, he served as the executive director of the Tennessee Republican Party and also worked on Capitol Hill as a senior legislative aide. Brent and his wife Meredith have three children and are members of The Church at Avenue South, where he serves as a deacon. Resources from the Conversation Read the report: Faith and Healthy Democracy by Paul D. Miller ERLC Unveils Evangelical Survey Results & Research Project on Faith and Healthy Democracy ERLC article: Poll results reveal what evangelicals believe about politics and civility Lifeway Research article: Heading Into 2020 Elections, Most Evangelicals Want to Play Nice in Politics The Tennessean article: 'What killed American public discourse?' New report, survey examines civility and evangelicals ERLC | Capitol Conversation Podcast

Jeff Pickering welcomes Brent Leatherwood of the ERLC and Paul Miller of Georgetown University to discuss their research project exploring what American adults with evangelical beliefs think about civility and politics. Guest Biography Paul D. Miller is a professor of the practice of international affairs at Georgetown University, a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, and a research fellow with the ERLC. Miller also taught at The University of Texas at Austin and the National Defense University and worked at the RAND Corporation prior to his arrival at Georgetown. Before his career in academia, Dr. Miller served as Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan on the National Security Council staff; worked as an intelligence analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency; and served as a military intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. Miller holds a PhD in international relations and a BA in government from Georgetown University, and a master in public policy from Harvard University. Brent Leatherwood is no stranger to our podcast but as a refresher, he serves as the ERLC’s Director of Strategic Partnerships. Before coming to the ERLC, he served as the executive director of the Tennessee Republican Party and also worked on Capitol Hill as a senior legislative aide. Brent and his wife Meredith have three children and are members of The Church at Avenue South, where he serves as a deacon. Resources from the Conversation Read the report: Faith and Healthy Democracy by Paul D. Miller ERLC Unveils Evangelical Survey Results & Research Project on Faith and Healthy Democracy ERLC article: Poll results reveal what evangelicals believe about politics and civility Lifeway Research article: Heading Into 2020 Elections, Most Evangelicals Want to Play Nice in Politics The Tennessean article: 'What killed American public discourse?' New report, survey examines civility and evangelicals ERLC | Capitol Conversation Podcast

Country music historian John Rumble joins Tim to talk about Nashville's legendary RCA Studio B, where music history was made on a regular basis. John is a senior historian at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. In this episode, we talk about a humble little recording studio that changed the course of country music history, and made the careers of many entertainers within and outside of country music. https://traffic.libsyn.com/shapingopinion/Studio_B_final_auphonic.mp3   Dan Maddox built this nondescript building on the corner of 17th Avenue South and Hawkins Street in Nashville in 1957. From the outside there's not much to see, and even on the inside it looks like any other recording studio from that time. But appearances aren't all that they seem. RCA Studio B became known as one of the cradles of the “Nashville Sound” not long after it was built. In the 1960s, the Nashville sound had a sophisticated style that was characterized by background vocals and strings. The Nashville Sound is credited for reviving America's interest in country music and helped establish Nashville as an international recording hub. A partial list of the artists who recorded in RCA Studio be include: Elvis Pressley, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Charlie Pride, Waylon Jennings, Eddy Arnold, Chet Atkins and many others. Studio B gets credit for a number of recording industry innovations. You'd have to be a real musician to appreciate this, but it was in Studio B where the Nashville number system was created. This is a musician's shorthand to notate a song's chord structure. This makes it easier to create individual parts of a song's arrangements while retaining the integrity of the song. Highlights: Over 35,000 recordings were produced in RCA Studio B. Elvis recorded 200 songs there. Roy Orbison recorded “Only the Lonely” and “Crying.” Dolly Parton created “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” on the same day and recorded both in Studio B. Waylon Jennings recorded a number of songs. Charlie Pride recorded “Kiss an Angel Good Morning.” Recordings from Studio B sold over 40 million records. Current stars have recorded in Studio B: Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride, Wynonna Judd and others. Chet Atkins recorded there and ran the studio at its peak Links Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum RCA Studio B Historic 'Home of 1,000 Hits," RCA Studio B Turns 60, The Tennesseean Historic RCA Studio B, LonelyPlanet.com Historic RCA Studio B: Home of 1,000 Hits, (Amazon) About this Episode's Guest John Rumble John Rumble is the senior historian at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.    

Country music historian John Rumble joins Tim to talk about Nashville’s legendary RCA Studio B, where music history was made on a regular basis. John is a senior historian at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. In this episode, we talk about a humble little recording studio that changed the course of country music history, and made the careers of many entertainers within and outside of country music. https://traffic.libsyn.com/shapingopinion/Studio_B_final_auphonic.mp3   Dan Maddox built this nondescript building on the corner of 17th Avenue South and Hawkins Street in Nashville in 1957. From the outside there’s not much to see, and even on the inside it looks like any other recording studio from that time. But appearances aren’t all that they seem. RCA Studio B became known as one of the cradles of the “Nashville Sound” not long after it was built. In the 1960s, the Nashville sound had a sophisticated style that was characterized by background vocals and strings. The Nashville Sound is credited for reviving America’s interest in country music and helped establish Nashville as an international recording hub. A partial list of the artists who recorded in RCA Studio be include: Elvis Pressley, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Charlie Pride, Waylon Jennings, Eddy Arnold, Chet Atkins and many others. Studio B gets credit for a number of recording industry innovations. You’d have to be a real musician to appreciate this, but it was in Studio B where the Nashville number system was created. This is a musician’s shorthand to notate a song’s chord structure. This makes it easier to create individual parts of a song’s arrangements while retaining the integrity of the song. Highlights: Over 35,000 recordings were produced in RCA Studio B. Elvis recorded 200 songs there. Roy Orbison recorded “Only the Lonely” and “Crying.” Dolly Parton created “Jolene” and “I Will Always Love You” on the same day and recorded both in Studio B. Waylon Jennings recorded a number of songs. Charlie Pride recorded “Kiss an Angel Good Morning.” Recordings from Studio B sold over 40 million records. Current stars have recorded in Studio B: Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride, Wynonna Judd and others. Chet Atkins recorded there and ran the studio at its peak Links Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum RCA Studio B Historic 'Home of 1,000 Hits," RCA Studio B Turns 60, The Tennesseean Historic RCA Studio B, LonelyPlanet.com Historic RCA Studio B: Home of 1,000 Hits, (Amazon) About this Episode's Guest John Rumble John Rumble is the senior historian at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.    

This Episode was recorded live at Langston Hughes from We Out Here, a festival of black excellence curated by Michael B. Maine.  Nyema Clark is farm boss at Nurturing Roots on Beacon Ave & S Graham St. in Beacon Hill. A native to south Seattle, Nyema's entrepreneurial chops shine in her efforts as a beginning urban farmer. Proprietor of Avenue South, a line of natural health and beauty products, Nyema is deeply dedicated to the wellness and healing of her community. Come say hey at a Thursday farm stand, be embraced by her radiating love, and get a tour of the farm — there are chickens!

The 2020 presidential election kicked off with double header debates this summer for the Democratic Party's nomination. As Christians, we want to approach these debates and each election thoughtfully to engage as well-informed citizens. Longtime politico, Brent Leatherwood joins Jeff Pickering around the Capitol Conversations table to talk about his recent article about the history of presidential debates and what we need to know going into 2020. Guest Biography Brent Leatherwood serves as the Director of Strategic Partnerships. Before coming to the ERLC, he served as the executive director of the Tennessee Republican Party from December 2012 to December 2016, where he managed the organization's campaign apparatus at the federal, state and local levels. In addition, Brent has worked on Capitol Hill as a senior legislative aide to former Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla). He and his wife Meredith have three children and are members of The Church at Avenue South, where Brent serves as a deacon. Resources from the Conversation Article by Brent | What you should know about the presidential debates ABC News | Here's how the first 2020 Democratic debates work Book Review on Jonathan Leeman's "How the Nations Rage" | How should Christians navigate politics? ERLC | Capitol Conversation Podcast

The 2020 presidential election kicked off with double header debates this summer for the Democratic Party’s nomination. As Christians, we want to approach these debates and each election thoughtfully to engage as well-informed citizens. Longtime politico, Brent Leatherwood joins Jeff Pickering around the Capitol Conversations table to talk about his recent article about the history of presidential debates and what we need to know going into 2020. Guest Biography Brent Leatherwood serves as the Director of Strategic Partnerships. Before coming to the ERLC, he served as the executive director of the Tennessee Republican Party from December 2012 to December 2016, where he managed the organization’s campaign apparatus at the federal, state and local levels. In addition, Brent has worked on Capitol Hill as a senior legislative aide to former Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla). He and his wife Meredith have three children and are members of The Church at Avenue South, where Brent serves as a deacon. Resources from the Conversation Article by Brent | What you should know about the presidential debates ABC News | Here’s how the first 2020 Democratic debates work Book Review on Jonathan Leeman’s "How the Nations Rage" | How should Christians navigate politics? ERLC | Capitol Conversation Podcast

The married duo decided that for their 40th wedding anniversary they’d release their first album in ten years. It’s called "Breakdown on 20th Avenue South."

It's another packed release week; Lil Nas X's debut EP is finally here, along with a posthumous release from Prince, a solo album from producer Mark Ronson, the return of The Raconteurs and more. FEATURED ALBUMS: Black Pumas: Black Pumas; Bedouine: Bird Songs of a Killjoy; The Raconteurs: Help Us Stranger; Prince: Originals; Hatchie: Keepsake; Mark Ronson: Late Night Feelings; Lil Nas X: 7. OTHER NOTABLE RELEASES FOR JUNE 21: Blick Bassy: 1958; Cassius: Dreems; Black Midi: Schlagenheim; Buddy and Judy Miller: Breakdown on 20th Avenue South; Fruit Bats: Gold Past Life; Gucci Mane: Delusions of Grandeur; Mannequin Pussy: Patience; Pell: Gravity; Titus Andronicus: An Obelisk; Willie Nelson: Ride Me Back Home.

It is estimated that 1 in 3 women/girls and 1 in 6 men/boys in their lifetime will experience some form of sexual violence either in childhood or in their adult life. Young adults are generally most at risk, but it can happen at any age, and it's been going on for many, many years. A new facility, the Chinook Sexual Assault Centre (CSAC) in Lethbridge at 740-4 Avenue South is now open. It offers services to all people of all ages, no matter how they identify sexually. Some of those services include crisis support, victim advocacy, and counselling. Some forerunners, such as Lethbridge Family Services and the YWCA with its Amethyst Program, has dealt with sexual violence for many years, but CSAC is about having people be able to identify with one source, so they know where to go. The speaker will focus on the current state of sexual violence in our world with particular focus on Canada, the economic impact of the crime and contributing factors that support its existence. We will continue to explore the ways in which each of us, as individuals, communities and as a country, can end sexual violence by reshaping our beliefs/values and by taking action. Speaker: Kristine Cassie, MSc, RSW Kristine has worked in the human services sector for over 35 years with substantial experience and advocacy efforts in the areas of youth empowerment, domestic and sexual violence and housing. A graduate of Mount Royal from the Youth Development Program, Kristine started her career working with youth in care. It was while working at the YWCA Lethbridge and District that she reinvested in her education and completed an Applied BA in Human Service Administration (Grant McEwan) and a Master's of Science in Leadership and Management from Walden University. Kristine worked at the YWCA for nearly 25 years, serving as its CEO for the last 11 years. Leaving the YWCA in January 2016, she worked as the Director of Operations at Southern Alberta Community Living Association, an agency serving people with developmental disabilities. Currently, Kristine is the CEO for the Chinook Sexual Assault Centre which opened its doors to the public January 7, 2019. Kristine also serves as vice chair on the Board of Governors at Lethbridge College; Trustee for Palliser Regional School Division; maintains registered social worker status in the Province of Alberta and is a certified traumatologist. Moderator: Mary Shillington Date: Thursday, May 2, 2019 Time: Doors open 11:30 am, Presentation 12 noon, buffet lunch 12:30 pm, Q&A 1 – 1:30 pm Location: Royal Canadian Legion (north door) 324 Mayor Magrath Dr. S. Lethbridge Cost: $14 buffet lunch with dessert/coffee/tea/juice or $2 coffee/tea/juice. RSVP not required

It is estimated that 1 in 3 women/girls and 1 in 6 men/boys in their lifetime will experience some form of sexual violence either in childhood or in their adult life. Young adults are generally most at risk, but it can happen at any age, and it's been going on for many, many years. A new facility, the Chinook Sexual Assault Centre (CSAC) in Lethbridge at 740-4 Avenue South is now open. It offers services to all people of all ages, no matter how they identify sexually. Some of those services include crisis support, victim advocacy, and counselling. Some forerunners, such as Lethbridge Family Services and the YWCA with its Amethyst Program, has dealt with sexual violence for many years, but CSAC is about having people be able to identify with one source, so they know where to go. The speaker will focus on the current state of sexual violence in our world with particular focus on Canada, the economic impact of the crime and contributing factors that support its existence. We will continue to explore the ways in which each of us, as individuals, communities and as a country, can end sexual violence by reshaping our beliefs/values and by taking action. Speaker: Kristine Cassie, MSc, RSW Kristine has worked in the human services sector for over 35 years with substantial experience and advocacy efforts in the areas of youth empowerment, domestic and sexual violence and housing. A graduate of Mount Royal from the Youth Development Program, Kristine started her career working with youth in care. It was while working at the YWCA Lethbridge and District that she reinvested in her education and completed an Applied BA in Human Service Administration (Grant McEwan) and a Master's of Science in Leadership and Management from Walden University. Kristine worked at the YWCA for nearly 25 years, serving as its CEO for the last 11 years. Leaving the YWCA in January 2016, she worked as the Director of Operations at Southern Alberta Community Living Association, an agency serving people with developmental disabilities. Currently, Kristine is the CEO for the Chinook Sexual Assault Centre which opened its doors to the public January 7, 2019. Kristine also serves as vice chair on the Board of Governors at Lethbridge College; Trustee for Palliser Regional School Division; maintains registered social worker status in the Province of Alberta and is a certified traumatologist. Moderator: Mary Shillington Date: Thursday, May 2, 2019 Time: Doors open 11:30 am, Presentation 12 noon, buffet lunch 12:30 pm, Q&A 1 – 1:30 pm Location: Royal Canadian Legion (north door) 324 Mayor Magrath Dr. S. Lethbridge Cost: $14 buffet lunch with dessert/coffee/tea/juice or $2 coffee/tea/juice. RSVP not required

It is estimated that 1 in 3 women/girls and 1 in 6 men/boys in their lifetime will experience some form of sexual violence either in childhood or in their adult life. Young adults are generally most at risk, but it can happen at any age, and it's been going on for many, many years. A new facility, the Chinook Sexual Assault Centre (CSAC) in Lethbridge at 740-4 Avenue South is now open. It offers services to all people of all ages, no matter how they identify sexually. Some of those services include crisis support, victim advocacy, and counselling. Some forerunners, such as Lethbridge Family Services and the YWCA with its Amethyst Program, has dealt with sexual violence for many years, but CSAC is about having people be able to identify with one source, so they know where to go. The speaker will focus on the current state of sexual violence in our world with particular focus on Canada, the economic impact of the crime and contributing factors that support its existence. We will continue to explore the ways in which each of us, as individuals, communities and as a country, can end sexual violence by reshaping our beliefs/values and by taking action. Speaker: Kristine Cassie, MSc, RSW Kristine has worked in the human services sector for over 35 years with substantial experience and advocacy efforts in the areas of youth empowerment, domestic and sexual violence and housing. A graduate of Mount Royal from the Youth Development Program, Kristine started her career working with youth in care. It was while working at the YWCA Lethbridge and District that she reinvested in her education and completed an Applied BA in Human Service Administration (Grant McEwan) and a Master's of Science in Leadership and Management from Walden University. Kristine worked at the YWCA for nearly 25 years, serving as its CEO for the last 11 years. Leaving the YWCA in January 2016, she worked as the Director of Operations at Southern Alberta Community Living Association, an agency serving people with developmental disabilities. Currently, Kristine is the CEO for the Chinook Sexual Assault Centre which opened its doors to the public January 7, 2019. Kristine also serves as vice chair on the Board of Governors at Lethbridge College; Trustee for Palliser Regional School Division; maintains registered social worker status in the Province of Alberta and is a certified traumatologist. Moderator: Mary Shillington Date: Thursday, May 2, 2019 Time: Doors open 11:30 am, Presentation 12 noon, buffet lunch 12:30 pm, Q&A 1 – 1:30 pm Location: Royal Canadian Legion (north door) 324 Mayor Magrath Dr. S. Lethbridge Cost: $14 buffet lunch with dessert/coffee/tea/juice or $2 coffee/tea/juice. RSVP not required

Ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, the ERLC policy team invites former Republican strategist Brent Leatherwood to the roundtable. Brent offers an insider's look into the campaign trail, political polling, and the races to watch on election night. The group also offers encouragement to Christians on how to approach conversations about politics with their neighbors in a culture rife with division. We took some time off the air these past few weeks as our team was in transition, and now we're glad to be back with you! Guest Biography Prior to joining the ERLC as director of strategic partnerships, Brent Leatherwood served as the executive director of the Tennessee Republican Party, where he managed the organization's campaign apparatus at the federal, state, and local levels. He also worked in Washington on Capitol Hill as a senior legislative aide to former Rep. Connie Mack (R–Fla.) Brent and his wife Meredith have three children and are members The Church at Avenue South, a church plant of Brentwood Baptist Church, where Brent serves as a deacon. Resources from the Conversation Polling | FiveThirtyEight Polling | Real Clear Politics Polling | The Cook Political Report Polling | The Forecast with Harry Enten: CNN Politics Polling | WSJ/NBC News Polls Book | The Almanac of American Politics Book | How the Nations Rage by Jonathan Leeman ERLC Articles & Podcasts | Resources by Brent Leatherwood ERLC 2019 National Conference | Gospel Courage: Truth And Justice in a Divided World iTunes | Google Play | Stitcher | Tune in

Sermon from Naples Community Church on Sunday morning, December 24, 2017. Worship with us each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. For more information about our church, visit www.naplescommunitychurch.org or call us at: 239.213.1325. We are located at 849 7th Avenue South, Suite 696, Naples, FL 34102.  

Sermon from Naples Community Church on Sunday morning, June 3, 2018. Worship with us each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. For more information about our church, visit www.naplescommunitychurch.org or call us at: 239.213.1325. We are located at 849 7th Avenue South, Suite 696, Naples, FL 34102.

Sermon from Naples Community Church on Sunday morning, May 6, 2018. Worship with us each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. For more information about our church, visit www.naplescommunitychurch.org or call us at: 239.213.1325. We are located at 849 7th Avenue South, Suite 696, Naples, FL 34102.

Sermon from Naples Community Church on Sunday morning, May 20, 2018. Worship with us each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. For more information about our church, visit www.naplescommunitychurch.org or call us at: 239.213.1325. We are located at 849 7th Avenue South, Suite 696, Naples, FL 34102.

Sermon from Naples Community Church on Sunday morning, May 13, 2018. Worship with us each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. For more information about our church, visit www.naplescommunitychurch.org or call us at: 239.213.1325. We are located at 849 7th Avenue South, Suite 696, Naples, FL 34102.

Sermon from Naples Community Church on Sunday morning, February 18, 2018. Worship with us each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. For more information about our church, visit www.naplescommunitychurch.org or call us at: 239.213.1325. We are located at 849 7th Avenue South, Suite 696, Naples, FL 34102 

Sermon from Naples Community Church on Sunday morning, February 25, 2018. Worship with us each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. For more information about our church, visit www.naplescommunitychurch.org or call us at: 239.213.1325. We are located at 849 7th Avenue South, Suite 696, Naples, FL 34102 

Sermon from Naples Community Church on Sunday morning, March 11, 2018. Worship with us each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. For more information about our church, visit www.naplescommunitychurch.org or call us at: 239.213.1325. We are located at 849 7th Avenue South, Suite 696, Naples, FL 34102.

Sermon from Naples Community Church on Sunday morning, March 18, 2018. Worship with us each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. For more information about our church, visit www.naplescommunitychurch.org or call us at: 239.213.1325. We are located at 849 7th Avenue South, Suite 696, Naples, FL 34102.

Sermon from Naples Community Church on Sunday morning, March 25, 2018. Worship with us each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. For more information about our church, visit www.naplescommunitychurch.org or call us at: 239.213.1325. We are located at 849 7th Avenue South, Suite 696, Naples, FL 34102.

Sermon from Naples Community Church on Sunday morning, April 1, 2018. Worship with us each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. For more information about our church, visit www.naplescommunitychurch.org or call us at: 239.213.1325. We are located at 849 7th Avenue South, Suite 696, Naples, FL 34102.

Sermon from Naples Community Church on Sunday morning, April 15, 2018. Worship with us each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. For more information about our church, visit www.naplescommunitychurch.org or call us at: 239.213.1325. We are located at 849 7th Avenue South, Suite 696, Naples, FL 34102.

Sermon from Naples Community Church on Sunday morning, April 22, 2018. Worship with us each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. For more information about our church, visit www.naplescommunitychurch.org or call us at: 239.213.1325. We are located at 849 7th Avenue South, Suite 696, Naples, FL 34102.

Sermon from Naples Community Church on Sunday morning, April 29, 2018. Worship with us each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. For more information about our church, visit www.naplescommunitychurch.org or call us at: 239.213.1325. We are located at 849 7th Avenue South, Suite 696, Naples, FL 34102.

Llevan quince años estudiando y persiguiendo una música que nada tiene que ver con la cultura de la que han bebido, “una música de fondo, de largo recorrido”. Y a ella se han acercado conscientes de lo importante que es “respetar la tradición”. Hablamos de Travellin’ Brothers, la banda bilbaína referente del blues en nuestro país, que este sábado ha presentado su octavo disco en Abierto hasta las 2: 13th Avenue South (Magnolia Records, 2018). Lo descubrimos en formato acústico, con temas como “Oh my river”, “The spur” y “I believe”; y con los testimonios en primera persona de quienes, de una u otra manera, han dado forma a este álbum y/o a la trayectoria del grupo: el productor Brad Jones; Francisco Simón (Red House); Alberto Anaut; Álex Rodríguez, fotógrafo habitual de la banda; Kaki Arkarazo, músico y productor vasco; Carlos Espinosa, director del Festival de BluesCazorla; y Carlos Malles, responsable del Hondarribia Blues Festival. En cuanto a la improvisación teatral, Ignacio López y Paloma Córdoba (Impromadrid Teatro) averiguan qué significa realmente un viaje para Travellin’ Brothers y, en la segunda hora de programa, conocemos todos los detalles de un misterioso crimen. Tan enigmático como las preguntas que colegas y seguidores formulan a nuestros invitados en la contraportada de Patricia Costa, esta semana con la intervención especial del cocinero David de Jorge, Robinfood. Escuchar audio

In this week's episode, we discuss the district that is part of the Melrose neighborhood. Topics include terminology to describe the neighborhood, the pros and cons of living and working in the neighborhood, the identity and sense of community felt in the neighborhood, infrastructure that is lacking in the neighborhood, and what we can expect to see going on in the neighborhood in the next two years. We hear the voices and sentiments of metro councilman for District 17 of which the neighborhood is a part, two business owners, a non-profit who offices in the neighborhood, two real estate agents, and three residents of the neighborhood. These diverse perspectives shed light on what it is to experience and interact with the neighborhood everyday. To check out some of the businesses and organizations discussed in the podcast, click on these links: M.L. Rose, Fenwick's 300, Craft Brewed, Bradford Real Estate, NIFW, Octave Apartments, Colby Sledge, Zanies, Stories Podcast Season 1 Episode 9, 8th & Roast, Nashville B-Cycle, Avenue South Orthodontics, Smiling Elephant, The Church at Avenue South, Bolton's Hot Chicken. For a complete list check out Nashville Guru's 8th Avenue South and Melrose neighborhood guides. For Craft Brewers Conference details check out the events page here. For events hosted by Craft Brewed, visit the events tab on their Facebook page.

The Honourable Premier Rachel Notley has graciously made herself available to Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA) for a speaking event. After 50 years of trying, SACPA is very happy to finally host a sitting Premier of Alberta. Rachel previously spoke at SACPA in 2011 and 2014 as an MLA. Premier Notley will explain some of the items in last week's Alberta budget and the importance of pipelines and transportation in getting Alberta resources to tidewater. She will also give the audience her view of Alberta's political landscape. The Honourable Shannon Phillips, MLA for Lethbridge West and Minister of Environment and Parks and Minister Responsible for the Climate Change Office will introduce the Premier. Dr. Leroy Little Bear will bring greetings from the Blackfoot Nation Speaker: The Honourable Rachel Notley, Premier of Alberta Rachel Notley was sworn in as Alberta's 17th Premier on May 24, 2015. She grew up in Fairview, Alberta, and is the daughter of former Alberta ND leader Grant Notley and his wife Sandy. Having grown up in a passionate political family that believed in the importance of building a fairer, more inclusive society, Rachel was naturally drawn to work to make her home province better, and first ran for election for the Alberta New Democrats in Edmonton-Strathcona in 2008. She was re-elected in 2012 and again in 2015. Rachel holds a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of Alberta, and a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School. She has worked for a variety of labour unions in both Alberta and British Columbia and served as a ministerial advisor to British Columbia's Attorney General in the 1990s. Rachel's work during her legal career focused on labour law, workers' compensation advocacy and workplace health and safety issues. Rachel lives in Edmonton's Old Strathcona neighbourhood, along with her husband Lou and their two children Ethan and Sophie. Moderator: Dylan Purcell Date: Thursday, March 29, 2018 Time: 12 noon presentation, Q & A to follow at 12:30 pm Location: Southminster United Church, 1011 – 4 Avenue South, Lethbridge Cost: Free admission, everyone welcome

The Honourable Premier Rachel Notley has graciously made herself available to Southern Alberta Council on Public Affairs (SACPA) for a speaking event. After 50 years of trying, SACPA is very happy to finally host a sitting Premier of Alberta. Rachel previously spoke at SACPA in 2011 and 2014 as an MLA. Premier Notley will explain some of the items in last week's Alberta budget and the importance of pipelines and transportation in getting Alberta resources to tidewater. She will also give the audience her view of Alberta's political landscape. The Honourable Shannon Phillips, MLA for Lethbridge West and Minister of Environment and Parks and Minister Responsible for the Climate Change Office will introduce the Premier. Dr. Leroy Little Bear will bring greetings from the Blackfoot Nation Speaker: The Honourable Rachel Notley, Premier of Alberta Rachel Notley was sworn in as Alberta's 17th Premier on May 24, 2015. She grew up in Fairview, Alberta, and is the daughter of former Alberta ND leader Grant Notley and his wife Sandy. Having grown up in a passionate political family that believed in the importance of building a fairer, more inclusive society, Rachel was naturally drawn to work to make her home province better, and first ran for election for the Alberta New Democrats in Edmonton-Strathcona in 2008. She was re-elected in 2012 and again in 2015. Rachel holds a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of Alberta, and a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School. She has worked for a variety of labour unions in both Alberta and British Columbia and served as a ministerial advisor to British Columbia's Attorney General in the 1990s. Rachel's work during her legal career focused on labour law, workers' compensation advocacy and workplace health and safety issues. Rachel lives in Edmonton's Old Strathcona neighbourhood, along with her husband Lou and their two children Ethan and Sophie. Moderator: Dylan Purcell Date: Thursday, March 29, 2018 Time: 12 noon presentation, Q & A to follow at 12:30 pm Location: Southminster United Church, 1011 – 4 Avenue South, Lethbridge Cost: Free admission, everyone welcome

Chef Edgar Pendley of Nashville's Urban Grill joins host Eli Sussman for a chat around the Springer Mountain Farm campfire at Charleston Wine + Food. Urban Grub is a casual fine dining spot located in a renovated carwash in Nashville’s booming 12 South district. The indoor-outdoor restaurant-bar opened as a signature landmark on 12th Avenue South in the Spring of 2012, as a project led by seasoned restaurateur Jay Pennington and Chef Edgar Pendley. Chef Edgar Pendley has created a diverse menu featuring everything from fresh seafood and house-made pasta to tender chops and prime in-house dry-aged steaks. In the back-of-house at Urban Grub, you’ll find more than your typical commercial kitchen. Pastas are made in house in a vintage pasta machine, the meat pantry is well stocked with freshly butchered pigs, goats, lambs and cows, and the meat curing room has slabs of bacon, prosciutto and culatello aging and curing in preparation for its debut on The Grub’s world-class charcuterie boards. Heritage Radio Network On Tour is powered by Simplecast

Gabe Fernandez (gabefernandez.com) is an artist/painter from the Pacific Northwest. Many of his paintings include subject matter, such as Mid-century Modern chairs and architecture. Lit with a single strong light source they evoke a feeling of nostalgia and calm. Gabe is represented by the Guardino Gallery in Portland, Oregon, the Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle, Washington, and Woodman/Shimko Gallery in Palm Springs, California. Be sure to check out Gabe's upcoming exhibitions: December 2017: Inside the Project Space at the Russo/Lee Gallery in Portland, Oregon. 805 NW 21st Avenue, Portland, OR 97210. February 2018: A solo show at the Linda Hodges Gallery in Seattle, WA. 318 1st Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98104.

by Caitlin Scott full audio interview: Project Diana is an art space curated by Julia Freeman, Satpreet Kahlon, Molly Mac, Natalie ​Martínez, Dan Paz and S. Surface located at 6007 12th Avenue South in Seattle Washington. Sitting on the wooden gallery floor with co-curators Julia Freeman and Satpreet Kahlon, Freeman explains about the first time the US tried to […]

On Dec. 19, 2016 at 1:05pm, the Virginia Fire Department responded to a report of an apartment building fire in the 700 block of 5th Avenue South.  Noting a change in smoke conditions, the incident commander ordered an evacuation just moments before a smoke explosion rocked the building and it was all caught on video (link to the video below).     Our sponsor: Midwest Fire MidwestFire.com   Virginia Fire Department Smoke Explosion Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxUxnpQ0rSY   Intro music Safety Dance (1982) Men Without Hats GMC - Virgin Records Licensed by BMI Music   Situational Awareness Matters! website www.SAMatters.com   Firefighter Near Miss Reporting System http://www.firefighternearmiss.com/   Contact Rich Gasaway www.RichGasaway.com Support@RichGasaway.com 612-548-4424

Minnesota Women’s Caucus for Art and the Katherine E. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota present The Women and Money Project, a group exhibition and related programs that will investigate the relationship between women and money through a contemporary lens. The Women and Money Project exhibition will have an impact on art, discourse, and public audiences by investigating and engaging our understanding of the relationships of women, art, money, exchange and social hierarchies.This exhibition and related public forums will give women the opportunity to add their voices and unique perspectives to some of the complex questions around money.Exhibition Dates: September 6, 2016 – December 10, 2016Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, 405 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455

George Gruhn moved to Nashville in 1969 after getting his bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago and doing graduate work at Duke University and the University of Tennessee. In 1970, he established Gruhn Guitars, which is one of the largest dealers of vintage and used instruments in the world. The store buys, sells, consigns, trades and appraises fretted instruments and houses one of the world's premier vintage and used collections including classic Gibson, Fender, Martin, Epiphone, Gretsch and National instruments as well as a wide selection of new instruments from Martin, Taylor, Collings, and others. "Guitars, which I feel are the ultimate collectible, can be looked at, touched, listened to, and played. At the same time they are beautiful pieces of art that can be appreciated on so many levels. A guitar responds to the individual player and sounds completely different when you play it than when you listen to someone else play it. There is, therefore, greater depth of appreciation with musical instruments than with almost any other collectible, perhaps even more than with painting and sculpture." - George Gruhn  George is the co-author of Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars, which is the comprehensive field guide to vintage fretted instruments, and the companion volumes Acoustic Guitars and Other Fretted Instrumentsand Electric Guitars and Basses. These books chronicle the history of American stringed instruments. His articles are published in numerous magazines. Gruhn Guitars is located at 2120 8th Avenue South in Nashville. Visit the store online at www.guitars.com

Today, we were joined by Joy Stephens and Steve Screen to talk about the end of year fundraising letters and how to get the most out your time and energy! Joy also announced her Fundraising from A-Z seminar! For more information: www.o2joyent.com Steven Screen is the founder and President of ÜberDirect, a fundraising agency for nonprofits. He has 20 years experience directing fundraising strategy and creating compelling fundraising materials, and has raised tens of millions using direct mail, DRTV, radio and the web. Fundraising from A to Z - a comprehensive study "Without the money, there is no mission" Tired of struggling to raise money for your nonprofit? Join us for a comprehensive, interactive and motivating workshop on the fundamental principles of effective fundraising. Content: Inspire your board to give Build, cultivate and grow your donor base Plan innovative events Design an annual fund development plan Grant writing introduction Recruit corporate sponsors When: Wednesday November 14th, 2012. 8:30 am to 11:45 am Where: 2100 Building. 2100 24th Avenue South, Seattle, WA 98144 Who should attend: Founders, CEOs, Executive Directors, Board of Directors, Fund Development Staff & Volunteers, Fundraising Committee Members, Advisory Council Members and anyone else who wants to raise funds for nonprofits. Fee: $75 per person. Fee includes copies of the presentations, handouts, a list of resources and a great opportunity to network. Snacks will be provided. Free street parking is available. Register: Click on the PayPal link below and to the right or send a check payable to o 2 joy to 15142 SE 48th Drive. Bellevue, WA 98006. If you'd like to phone in your order paying by credit card, feel free to do so. (425) 653-1575 Any questions? Call Joy at (425) 653-1575 or joy@o2joyent.com