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Qualifying candidates for the lone Vermont seat in Congress speak to the issues.  Cris Ericson (I) of Chester, Matthew Andrews (Liberty Union) of Plainfield, incumbent Peter Welch (D) of Norwich (declined participation), Jerry Trudell (Energy Independence), and Randall Meyer (I)

Democratic Primary for Vermont Governor.  Incumbent Peter Shumlin of Putney (declined participation), and H. Brooke Paige of Washington.

Candidates for the Democratic Primary of Vermont Attorney General speak to the issues.  H. Brooke Paige of Washington and William H. Sorrell of Montpelier.

Rosmarie Jackowski, from Bennington, of the Liberty Union Party is the November Candidate for Vermont Attorney General and speaks to the issues.

Qualified Candidates for the November General Election, for the position of Vermont Governor.  Cris Ericson (I) of Chester, Bernard Peters (I) of Irasburg, Peter Diamondstone (Liberty Union) of Brattleboro.

Republican Primary for Vermont Governor.  Emily Peyton of Putney, Steve Berry of Wolcott, and Dan Feliciano of Essex Jct.

Candidates for the Democratic Primary for Chittenden County Sheriff speak to the issues.  Edward Cafferty and incumbent Kevin M. McLaughlin.

Channel 17 volunteer Bob Neale and Channel 17's Meghan O'Rourke talk about volunteering at the station.

Host Bonnie Scott talks on the issues of the day with a Libertarian perspective.

Patrick Halladay interviews Victor Prussack, Coordinator of Magnet Schools & K-8 Registration, about Burlington Magnet Schools. 

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Erhard Mahnke, Coordinator of the Vermont Affordable Housing Coalition hosts VISTA Resident Organizer Michelle Sayles;; ;and Sarah Woodward, Director of the CVOEO Mobile Home Project to discuss mobile home partk oragnizing.   www.vtaffordablehousing.org 

Host Shelagh Cooley speaks with Gwendolyn Hallsmith, the Executive Director of the Public Banking Institute, the founder of Global Community Initiatives, and author of two books and three workbooks: The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems; Taking Action for Sustainability: the EarthCAT Guide to Community Development; LASER: Local Action for Sustainable Economic Renewal, and the newest book with Bernard Lietaer called Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies about how cities can use currency strategies to achieve their sustainability goals. The third workbook, called Community Currency, also written with Bernard Lietaer, has been translated into 15 languages and is used all over the world.

Gwendolyn has over 25 years of experience working with municipal, regional, and state government in the United States and internationally. She has served as the Planning and Community Development Director for the City of Montpelier, the Town Manager of Randolph, Vermont, the Regional Planning Director in Franklin County, MA, a Senior Planner for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy Resources, and the Deputy Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. Her international experience included work with the United Nations Environment Program, the United Nations Development Program, the Institute for Sustainable Communities, the International City/County Management Association, and Earth Charter International. She has a Master’s degree in Public Policy from Brown University and studied theology at the Andover Newton Theological School, exploring the links between our wisdom traditions, spirituality, and work at the community level.

http://vtneweconomy.org/

http://publicbankinginstitute.org/

Community members Sandy Baird, Charles Simpson, and Marc Estrin continue their roundtable conversation.

Host Pat Crocker speaks with Dr. Alieta Eck on health care issues.

Alieta Eck, MD (New Jersey) graduated from the Rutgers College of Pharmacy and the St. Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. She studied Internal Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ and has been in private practice with her husband, Dr. John Eck, MD in Piscataway, NJ since 1988. She has been involved in health care reform since residency and is convinced that the government is a poor provider of medical care. She testified before the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress in 2004 about better ways to deliver medical care in the United States. In 2003, she and her husband founded the Zarephath Health Center, a non-government free clinic for the poor and uninsured that currently care for 300-400 patients per month utilizing the donated services of volunteer physicians and nurses. Dr. Eck was the 2012 President of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and serves on the board of Christian Care Medi-Share, a faith based medical cost sharing ministry. She is a member of Zarephath Christian Church. She and her husband have five children, one being an ophthalmology resident in St. Louis, MO. She is the 2014 Republican nominee for the US Congress in NJ-12.

Host Nick Carter speaks with Seven Days Political Reporter Paul Heintz, and Burlington Free Press Statehouse Reporter Terry Hallenbeck on the upcoming election season.  The issues, the candidates.