Talk Policy To Me
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Professor Robert B. Reich speaks at Goldman School commencement
May 18, 2023 10:05 - 12 minutes - 10 MBProfessor Robert B. Reich was voted by the graduating students of UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy to be their faculty speaker. Always a beloved teacher, this occasion was especially meaningful because it marked Professor Reich's retirement from teaching. Robert Reich was introduced by Master of Public Policy student speaker Abraham Eli Bedoy. See show notes and full transcript here: https://gspp.berkeley.edu/research-and-impact/news/podcast/professor-robert-reich-speaks-a...
TN Rep Justin Jones speaks at Goldman School commencement
May 18, 2023 10:00 - 26 minutes - 21.6 MBTennessee Representative Justin Jones addressed the graduates at the Goldman School of Public Policy's commencement on May 14, 2023. Representative Jones came into the national spotlight when he was expelled from the Tennessee legislature for taking to the assembly floor to protest gun violence and the refusal of the legislature to take up this issue. See show notes and full transcript here: https://gspp.berkeley.edu/research-and-impact/news/podcast/bonus-episode-tennessee-representati...
Episode 512: Talking Agriculture, Drought, and Resilience
May 05, 2022 16:31 - 32 minutes - 45.3 MBThis year, researchers found that the last 22 years were the driest consecutive years in the North American southwest in over a millennium. The pace and scale of climate change is forcing states and counties to adapt rapidly. In California, one of the industries at the forefront of the adaptation predicament is agriculture. In today’s episode, reporter Elena Neale-Sacks speaks with resilience researcher Amélie Gaudin, Sacramento Valley farmer Scott Park, and water policy research fellow ...
Episode 511: Talking the Rise of Anti-LGBTQ Legislation
April 28, 2022 13:33 - 26 minutes - 36.3 MBThe annual number of anti-LGBTQ bills filed has skyrocketed over the past several years, from 41 in 2018 to 240 and counting in the first three months of this year. Half of these bills are targeting transgender people specifically. At the same time, surveys of the general public show over 70% say they support same-sex marriage and laws preventing discrimination across the LGBTQ community. And Gen Z are proudly and loudly identifying with both gender and sexual fluidity. How do we square ...
Episode 510: Talking Social Equity Cannabis
April 07, 2022 10:00 - 19 minutes - 27.3 MBShow Notes In 2016, California voters legalized recreational cannabis through Prop 64. Now, five years after legalization, city’s are grappling with the difficulty of prioritizing social equity in the cannabis licensing process for Black, brown, and formerly incarcerated small business owners who were negatively impacted by the war on drugs. In this episode, Talk Policy to Me Reporter Noah Cole talks with Amber Senter, a cannabis advocate and Executive Director of Supernova Women and C...
Episode 509: Talking Race-Class Fusion
March 17, 2022 10:04 - 25 minutes - 34.9 MBThe Republican Party and the Democratic Party take different approaches to talking about race and racism. While politicians in the Republican Party have used coded language or “dog whistles” to stoke racial division, politicians in the Democratic Party either avoid talking about race in favor of talking about class issues or talk about race as a matter of white over nonwhite conflict. Each of these approaches have had difficulty resonating with a broad multiracial coalition of voters nee...
Episode 508: Talking a Voting Overhaul, Part 2
March 10, 2022 11:00 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MBThis is the second episode in a two-part series about changing how we vote in the United States. In today’s episode, Talk Policy To Me reporter Elena Neale-Sacks talks with voting systems researchers Sara Wolk and Clay Shentrup about what they think the order of operations should be to get to a place where everyone can vote their conscience and votes accurately translate into who ends up in power. GSPP researcher and policy analyst Charlotte Hill will be back with her thoughts too. To ...
Episode 507: Talking a Voting Overhaul, part 1
March 03, 2022 12:39 - 26 minutes - 36.4 MBIn recent months and years, legislation meant to make it more difficult to vote, especially for Black and brown people, has proliferated in some state legislatures. But problems with the way we vote in the United States go deeper than these laws. In Part 1 of this two-part episode, Talk Policy To Me reporter Elena Neale-Sacks talks to GSPP researcher Charlotte Hill about what it would look like to fundamentally change how we vote in this country. Look out for Part 2 next week. To learn mor...
Episode 507: Talking a Voting Overhaul, Part 1
March 03, 2022 12:39 - 26 minutes - 36.4 MBIn recent months and years, legislation meant to make it more difficult to vote, especially for Black and brown people, has proliferated in some state legislatures. But problems with the way we vote in the United States go deeper than these laws. In Part 1 of this two-part episode, Talk Policy To Me reporter Elena Neale-Sacks talks to GSPP researcher Charlotte Hill about what it would look like to fundamentally change how we vote in this country. Look out for Part 2 next week. To lea...
Episode 506: Talking Dating in a Digital World
February 17, 2022 16:18 - 21 minutes - 29.8 MBAs of 2021, there were 30 million online dating users in the US and 321 million users worldwide. Despite this massive number of users, there's very little policy that regulates how users behave on these platforms. Studies show that a majority of women have experienced sexual harassment online and that rarely is any action taken by law enforcement in situations where technology is being used to commit acts of gender-based violence. Talk Policy to Me host Amy Benziger joins Ziyang Fan, t...
Episode 505: Talking Fair Chance Housing
December 16, 2021 14:11 - 24 minutes - 33.8 MBIn February 2020, the Oakland City Council passed Oakland's Fair Chance Housing ordinance. The legislation was the first in California — joining cities nationwide like Seattle and Portland — to ensure that people returning home from the criminal justice system can legally live with family members and access, on their own, nearly all other forms of previously off-limits rental housing. In this episode, Talk Policy to Me host Amy Benziger talks to housing activists Margaretta Lin and Lee...
Episode 504: Talking Vaccine Deniers: A Workshop in Persuasive Communication
December 01, 2021 22:59 - 27 minutes - 37.2 MBWith 59% of the US population fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the increased availability of booster shots, and the rise of a new variant, having a highly vaccinated public is incredibly important to the fight against COVID in the months ahead. In this episode, Talk Policy to Me reporter Noah Cole talks to psychologist and behavioral scientist Philipp Schmid and public health expert and data scientist Crystal Son about the do's and don'ts of effective vaccine communication. Referenced i...
Episode 503: Talking Vaccine Deniers
December 01, 2021 22:59 - 27 minutes - 37.2 MBWith 59% of the US population fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the increased availability of booster shots, and the rise of a new variant, having a highly vaccinated public is incredibly important to the fight against COVID in the months ahead. In this episode, Talk Policy to Me reporter Noah Cole talks to psychologist and behavioral scientist Philipp Schmid and public health expert and data scientist Crystal Son about the do's and don'ts of effective vaccine communication. Referenced ...
Episode 504: Talking Vaccine Deniers
December 01, 2021 22:59 - 27 minutes - 37.2 MBWith 59% of the US population fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the increased availability of booster shots, and the rise of a new variant, having a highly vaccinated public is incredibly important to the fight against COVID in the months ahead. In this episode, Talk Policy to Me reporter Noah Cole talks to psychologist and behavioral scientist Philipp Schmid and public health expert and data scientist Crystal Son about the do's and don'ts of effective vaccine communication. Reference...
Episode 503: Talking Oakland A’s—Will they still or will they go?
November 18, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes - 24.9 MBThe A’s proposal for a new waterfront baseball stadium at Oakland’s Howard Terminal is a multi-use development site that would include shops, parks, and housing. As the City of Oakland and Alameda County negotiate with the A’s over how these benefits are paid for, much has been made about the impact that sports stadiums have on communities. In this episode, reporter Noah Cole speaks with Dr. Richard Noll of the Stanford Economics Department and Veronica Cummings of the Oakland’s City Ad...
Episode 502: Talking Oakland A’s—Will they still or will they go?
November 18, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes - 24.9 MBThe A’s proposal for a new waterfront baseball stadium at Oakland’s Howard Terminal is a multi-use development site that would include shops, parks, and housing. As the City of Oakland and Alameda County negotiate with the A’s over how these benefits are paid for, much has been made about the impact that sports stadiums have on communities. In this episode, reporter Noah Cole speaks with Dr. Richard Noll of the Stanford Economics Department and Veronica Cummings of the Oakland’s City Admin...
Episode 502: Talking Trade-offs and the Electric Grid
November 04, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MBAs Congress struggles to pass a spending bill that includes some of the biggest climate legislation the U.S. has seen, there’s another big hurdle the country needs to clear to make big moves on climate change —the electric grid. In this episode, reporter Elena Neale-Sacks talks to energy policy expert Steve Weissman, environmental scientist Grace Wu, and energy equity researcher Daniel Raimi, to better understand how the grid needs to change to better adapt to the effects of climate cha...
Episode 501: Talking "Your Neighbor, the Bounty Hunter"
October 21, 2021 13:31 - 16 minutes - 20.4 MBToday's episode explores the new wave of "rights suppressing laws" with New York Times Op-Ed writers and legal scholars Jon Michaels and David Noll. Reference: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/04/opinion/texas-abortion-law.html See show notes and full transcript here: https://gspp.berkeley.edu/research-and-impact/news/podcast/episode-501-talking-your-neighbor-the-bounty-hunter
Season 5 Trailer
October 19, 2021 14:29 - 1 minute - 2.02 MBSeason 5 of Talk Policy To Me is dropping soon, with new hosts Noah Cole and Amy Benziger. Listen and subscribe! See show notes and full transcript here: https://gspp.berkeley.edu/research-and-impact/news/podcast/season-5-trailer
Episode 415: Talking with David C. Wilson
June 03, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 41 MBIn this final episode of TPTM Season 4, we say goodbye to hosts Reem and Colleen and hello to the incoming Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy, Dr. David C. Wilson. See show notes and full transcript here: https://gspp.berkeley.edu/research-and-impact/news/podcast/episode-415-talking-with-david-c-wilson
Episode 414: Talking Lies Your High School Econ Teacher Told You
May 20, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MBCash transfers discourage work, price ceilings and floors (like the minimum wage) are economically inefficient, and trade makes everyone better off. If you’ve ever taken a basic economics course in high school or even in college, these were probably the major takeaways. But these are myths --dire oversimplifications at best, and outright inaccuracies at worst --that often represent the most basic building blocks of conservative arguments against critical safety net policies. In this ep...
Episode 413: Talking Black Police Unions
May 06, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBCONTENT WARNING: This episode involves mention of police violence against people of color. Since the 1970s, Black police officers have formed informal unions in response to racism within their departments and in the greater community. In this episode, reporter Elena Neale-Sacks talks to an economist, a law professor, and a former president of a Black police union to better understand the purpose these organizations serve, their limits, and the ways in which they differ from police unio...
Episode 412: Talking Public Spaces
April 29, 2021 10:00 - 16 minutes - 22.9 MBAs vaccine rates rise and health experts give more public activities the stamp of approval, people have begun shifting from private spaces to public ones. Today, we’re talking about what public spaces are and the policies that govern them. We’ll also talk about the unhoused folks for whom the distinction between public and private space is less clear. Archival audio from YouTube user Saul Rouda. See show notes and full transcript here: https://gspp.berkeley.edu/research-and-impact/...
Episode 411: Talking philanthropy—yesterday, today, and tomorrow
April 15, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes - 59.2 MBOn this episode of TPTM, we’re talking philanthropy yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Since the Gilded Age, philanthropists have positioned themselves as gracious, charitable forces in society who are experts in identifying and solving our social ails. But the institution of philanthropy has had its critics from day one. What are the origins of modern philanthropy in the US, and how did they lead us to where we are today? What role (if any) does philanthropy have in a democratic society? An...
Episode 410: Tok Policy To Me—Youth Political Mobilization through TikTok
March 25, 2021 10:00 - 19 minutes - 26.2 MBWith over 100 million users and counting in the US, TikTok is beginning to play a major role in the political education and mobilization of its young user base. In this episode, which was written and recorded in the aftermath of the November 2020 election, Talk Policy to Me reporter Noah Cole spoke with Aidan Kohn-Murphy and Toni Akande, two of the teens who run the “Gen Z for Change” TikTok page. Aidan and Toni touched on how they used traditional organizing practices to get out the v...
Episode 409: Talking Anarchism and Direct Action
March 11, 2021 11:00 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MBLast summer, as a part of the public reckoning with racialized police violence, chants and mantras like “Whose Streets? Our Streets” and “We Keep Us Safe” and “We Are The Change We’ve Been Waiting For” resounded in the streets and all over social media. What would it mean to take these slogans seriously? To actually imbue people and communities -- rather than political representatives and corporations -- with the power to create and change the world around them? Talk Policy To Me repo...
Episode 408: Talking Black History Month 2021
February 25, 2021 11:00 - 16 minutes - 22.7 MBBlack History Month 2021 has been an eventful occasion at the Goldman School of Public Policy. One student organization, Black Students in Public Policy (BiPP) has been responsible for putting together a weekly speaker series on health and wellness, economic policy, politics, and social impact in the Black community. In this episode of Talk Policy To Me, we hear from 7 students in BiPP who share their path to public policy and the ways that they are celebrating Black History Month. Fo...
Episode 407: Talking the U.S. Senate—Is It Still Relevant?
December 31, 2020 11:00 - 18 minutes - 24.8 MBThe highly contentious Georgia Senate elections are right around the corner. The results will determine which party holds a Senate majority for the next two years. In this episode, we take a step back and examine the Senate as an institution in the current political context of hyperpolarization. Is it still functional as a mechanism of effective government? Maybe. Or, maybe not. To help make sense of it all, we spoke with UC Santa Cruz politics professor and co-author of The Invention ...
Episode 406: Talking Urban Agriculture & Food Policy
December 17, 2020 21:22 - 21 minutes - 29.3 MBDuring the holiday season, food is often central to the celebration. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more people are experiencing hunger for the first time, and food insecurity has become a daily reality for many. Today, we’re talking about what some say is a practical solution to rising hunger—urban agriculture and the policies that shape and support it. If you live in the Bay Area and are experiencing hunger this holiday season, check out these resources that may be able t...
Episode 405: Talking The Future of Community Engagement
November 25, 2020 15:17 - 31 minutes - 44 MBWhen shelter-in-place orders were mandated in cities across the US, city employees sprang into action to facilitate the transition. Day-to-day government happenings were instantly and radically transformed, but one thing that cities still needed to do? Community engagement. In the face of orders for folks to stay home and social distance, cities faced a reality where they needed to quickly and efficiently transition to new or unfamiliar modes of digital engagement. So… how’d they do it? ...
Episode 404: Talking Ballot Access & The Green Party
November 19, 2020 11:00 - 26 minutes - 37 MBNothing in the US Constitution mandates or guarantees a two-party political system. Yet Americans are accustomed to understanding the political landscape as a binary of Democrats and Republicans; third parties are rarely taken seriously, particularly on the national scale. Members and candidates of political third parties, like the Green Party, argue that this is bad for democracy. With an increasing share of the electorate -- particularly young people -- growing disenchanted with the e...
Episode 404: Talking Ballot Access & The Green Party
November 19, 2020 11:00 - 26 minutes - 37 MBNothing in the US Constitution mandates or guarantees a two-party political system. Yet Americans are accustomed to understanding the political landscape as a binary of Democrats and Republicans; third parties are rarely taken seriously, particularly on the national scale. Members and candidates of political third parties, like the Green Party, argue that this is bad for democracy. With an increasing share of the electorate -- particularly young people -- growing disenchanted with the exis...
Episode 403: Talking Prop 22, App-Based Drivers, and Labor
October 29, 2020 13:00 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MBOn November 3rd, California voters will decide on Proposition 22. The Proposition aims to allow app-based drivers to maintain their status as Independent Contractors by carving out a special exception to Assembly Bill 5. We talk to Goldman Alumna Rebecca Stack-Martinez and the Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center Ken Jacobs about the implications of Prop 22 on labor and the influence of money on the most expensive ballot initiative in California’s History. Gig Workers Rising Report- ...
Episode 402: Talking Election Coverage
October 27, 2020 13:00 - 19 minutes - 26.4 MBTalking: Election coverage—where’s the policy? Hourly breaking news. An endless stream of push notifications. A backlog of political podcasts (but not this one, right?). Today we’re talking about how the news media covers elections, and how voters can find real information within the sea of coverage in the final weeks before the election. See show notes and full transcript here: https://gspp.berkeley.edu/research-and-impact/news/podcast/episode-402-talking-election-coverage
Episode 401: Talking Election Media Diets
October 22, 2020 13:00 - 13 minutes - 18 MBWelcome to Season 4 of Talk Policy to Me! It’s been a whirlwind of policy news and happenings since you last heard from us (to say the least) and there’s a lot to catch up on. While we work hard on new episodes, we thought we’d pop into your feeds for a brief moment to introduce a few new members of the TPTM team and take a moment to ask one another: What media resources are you looking toward for grounding and clarity in the lead up to the November election? Feel free to share with u...
Episode 320: Talking Young Voters
June 04, 2020 20:41 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MBThe brutal murder of George Floyd by four Minneapolis Police Department officers, and the failure of the justice system to quickly prosecute the police officers involved, has triggered an explosion of activism across the country, and the world, in loud protest of police brutality against Black people. These actions vary dramatically along spectrums of intended impact and severity. And the response from media, police, and the public have exhibited the same variation. Overwhelmingly, we’ve s...
Episode 319: Talking Identity, the Census, and How We’re All Counted
May 21, 2020 10:00 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MBThe 2020 Census launched April 1st, 2020. With it comes yet another time where individuals have to distill their identities into check boxes with limited options. In this episode, we’re exploring how the race/ethnicity category options were created and how those available choices impact policy. Host Sarah Edwards talks with Cristina Mora, Associate Director of Sociology and Co-Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley. Cristina wrote the book “Making Hispanics”, which ...
Episode 318: Talking Democracy in the Era of COVID-19
May 14, 2020 16:53 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBThe COVID-19 pandemic has brought America to a screeching standstill, with most non-essential businesses shutting down, events being cancelled and postponed, school systems going virtual, and skyrocketing unemployment. And on top of it all, we’re technically in the midst of an election season, which has also been severely disrupted by the shelter-in-place measures implemented across the country. In this Q&A-style episode of Talk Policy To Me reporter Reem Rayef interviews former Labor Sec...
Episode 317: Talking COVID-19, Racial Inequality, and Economic Impacts
May 11, 2020 17:02 - 18 minutes - 24.9 MBContinuing with our effort to cover the COVID-19 pandemic and related policy issues, Sarah Edwards (MPP ’20) speaks with Ellora Derenoncourt, who will join the Goldman Faculty in the fall. Tune in to the conversation unpacking the issues of racial inequality in health and economics and learn from Ellora’s historic economics perspective. For more on Ellora’s work, visit her website. Check out the “Campus Conversations” that was mentioned in the episode For more in this series, check ou...
Episode 316: Talking 16-Year-Olds and Voting
May 07, 2020 17:07 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MBIn discussions around expanding voter turnout, many different policy interventions come up—same day voter registration, automatic voter registration, making Election day a holiday. But what if the best way to change the likelihood of people voting actually came in changing their first voting experience? There’s a body of evidence that shows that voting for the first time at 16, rather than 18, increases the chances of people becoming life-long voters. In this second episode in our series o...
Episode 315: Talking COVID-19 and Racial Inequity
May 04, 2020 17:25 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBAs the numbers are coming in, statistics show that communities of color, particularly Latinx and Black communities are both contracting COVID at higher rates and dying from it at higher rates. What is causing this inequity? What solutions can we enact, both now and in the future, to change this? Sarah Edwards (MPP ’20) spoke with Rashawn Ray, David M. Rubenstein fellow at the Brookings Institution and an associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland. To learn more about th...
Episode 314: Talking Elections and Voting Systems
April 30, 2020 13:42 - 36 minutes - 50.7 MBWelcome to the first episode in TPTM’s brand new series on Democracy! Do you ever wonder why our voting and election systems work the way they do? Has anyone ever preached to you the virtues (or evils) of rank choice voting, blockchain, or eliminating the electoral college? Then tune in to the lastest TPTM episode where Colleen (MPP ‘21) sits down with elections-policy experts and fellow Goldman students Rachel Wallace (MPP’20) and Ben Raderstorf (MPP ‘20) to break down the “hows” and “why...
Episode 313: COVID-19 Roundtable
April 10, 2020 12:54 - 27 minutes - 63.4 MBWe are nearly one month into California’s shelter-in-place order in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. And it looks like, in the Bay Area at least, we’re seeing some payoff from our early efforts to socially distance; hospitals have not seen the number of patients initially expected, and public health experts are tentatively declaring our success in flattening the proverbial curve. In spite of these successes, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown America’s inequalities into even sharper relie...
Episode 312: Talking Demography (Wrap Up!)
April 02, 2020 10:00 - 17 minutes - 23.5 MBTo wrap-up our series on Demography Shifts, Colleen (MPP ‘21) sat down with Goldman School Visiting Assistant Professor Mia Bird, who started as an MPP student at GSPP before pursuing an MA in economic demography (and then returning again to GSPP as a PhD!). Professor Bird discusses the different approaches that demographers and policymakers might take toward demographic shifts, shares her perspective on how demography can help destabilize stuck-in-the-past policy models, and offers though...
Episode 311: Talking Educator Equity
March 26, 2020 10:00 - 35 minutes - 48.8 MBMore than half of the student population in U.S. public schools identify as students of color; yet less than one in five—18 percent— of the teacher workforce identify as teachers of color. Does diversity and inclusion in the teaching profession even matter? And, if so, how can public policy play a constructive role? To find answers to these questions, Khalid Kaldi (MPP ’21) sat down with two former teachers of color. MPP student, Whitney Parra, explains the importance of cultural understan...
Episode 310: Talking Aging and Transportation
March 19, 2020 10:00 - 39 minutes - 53.8 MBWe know from research—and from personal experience with our own elders—that mobility and independence are key components of mental and emotional wellness for the over 65, or senior, population. However, once they’re no longer able to drive their cars due to health and safety concerns, that mobility—or ease of getting from point A to point B—plummets. A senior who no longer drives may be supported by their family for essential trips to health care services and the grocery story, but even in t...
Episode 309: Talking Aging and Labor
March 12, 2020 10:00 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBAs our population ages, we are faced with a number of policy challenges. One, in particular, stands out: how will we provide care for those who need help? Our next episode in the series around Demographic Shifts explores the policy implications of the aging population and the people who will help care for them. California expects to see its population of seniors rise from 15 to 25% in the next 40 years. While the challenge of caring for an aging population will expand as the population g...
Episode 308: Talking Fertility
March 05, 2020 11:00 - 26 minutes - 36.8 MBWhen news articles talk about the county’s declining fertility, there tends to be a tone of panic and often of judgment. But what is the truth of fertility rate declines? What role does policy play in impacting these rates? And how does the nature of fertility rates influence policy? In this episode, Sarah Edwards (MPP 20) turns to a local expert, demography PhD Leslie Root. Leslie helps us unpack this specific intersection between demography and policy, and what it means for our future. ...
Episode 307: Talking Demography
February 27, 2020 11:00 - 12 minutes - 16.8 MBIt’s 2020 and Talk Policy to Me is back with a brand new series on Demographic Shifts. Over the next few episodes, we’ll dive into some of the most pressing demographic shifts taking place here in California, and discuss what their implications are for policymaking both here in California and across the country. In this short kickoff episode, hosts Colleen (MPP ‘21) and Sarah (MPP ‘20) ground us in a shared definition of demography, share a preview of some of the shifts we’ll be diving int...
Holiday Roundtable!
December 24, 2019 23:04 - 25 minutes - 58.6 MBGrab a warm drink and cozy up under your favorite blanket, listeners! In Talk Policy To Me’s final episode of 2019, we got all five hosts in one room to talk about... talking policy during the holidays. Join our hosts Reem, Khalid, Colleen, Spencer, and Sarah as they explore how policy gets personal during the holidays when we gather with family and friends, reckon with hometown and childhood memories, and look toward the future as a new year approaches. How does public policy get all wrap...