Latest Communitysolutionsmn Podcast Episodes
Episode 313- Worse Than They Could Have Imagined
Community Solutions Podcast - July 11, 2024 04:30 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- We recently witnessed the first (and possibly last) presidential debate of the 2024 election season. It was a massacre. President Biden not only did worse than anyone expected, President Trump handled Biden and the moderators almost perfectly. Biden stumbled, mumbled, ...
Episode 312- Thank God The Legislature Is Out Of Session
Community Solutions Podcast - June 26, 2024 03:59 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- The first presidential debate is drawing nigh. It's looking like President Biden may end up being the nominee, but what about vice president? Kamala Harris remains unpopular and doesn't seem to help Joe Biden's struggling poll numbers at all. Amy Klobuchar alway outper...
Episode 311- Origin Of The Gender Mess
Community Solutions Podcast - June 01, 2024 05:07 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- What is going on with the Biden campaign? They scheduled their convention so late, that if anything unforseen happens, there will be no Democratic candidate on the ballot in Ohio. Will President Biden make it to the general election? Will Kamala Harris? This campaign is...
Episode 310- Take Our Advice And Drop Out
Community Solutions Podcast - May 23, 2024 04:09 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Gavin Newsome promised to end homelessness in California. Now it's at all-time high. We don't see the problem getting better, but exponentially worse. He's giving them free drugs, Election polls keep rolling in, and President Trump keeps widening his lead in the swing ...
Episode 309- The Forecast Is Mostly Cloudy
Community Solutions Podcast - May 15, 2024 04:20 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- When times get tough, people depend on entertainment to take them away. Today, entertainment is rotten through and through. How are they making us forget our problems, when they are championing our problems? They can't create art that brings people together because they ...
Episode 308- Descending Into Chaos
Community Solutions Podcast - May 09, 2024 03:39 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- It’s been a while, thanks to a technical meltdown at Comm Solutions HQ. We will not be kept down! We’ve got a couple of back episodes to release, but we’re storming forward. In this episode, we discuss the passing of Senator Joe Lieberman, and his mark on the future of...
Episode 307- The Business Of Elections
Community Solutions Podcast - March 25, 2024 05:12 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- The State of the Union address was uneventful, so maybe that was a win for President Biden, although his angry demeanor and use of the weord "illegal" kept him from getting a bump in the polls. This guy is in trouble and Democrats are starting to get nervous. Unfortunate...
Episode 306- Constitution, Shmonstitution
Community Solutions Podcast - March 16, 2024 04:42 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Super Tuesday proved a couple things, one that noone in the Republican Party is going to stop President Trump, and two... there's a pretty big contingent of the Democrat electorate that is voting "no preference" or "noncommitted" over President Biden. That's troublesome....
Episode 305- They've Got To Control The Narrative
Community Solutions Podcast - March 09, 2024 05:04 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Now that the 2024 presidential race is set between Trump v Biden, what is the Democrats play? It looks like Trump is ahead in all of the important places for now. What does that mean for the Dems in the House and the Senate? Will Biden even make it to the general electio...
Episode 304- North Atlantic Trouble
Community Solutions Podcast - February 29, 2024 06:12 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Another state primary down, and another state primary solidly in the "W"column for President Trump. Nevertheless, Nikky Haley is staying in the race with no path to the nomination. It's certainly her right to do so, but at what point is she helping Joe Biden and the Demo...
Episode 303-Bordering On Disbelief
Community Solutions Podcast - February 22, 2024 04:48 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- The Robert Hur report came out, not clearing President Biden of wrongdoing, but rather claiming that he is incompetant to stand trial, so no charges. So if he's too bad off to stand trial, how is he well enough to be the president of the United States? Which is it? Are y...
Episode 302- Somalia First- MSGA!
Community Solutions Podcast - February 05, 2024 05:25 - 2 hours ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- This last week, Ilhan Omar made a speech that was smilar to a Donald Trump speech... except that it was about Somalia. It called for a Somalia-first policy, including a secure Somalian border. If the Squad didn't have hypocrisy, it wouldn't have any political strategy at...
Episode 301- Truth And Censorship
Community Solutions Podcast - January 25, 2024 05:29 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Well... It's January, and with that, we have new city council and school board members in select locations. St Paul has set a record. No, not for the most females on an elected body, but for possibly the most juvenile and uninformed public meeting in history. They sat ar...
Episode 300- Ones And Zeros
Community Solutions Podcast - January 18, 2024 05:17 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- We’re back with season 8, and we’re off to a raging start. We’re going after an issue that seems like a national issue, but it really doesn’t get more local than what’s in your wallet. The Federal Reserve has been talking about issuing a new currency… a progammmable digi...
Episode 299- Bigger, Bolder, Better
Community Solutions Podcast - November 30, 2023 04:57 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- We have recorded 299 episodes over seven seasons. That's a bunch more than most podcasts. We have stood the test of time, and taught many in Minnesota (and elsewhere) all about the ins and outs of local government. We've done shows on budgets, government handouts, local...
Episode 298- A Very Bad Idea
Community Solutions Podcast - November 14, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- It's no secret, we hate odd year elections. Very few people come out, and the majority of those are activists, union members, and the uber political. Should 3,500 people decide who makes policy for a city of 50,000? Why don't we just make it easy for people to vote? We ...
Episode 297- Crazies Coming Out Of The Woodwork
Community Solutions Podcast - November 05, 2023 03:21 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- The war in Israel is front and center on the world stage, and there are a number of things that are starting to surface, that we didn't think that we would ever see again. When Hamas blindsided Israeli families and concertgoers on not only their Sabbath, but also on a h...
Episode 296- Stop Playing Their Game
Community Solutions Podcast - October 26, 2023 04:31 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- If we want to change the direction of our government, it takes us getting serious about our local elections. Top-down government never works, but yet we almost completely ignore the offices that are closest to us. The real problem is that we are playing a game that prog...
Episode 295- Wringing Out Every Last Cent
Community Solutions Podcast - October 17, 2023 04:47 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Our fantastic legislature passed a 1% increase in the sales tax this year that just took effect. This pushes Minneapolis' sales tax up over 9% and St. Paul is almost at 10%! Of course, the DFL wants to claim that this increase is "for the kids", yet the kids never seem ...
Episode 294- Give Up Everything You Love
Community Solutions Podcast - October 10, 2023 05:04 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- We hear all around us about the impending doom that is climate change. A group called C40 Cities in collaboration with Arup advisors have come up with some ambitious climate goals so that we can all save the earth... or something like that. There's a problem, however, ...
Episode 293- They Want Their Cut Too
Community Solutions Podcast - September 19, 2023 04:43 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Ramsey County is trying to pass a $842 million budget, and there is no expense spared. It's 750 pages of endless spending to the tune of almost $1 billion. They have huge personnel costs, as they have well over 4,000 employees. There is all sorts of state aid and fede...
Episode 292- Complete Bedlam
Community Solutions Podcast - September 11, 2023 03:24 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- It's no secret, our school districts are struggling with discipline issues. The inmates run the asylum, with schools allowing them to talk back to teachers, be physically violent with teachers, and with grading standards being erased. Parents no longer back the teachers...
Episode 291- End The Met
Community Solutions Podcast - September 03, 2023 03:52 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Just about everyone agrees that the Met Council is way too powerful. They threaten cities with litigation if they don't fall into line. So what glorious ideas are both Republicans and Democrats agreeing upon to fix this problem? Dismantle their authority? Of course not!...
Episode 290- You Need Not Apply
Community Solutions Podcast - August 14, 2023 04:08 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingsGolden Valley is a mess. In their pursuit for "equity" they are destroying the city. They wrote an equity plan that required all contractors looking to do business in Golden Valley to answer certain equity-related questions. They put equity ahead of fairness and have a plan to ensure things wo...
Episode 289- Broke, But Who's Counting?
Community Solutions Podcast - July 17, 2023 04:33 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Minneapolis Public Schools just approved a $976 million budget. That's almost $1 billion! They cite rising costs and lower enrollment. Shouldn't fewer students equal fewer dollars spent? Maybe they can afford it? Not a chance. The district is running a $42 million defi...
Episoode 288- Flush With Cash
Community Solutions Podcast - June 26, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutions.com- I'm sure that you all heard that there was a huge tax surplus in St Paul. Don't stay up waiting for your check. It ain't coming. So after spending all of the extra money they stole, that should be the end of it... right? Of course not!!! They passed a bonding bill in a no...
Episode 287- The Learning Curve
Community Solutions Podcast - June 14, 2023 05:04 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- On their way out of session, the Minnesota Legislature passed an education omnibus bill. As you know, we hate omnibus bills. So much junk passes through in these things, and the Republicans are just as complicit as the Democrats. They could choose to stop this horrible...
Episode 286- Eye In The Sky
Community Solutions Podcast - June 02, 2023 04:11 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Police departments are starting to fly surveillance drones over cities. Don't we have a fourth amendment anymore? Aren't we supposed to be secure in our persons, homes, papers, and effects? How can this be allowed? Yet if we say anything, the same people that marched i...
Episode 285- Stacking The Deck
Community Solutions Podcast - May 22, 2023 04:10 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Everyone is talking about 2024 and who will be running for president. Did you know that many places will be having school and municipal elections this year? There's one problem... almost no one votes in odd year elections. Townships can have elections whenever, as can s...
Episode 284- The Total Takeover
Community Solutions Podcast - May 05, 2023 04:28 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 8 ratingswww.commsolutionsmn.com- Our cities are expected to be built the same as each other, using the exact same infrastructure, zoning, and policies. Everything is interconnected and collecting, analyzing, and reporting all different kinds of data. They're pushing electric vehicles, smart meters, and...
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