Coming up Thursday on Goddard College Community Radio - with national political battles sucking up attention and money, how much is left for local and state political issues? Are we missing out on chances to shape our lives in important ways?

9:00 - 10:00 am
Daniel Hopkins' new book, The Increasingly United States, argues that US political behavior is increasingly nationalized—to the detriment of the many issues controlled at the state and local level, like property tax, schools, many aspects of health care, state parks, controls on everything from guns to plastic bags or straws, and more.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/02/the-rise-of-mcpolitics
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo27596045.html

Is Hopkins right? Is Vermont an exception? We'll hear from state senator (and former Williston selectboard member and chair) Ginny Lyons, plus Times-Argus reporter Stephen Mills.

10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story, plus upcoming events related to energy, food, and the local economy at the end of the age of oil.

Please tune in! Relocalizing Vermont runs Thursdays, 9:00 - 10:30 am Eastern, on WGDR Plainfield 91.1 FM / WGDH Hardwick 91.7 FM / streaming at wgdr.org

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