I do a variety of consulting work for the Citizens League but I’ve also been a member since 1989. (They also were the fiscal agent for the grant that started the Utne Reader Neighborhood Salon Association that I headed for many years and it was a Northfield salon at my house in 1991 that gave birth to Northfield Citizens Online, the non-profit parent of Northfield.org. But I digress.)
The Citizens League has teamed 
up with MPR’s The Current to host a series of public policy events called Policy and a Pint. It’s hugely successful, in part because it makes policy stuff fun. Food! Liquor! Socializing! Music! Civic discussion! Yeah, baby!
Last week I attended their event called Health Care Handcuffs at the Varsity Theater in Dinkytown. Citizen League staffers (click photos to enlarge and see their Staff page for more) in attendance included:
Left: Bob DeBoer, Victoria Ford, Ann Kirby McGill, Sean Kershaw
Right: Brian Bell, Annie Levenson-Falk
Sean Kershaw (see his ‘Sean’s Blog’) is featured in the Feb/Mar issue of Minnesota Law & Politics (not available on their site but see the PDF of the article on the League’s website.)
