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Author: Kevin Ellis

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Conflict of Interest is a podcast about the world, through a discerning lens of journalism, politics and above all Vermont. Kevin Ellis goes against the grain of today’s politics and celebrity culture to talk about the massive change all around us and how the world actually works. You will hear from Kevin’s Vermont neighbors AND national voices on difficult issues. Vermont is becoming, or always has been, a place, a real place. We are not interested in the Vermont of the tourist guides. We are not going to talk to Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. We will talk to them about what it is like to sell the company and do something new - and the frustrations, fear and uncertainty that comes with changing your life. Part interview, part history lesson about stuff you won’t see or hear on CNN or NPR.

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A former mayor and a non-profit housing leader team up figure out our housing challenge.  One wants to build faster with a lot less regulation.  The other wants to make sure some of that housing is affordable forever.  Miro Weinberger and Angie Harbin agree and disagree.  And there lies the solution. 
Whether it's AI, Peak Oil, the Strait of Hormuz, or climate disruption, our future will be vastly different than how we grew up and what we know today. A Great Simplification is coming. And futurist/podcaster/systems thinker Nate Hagens previews his September 29 keynote talk at the University of Vermont.  https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/about/nate-hagens
In our latest LIVE audience show Vermont, the former chair of the DNC and presidential candidate says he would vote for AOC for president, that Vermont should consider becoming a Canadian province, and explores how the democrats lost themselves.   Join me for our latest LIVE show in Montpelier where we solve the housing problem with former Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger and Angie Harbin from Downstreet Housing.   Tickets are here. https://www.mpa-hub.org/events/conflict-of-interest-4
It is not the street crime that is wrecking the country. It is the corporate criminal violence that we ignore in favor of putting small-time criminals in prison while the CEO's profits off the rest of us. Gottschalk's new book "Crime and No Punishment - Wealth, Poverty and Violence in America'', is also a personal reckoning and a teaching moment for how we can all do more.
The reform prosecutor in Burlington, VT opposes cash bail and favors treatment and community justice over prison and prosecution.  As communities struggle on homelessness and small crime, is George Justice the future?
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