Author Lorna Landvik reveals that her recent novel best to Best to Laugh borrows some from her own life in Hollywood. Minnesota’s most gifted humorist, like the Korean-American protagonist of her book, had been a stand-up comedy hopeful in L.A. who supported herself with a series of eclectic temp jobs and a residential complex injected with LaLa Land characters and urban legend. Landvik also tells of her real-life adventures on the 3,700 miles long Peace March for Nuclear Disarmament from L.A. to D.C. in 1986. Landvik’s quick, sharp and easy wit is a delight that is rarely seen on home flatscreens. I consider her Dem Vis appearance a satisfying stew of sly insight on being Minnesotan.
State Senator John Marty, Minnesota’s leading progressive law maker, here makes a solid case to Democratic Visions host Tim O’Brien for SF 890 the “Worker Dignity Bill.” Marty (DFL, Roseville) and co-author Senator Chris Eaton (DFL, Brooklyn Center) proposed legislation would extend the phased-in minimum wage increase; increase the working family credit to exceed the federal earned income tax; provide increased child care assistance to all low-income workers and, among other actions, would reform MinnCare. SF 890 was referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Human Services and Housing on February 16 where it awaits further action.
The full version of the current Democratic Visions includes a short segment on the St. Olaf College dedication of its memorial to civil rights martyr James Reeb. Rev. Reeb, a 1950 graduate of the Northfield school, was murdered in Selma, Alabama fifty years ago. He and two other activist clergy had been beaten on the evening of the “Turnaround Tuesday” march led by Dr. Martin Luther King. This demonstration had concluded with prayer on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the highway to Montgomery, the Alabama State Capitol.
Lorna Landvik on Dem Vis –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv7-quYbWXg
John Marty on Dem Vis –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG_Gp8M90U0
Full Democratic Visions program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAgWRNasNKo
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