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The Bridge by OR360A different way of thinking about governance, with Daniel Kemmis | EP 139Daniel Kemmis is a giant figure in the politics of the American West. A former Speaker of the Montana House of Representatives and twice-elected Mayor of Missoula, Kemmis is also an author and political theorist. President Bill Clinton awarded him the Charles Frankel Prize for "outstanding contribution to the field of the humanities," and he also one the Wallace Stegner Prize from the Center of the American West.
His first book, Community and the Politics of Place, was published in 1990, and his most recent came out in 2020, Citizens Uniting to Restore Our Democracy. In this episode, we discuss Kemmis' framework for...2024-01-1039 min
Stories for ActionDaniel Kemmis: The Politics of Place (Life in the Land series)Daniel Kemmis has divided his public career between democratic theory and practice. He has been an active politician, author, and thought leader on the topics of community guided governance and decision making based upon citizens’ rooted connection to place.
Kemmis grew up on a small family farm in Eastern Montana, attended Harvard University, and the University of Montana’s School of Law. Kemmis served in the Montana House of Representatives from 1974 to 1984, rising to be Speaker of the House. He went on to become the Mayor of Missoula from 1990-96. Utne Reader recognized Kemmis as one of its...2023-04-181h 12
InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant & Robin MerttensPredictions for Insurance in 2022 (172)What can the insurance industry expect in 2022? We’ve gathered a panel of 16 innovation experts to give us their predictions for the year ahead.
Podcast 172, sponsored by Fadata, covers topics, themes and opportunities including the insurtech investment scene (valuations and opportunities), increase in mergers & acquisitions activity, ESG and climate change, operational excellence, talent war, cryptocurrency and the Metaverse.
Our panel of innovation experts includes:
Matthew Jones, Managing Director, Anthemis
Charles Burgess, CEO International Distribution, Munich Re Specialty Group
Premal Gohil, Head of Innovation Partnerships & Investments, GRS, Liberty Mutual Insurance
Sasa Brcerevic, Global Head of MG...2022-01-0928 min
The Embedded Church PodcastThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsIn this episode Eric interviews Sara Joy about Jane Jacobs’ pioneering book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Written in 1961 this book represented a scathing critique of orthodox city planning from an unexpected source. Jane Jacobs was neither an architect nor a trained planner, but she was a keen observer of how cities and neighborhoods actually worked. She had the patience and instinct to look for the complex order at work within what appeared to be chaotic urban environments. And, she had the gumption not only to engage the ‘experts’ in a male dominated field, but to challe...2020-12-0151 min
In SiteDaniel Kemmis - Citizens Uniting to Restore our DemocracyToday we talk with Daniel Kemmis. Daniel studied both philosophy and political science, and names Plato, Rousseau, Jefferson, and Gandhi as his primary influences. He was minority leader and speaker of the house in the Montana State Legislature during the ‘80s, when the Sagebrush Rebellion was at its height. Later, he served as Mayor of Missoula. The intense dysfunction of those times, together with the fiercely contested land issues, inspired Kemmis to write the seminal book Community and the Politics of Place, and develop the Kemmis method for finding compromise.Some years back, Zion National Park’s gate...2020-11-1555 min
Beginner WomenMaking Space for Young Women in Civic Life with Caro LoutfiHow can we encourage youth, particularly young women, to continue to show up, use their voices, and be increasingly engaged in decision-making at the polls and beyond?As Caro Loutfi, Executive Director at Apathy is Boring, a national non-partisan organization working to engage youth in democracy explains, the path to getting young women involved starts with – but doesn’t stop at – inviting them to participate.In this episode of Beginner Women, Loutfi and host Katharine Cornfield discuss:✔ The ways young people are influencing change in both informal and informal civic spaces.✔ The barrie...2019-10-1800 min
Jesus Church Watertown, SDI Have Come For Thy WordsPastor Mark Brown
Daniel 10:12
We come to church to hear the Word of the Lord and a Word from God. We should also come to church to realize that God comes to hear a word from us.2018-02-0445 min