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Wednesday, February 01, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes On Everlasting Plastics
Every other year, the U.S. State Department hosts an open call for applicants to curate an exhibition to be presented at the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Archittetura. It's a competitive process, featuring as many as 75 countries, and...
Wednesday, December 07, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Happy Dog is Taken Over by Gen-Z
Watch the video here. Generation Z, or "Gen Z" is roughly defined as somebody born between 1997 to 2012. And they are coming of age. In Florida, Maxwell Frost became the first Gen Z elected to Congress. And a recent analysis...
Wednesday, November 02, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes on Participatory Budgeting CLE
What happens when residents are empowered to decide together how to spend public money in their own communities? This is the foundational premise of "participatory budgeting." It aims to deepen democracy, build stronger communities, and make public budgets more equitable...
Wednesday, May 04, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes on the State of European Democracy
The slide toward autocracy among some European nations has called into question the health of European democracy and the upending of politics as we know it in Europe. This changing tenor has proved a challenge, and as in the case...
Wednesday, April 06, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes on the SCOTUS Nomination
The Presidential power to nominate a Supreme Court justice and Senate's power to confirm that nomination is one of the pillars of our country's checks-and-balances system. Yet, the politics and tensions over this process has escalated over recent years. The...
Wednesday, March 02, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes on the Ukraine Crisis
The news from Ukraine is changing by the hour, but some parts of the story are unchanging: a fledgling European democracy is finding its sovereignty threatened by a hostile neighbor led by an autocrat. As the conflict with Russia continues,...
Wednesday, February 02, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
According to John Mitterholzer's calculations, if Ohio were its own country, we would be the 26th largest greenhouse gas emitter on Earth. As Ohio's only delegate from the civil society sector to attend the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26)...
Wednesday, November 03, 2021, 7:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes on the Next Mayor's Inbox
On November 2nd, Cleveland voters will have chosen a new mayor for the first time in 16 years. There have been months of dialogue, discussion, and debate on the nuances of each candidate’s platform. We’ve heard what they believe are...
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