A New Angle
A New Angle is a current affairs Montana Public Radio program and podcast featuring conversations about how we're doing and where we're going. We live in the College of Business at the University of Montana.New episodes drop every Thursday.
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Montana politics with Jon Bennion (opens the original)
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This week’s guest is Jon Bennion. In 2004, Jon published Big Sky Politics , a comprehensive history of Montana campaigns and elections. He is out this year with an updated edition . Jon is also the executive director of the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation .In this conversation, Jon talks about Montana’s political and electoral history, and highlights a few key turning points. He talks about the things that drive political change and about his own political journey, including a time runn
I&I - Gratitude and civic virtue, part two (opens the original)
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This week is the August edition of Incentives & Instincts, a recurring series in which Justin speaks with economist and friend Bryce Ward about some of the broader challenges facing our society. Last month , they began a conversation about gratitude and civic virtue. And today, is part two of that conversation.In this episode, Justin and Bryce talk about civic virtue and how being in physical community can cultivate that virtue. They discuss how to integrate conversations about virtue at home, a
RESOLVE-ing rural health care (opens the original)
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This week’s guests are Danny Spoon, Bill Wright, Matt Fete and Stephanie Goble, who are all involved with a new initiative to improve rural healthcare in Montana. The RESOLVE collaboration is a partnership between Providence and the University of Montana College of Health.The group starts out explaining the rural health care crisis in Montana and how those factors led to the development of RESOLVE. They discuss workforce development, building trust in rural communities and the places where using
Part two: Crissie McMullan & Jason Wiener are AI Realists (opens the original)
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This week ANA brings you part two of Justin’s conversation with Crissie McMullan and Jason Wiener, who together launched AI Realists , a nonprofit focused on helping communities shape AI policies.Picking up where they left off last week , the trio talk about citizen assemblies, public opinion surveys, data centers and a central mission of AI Realists: combating our big tech fatalism. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, v
Part one: Crissie McMullan & Jason Wiener are AI Realists (opens the original)
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This week’s guests are Crissie McMullan and Jason Wiener. Together these two launched AI Realists , a nonprofit organization aimed at helping communities shape AI policies. AI Realists is producing events and conducting outreach across Montana.In this conversation, Crissie and Jason share their paths to AI and how they have been both inspired and worried by the technology. They talk about how people tend to feel helpless when it comes to AI reform and speak at length about how their focus curren
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