February 2008 Archives

Host William McMIllen interviews Ray Feliciano, Editor of "The Informed Constituent" and founder of The Fourth Branch of America, www.fourthbranchofamerica.com

Eric Sundwall discusses third parties with Prof. Lou Parrotta's political science class at Utica College.

Here's a great essay on the Property tax issue by Capital District Libertarian Party member Werner Hetzner.

Increasingly we get reports about shifting the funding of public education away from the property tax. This is nothing new. It is just one more attempt to solve the wrong problem.

The original idea had been for public schools to be a local responsibility. Local people would operate local schools to teach local children with revenue collected with a tax on local property. That was the public school model. community_involvement_public_schools.gif

Unfortunately, that model has become increasingly unaffordable over time. The ever rising costs to operate public schools was especially hard on people living on fixed incomes like Social Security. The inability to keep up with rising school taxes force many people to sell their homes and others to lower their standard of living.

Rumors have it that Berkshire Cable is now airing Capital Outsider on their channel 3 on Friday nights at Eight o'clock. I can confirm this, as I dropped off the shows and made arrangements for it to happen.

While the Town of Kinderhook has approximately 8000 people, if you're on TV, they let you know about it. We should have news about at least one new outlet next week and more to come after that. Thanks to all involved and drop us a line at info (at) capitaloutsider.org if you have comments (that you don't wish to share online) or questions about the show.

Host William McMillen interviews Daniel Imperato, Libertarian Party Presidential hopeful. www.imperato2008.com

Our colleagues at Hardfire have also started interviewing LP candidates for President. Hope we can keep up. We also invite all other candidates to be on Capital Outsider. Mark Axinn interviews Jim Burns and Alden Link.

Host Eric Sundwall interviews Dennis Karius, an activist for verified voting in NY State and a member of ARISE www.ariseorg.net