The City Club of Boise hosts between 15 and 18 forums a year, on a wide variety of subjects.

 

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Forum Name

Forum Speaker

Forum Date

What's Happened to Payette Lake?

Peter Johnson, Chairman of Big Payette Lake Water Quality Council and Former Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration; and Paul Woods, Chief of Hydrologic Investigations, U.S. Geological Service

December 10, 1997

Behind the Scenes of House Committee

Helen Chenoweth, Idaho Congressman, 1st District

November 19, 1997

The Challenge of the European Monetary Union

The Honorable Antonio Oyarzabal, Ambassador to the United States from Spain

November 13, 1997

Michelman Discusses Reproductive Rights

Kate Michelman, President NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League)

October 9, 1997

Visions of Liberty, the Bill of Rights for All Americans

Ira Glasser, Executive Director ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)

August 13, 1997

The U.S. Senate Revises Nuclear Waste Policy

U.S. Senator Larry Craig

August 11, 1997

Preserving Healthy Public Lands in the Northwest

Hal Salwasser, Regional Forester, U.S. Forest Service - Report on the study of the ecosystem in the Upper Columbia River Drainage

July 9, 1997

Second Annual Summer Garden Party

Garden party featuring art exhibits and performances at the Idaho Botanical Garden

June 19, 1997

The Economics of the Environment

Professor Thomas M. Power, Chairman of the economics Department, University of Montana and author of Lost Landscapes and Failed Economics:  The Search for a Value of Place

June 3, 1997

Report From the Presidents' Summit for America's Future

Seven of the 25 Idaho delegates to the April 27-29 summit in Philadelphia reported on the summit and the local campaign to follow:  Jim Clark, Director, Community Resource Programs, Treasure Valley United Way;  Jim Everett, CEO, Boise Family YMCA; Kelly Houston, Director, Idaho Commission for National and Community Service;  Sharon Jarvis, Director, J.A. & Kathryn Albertson Foundation;  Connie Weaver, Administrator, Contributions and Volunteer Programs, Boise Cascade Corporation;  Scott Curtis, Youth Representative, and Cindy Mesko, Big Brothers/ Big Sisters

May 6, 1997

The Economics of Historic Preservation and urban Design

Donovan Rypkema, a national leader in the economics of preserving structures, cosponsored by the Boise City Historic Preservation Commission

April 17, 1997

Can This Marriage Be Saved?

City & County Growth Issues.  Patricia Nelson Limerick, University of Colorado Historian; Jamie Sudler III, University of Colorado adjunct professor and lawyer; Ryan Bernard, Graduate Student; and Tom Precourt, Director of the Center for The American West.  Hosted by Morrison Knudsen Corporation and Cosponsored by the Ada Planning Association

April 11, 1997

Energy Deregulation - What's Happening?

Peter Johnson, former BPA Administrator and Member, Idaho Power Company Board of Directors; Todd Maddock, Idaho Council Member, Northwest Power Planning Council; and marsha Smith, Commissioner, Idaho Public Utilities Commission

March 5, 1997

The Press and the First Amendment

P. Cameron DeVore, attorney, writer, and national commentator on First Amendment issues, senior partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, Seattle

February 21, 1997

Funding the Arts

Bill Strickland, Executive Director of the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild and President/CEO of Bidwell Training Center in Pittsburgh

February 4, 1997

Second Annual State Legislative Forum

Betsy Russell, Spokane Spokesman Review; Mike Wickline, Lewiston Morning Tribune; and Michelle Cole, The Idaho Statesman

January 9, 1997

 


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