Events
October 2018
October Unit Meeting: Restoring the Vote
Long-time LWVE member Ardis Wexler will discuss one of the hot topics in voting and elections, restoring the vote to convicted felons. Wexler, who has been an election judge for 40 years, is a community activist with a great interest in voting rights.
Find out more »Book Club: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Winner of the Mann Booker Prize, this is the first novel by essayist Saunders.
Find out more »November 2018
Unit Meeting: What Just Happened?
A panel of leaguers with election experience will discuss the results of the November elections. 9:45 am Social Time 10 am Presentation
Find out more »Election 2018: What Happened? A Conversation with Dr. Kathryn Pearson
Join us to hear Kathryn Pearson, PhD, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, speak on the 2018 election. Following her presentation, Professor Pearson will take questions from the audience.
Find out more »Book Club: The Radium Girls by Kate Moore
Moore tells the horrifying true story of the young women who worked in radium dial factories in the 1920s and ’30s. Using radium dusted paint to create glow-in-the-dark numbers on watch faces, the “shining girls” became luminous themselves, their clothing and hair dusted with a toxic poison. Moore’s extensive research into the individual life stories of these doomed women brings their struggle to achieve justice to life.
Find out more »December 2018
Lively Issues Meeting
Lively Issues is held once each year to review our LWV Edina local positions and discuss major public policy and governmental issues in Edina. After discussion, members recommend areas to study in more depth and possible lobbying actions.
Find out more »January 2019
Debra Mangen: Reflections from 23 Years of Elections
Debra Mangen, who recently retired after serving as Edina City Clerk for 23 years, will reflect on her election experiences and the insights she gained while overseeing every Edina election during that period.
Find out more »Voting Rights – and Wrongs
Join us for a panel discussion to discuss voting rights and some of the election issues that occurred nationally during the 2018 elections. Edina City Hall Council Chambers.
Find out more »POSTPONED: District 49 Update POSTPONED
The District 49 Legislative Update Town Meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 29, has been postponed due to dangerously frigid weather. We will post the new date when it is announced.
Find out more »February 2019
February Unit Meeting
Our February Unit Meeting will feature Karen Schaeffer from CMAL who will discuss the CMAL’s recently completed study to review Metropolitan Council governance. She will also present the consensus questions that study generated.
Find out more »Past Events
Some of our recent events are listed here. Click a title for more info.
Voting Rights – and Wrongs
Debra Mangen: Reflections from 23 Years of Elections
Election 2018: What Happened? A Conversation with Dr. Kathryn Pearson
The United States Supreme Court in Perspective: 2017-2018
Changing Landscape of Affordable Housing
Getting to Green: Saving Nature: A Bipartisan Solution
WWI and the Suffrage Movement
Health Impacts of Climate Change
Understanding and Supporting Transgender and Gender-Diverse People
“One Nation Indivisible with Liberty and Justice for All”