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10/22 Solutions to Poverty forum raises more questions than answers

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published October 22, 2015 at 9:52 AM CDT

For the third time, the organizers of the Local Solutions to Poverty Candidate Forum turned the tables on the the folks running for office. The candidates were given the questions a week in advance, but the actual questions were presented - along with personal stories - by seven different community members affected by poverty, homelessness or racism in the community. And even with the questions delivered in advance, what they learned took the candidates by surprise.

Look for the Voting Guide on the CHUM Duluth page after October 29th.

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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