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This week, Stet co-founder Joel Engelhardt moderated the League of Women Voters of Palm Beach County’s annual fundraising luncheon featuring MSNBC anchor Katie Phang and Lynn University author and historian Robert Watson.
Key message: With legislative gridlock in Washington, the action is shifting to city and county government. That makes strong local news coverage even more important.
Phang, a lawyer who practices in South Florida, spoke days after MSNBC announced that her Saturday afternoon show would end April 19. She will continue as a correspondent and fill-in anchor but said the news took her by surprise.
What she’s saying: “If you don’t want to educate yourself, I can’t save you.” Phang sees willful ignorance on both sides of the aisle.
Watson described how he took his Lynn University class to a farm off of U.S. 441 to pick strawberries. Students said they had never been to a farm. Thirty minutes in, they had had enough. Such exercises build empathy for farmworkers, he said.
What he's saying: "I'm always teaching critical thinking."
