Conversations with Sgt. Smith

Karen Stokes spent 12 years on the Rochester school board. We discussed the Annie investigation and the city attorney. We also talked about the Maple st school and the current budget. I really enjoyed this conversation...

I got a major upgrade to my podcast with format senator and former ambassador Scott Brown accepted my invitation to have a conversation. We didn’t have much time so I couldn’t get a lot of in depth details about his...

Today I sat and talked with Dillon Guyer. Owner of Guyer Travel. This was the first conversation where I had no clear plan or agenda. We talked about his business, Rochester night out, politics, and his life.

I’m very grateful to have the opportunity to sit and have a conversation with Annie Azarloza the former Rochester, New Hampshire superintendent. We talk a lot about her background and a little bit about the...

I’m glad Will accepted my offer to sit down and talk in that I understand that that as a conservative Christian pastor he may have felt possibly in hostile territory. However, that cannot be further from the result...

Sam is the only candidate I think I knew before we talked. And I know when I met him about a year ago we had a good conversation. This was also a very pleasant conversation

I talked with Samantha Smith from Ward 2 this evening. She seems adamant about getting a qualified school superintendent who hopefully can turn around our district. She also has been a very active parent in the school...

Here’s my conversation with Raymond Wayman. He seemed very knowledgeable and has taken a lot of time to do research on our city and where our money goes.

I have really enjoyed these conversations. This one was with Lisa Kerrigan Carlberg. I gathered they she is most concerned with ensuring that teachers are supported and given the best resources. School board candidate...

This was my second conversation this evening with Samantha Battis school board candidate ward 6 seat A was really great mostly because she talked more than me which is perfect I assume you all are sick of hearing my...

Keady Nugent school board ward 2 seat A is passionate about our kids and their future in our city.

This was a pleasant conversation. Although Katherine Anderson is running for school board it didn’t feel like a campaign interview just a good conversation. So far she is the first school board candidate who has decided...

This is where I give my scores and endorsements to the candidates.

My last conversation for a while that I’ll post here is with Chuck Grassie. Maybe one of the most experienced of all the politicians that I talked to so far. And politically speaking, we probably stand far apart as any...

I sat down this afternoon with Mayoral Candidate Pete Lachapelle. It was a great conversation that I had to have twice because we got about 20 mins in and found I wasn’t recording. lol. He was cool about it and...