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• December Luncheon

  • When
    06 Dec 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
  • Location
    Town and Country Club

  
  

  Members of the League of Women Voters of Saint Paul are invited to attend our annual December Luncheon, where we will hear from an inspiring featured speaker, celebrate the year's accomplishments, and discuss the road ahead in 2026.
  

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  **Tickets go on sale Sept. 29. Tickets available to purchase until Nov. 26 or sold out**

  This year's keynote will be delivered by Marlene Johnson. She is an American politician and businesswoman who served as the 42nd lieutenant governor of Minnesota, and was the first woman to hold the office. She served alongside Governor Rudy Perpich from 1983 to 1991. She is the author of Rise to the Challenge: A Memoir of Politics, Leadership & Love.

  
  

  Tickets are $40.00 and include meal, water, tea, or coffee. A cash bar will be available.

  Agenda

  11:00 a.m.: Doors open for registration and socializing.

  11:30 a.m.: Plated luncheon is served. Meal includes salad and dessert.

  12:00 p.m.: Program begins.

  • Welcome address from LWVSP President.
  • New member gift bag drawing!
  • Remarks from featured speaker Marlene Johnson, Author, Businesswoman, and Fmr Lt. Governor of Minnesota (1983-91).
  • *Ms. Johnson will do a book signing after the program*

  2:30 p.m.: Luncheon concludes.

  Questions? Don't hesitate to email us at lwvstpaul@lwvmn.org.

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• Candidate Forum: Special Election, MN House District 64A

  • When
    09 Dec 2025
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    7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    SPNN Studios, 550 Vandalia St., Suite 170, Saint Paul, MN 55114

  
  

  Join the League of Women Voters of St. Paul and the St. Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN) for a Candidate Forum for the MN House District 64A Special Election. 

  The event will be held live at SPNN's studios at 550 Vandalia Street, as well as livestreamed on SPNN's YouTube channel. The livestream will be recorded and available publicly for later viewing. There will be overflow seating available at King Coil Spirits, across the parking lot from SPNN's studios.

  Please email your questions for the candidates to lwvstpaul@lwvmn.org by end-of-day on December 5.

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• Morning Book Club

  • When
    10 Dec 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM
  • Location
    Highland Park Library (1974 Ford Parkway)

  Join LWVSP Morning Book Club to discuss The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics by Michael Osterholm. We will meet at Highland Park Library (1974 Ford Parkway) on Wednesday, December 10 at 10 am. You are welcome to join even if you haven't read the book. 

  
  

  " In The Big One, founding director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker examine past pandemics, highlighting the ways societies both succeeded and failed to address them; trace the Covid-19 pandemic and evaluate how it was handled; and look to the future, projecting what the next pandemics might look like and what must be done to mitigate them. Drawing on years of high-level research as well as cutting-edge analysis and an innovative hypothetical scenario threaded throughout each chapter, The Big One is a gripping, comprehensive, and urgent wake-up call. Because Covid-19 was just a taste of what’s to come. If we’re going to survive the next big pandemic, we need to be prepared."

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• Evening Book Club

  • When
    09 Feb 2026
  •  
    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  After a break for a few months, join us for Evening Book Club on Monday, February 9 at 6:30 PM on Zoom. We will be discussing two books: 

  - A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah (memoir)

  - Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel by Ishmael Beah

  
  

  Pleas join us to discuss the books even if you haven't read both (or either!). To join the email list, email Heidi (heidi.kloempken@gmail.com). 

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• Morning Book Club

  • When
    11 Feb 2026
  •  
    10:00 AM
  • Location
    Highland Park Library (1974 Ford Parkway)

  Join LWVSP Morning Book Club to discuss When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How American Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz. We will meet at Highland Park Library (1974 Ford Parkway) on Wednesday, February 11 at 10 am. You are welcome to join even if you haven't read the book. 

  
  

  "In When the Clock Broke, the acclaimed political writer John Ganz tells the story of America’s late-century discontents. Ranging from upheavals in Crown Heights and Los Angeles to the advent of David Duke and the heartland survivalists, the broadcasts of Rush Limbaugh, and the bitter disputes between neoconservatives and the “paleo-con” right, Ganz immerses us in a time when what Philip Roth called the “indigenous American berserk” took new and ever-wilder forms. In the 1992 campaign, Pat Buchanan's and Ross Perot’s insurgent populist bids upended the political establishment, all while Americans struggled through recession, alarm about racial and social change, the specter of a new power in Asia, and the end of Cold War–era political norms. Conspiracy theories surged, and intellectuals and activists strove to understand the “Middle American Radicals” whose alienation fueled new causes. Meanwhile, Bill Clinton appeared to forge a new, vital center, though it would not hold for long."

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• Morning Book Club

  • When
    11 Mar 2026
  •  
    10:00 AM
  • Location
    Highland Park Library (1974 Ford Parkway)

  Join LWVSP Morning Book Club to discuss The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century by Tim Weiner. We will meet at Highland Park Library (1974 Ford Parkway) on Wednesday, March 11 at 10 am. You are welcome to join even if you haven't read the book. 

  
  

  "At the turn of the century, the Central Intelligence Agency was in crisis. The end of the Cold War had robbed the agency of its mission. More than thirty overseas stations and bases had been shuttered, and scores that remained had been severely cut back. Many countries where surveillance was once deemed crucial went uncovered. Essential intelligence wasn’t being collected. At the dawn of the information age, the CIA’s officers and analysts worked with outmoded technology, struggling to distinguish the clear signals of significant facts from the cacophony of background noise."

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• Evening Book Club

  • When
    13 Apr 2026
  •  
    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Please join the Evening Book Club on Monday, April 13 at 6:30 PM on Zoom. We will discuss two books: 

  - Perennial Ceremony:: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden by Teresa Peterson

  - In Winter's Kitchen: Growing Roots and Breaking Bread in the Northern Heartland by Beth Dooley

  Please join us if you had read only one (or neither). Email Heidi (heidi.kloempken@gmail.com) to join the email list for reminders and the Zoom link. 

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• Evening Book Club

  • When
    08 Jun 2026
  •  
    6:30 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

  Join us on Monday, June 8 at 6:30 PM on Zoom to discuss The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker. Please join us even if you haven't finished the book. Email Heidi (heidi.kloempken@gmail.com) to be added to the email list for reminders and the Zoom link. 

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