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It’s Wednesday, December 5 – From HPR2, it’s The Conversation

Can I have another amend?

Derek Cressman is the Common Cause Vice President for State Operations. He's leading the group's national effort to reverse the Citizens United v. FEC ruling with a Constitutional amendment. 

A trip to Harper's Merry on Maui

Ginny Morgan is the organizer of the Maui Festival of Harps, which takes place this weekend at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center.

The three little words some couples want to say: we are married.

Evan Wolfson is an attorney and the Founder and President of Freedom to Marry, the nationwide campaign to win marriage for all who want to be married. He is author of Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality, and Gay People’s Right to Marry. In 2004, Time magazine named him one of the "100 most influential people in the world." He has argued before the Supreme Court in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale and has taught at Columbia Law School as an adjunct professor. 

A fast two hours at Smokey Joe's Café

Aly Cardinali is the director of Smokey Joe’s Café, which starts this weekend and runs through December 23rd at the Pro Arts Theater.

Plus a backyard quiz, today’s reality check and the world view from the BBC … next the news… from NPR.