Mitchell Hartman
speaker
1,202 appearances
42 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Mitchell Hartman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 41 in all, peaking in Jan 2026 with 7.
Appearances
They set up by the next day.
They were in the parking lot of a local bookstore.
And they brought in their organizers and volunteers to sharpen chainsaws, repair generators, and provide training for people who maybe hadn't used a chainsaw in quite a long time or ever before.
I think we can expect it to, you know, all the disasters I profiled in my piece, Asheville, as well as a flood in Chicago and hurricane related flooding in central Florida.
They happened before the current Trump administration and the FEMA rollbacks that have come along with it.
But I think that they make a really promising model for communities that are suffering from disasters where aid hasn't been forthcoming.
I spoke to the researcher Daniel Aldrich at Northeastern University.
Through data and survey all across the world, he's found that
Communities that have a high density, which is to say a lot of community organizations and services, are much more likely to retain population.
People are much more likely to rebuild and stay in place instead of picking up and leaving.
These community organizations seem to be much more important than even a formal government response.
Certainly.
And look, I think we absolutely need the state to provide repair for infrastructure, you know, roads, get the water and the electric turned back on.
But there are
services that government can't necessarily provide.
These kinds of immediate responses where a community comes together and clear the trees off the road, provide a shoulder for somebody to lean on and cry on when they're overwhelmed by the magnitude of the disaster.
These are the gaps that community members can really fill while people are waiting for FEMA funding to trickle in.
Thank you so much for having me, Amy.
All through the latter part of 2025, the job market was losing steam, says Bill Adams at Comerica Bank.
Job growth hit an air pocket and has really been in low gear since April of this past year.
Showing 881–900 of 1,202 · page 45 of 61
← Previous
Next →