November election is topic of Sept. 20 lecture

Cook County Higher Education will feature Wyman Spano, who will present The November Election: Who’s Going to Win, Who’s Going to Lose, and Why at the September Guest Lecture Series event on Thursday, Sept. 20, from 7 – 8:30 p.m. at the North Shore Campus in Grand Marais.

Spano is founder and co-director of the Masters in Advocacy and Political Leadership (MAPL) program at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. MAPL is a weekend program in Duluth for students from throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin seeking to learn how to have impact on public policy. Since its founding in 2004, more than 120 MAPL graduates have embarked or continued careers in advocacy as elected officials, on political and governmental staffs, with nonprofits, and in the private sector. Prior to his time at MAPL Spano participated in, studied and wrote extensively about Minnesota’s public life. He founded and for 24 years published and co-edited the newsletter Politics in Minnesota, ending his involvement in the publication in February 2005.

Spano is co-author of the textbook Minnesota Politics and Government, published by the University of Nebraska press. He was also a contributor to the book Minnesota Real and Imagined: Essays on the State and Its Culture, published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press in 2000. Spano holds a master’s degree from the Eagleton Institute of Practical Politics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., and has completed coursework and preliminary exams for a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities.

The Guest Lecture Series of Cook County Higher Education is offered to the community free, although donations are appreciated. The series is sponsored by the Grand Marais State Bank, Drury Lane Books, George F. Maruska Ltd., and the Lake Superior Trading Post. Refreshments are donated by Beth’s Fudge and Gifts and Johnson’s Foods. The lectures are held at Cook County Higher Education’s North Shore campus, 300 W. 3rd St., Grand Marais.

For more information call (218) 387- 3411.