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CARNEGIE – On a cold and cloudy Saturday, about 100 people gathered at the bottom of the steps of St. Peter & St. Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Carnegie for

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated a more effective way to support learning and increase engagement at science-focused museum exhibits.

This may get wonky, so buckle up but it's important stuff. one of them is rank-choice voting. something we are seeing in new york city, maine, alaska, increasingly in states in the united states. other ideas, like multi-member districts and proportional representation haven't opinion done in the united states for decades but once were put in place in certain states and cities. this study suggests it may be time to look at those local election reforms again as a way of depolarizing the populous. another study jumped out at me also from carnegie. really one of the best scholars of the defense of...

Matters shouldn't be criminalized. reserve our criminal justice system for shootings, for example. >> todd: here to react three business owners, owner of american brass, robert misken, co-owner of zazi's pizza, richie romera and owner of carnegie, staplas. robert, first question to you, as someone running a business how devastating is it to hear a d.a. basically incentivize crime? >> it is extremely uncomforting for sure. i have a u-haul packed up ready to go to the sunshine state. this guy seems like he wants california to not have a monopoly of bad ideas.

One recent study really jumped out at me. by the folks at carnegie, particularly jennifer mccoy and ben press and it's on what they call pernicious polarization. and how it's affected other democracies around the world. they define pernicious polarization as basically when someone's partisan identity starts affecting their oeshl identity, which is certainly something we are seeing here in the united states. and they looked at 52 countries around the world since 1950 that -- where polarization has impacted democracy negatively. has degraded democracy. and here is what they found. half the count...