League of Women Voters Sponsors Global Warming Presentation

April 26 meeting connects global warming and 2008 elections.

Learn about “Global Warming and Elections 2008; What are the Candidates

Telling Us and What Do We Need to Know” at a special meeting sponsored by

the League of Women Voters Saturday, April 26.

Economist and international educator Dr. Edwin Dolan is the featured

speaker. The session will be held at the Friday Harbor Middle School

Commons from 1 to 3 p.m.

The event is free, and the public is invited.

Dr. Dolan most recently taught a class at Skagit Valley College on The

Economics of Global Warming. This year he will teach courses on Money,

Banking and Monetary Policy and Micro and Macroeconomics in Prague, Czech

Republic; Riga, Latvia, and Tallinn, Estonia.

He has taught previously at Dartmouth, University of Chicago and George

Mason University in the United States and at institutions in Bulgaria,

Croatia, Budapest and Moscow and has worked for USAID as an economic

advisor in Kazakstan. He has also had U.S. government experience with the

Interstate Commerce Commission and Department of Justice.

Dr. Dolan holds a PhD. from Yale University and masters’ and bachelor’s

degrees from Indiana University. He is the author of a number of texts on

economics and public policy.