Couch Potatoes, Arise!

[Stuff to do] Listen up. There are some good things going on that require your civic involvement. Go. Learn. Become a force to be reckoned with.

Today (Nov. 13), starting at 3 p.m. in Room 326 of the City & County Building (451 S. State): The Salt Lake City Council will hold Round 2 of dialogue on the city's economic forecast. Speaking are U of U planning professor Chris Nelson; Wasatch Front Regional Council's Doug Hattery and Val Halford; LDS Church/City Creek Center spokesman H. David Burton; Gateway mall's Jake Boyer; Trolley Square's Tom Bard; and RDA director D.J. Baxter (who will moderate a panel discussion on future housing needs in the SLC). If you can't tear yourself away to attend, watch it later on cable Channel 17. More details here.

Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m., at the Gore Auditorium in the Gore School of Business at Westminster College (1840 S. 1300 East): The Wasatch Front Forum will look at what's to become of that big salty sea out west. Read more about it here.

Wednesday, Nov. 19, 6:30 p.m., at Northwest Middle School (1730 W. 1700 North, Redwood Road): The Human Rights Commission's Dialogue on Discrimination Series continues with disability advocate Barbara Toomer and Disability Law Center's Matthew Knotts speaking on people with disabilities. More info here.

Craving more political action? Check SLWeekly.com's listings. (Jerre Wroble)