Buddy Robinson

Buddy Robinson is retired. He formerly was the Staff Director of the MN Citizens Federation NE (previously known as the Senior Federation NE) from 1979 to 2019. In that work, he was involved in defending the interests of low use, lower income ratepayers in every MN Power rate case, plus a number of other MN PUC proceedings, as well as some related advocacy in the state legislature. He participates in the Duluth Climate and Energy Network. He has also long been involved in health care reform and is currently on the Board and the Legislative Committee of Health Care for All MN. He has a BA in History and Sociology from Columbia U., and co-wrote a book with Mark Hanna, Strategies for Community Empowerment (published in 1994).  An East Coast transplant, he lives in Duluth with his wife Jan.