Locations

Selected Media

Cleveland, OH
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Cleveland State University

•  "Upside/Downside: The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour," National Public Radio

Milwaukee, WI
Monday, June 30, 2008
Discover World Pier

• "National debt makes U.S. vulnerable, experts say," By John Schmid (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
• "A $53 trillion problem," Editorial (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
• "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour visits Milwaukee to warn of rising debt," By John Schmid (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
• "At Issue With Ben Merens" on Wisconsin Public Radio (Audio)
• Video of Panel discussion from WisconsinEye
• Video of Event with Wisconsin Way

Jacksonville, FL
Monday, May 19, 2008
Jacksonville University

• "Coalition calls for financial planning," By Liz Flaisig (Florida Times-Union)
• "A Call To Wake Up America," Editorial (The Ledger)
• "Top Economists Warn Things Must Change," By Max Marbut (Jacksonville Financial News & Daily Record)
• "Entitlement Crisis: Storm is brewing," By The Times-Union (Florida Times-Union)
• "Constitutional Convention: End the paralysis," By The Times-Union (Florida Times-Union)

St. Louis, MO
Monday, April 28, 2008
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

• "Federal budget high wire act," By Robert L. Bixby (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• Hard Times: You Owe $31,000 (Video)" KTVI Fox News in St. Louis
• The Jaco Report (KTVI FOX) featuring Robert Bixby and David Walker

Pittsburgh, PA
Tuesday, March 25,2008
University of Pittsburgh Honors College

• "Sounding the alarm," By Tim Grant (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• "U.S. is courting fiscal meltdown, panel says," By Thomas Olson (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
• "Panel: national debt on college set," By Brian Honigman (The Pitt News)
• "Entitlement crisis not top priority for candidates," By John Markowitz (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
• "Coming crunch: A bipartisan group makes a call for fiscal action," Editorial (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Fresno, CA
Thursday, March 6, 2008
California State University, Fresno

• "A fiscal wake-up for the nation," Editorial (San Francisco Chronicle)
• "Everyman's mortgage crisis," By Debra J. Saunders (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Watch the Fresno Event

Berkeley, CA
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
University of California at Berkeley

• "A fiscal wake-up for the nation," Editorial (San Francisco Chronicle)
• "Everyman's mortgage crisis," By Debra J. Saunders (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Watch this event

Madison, WI
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
University of Wisconsin-Madison

• "U.S. Needs To Get Finances In Order," By Patricia Simms (Wisconsin State Journal)
• "Nation needs fiscal wake-up, experts say," By Carolyn Potts (The Badger Herald)
• "Wake-Up Tour here warns of deep fiscal hole," By Samara Kalk Derby (The Capital Times)
• "National fiscal tour reveals country's financial burdens," By Stephanie Dar (The Daily Cardinal)
• "Wake from the financial slumber," Editorial (Wisconsin State Journal)
• "Iraq war is strangling our economy," By Dave Zweifel (The Capital Times)
• Video from WisconsinEye (Part 1, Part 2)

Phoenix, AZ
Monday, February 4, 2008
Chandler-Gilbert Community College

• "U.S. in fiscal mess, tour coming to CGCC warns," By Marybeth Mason (The Arizona Republic)
• "Federal official warns of economic peril," By Edythe Jensen (The Arizona Republic)
• "GAO chief works to defuse debt time bomb," By Russ Wiles (The Arizona Republic)

Tallahassee, FL
Monday, January 14, 2008
Tallahassee Community College

• "Comptroller warns of budget peril," By Steve Liner (Tallahassee Democrat)
• Photo Gallery
• "A wake-up call for Florida," By U.S. Congressman Allen Boyd (Tallahassee Democrat)

East Lansing, MI
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Michigan State University

• Video
• "Off the Record" on WKAR featuring Special Guest David Walker

Iowa City, IA
Monday, December, 3, 2007
University of Iowa

• "Experts Warn of Looming Fiscal Crisis," By Dick Hogan (The Gazette)
• Video
  

Baltimore, MD
Monday, October 29, 2007
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

• Read Jay Hancock's (Baltimore Sun) blog
• Listen to NPR's "All Things Considered" segment on the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour at UMBC
• Watch the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour
• Watch the panelists sit down with UMBC graduate students

Hartford, CT
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
University of Hartford

Atlanta, GA
Monday, October 1, 2007
Georgia State University

• "Bipartisan group campaigns for federal spending reform," By Walter Jones (Savannah Morning News)
• "Record Crown Turns Out for Fiscal Wake-Up Tour," J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
• Watch the presentations (Requires QuickTime)
  -Robert Bixby, The Concord Coalition
  -David Walker, U.S. Comptroller General
  -Paul Cullinan, The Brookings Institution
  -Alison Fraser, The Heritage Foundation
  -"Q&A" Session
• "Obama to make stop in Aiken," By Kirsten Singleton (Augusta Chronicle)

Manchester, NH
Friday, September 28, 2007
The Derryfield County Club

• "U.S. comptroller touts panel to reform spending," By Benjamin Keeple (Union Leader)
• "Cook On Concord: A wake-up call for the U.S. and the presidential candidates," By Brad Cook (Manchester Business Review)

San Francisco, CA
Thursday & Friday, September 13-14, 2007
San Francisco Commonwealth Club

• Listen to the Fiscal Wake-Up Tour at The Commonwealth Club

Las Vegas, NV
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
University of Nevada, Las Vegas & Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino

• Listen to the Fiscal Wake Up Tour panelists sit down with David Berns of KNPR Neveda (Requires QuickTime)
• "Official: Fiscal outlook dim thanks to baby boomers," Valerie Miller (Las Vegas Business Press)
• "Road to ruin," Editorial (Las Vegas Review Journal)

Los Angeles, CA
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Town Hall Los Angeles

• "US Official Calls for Tough Fiscal Decisions," By Mike O'Sullivan (Voice of America)
  --Audio-Listen to Mike O'Sullivan's report
  (Requires QuickTime)
• Listen to the Town Hall Los Angeles event (Requires QuickTime)
• Photos of the events
• Read Jim Goodman's blog on the event

Irvine, CA
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Atrium Hotel

• Photos

Des Moines, IA
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Radio Iowa

• "Concord Coalition, Comptroller seek to make fiscal responsibility a campaign issue for '08," By Darwin Danielson (Radio Iowa)

Nashville, TN
Monday, July 16, 2007
Nashville Downtown Library

• "Rep. Cooper hopes public alarmed after attending Fiscal Wake Up Tour," By Colby Sledge (Nashville City Paper)
• "Tour brings deficit doldrums to Nashville audience," By John Rodgers (Nashville City Paper)
• "Rep. Cooper brings ’Fiscal Wake-Up Tour’ to Nashville," By Erik Schelzig (Associated Press)

Tampa, FL
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
University of South Florida

• "Stumping for Attention To Deficit Disorder," By Lori Montgomery (Washington Post)
• "Health costs, retirement will bust budget, panel says," By Stephen Nohlgren (St Petersburg Times)
• "Martinez Focuses On 'Entitlement Reform'," By William March (Tampa Tribune)
• "The Fiscal Wake Up Tour Comes to Tampa" (WMNF Radio)
• "Nation Suffers From ADD On Serious Issues," By Joseph H. Brown (Tampa Tribune)

Syracuse, NY
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Syracuse University

• "U.S. comptroller urges students to make budget an issue," By: Eddie Jacovino (The Big Orange -- Syracuse University)

Cincinnati, OH
Friday, March 9, 2007
The Bankers Club

• "'Wake-up tour' warns of U.S. fiscal crisis", by Dan Monk (Cincinnati Business Courier)

Charleston, SC
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
The Citadel

• "Tour talks of fiscal time bomb," By Robert Behree (Charleston Post and Courier)
• "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour sounds alarm in Charleston,"
  By Shelia Watson (Charleston Business Journal)
• "'Stop digging' entitlement hole" (Charleston Post and Courier)

Palm Beach & Vero Beach, FL
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Cohen Pavilion & Waxlax Auditorium

• "'Baby Boom' about to lower boom on overextended U.S. budget ...," By A. Harry Zeeve (TC Palm)
• "These experts tell you how you can help Washington avert it," By Laurence Reisman (TC Palm)
• "Why our domestic entitlements could doom our children," By Alison Fraser
• "Why deficits and debt render the United States vulnerable," By Alice Rivlin and Isabel Sawhill

Manchester, NH
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
St. Anselm's College

• "Fiscal wake-up tour's inconvenient truth," By Scot Lehigh (Boston Globe)
• "Budget issues should top primary questions, top accountant says," By Philip Elliott (Associated Press)
• "Wake-Up Tour warns of crisis U.S. must raise taxes, cut spending, it says," By Eric Moskowitz (Concord Monitor)
• "Primary voters urged to demand fiscal answers," By Scott Brooks (Union Leader)

Des Moines, IA
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Olmsted Center's Bulldog Theater

• "Make 'em say how they'll pay," By David Yepsen (Des Moines Register)
• "Press Presidential Hopefuls on Nation's Fiscal Realities," (Des Moines Register)
• "Scale back debt, costly retirement entitlements,"
  By Stuart Butler (Des Moines Register)

Columbus, OH
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Ohio State University

• Debt crisis threatens future generations, OSU audience told," By Joe Hallett (Columbus Dispatch)
• "Group Warns of Deficit Disaster," By Laura A. Bischoff
• "Act now; The longer the nation waits, the harder to fix the looming entitlement crisis" (Columbus Dispatch)

Seattle, WA
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
The University of Washington

• "Fiscal Wake-up Tour: Trouble ahead," By the Editorial Board (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• "Fiscal Wake-Up Tour issues warning on U.S. economy," By Dan Richman (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• "Wake up, America! We've got to pay our bills," By Mark Trahant (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
• Podcast: Seattle Post-Intelligencer Editorial Board Meeting

Denver, CO
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Brown Palace Hotel
Tivoli Center

• "'Wake-up tour' offers vital message," By the Editorial Board (Rocky Mountain News)
• "Analysts sounding alarm about debt," By David Milstead (Rocky Mountain News)

Chicago, IL
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
University of Chicago
Harris School of Public Policy

Austin, TX
Thursday, September 28, 2006
LBJ School, University of Texas

• "Tour Addresses Fiscal Issues," By Joshua Winata (The Daily Texan)
• "U.S. Comptroller warns of dangers of national debt," By Francesca Jarosz (Austin American Statesman)
• "America's crushing problem" (Austin American Statesman)
• GAO Chief Warns Economic Disaster Looms (AP News Service)

San Diego, CA
Friday, June 2, 2006
Holiday Inn on the Bay

Wilmington, DE
May 1, 2006
Chase Center on the Riverfront

• "Budget Binge is Enough to Choke On," By John Sweeney (Delaware News Journal)

Philadelphia, PA
Monday, May 1, 2006
WHYY Technology Center

• WHYY Television Show

Kansas City, MO
Monday, April 24, 2006
MCC-Penn Valley

• A looming fiscal crisis: The four deficits confronting U.S. By David Walker

• Entitlement spending: Snowballing federal debt threatens economy By Robert Bixby

Omaha, NE
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
University of Nebraska
at Omaha

• "Alarm Sounds on Deficit Crisis," By Henry J. Cordes (Omaha World Herald)
• "Federal Budget Outlook Gloomy," By Henry J. Cordes (Omaha World Herald)
• "It's up to the people" (Omaha World Herald)

Durham, NC
Monday, February 27, 2006
Duke University

• "Doomed by Debt" (Raleigh News & Observer)

Atlanta, GA
February 7, 2006
Georgia Public Broadcasting

• Georgia Public Television Presents: The Fiscal Wake-Up Tour (Windows Media Player)

• Kansas City Star Report (Windows Media Player)

Portland, OR
December 1, 2005
Portland State University

• "A Dose of Truth" (The Oregonian)

Minneapolis, MN
October 17, 2005
Humphrey Institute
University of Minnesota

• "Worries grow about state of fiscal denial," By Eric Black (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Richmond, VA
September 26, 2005
University of Richmond

• Session 1: Ken Ruscio introducing David Walker, Isabel Sawhill, and Stuart Butler

• Session 2: Dan Palazzolo introducing Bob Bixby, Charles Kolb, Ed Lorenzen, Ridge Multop, and Scott Pattison

• "Official likens budget deficit to hurricane," By Bob Rayner (Richmond Times Dispatch)