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In this program produced by Channel 8 TV, former Boulder City Council member, Janet Roberts, and former council member and mayor, Ruth Correll, talk about their cutting-edge roles as women active in politics in Boulder, particularly during the 1950s through 1970s. Roberts credits the League of Women Voters for arousing her interest in politics and giving her the skills to become only the fourth woman on the Boulder City Council. They discuss issues on which they worked that remain relevant, especially the issues of affordable housing and growth management. They also comment on the relative lack of corruption in Boulder politics compared to that in some eastern cities, and the openness of Boulder to citizen participation. The program also includes commentary by Linda Jourgensen, another former Boulder mayor.

Cindy Carlisle served as a Boulder City Councilperson for four years and a University of Colorado Regent for six years. She also campaigned, in 2008, to become a Colorado State Senator. In this interview she discusses all of these campaigns plus the many issues that she has dealt with during her time in office. City issues included protection of open space and the local environment, creating a bubble against protesters around women's health and abortion clinics, and enactment of a fighting words ordinance and a gay protection ordinance. Issues for the CU Board of Regents included the Quality for Colorado program, South Campus development, whether to strip Ward Churchill of tenure, and a Title IX lawsuit against the Athletics Department. She also discusses the partisan nature of regent politics, and muses about the need to plan locally for the effects of climate disruption.