civic engagement

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• Entering the Teabagger Zone: Will Jim Hagedorn dilute the brew in Southern Minnesota?

  
  Bluestem Prairie — Authority: 629
  Respectfully submitted for your perusal: a press release from one Jim Hagedorn. Origin: a 25-year resident of Washington DC, but lately of Blue Earth, Minnesota.   Motives? Therein hangs thetale, but for just a moment were going to ask you to shake hands,figuratively, with yet another candidate hoping to serve the ...
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• Transportation demand management planning for real vs. for show

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 521
  Action Committee for Transit , the optimal mobility advocates in Montgomery County, have put out a press release, Nov 30, Press Release on Bethesda $89 Million Garage Boondoggle , about Montgomery Countys plans to build a massive parking structure deep underground in Bethesda. From the release: Under current ...
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• Demmer and Quist vie for affections of MN01 teabaggers

  
  Bluestem Prairie — Authority: 629
  No sooner did I learn that "teabagger" was a finalist for word of the year with those language gatekeepers at the Oxford English Dictionary , than a rumor arrived that state Representative Randy Demmer will be jumping into the GOP efforts to unseat two-term Congressman Walz. In a year in which "unfriend" took top ...
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• Alan Khazei: an effective leader for the US Senate

  
  Social Capital Blog — Authority: 108
  Alan Khazei, social entrepreneur and wife of Saguaro Seminar participant Vanessa Kirsch , is running a spirited campaign for the US Senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy. Alan has been a longshot in the campaign, without the initial name recognition of Michael Capuano or Martha Coakley, and without the ...
  2 days ago

• Internship Fair, Information Session Present Opportunities to Students

  
  Bryn Mawr Now — Authority: 121
  Preparing briefings for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, sequencing and analyzing DNA, and digging into a transportation archive for evidence of a community’s response to the loss of a... Click the headline for details
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• Seattle +10: SE MN Labor Council presents "Trade Off" and a chance to talk about fair trade

  
  Bluestem Prairie — Authority: 629
  The recent murders of four union members in Colombia underscores the tensions that remain with the doctrine of free trade since the WTO protests in Seattle ten years ago; a trade agreement with the South American nation remains stalled because of human rights concerns . (In March 2008, Bluestem Prairie 1.0 noted ...
  5 days ago

• Changing the land use development paradigm towards intensification: in the suburbs and in the center city

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 521
  One of the reasons for the most part I am writing a lot less is that I am more interested in writing "integrative" posts synthesizing a bunch of grand points and ideas, because the day to day stuff tends to illustrate meta-ideas and frameworks that people often fail to perceive--and I have a lot less time because I do ...
  5 days ago

• Help Map the Funding Landscape for Arts that Make Civic and Social Change (from Arts Watch)

  
  ARTSBLOG — Authority: 123
  How are funders—public and private sector alike—thinking about and supporting arts and culture as a strategy for civic engagement and social change? That’s what some funders and Animating Democracy want to find out as we launch a survey of local, state, and regional arts agencies, private and corporate ...
  1 week ago

• MFUs Miller on IRV in veep election; MAK wins MNFARM-PAC straw poll

  
  Bluestem Prairie — Authority: 629
  Sunday, I reported that Gary Wertish was elected Vice President of the Minnesota Farmers Union by delegates at the groups annual convention. In the video below, Bruce Miller talks about the groups pioneering use of IRV to pick new leadership: In other news from the MFU convention, Politics in Minnesota reports in ...
  1 week ago

• Of Mouths and Money

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 681
  Last Friday, I wrote a post about the Afghan detainee transfer scandal that is currently gripping Canadian politics and allegations that Canadian Armed Forces and the Canadian government were complicit in handing over detainees into conditions in which torture of those detainees by Afghan authorities was likely from ...
  1 week ago

• Go solar in DC...

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 521
  From email: The Capitol Hill Energy Co-op is helping homeowners find out how to get started with solar energy. Did you know that DC and Federal incentives can pay for up to 70% of the project cost? Did you know that many systems will pay for themselves in less than 5 years? Come to our meeting on December ...
  1 week ago

• Erickson and other illegal European immigrants turn themselves in to ICE for self-deportation (updated)

  
  Bluestem Prairie — Authority: 629
  Update: TC Indymedia has posted its polished story about the action: [end update] Early his morning, DJ Danielson and I went to the Immigration and Customs Enforcementoffices in Bloomington to watch Robert Erickson and seven others turn into the authorities for deportation as illegal European Immigrants. ...
  1 week ago

• PG County "Envisioning" process

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 521
  1. Remember that people in Prince Georges County dont like it when you refer to the County as PG... 2. They have a visioning process going on now. See " Residents lend a hand in planning the future of Prince Georges " from the Gazette . (Its similar to the Growth Policy process in Montgomery County.) 3. ...
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• More Right Wing Money for Youth Groups

  
  Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics — Authority: 540
  This morning I got an email from myImpact.org announcing that theyd received support from the Peterson Foundation and Mobilize.org for a social media project they intend to do. This was announced at the Mobilize.org event "Exploring the Millennial Generation’s Return on Investment" a conference announced earlier ...
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• Transit-mobility stuff

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 521
  1. Placemaking Institute calls our attention to this September article from the Toronto Star about a condo building constructed with no automobile parking for individual units, but including 315 spaces for bicycles and 9 carsharing spots. See " Car-free condo: 42 storeys, no parking: University Ave. project with 315 ...
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• Reprint of Crime Time (July 2006 blog entry)

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 521
  AP photo by Evan Vucci. [The July 18th, 2006 issue of] the Washington Post has three pieces on the front page of the (DC edition) Metro section about DCs crime emergency. One, " Mayor Unveils Emergency Legislation ," is about proposals to hire more police officers, fund more officers to work overtime, and ...
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• Planning applied to crime reduction

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 521
  As a planner, I easily fall into the trap of believing that the best way to address problems in a systematic fashion is to have a plan, even though I was admonished at a meeting at the Office of Planning last week that just because a plan might exist doesnt mean that it will be executed the way that was intended by ...
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• SNOOK’S NOOK BLOG: Building a Better Citizen

  
  River Country Journal — Authority: 150
  How important is “civic engagement” to our well-being and that of our communities and society?  And how can we foster civic engagement – citizen involvement? These are among the issues explored in “Building a Better Citizen,” an excellent article by David Villano. Villano is described as “an ...
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• Congratulations to Gary Wertish, new Minnesota Farmers Union Vice President

  
  Bluestem Prairie — Authority: 629
  In his closing keynote speech to Netroots Minnesota late yesterday afternoon, Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie spoke of how the best activism is based in an expression of values. Those involved in social media at some point begin to base their work in what they love, and act with others to strenghen and ...
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• Minnesota Farmers Union convention to fill open vice president slot

  
  Bluestem Prairie — Authority: 629
  Ill be dividing my time this weekend with Netroots MN and the Minnesota Farmers Union convention, so posting will be light. Heres an article from the Farmer about the latter event: Minnesota Farmers Union is having their annual state conventionSaturday, November 21 and Sunday, November 22 at the Ramada Plaza ...
  1 week ago

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