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• The "system" vs. "Anybody But Fenty"

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 441
  Its sad when the most trenchant "political" coverage in the Washington Post is in the Sports section, in columns (" Change? ," " Control key ," and " Optimism, realism ") about the hiring of Mike Shanahan to be the new coach of the Washington Redskins and the columnists asking will anything really change, that the ...
  12 hours ago

• Uproar: Parry twitter scrubbing story hits local papers in Waseca and Owatonna

  
  Bluestem Prairie — Authority: 556
  Since his tweetstream was first discovered by  Patrick Timmons (mngopwatch), Bluestem has been reporting on the flurry of new media coverage about Senate District 26 GOP-endorsed candidate Mike Parry posting and scrubbing potentially offensive posts; the best single place to check out the development of the story ...
  1 day ago

• Does TFA Dampen Civic Engagement?

  
  The Core Knowledge Blog — Authority: 132
  Critics joke that TFA stands for “Teach For Awhile.”  But a new study suggests a more troubling and counterintuitive phenomenon.  A Stanford University study shows TFA grads are less likely to vote, give to charity or be otherwise civically engaged than those who dropped out of the program, or those who were ...
  3 days ago

• Three candidate forums likely in SD26 special election

  
  Bluestem Prairie — Authority: 556
  According to the Engbrecht for Senate calendar, two candidate forums are scheduled in the State Senate District 26 Special Election; in an email, campaign manager John Coffey notes a third is in the works, though Engbrecht has yet to receive a formal invitation. Monday, January 11 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. ...
  3 days ago

• The Holidays are Over! Let the Games Begin!

  
  Walker Blogs Combined Feed — Authority: 118
  The holidays are over! Sorry about that everyone. I hope we all enjoyed the frenzy of shopping, cooking, eating cookies, fudge, ham, and other coma inducing foods while sitting around watching pro-football. And then there’s the presents. They’re either really great or massively dissapointing! If you’re like me, ...
  4 days ago

• Mike Parry and the Pawlenty syndrome (from Bluestems back pages)

  
  Bluestem Prairie — Authority: 556
  Note: Back on December 21, a week before the GOP endorsing convention at the Faribault Elks Club on Monday, Id posted an investigation of Mike Parrys absenteeism as a city council and city board member. My research was spurred by hearing a rumor that Perrys 664 to 363 vote defeat in November 2008 was partly a ...
  6 days ago

• END OF THE YEAR POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS

  
  Open Mike — Authority: 103
  I am going to make some end-of-the-year observations about the way I see the political system, the economy, and our society evolving. Many elected officials do not have the political will to address fundamental structural economic and political issues.  We built an economy after World War II promising middle class ...
  6 days ago

• It takes a worried man: SD 26 GOP Endorsee Mike Parry scrubs potentially offensive twitter posts

  
  Bluestem Prairie — Authority: 556
  According to todays Waseca County News , GOP-endorsed SD 26 candidate Mike Parry boasted at the recent GOP endorsing convention in Faribault: He told delegates that, like them, he wants “a senator that is notworried about being politically correct....” However, when progressives on twitter began to research ...
  1 week ago

• Open and closed cases: Monday nights endorsing conventions

  
  Bluestem Prairie — Authority: 556
  Many of my Facebook friends posted this note yesterday: Union staffer LizMcLoone [Dybvig] was removed from the GOP convention in Faribault Monday night.She was there to extend the invitation to their endorsed candidate toattend the labor screening for the SD 26 Special Election being heldthe next day. The ...
  1 week ago

• Municipal management: Things could maybe worse (San Francisco)

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 441
  As much as I write about DC, and clearly the problems result from similar kinds of systems failure, this expose of failures in governance, management, and fiscal responsibility in San Francisco, " The Worst-Run Big City in the U.S. " from the San Francisco Weekly is pretty shocking. Interestingly, if you have read ...
  1 week ago

• Interview with Waheed Barghouthi of Ishki

  
  El Oso — Authority: 478
  In Jordan , like in most societies, conversations among friends and family frequently turn into complaint circles with long lists of frustrations directed at the local and national governments, unresponsive banks, damaged roads, and corrupt officials. In September 2008 four Jordanian technologists developed Ishki ...
  1 week ago

• Bicycle Boulevards

  
  Provisions Library — Authority: 115
  Berkeley, California. Bicycle boulevards are lightly-trafficked streets that prioritize bicycles. Although many routes have no bike lanes, bicyclists are free to use the middle of the street, sharing road space with cars. Motorists on these routes expect to see bicyclists and therefore travel with caution. ...
  2 weeks ago

• There’s still time to submit your Inquisition Question!

  
  Education and Community Programs — Authority: 103
  Click here to view the embedded video. If you haven’t heard already, we are gearing up to play our own brand of quiz show fun right after the holidays. What better way emerge from the holiday haze of sugar and egg nog than coming to the Walker Art Center to play the Inquisition ! It’s a quiz show about the ...
  2 weeks ago

• spaza-de-move-on

  
  Provisions Library — Authority: 115
  dala Durban, South Africa ongoing project: spaza-de-move-on In the early 60s ‘café-de-move-ons’ could be seen wherever there were substantial numbers of African workers or passers by in need of refreshment. Vendors were frequently arrested in police raids and fined or imprisoned. Since apartheid, South ...
  2 weeks ago

• DC* just drives me crazy (transportation oversight edition)

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 441
  I could probably write 4 or 5 posts/day using this title, if only I had the time to write about everything that drives me crazy about governance and policy development and "planning" in DC. And not getting around to being able to discuss the Mayoral race (Vince Gray = ethical issues too; Don Peebles = more connected ...
  3 weeks ago

• Climate Debt No Joke

  
  Provisions Library — Authority: 115
  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, December 15, 2009 Copenhagen Spoof Shames Canada; Climate Debt No Joke African, Danish and Canadian youth join the Yes Men to demand climate justice and skewer Canadian climate policy COPENHAGEN, Denmark – “Canada is ‘red-faced’!” ( Globe and Mail ) “Copenhagen spoof ...
  3 weeks ago

• Peter Levine On The Problems And The Solutions

  
  Brad Rourke's Blog — Authority: 126
  My friend Peter Levine is, in my estimation, the gold standard when it comes to blogging about civic engagement in general and youth civic engagement in particular. His content stream includes a terrific combination of big-think ideas, small observations, and off-topic seasoning to make sure it all holds our ...
  3 weeks ago

• The point of planning

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 441
  (Maybe I am just no fun.) From email: From my favorite cycling forum earlier today: "cities only really come to life when the adults find ways to play in them." I really like that. Is this our job? My response: what I say our job is is to stabilize, maintain, and extend the quality of life for residents, and ...
  3 weeks ago

• How Unemployment Hurt us All

  
  Thriving too — Authority: 125
     In an article in USA Today ,  Thomas Sander and Robert Putnam have been highlighting some of the important key findings of new research, published by  Chaeyoon Lim of the University of Wisconsin and others, into the effects of unemployment. The findings include: + Unemployment ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Hidden Cost of Joblessless to Communities

  
  Social Capital Blog — Authority: 103
  Flickr Photo by Isabel Garconi Robert Putnam and I have an Op-Ed in today’s USA Today (12/10/09) summarizing our evidence and others’ on the serious social consequences of unemployment, both to the unemployed and residents in the surrounding community. The article also highlights research by Cristobal ...
  4 weeks ago

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