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  Corruption and Civil Rights Violations in a Seattle Suburb and the Police Officers Who Fought Back
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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “civics”

 

• Time for a stupidity tax

  
  SCHotline Blog — Authority: 124
  By Drew McKissick As many of us spend time each day becoming more frustrated with the political news and our country’s direction, it is worth noting that our country is (for now) a self-governing democratic-republic, which means that the people who are ultimately responsible for our situation are those who ...
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• How to pronounce court cases?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 650
  In court cases in the US, how are case names actually pronounced? For example, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954). "Brown versus Board of Education of Topeka, three-forty-seven you-ess four-eighty-three, nineteen-fifty-four?" Or would this full title never be read like this at all? "Brown and ...
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• Welcome to North Texas Maxwell Anderson, Not the Metroplex

  
  Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine — Authority: 534
  The new top dog at the Dallas Museum of Art started earlier this month, and he’s already blogging . He also wants you to follow him on Twitter , where you can read cute little updates like New bill: Love how droit de suite became droit du seigneur! Do artists get to sleep w successor collectors? ...
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• If you’re not going dark, help others get informed: Be a Better Activist Day is today

  
  Karl Martino — Authority: 107
  Embedded in this post is a stream to an event, starting this morning at 10AM, on getting informed on how Congress works , organized by the author of “Information Diet” , Clay Johnson. There is a fantastic set of speakers that will help all of us better navigate the system and make change. The stream below will ...
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• Shout - Explore, Connect, Act

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 598
  Shout is a global learning project coordinated by the Smithsonian, Microsoft Partners in Learning, and Taking IT Global. The purpose of Shout is to get students thinking about environmental science and to take local action on behalf of their environments. This years Shout theme is " Water Matters ." This years events ...
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• C-SPAN video online, digitized and shareable, is this C-SPAN 2.0?

  
  1x57 — Authority: 119
  Something amazing has happened over at C-SPAN . In their Archives division they have put online 25 years worth of video covering American culture and politics. Even better the website was done by JESS3 , which means that it is top-notch. This includes best videos of the day, month, and forever (by views). Plus, ...
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• Cooking Up Change

  
  clusterflock — Authority: 523
  They looked so young, the four college students who sat down and ordered coffee at the Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., on Feb. 1, 1960. Legal challenges and demonstrations were cracking the foundations of segregation, but a black person still couldn’t sit down and eat a hamburger or a piece of pie ...
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• For Newburyport’s LHD, Conspiracy Theories Just Don’t Fit

  
  The Newburyport Blog — Authority: 106
  I totally agree with the P.Preservationist .  When it comes to advocating for Newburyport’s Local Historic District (LHD) one cannot have a rational back and forth discussion with folks who bring in an expert from the John Birch Society, to explain a conspiracy theory about the United Nations (UN) hatching a ...
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• Newburyport, Creepy is Us

  
  The Newburyport Blog — Authority: 106
  It would be hard to make this stuff up. I t appears that this is being fairly aggressively advanced by our own Newburyport Republican Committee. An information session on Agenda 21 by leading expert, Hal Shurtleff (who is a member of the John Birch Society). “Join Bill (Hudak) at the Newburyport RTC ...
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• Representative Steve Womack Loses His Mind

  
  An American Lion - MICRO Print Edition — Authority: 112
  Meet one of Americas worst Congressmen, Steve Womack (R-AK). Blue Arkansas tells us about how he deals with his constituents: When forced to deal with the central conflict in the life of any anti-government Republican, Womack lost his shit in public. Theres no other word for it--he lost his shit. Womack ...
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• Walking and Talking and Listening about Newburyport’s Local Historic District

  
  The Newburyport Blog — Authority: 106
  As I’ve walked around Newburyport since October 2011, when either I run into people I know and/or people that I know vaguely, I ask them what their thoughts are about Newburyport’s proposed Local Historic District (LHD). I’ve run into two people, that’s all, who are strong property rights folks, and are ...
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• Videos About the Electoral College and the Presidents

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 598
  The US History Teachers Blog brought my attention to this video , How the Electoral College Works . The video, embedded below, gives a nice overview of the Electoral College. The video isnt perfect, I wish the producer had included that the number of Electoral votes a state receives is tied to the number of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Five Ways to Introduce Students to the Georgia Legislature ~ by Patrice Weaver

  
  DEN Blog Network — Authority: 470
  This article is from the Georgia Public Broadcasting website and contains information applicable to all U.S. students.   Click here to view the article in its entirety. The Georgia Legislative Session kicks off Monday January 9, 2012 Are you looking for ways to introduce your students to the work of the Georgia ...
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• Ripped off!

  
  The Expert Witness Radio Show — Authority: 89
  If you heard our show last week, you already know how outraged we were after reading our guest E. Henry Schoenberger‘s book – and how his outrage brought him to write it in the first place.Well, tonight, Henry returns to talk more about “How We Got Swindled by Wall Street Godfathers, Greed & Financial ...
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• Educating citizens, not just workers

  
  Joanne Jacobs — Authority: 551
  Pressured to prepare students for the workforce, America’s colleges have forgotten their civic and democratic mission, argues a new report: Colleges must educate citizens, not just workers .
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• NYC Evictions Lead to Booming Business

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 693
  When a tenant is evicted and not present to collect their belongings, a landlord must incur the cost of hiring licensed pros to pack up those items and by law, hold them in safekeeping for up to 30 days. This is great news for moving and storage companies in NYC, ’cause it happens a lot. Poor neighborhoods ...
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• Internet bills could stifle free speech, diversity of opinion

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 149
  We were all taught in civics and government classes that we could only achieve enlightenment through the free, open and dispassionate exchange of ideas and opinions. By this practice, truth will eventually win out over falsehood, we learned. Extending this maxim to freedom of the press, American essayist E.B. White ...
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• On how iPraxis science fairs add value at Northwood Academy

  
  The Frankford Gazette — Authority: 415
  I asked Meagan Hopkins-Dower how she thought iPraxis’ involvement with Northwood Academy’s science fair added a special value to the students’ education, here’s here response: I have always thought of the science fair as a way for the students to explore science in their own terms and investigate topics that ...
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• Rooting for Newburyport’s Local Historic District

  
  The Newburyport Blog — Authority: 106
  I’ve written a Letter to the Editor in favor of Newburyport’s Local Historic District (LHD).  It hasn’t appeared yet. And after seeing the thrashing that takes place (often very personal) in the comment section of the Newburyport Daily News to people who write pro-LHD Letters to the Editor, I am feeling a ...
  3 weeks ago

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