"Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression. Peace is dynamism. peace is generosity. It is a right and it is a duty."— Archbishop Oscar Romero "I maintain that nothing useful and lasting can emerge from violence."— Shirin … Read more
I hate housekeeping (as my wife, Lauren, will ruefully affirm…), so I’m going to get a bunch of it out of the way in one go. First, I had to disable the Odiogo listen feature (hopefully) temporarily. I know from usage stats that many of you enjoyed the feature, but it was causing freezes for … Read more
Please see the Election Integrity Homepage for complete coverage and the latest news. Pima County held some public meetings following the trial to which the public was invited to express their views and make suggestions. Interestingly, the public hearings were set during the pendancy of Judge Miller’s verdict. I wonder how much of the motive … Read more
"If the GEMS system had been deliberately designed to enable covert vote manipulation without detection, it could hardly be more open to undetected covert manipulation." -Bruce O’Dell, Founder, US Count Votes The Pima Democratic Party website is hosting an archive of case related primary materials that is a great resource. The site … Read more
I normally don’t post source material wholesale like this, but this piece from Progressive States was so informative, I just couldn’t see condensing it. So here are the positions of many of the Presidentials on both sides of the aisle on the bread and butter issues that define the economic policy in the states.
Given
the experience of Senate filibusters against innovative policies
proposed at the federal level, here at Progressive States we are inevitably cautious in our hopes based on Presidential candidate proposals.
But
state policymakers can in many cases adapt the best of the candidate
proposals for state laws– and in many cases already have done so,
since as this Dispatch will outline, many of the best ideas
proposed by the candidates are already part of the debate in the
states. This issue will focus on three areas — energy policy, health
care, and aid for working families — where states can adapt candidate
proposals.
Much, much more on the flip…