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- August 10, 2010 | <a href="/users/minty064">Mintaro</a> <a href="/users/minty064">Oba</a>In a recent post on Facebook, The White House and President Obama called education "the economic issue of our time." "If we’re serious about making sure America’s workers—and America itself—succeed in the 21st century, the single most important step we can take is to make sure that every one of our young...
- August 9, 2010 | <a href="/users/kirsten-hill">Kirsten</a> <a href="/users/kirsten-hill">Hill</a>Dear Mr. President, I’m writing this as a concerned citizen. I am a citizen who is passionate about reforming our public education system, a citizen who questions the purpose and direction of past reforms, and most of all, a citizen who plans to dedicate her life to improving learning experiences for our children. I...
- August 6, 2010 | <a href="/users/bruno-werneck">Bruno</a> <a href="/users/bruno-werneck">Werneck</a>Virginia is the latest state to propose and begin litigation against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed in March. On Tuesday, the district court judge for Virginia’s Southern District dismissed a proposed block to a challenge to the law. The United States Department of Justice had issued a...
- August 2, 2010 | <a href="/users/todd-faulkenberry">Todd</a> <a href="/users/todd-faulkenberry">Faulkenberry</a>I was reading an article in the New York Times this morning about how potential 2012 Republican Presidential candidates have already starting visiting Iowa. The most startling part, however, was not the amounts some had visited -- up to five -- but just how many of them had the word "former" written in front of their titles. Romney,...
- July 30, 2010 | <a href="/users/vpeng">Vicki</a> <a href="/users/vpeng">Peng</a>As my last post explored the fact that SB1070 is the result of federal inaction, this one instead points to the inaction of the opponents of SB1070. Last week, I was fortunate to attend the Campus Progress National Conference (sponsored by the Center for American Progress) where I had a chance to listen to Jim Messina, Deputy Director of the...
- July 28, 2010 | <a href="/users/samanthareed22">Samantha</a> <a href="/users/samanthareed22">Reed</a>Think 2040 is Roosevelt’s newest initiative to involve Millennials in vibrant dialogue concerning the issues which will affect them in the decades to come. Think 2040 seeks to engage, empower, and promote Millennials and their opinions in designing the future we want to inherit. Join us in a student-led, student-based Think 2040...
- July 25, 2010 | <a href="/users/lucas-puente">Lucas</a> <a href="/users/lucas-puente">Puente</a>On July 2, the House Agriculture Committee passed the bi-partisan Travel Restriction Reform and Export Enhancement Act by a vote of 25 to 20. This ground-breaking legislation would eliminate the travel ban on Cuba and facilitate agricultural exports to the island. Unfortunately, however, among those voting against it, is my own Congressman,...
- July 23, 2010 | <a href="/users/samanthareed22">Samantha</a> <a href="/users/samanthareed22">Reed</a>It wasn’t always like this. Fifty years ago, if you had a family member who suffered from mental illness that person was, much more often than not, taken to a large state hospital or private facility for the insane and committed indefinitely. In 1955, almost all treatment for the mentally ill was administered on an inpatient...
- July 22, 2010 | <a href="/users/bruno-werneck">Bruno</a> <a href="/users/bruno-werneck">Werneck</a>It has been two months since governors and state school chiefs met to discuss the current condition of the American educational system and submitted a statement outlining a series of national education standards. As of Monday, 27 states agreed to adopt the recommendations and a dozen more states, including educational...
- July 13, 2010 | <a href="/users/nrosellini">Nick</a> <a href="/users/nrosellini">Rosellini</a>Last week Bob Herbert published an impassioned Op-Ed in the New York Times urging New York Governor David Paterson to sign a recent bill and ignore the entreaties of Mayor Bloomberg and NYPD Chief Ray Kelly who want him to veto it. The proposed law would ban police from databasing the personal information of people stopped on the street but...
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