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Donna Frye Wins Additional River Park Commitments, Endorses SDSU West Measure G
"Measure G is the only measure that will provide real public benefits for generations to come." - Donna FryeSan Diego, CALIF.- For a large number of voters, the opportunity to reimagine and remake the ...
26 Oct, 2018
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Did Dianne Feinstein's Kavanaugh Gambit Cost Democrats the Senate?
I. Independent Voters Are Disgusted With The Relentless Negativity of Partisan Gutter PoliticsIndependent voters make up over 40 percent of registered voters in the United States today, while fewer th ...
04 Oct, 2018
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Actual Supreme Court News: Gerrymandering Cases Make New Appearance
As Brett Kavanaugh proceeds through an FBI investigation, a partisan war, and a scathing court of public opinion, the world seems to have forgotten the institution he is headed toward - the Supreme Co ...
02 Oct, 2018
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Safer Roads, Bigger Privacy Concerns: A Primer on Self-Driving Cars and Transportation Policy
I. The State of Self-Driving Car Technology and The PossibilitiesIn the 1990 film, Total Recall (starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone), the protagonist played by the now former governor of ...
24 Sep, 2018
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New Mexico Reinstates "Straight Party" Voting Option
In a move that many believe will disenfranchise third party, independent, and even Republican candidates in the majority-Democratic state of New Mexico, the NM Secretary of State, Maggie Toulouse Oliv ...
29 Aug, 2018
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The Summer of Our Discontent
Lately, I’ve been glued to my laptop watching CNN news clips from 1999, when Donald Trump was weighing a possible presidential run in the Reform Party. “Everybody wants me to run for President …” he t ...
15 Aug, 2018
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5 min read
Students Invent Gerrymander Board Game And It's Taking Off
Three siblings from Austin, Texas are set to make cash off of gerrymandering. No, they're not running for office; they're creating a board game called Mapmaker that educates people about the very ...
14 Aug, 2018
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2 min read
When Voter Registration Becomes A Barrier to Voting
Earlier this year, Utah and Washington quietly joined 14 other states that have eliminated the use of registration deadlines as a final cutoff to be able to vote. The congruent actions of a red s ...
26 Jul, 2018
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Supreme Court Punts on Partisan Gerrymandering Decision
The Supreme Court refused to weigh in on the issue of partisan gerrymandering in two cases out of Wisconsin (Gill v. Whitford) and Maryland (Benisek v. Lamone). The justices sent Gill v. Whitford back ...
18 Jun, 2018
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Empowerment for the Poor is a Political Reform Issue
On the Saturday a week before Mother's Day, I participated in the 34th Annual Harlem Mother's Day Parade. I was there on behalf of the Committee for Independent Community Action (CICA), foun ...
09 May, 2018
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