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Money and Politics: Why Small Businesses Should Fight to Unrig the System
As we close out November each year, America celebrates Small Business Saturday — where we are encouraged to patronize small brick-and-mortar retail stores during the busiest shopping weekend of the ho ...
02 Dec, 2019
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2019 Anti-Corruption Awards Honors Three Political Disrupters
Over one hundred guests attended the event established 19 years ago to shine a spotlight on leaders in civic and political life who challenge the status quo and fight for systemic change.
04 Nov, 2019
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2019 Anti-Corruption Awards Honors Three Political Disrupters
2019 Anti-Corruption Award HonoreesKatie FaheyKatie Fahey is a Michigan-based activist and an independent. As the Founder and Executive Director of the grassroots, nonpartisan campaign Voters Not Poli ...
04 Nov, 2019
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4 Important Take Aways from the IVN 2020 Presidential Survey
Last week, we asked the IVN Facebook audience to tell us who they would be willing to support in the 2020 presidential election. The survey, which represents the views individual members of our a ...
04 Sep, 2019
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6 Big Fights Against Voter Suppression That Neither Party Wants You To Know About
There is one important truth about the state of US politics, and that is an increasing number of Americans understand that the system is rigged to put the interests of two private political parties an ...
21 Aug, 2019
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SANDAG Goes Back To The Future: The 2007 Vision For A "Grand Central Station"
An Update on the Lindbergh Intermodal Transportation Center (ITC) OptionBy Carl NettletonThe San Diego Association of Government’s (SANDAG) leadership in developing a proposed Grand Central Station to ...
17 Apr, 2019
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SANDAG Goes Back To The Future: The 2007 Vision For A “Grand Central Station”
An Update on the Lindbergh Intermodal Transportation Center (ITC) Option
By Carl Nettleton
The San Diego Association of Government’s (SANDAG) leadership in developing a proposed Grand Central ...
17 Apr, 2019
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43 min read
There's A Deeper Systemic Problem in the College Admissions Scandal No One Is Talking About
Surely you have heard of the "Varsity Blues" scandal, in which the rich and famous purchased "side door" entries to elite colleges for their children with mediocre academic and athletic skills.There w ...
04 Apr, 2019
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Political Competition a No-Show in 2018 Elections
The “wave” election swept in a few Democrats, but — like most U.S. elections — rolled over democracy’s basic premise that elections should offer meaningful competition and choices for voters.The newly ...
27 Mar, 2019
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10 Nonpartisan Organizations to Watch in 2020
There are hundreds, literally hundreds of organizations and individual campaigns working right now to fix the myriad of problems that face our political and electoral processes -- from the local to th ...
15 Mar, 2019
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21 min read