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#MoralTakeover Protestors Demand Fair Funding for Pennsylvania Schools
As the June 30 deadline for passing a budget approaches in Pennsylvania, faith group leaders and advocates from around the state are holding events at the capitol in Harrisburg as part ...
30 Jun, 2015
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The Export-Import Bank: Another Can for Congress to Kick Down the Road
Perhaps the Export-Import Bank is a relic from the New Deal era, but that doesn't mean that Republicans are opposed to it. The Ex-Im Bank has served a purpose for around three quarters of a ...
29 Jun, 2015
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4 min read
#ICYMI: A Roundup of Nonpartisan Voting Rights News
By way of introduction, I’m Jeff Marston, co-chair of the Independent Voter Project.Starting today and every couple of weeks I’m going to be sending out these short updates with nonpartisan issues tha ...
24 Jun, 2015
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4 min read
Bipartisan Panel Proposes Bringing Presidential Debates Into 21st Century
A bipartisan panel released a set of recommendations Wednesday with the goal of overhauling presidential debates during the general election.The panel, known as the Annenberg Debate Reform Working Gro ...
18 Jun, 2015
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Nonpartisan Group Says Presidential Debate is Rigged; Illegal
On Wednesday, the Annenberg Working Group on Presidential Campaign Debate Reform -- a bipartisan group of officials from past presidential campaigns -- released a report with a number of recommendatio ...
18 Jun, 2015
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4 min read
College Professors Are Scared to Death of their Students
Professor "Edward Schlosser" (a pseudonym) wrote a thought-provoking article for Vox on Wednesday about the role identity politics plays in the college environment and how that role has changed dramat ...
05 Jun, 2015
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5 min read
Academics, Politicos Raise Pressure on Debate Commission to Allow Independents
As the pressure mounts to open up the fall 2016 presidential debates to an independent candidate, Bloomberg Politics reporter Emily Greenhouse has written an excellent piece headlined: "Group Seeks to ...
02 Jun, 2015
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5 min read
The GOP's Race Problem Goes Back to the Mad Men Era
"Now we'll be stuck with Goldwater," quips Roger Sterling of AMC's Mad Men, referring to recent news of Republican candidate Nelson Rockefeller's marriage to a divorcé 18 years his junior. Roger ...
29 May, 2015
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Working Families Party: The Most Influential Third Party in the U.S.?
In February 2015, Edwin Gomes became the first candidate running solely on the Working Families Party (WFP) line to win a seat in a state legislature. Gomes beat out four other candidates in a special ...
26 May, 2015
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7 min read
Legalizing Marijuana Polls Better than 2016 Presidential Field
A Quinnipiac University poll taken in March released Monday. It found that more than 80 percent of adults in key swing states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida supported legalizing the use of ...
07 Apr, 2015
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1 min read