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Opinion: Filling Special Interest Pockets At The Heart Of Junior Lifeguard HQ Proposal?
The proposed Aquatic Safety and Junior Lifeguard Facility is a beautiful design for a praiseworthy organization that we all can support in concept.The Junior Lifeguard program provides an invaluable s ...
30 Jul, 2018
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6 min read
Universal Health Care Is Officially Coming to California
Universal health care — or single-payer health care, or medicare for all, or socialized medicine — has come of age as a mainstream political issue in the United States. There is now an "official" Medi ...
27 Jul, 2018
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4 min read
15 Ways the Independent Revolution is Taking Over America
The independent and nonpartisan reform movements have never seen the momentum they are seeing today. Voters are ditching the Republican and Democratic Parties in droves. A record number of independent ...
25 Jul, 2018
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6 min read
Prevent Drowning Foundation Proposal Raising Concerns Along Mission Beach
San Diego, CA. - There is no debating the value of the San Diego Junior Lifeguard program. Now in its third decade, the program gives kids ages 7 to 17 the opportunity to learn a litany of useful skil ...
23 Jul, 2018
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6 min read
Conservatives, Progressives Unite Against Powerful Interests to Pass Anti-Corruption Law
JUNEAU, ALASKA - Independent Alaska Governor Bill Walker signed a new anti-corruption law Thursday that reduces the influence of special interests, lobbyist gifts, and cracks down on taxpayer-funded f ...
23 Jul, 2018
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Could Ranked Choice Voting Help Save the Parties from Themselves?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwyVJ_-q0mE&feature=youtu.beVideo Source: Rebel HQWhen it comes to electoral reform right now, there is no hotter topic -- arguably -- than ranked choice voting (RC ...
18 Jul, 2018
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3 min read
Florida Legislature, Partisan Appointees Prevent Equal Voting Rights for All
FLORIDA - In March 2017, I was asked to assume leadership of the grassroots organization Florida Fair and Open Primaries (FFAOP). The organization was created by Duane Pike, of Tampa, FL in 2012 under ...
18 Jul, 2018
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Access Denied: NY Green Party Candidate Shut Out of Televised Debate
I was on a roll. As the Green Party congressional candidate for District 21 in upstate New York (NY-21), I participated in five congressional candidate debates or forums between April and June 2018. T ...
17 Jul, 2018
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4 min read
Why Can't The Media See Independent Voters?
Nearing the two year mark since the shocking 2016 presidential election result devastated both the Democratic and Republican Party power structures, liberal mainstream media journalists are still stuc ...
16 Jul, 2018
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5 min read
4 New Voting Methods That Upend Partisan Politics
Maine became the first state in the nation to use ranked choice voting in statewide elections in June. The historic moment has boosted interest in alternative voting methods that offer better election ...
16 Jul, 2018
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3 min read