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Monthly Archives: April 2009
NEW! On goMYD.com: Events Gallery
Photos from past events! The ones from our Hands On NY Day are particularly great, with wonderful captions by Al. Here’s Sarah Gudernatch, our Community Service Director and intrepid leader on Saturday, doing some plantin’.
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Vote For A Better, Greener World With Marriage Equality
Not that we need more floating around, but here are two good reasons why marriage equality is good policy. (I sure hope some New York State Senators are reading this blog, like they did back in March.) 1) Marriage changes us for the better, and everybody should be able to partake of that gift: A new research paper studies how relationships change after marriage: The belief that your partner helps you to better live up to your commitments and responsibilities was only found in more satisfied marriages … This belief wasn’t found as important in non-marital relationships (which is not surprising, since marriage is the epitome of a commitment one can make to another person). 2) It’s green to get … More >>
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I Need YOU (Says Recovery.gov)
As the head of the Recovery Act Accountability and Transparency Board (or RAT Board for short) Earl Devaney has an enormous — and, frankly, quite possibly close to impossible — task of eliminating waste, fraud and abuse of those federal dollars as they’re spent from coast to coast, from Alaska to Hawaii. Tough job. And so he’s turned to the Interwebs. All this week, NationalDialogue.org is hosting an online forum for the submission and evaluation of ideas for quickly building a Recovery.gov that both keeps tabs on the spending of recovery funds and creates a forum in which the public can help to spot bad behavior. In the community forum, anyone can submit an oversight idea and rate others’ ideas … More >>
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Consider This, NY: Universal Voter Registration
This seems so amazingly reasonable, I can’t imagine why we wouldn’t do it: Universal registration is one idea being batted around in a larger program of election reform bills at the NYS Senate. Let’s hope it goes somewhere! Btw, my two cents: let me vote (securely) online with a click of a button. The whole notion of having to be somewhere in person to do something is SO 20th century.
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Obama Throws Another Ball In The Air
During his first 100 days in office, few would accuse President Obama of indolence. Which is why it is all the more impressive that at the Fifth Summit of the Americas, he reasserted his intention to reform the US immigration system by the end of the year. His announcement could not have been more timely. Our current immigration system is broken. We have roughly 12 million illegal immigrants in the US. Illegal labor has become an unrecognized but integral part of our nation’s agricultural, commercial and services industries. In other words: we need these people but don’t acknowledge it. Few states have a larger stake in immigration reform than New York. Our city is the living, breathing incarnation of Immigration. … More >>
Sixty is the Unloneliest Number that you ever see
Arlen Specter (D-PA) I have decided to run for re-election in 2010 in the Democratic primary. Granted this is more because the PA State GOP was going to oust him (for supporting the Stimulus Package) rather than him really feeling like a Democrat, and he still won’t be jumping in line on some issues (he couldn’t be worse than Lieberman, or Ben Nelson) – but either way, it’s good for the Dems, it’s bad for the GOP, and it’s further proof that the moderates of the Republican party are not coming back into power anytime soon, if ever again. Perhaps that’s sad, but real none-the-less. Enjoy your 20% of the population guys!
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