Posted in Commentary, Guest Bloggers, tagged Civic Entrepreneurship, community problem-solving on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
From Guest Blogger, Lareese Hall
The Community Problem Solving workshop was a first for the Kennedy School – it was the first time teams of participants came to the school to work on a problem specific to our community.
Intense days left little time for much more than wandering back to your room at [...]
Posted in Civic Entrepreneurship, Commentary, Guest Bloggers, tagged Civic Entrepreneurship, community problem-solving on March 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Lareese Hall is a student in the Civic Entrepreneurship in Public Institutions course that I teach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library Information and Sciences. While the rest of the class was on campus for a full-day session (this is a distance ed class that meets in person for one day [...]
Posted in Achievement Gap, Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Forums, Guest Bloggers, Texas Forums Events, Workshops and Seminars on October 23, 2007 | No Comments »
On Thursday, October 18th, about 60 teachers, administrators, parents, government officials, and youth gathered at Reagan High School in Austin, TX for a series of three forums on “Too Many Children Left Behind: Closing the Achievement Gap in Central Texas.” The diverse group is gathering on behalf of a diverse Austin Independent School District. Other [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, tagged ACLU, EFF, League of Technical Voters, LOTV, Silona Bonewald on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Silona is currently focused on creating the League of Technical Voters and the Transparent
Federal Project Project. Before this she started her own company, ElecTech that created specialized software for political campaigns, and ran a web consulting business where she was one of the first people to create websites for hire, and to successfully optimize [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers, PBS All-American Presidential Forums on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
John Fleming will be guest blogging live from the LBJ Library during the All-American Presidential Forums.
John Fleming is a staff member of the Center for African and African American Studies with The University of Texas at Austin, College of Liberal Arts. He has lived in Austin for over 36 years. John is a [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, tagged , NIF, NIFI, Patty Dineen on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Patty won’t be in the room with us at the LBJ Library, but she’s a dear friend who’s very thoughtful so I’ve invited her to be a guest blogger with us for the Tavis Smiley event tonight.
Patty Dineen has been convening and moderating National Issues Forums (NIF) in Pennsylvania and other states since 1994. She [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, PBS All-American Presidential Forums on September 27, 2007 | No Comments »
Ric Williams is a poet, artist, and yellow dog Democrat whose preferred form of government is compassionate anarchy. What’s so funny about peace, love, and understanding is still the question in a world where violent coercion to conformity is the psychotic reflex of so-called values-oriented true believers. He is senior editor at Dalton Publishing and [...]
Posted in Guest Bloggers, tagged Citizen Journalism, deliberate, democracy, Forums, Presidential Forums, Tavis Smiley, Texas Forums on September 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Introducing our first two guest bloggers for the Tavis Smiley All-American Presidential Forums Watch Party on September 27.
Christina Shideler currently lives in Austin, Texas after recently spending a year working and living in France, where she learned a deeper love of her own country, language, and international politics. She is a poet, artist, and [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Guest Bloggers, PBS All-American Presidential Forums on July 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
[This posting was written during our Democrat Presidential Forum Watch Party on June 28, but was never published. It is important to publish even at this late date because these are the concerns of citizens who gathered to hear what the Democrat Presidential candidates had to say about these concerns.]
On the topic of education, [...]
Posted in Citizen Journalism, Guest Bloggers, PBS All-American Presidential Forums on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
I think Edwards came off best. It’s a shame no one takes Kucinich seriously. And Gravel needs to be quiet. I understand that he needs to get his name out there, but if you are going to attack your opponent at least have something of substance to say afterwards.
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