Owen Coyle, a friend of over thirty years duration, passed away a week ago and the time since has been filled with memories of political collaborations and stories shared about our other adventures. The collaborations started with sharing the same… Read More »
Tag Archives: civic engagement
An Exemplar of Civic Conversation
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Decision Horses Before the Deliberative Carts or Overdue Decisions?
A policy dust-up was in the news recently in the form of Congressional action to end the US military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” stance on gays and lesbians serving in the armed forces. Opponents of ending current discriminatory policies have… Read More »
Federal mandate to enhance civic discourse?
The Democracy Imperative’s most recent newsletter… Read More » has an interesting write-up detailing a
recent forum exploring how federal policies and programs might be expanded to enhance the
civic skills of American citizens.
Connecting IF Reports to Current Issues in Public Discussions
A recent Frontline episode (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/vaccines/?utm_campaign=homepage&utm_medium=bigimage&utm_source=bigimage_)… Read More » exploring the
vaccine controversy was fascinating and suggests several openings by which a couple of our
less discussed reports might find some legs. Both the Regulation and Science reports connect
nicely to this current
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Exercising the Civic Muscle
Colleague Jeff Prudhomme and I spent this last weekend in Cincinnati, Ohio at the Central States Communication Association Conference at the invitation of 2009 Summer Institute participant Professor Laura Black. We were there to participate in a “beyond the town… Read More »
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The Right Stuff
The raucous debate last month (March, 2010) over the health care bill was hardly unexpected. For more than one hundred years, efforts to provide better access to decent health care for all Americans have been thwarted. And, in fact, when… Read More »
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All Communication Is Not Created Equal: Observations on the Usefulness of Blogging
Blogging, like most forms of communication, can serve various purposes. It can contribute to both IF’s learning by doing (through recruiting, say) and teaching (by drawing attention to the lessons we have learned by doing).
But it is a fundamental… Read More »
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An Occasional–and Provocative–Paper
To date, I’ve held back in posting any of my own, all too unique “Perspectives” on this site, so today I venture into new and hopefully not entirely dangerous waters.
While it doesn’t slice bread or otherwise provide all the… Read More »
Citizen Staff Work Reports
One of the core aspects of IF is that the policy possibilities in our discussion reports are not developed by politicians and policy wonks, but by citizens for their fellow citizens. Our project facilitators are charged with seeing that our… Read More »
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