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Dateline Boston: Nonprofit Gym Helps Low-Income Community Get Fit
NPR’s Morning Edition featured a story about a nonprofit foundation bringing an affordable gym to a working class neighborhood.
Read more →BP Finds a Defender at Congressional Hearing on Gulf Oil Spill
Santa Monica-based Consumer Watchdog is watching the Congressional hearings this week. Video courtesy of TPMtv.
Read more →Alliance for Justice Comes Out in Opposition to DISCLOSE Act
National association of more than 100 nonprofits engaged in progressive political advocacy takes a stand.
Read more →GGPNC Board Begins to Consider Rules, Policies, and Procedures
Reform, a theme during the election campaign, begins to take shape at the Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council.
Read more →GGPNC Governing Board Suspends All Fund Disbursements
The Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council takes steps to tighten up oversight of the budget and finances.
Read more →California Voters Reject Propositions 16 and 17
“You can fool some of the people all of the time …,” but less than 50% of California voters were fooled by PG&E and Mercury Insurance on Tuesday.
Read more →A Final Look at Propositions 16 and 17 Before Election Day
These initiatives are narrowly crafted by design: they gouge the public, but no deep-pocketed special interests are harmed.
Read more →Do Propositions 16 & 17 Represent a New Model of Cynicism?
The Consumer Watchdog blog says PG&E and Mercury Insurance have been especially clever in crafting these initiatives.
Read more →CGS Provides Video Voter Minutes – Explaining the Propositions
Links to short, nonpartisan video assessments of the propositions on the June 8 California primary ballot, courtesy of the Center for Governmental Studies (and brief editorial commentary by this blog).
Read more →Video on Proposition 17 – Mercury Insurance Seeks to Overturn Prior Reform
CGS has provided short, nonpartisan Video Voter Minutes for each of the propositions on the June 8 ballot. Headline and text represent editorial commentary.
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Fixing Neighborhood Councils from the Bottom Up
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Three Strikes – A Mighty Grassroots Group Goes Down Swinging
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NCRP Report: California ACORN Had a Powerful Impact
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Nancy Pelosi On Passing Health Care Reform (Video)
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Beat Reporting on the Greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council
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Andrew Breitbart’s Musings on Race – Revisited
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