The Topeka Capitol Journal has some great photos from Washington Days on their website this morning. None of them have captions, however. So since we didn’t do a Friday Funnies (indeed we haven’t in some time) I thought we might make a few captions of our own.
Following an adventurous Friday night, Skye Coleman was hitting [...]
From the monthly archives:
February 2010
Despite lackluster speaker draws (compared to Governor Schweitzer or Barack Obama in 2006) the KDP’s annual convention Washington Days had one of the largest turnouts in recent years. Kansas Equality Coalition lobbyist Tom Witt and US Assistant Secretary for Aging Kathy Greenlee gave a special tribute to activist Steve Brown who passed away last week.
Witt [...]
I recently came in contact with Veronica Hill, a Kansan involved with the United States Social Forum (USSF). After Veronica told me about USSF I did some additional research and it turned out to be something pretty cool.
The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a
conference but it is [...]
This past weekend about 250 Young Democrats gathered in New Orleans for this years winter conference. The weekend was full of great trainings, discussion, the usual YDA drama, great food, and a ton of fun.
Here is my wrap up for the weekend. Thursday around 80 YD’s participated in a community service project in [...]
As young people in politics, we hear it all – we’re not experienced enough, we’re naive, we should listen to our elders, we shouldn’t show them the error of their ways. At the same time, we get the message that we’re the future, we’re bright, we’re innovative, changing the world doesn’t pay enough – we [...]
Video from this weekend in New Orleans. Lilly Ledbetter speaks to the Young Democrats of America.
Read more for the rest of the video.
I applaud the fact that the State of Kansas will be cutting back its budget by $92 million. I think that most of us were thinking, “It’s about time.” Knowing that our state is in such a financial crisis while watching improvements being made to the state capitol at the same time seems unethical to [...]
I’m glad they’re taking a stand on this. I can’t see how denying Kansans health insurance makes them more free. Such a problem to have; being all tied up with health insurance. Here’s the press release:
The Topeka Branch NAACP and the Kansas State Conference of Branches NAACP will hold a Press Conference on Wednesday, February 24, [...]
Today the Kansas legislature decided that we all apparently need to get married. And not divorced. And they’re claiming the moral high ground on this one, of course.
Two provisions today were passed that are intended to increase the marriage rate in our state – a highly debated amendment to HB 2667 promoting “covenant marriage“, which [...]
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