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Filibusters and Feminism
After the dramatic, if confusing, end of last night's legislative session in Texas, I felt the need to talk a little about filibusters and feminism. Senator Wendy Davis' ten hour filibuster of SB85, a...
View ArticleOne Down, One to Go...
DOMA is dead!! Justices Kennedy, Ginsburg, Kagan, Sotomayor, and Breyer have voted to strike down the provision denying federal benefits to legally married gay couples. Later on I'll have some more...
View ArticleProp 8 Struck Down...
Proposition 8 has been effectively struck down, the court having ruled that the Ninth Circuit court did not have standing to consider the appeal because the parties who brought the appeal had no...
View ArticleThe SCOTUS Marriage Decisions: Ripples Across the Nation and Right Here In PA
I was going to give my more coherent and complete thoughts on the Supreme Court's Wednesday marriage decision yesterday, but it was my son's birthday and we were playing board games most of the day so...
View ArticleUPMC Takes Over, Altoona Mirror Rejoices
If you're a regular reader you'll know that I've mentioned UPMC a coupletimes in recent months. Were it not for being on the Blair Dem's Public Access show, Plain Speaking, I might not know anything...
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The Townhall Meeting: Screaming at the Wall
Last evening I attended the better-late-than-never (I guess) town hall meeting where community members could ask questions and share concerns about the now finalized (seriously this time) UPMC-ARHS...
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Not Defending the Indefensible
In Altoona right now there are some people that aren't very happy with AG Kathleen Kane because she didn't stand in the way of the takeover of Altoona Hospital by UPMC. Personally, I think that she...
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Meeting John Hanger
The 2014 Gubernatorial primary season may not have officially started yet, but that hasn't stopped one man from getting out on the road to get the word out about his candidacy. The man I speak of is...
View ArticleThe Importance of Online Organization
Tomorrow or the next day I hope to have a piece out about Katie McGinty and her candidacy. I'm mid-article on that one. While I was writing it and looking at information on the various gubernatorial...
View ArticleKatie McGinty: On My Radar
Until last week my full attention in the upcoming Democratic gubernatorial primary was focused on Allyson Schwartz, John Hanger, and whether or not Rob McCord has freaking announced already. This all...
View ArticleBack to School Policy
It's back to school, kids, and the policy of the moment is education. From Head Start to higher education and all the shockingly ill-funded students in between, Democrats smell blood in the electoral...
View ArticleFox News In My Face
I don't watch television at the gym. I'm sure you're wondering where this is going, but I'll get there, I promise. When I'm at the gym I listen to podcasts. Smartest Man in the World, The Nerdist,...
View ArticleNewsflash: Being Gay Doesn't Legally Inhibit Adult Decision-Making
I've got a chapter of Astronomy to take notes on, some Spanish to review and a Gay-Straight Alliance meet and greet to get to at Penn State Altoona tonight, but I had to take a few minutes to talk...
View ArticleSwing And A Miss For the Corbett Campaign
I like to be up on the latest political...well everything...and I have some specific Google Alerts set up to that end. Right now I've got separate alerts for all the PA Democratic gubernatorial...
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Matt Baker Thinks You Need More of "The Man" In Your Life
You know, I never cease to be amazed at how often Republicans talk about how they want to get government out of our lives and then they propose things like the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program....
View ArticleThe Social is Economic
I wish there were more hours in the day. As I was going through my epic and extensive RSS feed list, I came across an article about Pennsylvania and women. Specifically, Pennsylvania is failing women....
View ArticleKathleen Kane Is My Hero
Kathleen Kane is my hero. Let me back up a minute. Did you know that Daryl Metcalfe is (or maybe was) trying to get support for filing articles of impeachment against Kathleen Kane? He's doing that....
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Demanding A Fair Shake From Integrated Delivery Networks
Yesterday morning I had the pleasure of working again with nurses from the SEIU on some grassroots community political action. This past spring Altoona community members were forced to accept that the...
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Go Vote!
Have you voted yet today? I did. I always take my son with me to vote because voting is important. When I first started voting I was so insanely excited to get to do my civic duty. I was thrilled....
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2013 Blair Democrats Fall Banquet
I'm just going to start with one of the highlights of my evening...My husband and I with fmr. Congressman and ret. Admiral Joe SestakI would have thought that on an off-year things wouldn't be terribly...
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