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Five quick tips to get the most out of the President’s State of the Union speech

If you're one of the millions of Americans who will tune in to the final State of the Union Address of President Barack Obama's presidency tomorrow, you'll want to keep these tips compiled by the League of Women Voters in mind: Before the speech, think about what issues you hope the President will address. How do you hope the President will address your concerns? Listen to the speech and make note of which of your issues were discussed and whether you agreed with the President’s proposals. During the speech, think broadly about each issue discussed. Did the proposal have specifics [...]

By |2016-01-11T16:09:15-06:00January 11th, 2016|

Media Engagement Committee

This Committee will work together to write “letters-to-the-editor” of newspapers in the LWVEA area. These will be signed as personal letters, not as submissions by the League. Of course, our League does send its’ own letters on matters also, but these are signed by the Chapter President. We've all come across odd, incorrect and incredible opinion letters in various publications. The Committee will work to include the facts that these opinion pieces may have missed. Sometimes we will be submitting letters to bring out facts and information about an item that everyone should know about. Our job will be to get the [...]

By |2015-06-09T10:52:57-05:00June 9th, 2015|

Open Government & Transparency in Government

This Committee will research the City’s Economic Development: what is the funding, criteria, accountability, and decision making, research the City’s various Not-For-Profit organization/group funding: criteria, accountability and decision making. Research to include budgets and the various professional auditor opinions.

By |2015-06-09T10:45:31-05:00June 9th, 2015|
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