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Pew Research Study of the Economics of Nonprofit News Outlets Reveals a Growing but Fragile Part of the Media Landscape As the business model for commercial journalism has been upended and newsrooms have shrunk, a comprehensive new Pew Research Center study finds that nonprofit news outlets represent a growing new source of information - but one facing substantial challenges to its long-term financial sustainability. read on |
Interactive: 2014-15 School Finance Budget Viewer | 
The budget that awaits the final approval of the 83rd Legislature - and Gov. Rick Perry - adds about $3.4 billion back to public schools from the $5.4 billion lawmakers cut in 2011. With this interactive, explore how your school district fares under Senate Bill 1 as the hours left to pass the legislation dwindle. Funding for 2015 includes $330 million in one-time transition aid for school districts to adjust to new state teacher retirement system rules. View/download the FY2014 data. View/download the FY2015 data. |
Blue in the Heart of Texas Dallas County Democrats Summit | 
Blue in the Heart of Texas Dallas County Democrats Summit Saturday, June 15 Northaven United Methodist Church Campus 11211 Preston Road, Dallas Blue in the Heart of Texas is a summit on party building, people building and best practices for coordinated campaigns, hosted by the Dallas County Democratic Party. Democratic precinct chairs and committee chairs as well as activists and interested newcomers are invited to attend. The summit will include three main topic tracks in the morning, a complimentary box lunch on the premises, plus interactive KnowledgeFest sessions in the afternoon that allow you to be involved in guided roundtable conversations about topics that matter to you and network with fellow Democrats. Learn more and register here: Dallas Summit |
Texas tea party leader in Dallas : GOP doesn't want black people to vote | 
A tea party leader in Dallas is facing a backlash after saying the Republican Party doesn't want African-American voters to show up at the polls. "I'm going to be real honest with you," Tea Party leader Ken Emanuelson said at a Dallas County Republican Party event on May 20. "The Republican Party doesn't want black people to vote if they are going to vote 9-to-1 for Democrats." An audio recording of his comments were published online Tuesday by the pro-Democrat group Battleground Texas. read on |
Democracy Now | 
"A Massive Surveillance State": Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails The National Security Agency has obtained access to the central servers of nine major Internet companies - including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo! and Facebook. The Guardian and The ... Read More → Debate: Supreme Court OKs Unfettered DNA Collection - An Invasion of Privacy or a Blow to Crime? In a landmark decision, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the police can collect DNA samples from people they arrest even before they are convicted of a crime. Supporters of the swabbing ... Read More → Bradley Manning Trial: WikiLeaks Lawyer Sees Spurious "Enemy" Claims & Bid to Scare Whistleblowers The military trial of Army whistleblower Bradley Manning at Fort Meade, Maryland, began Monday with the defense and prosecution presenting starkly contrasting accounts. Manning is ... Read More → |
Fight Rages On for Medicaid Expansion in Texas-State with Highest Rate of Uninsured | 
Gov. Rick Perry and Tea Party have postponed debate in legislature to 2015, unless public pressure can change minds.
Health care advocates and business groups, whose efforts failed to move Gov. Rick Perry and the Texas legislature to expand the state's Medicaid population under the Affordable Care Act, are digging in for a protracted struggle that might extend until 2015 or beyond.
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Hon. Craig Watkins: Please Don't Seek The Death Penalty Anymore! | 
The State of Texas is set to carry out execution #500 on June 26, 2013. Kimberly McCarthy is scheduled to receive a lethal injection. Please help put an end this barbaric and archaic form of "justice". A majority of Texans, when offered a choice between the death penalty and life in prison without possibility of parole, choose the latter. Help Texas join 18 American states and 140 countries worldwide that have abolished the death penalty! Please sign a petition that requests Dallas DA, the Honorable Craig Watkins, not to seek the death penalty anymore. We can abolish the death penalty in Texas one DA at a time! https://www.facebook.com/endTXdeathpenalty?fref=ts sign here http://www.change.org/petitions/hon-craig-watkins-don-t-seek-the-death-penalty-anymore |
How Section 5 blocked a GOP power grab in Texas |  In 2008, Wendy Davis, a city councilmember in Fort Worth, Texas, narrowly defeated a 20-term incumbent to win a state Senate seat. Davis, a Democrat, enjoyed strong support from her district's black and Hispanic voters, who had largely been ignored by her Republican predecessor, and once in office she set about fighting for those who she felt lacked a voice.
She worked to kick-start economic growth in poor neighborhoods, pushed for increased public-school funding, and cracked down on predatory lending practices targeting the poor. When Fort Worth kids were forced to crawl under idling trains to get to school, Davis won funding to fix the problem.
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| June 16 - Father's Day Salvation Army Lunch Volunteers needed | 
What better way to honor you dad ? Random Acts of Kindness Volunteer / Non-Profit Meetup Sunday, June 16, 2013 11:00 AM Salvation Army Carr P. Collins Social Service Center 5302 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75235 |
Install a Tornado Shelter or Safe Room for up to $3,000 Rebate! | 
Install a Tornado Shelter or Safe Room for up to $3,000 Rebate! In the wake of the recent intense tornadoes rolling through Oklahoma and the resultant destruction, a remarkable initiative has begun across our DFW metro area designed to being increased storm safety to our residents. Home owners are invited to apply for residential safe rooms/ tornado shelter installation and receive up to 50% rebate for the cost! Â |
North Texas Progressive Calendar | 
Monday, June 10: - Metrocrest Democrats Our guest speaker will be Darlene Ewing, Chair of the Dallas County Democratic Party. (Dinner 6:30, meeting 7 pm, NewNew Buffet, 3833 Belt Line Rd, Addison)
Tuesday, June 11: - PVL - A New Era (6:30 PM, 5150 Mark Trail, Dallas)
- Dallas County Young Democrats (Happy Hour begins at 6:30, Meeting starts at 7:00 PM, The Foundry, 2303 Pittman St., Dallas)
- Irving Democrats (7 PM, Jaycee Park Center for the Arts, 1975 Puritan Dr., Irving)
- Dallas Drinking Liberally (7:30 pm, Uptown Bar, 3605 McKinney Ave, Dallas)
· Sierra Club General Meeting General Meeting Program 7:00 pm - Refreshments at 6:30 Water Management /Texas Wildlife Conservation Issues Everyone is welcome. You don't have to be a Sierra Club member. Just show up. We'd love to meet you. Our General Meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. but come at 6:30 for snacks, information and fellowship. Our meeting takes place at REI, 4515 Lyndon B Johnson Freeway, Dallas, TX 75244. Click over to our General Meeting page of our website for more information and a map. - Democratic Business REFERRAL CLUB 8:30-9:30 a.m Breakfast El Chapparel Grille324 E. McKinneyDenton Democrats working with & buying from fellow Democrats to strengthen the Party.
This will be the 2nd meeting of the reinstated Democratic Business Referral Club. All Democratic business owners or independent agents/contractors are invited to join the club and market your business to fellow Democrats. Wednesday, June 12: - Texas Coalition of Black Democrats (7 PM, Quick's Bar & Grill, 1011 Corinth St., Dallas)
- Labor Dallas Meeting (7 PM, union hall, 2218 E Main in Grand Prairie)
Friday, June 13 : - June 14, 6-8 PM Texas Democratic Women Rockwall Democrats , Exploratory Meeting
LaMadeleine's, I-30 Service Road, Rockwall
Saturday, June 15: Blue in the Heart of Texas Summit on party building, people building and campaign best practices. For Democratic Party County Chairs and SDEC members from around the state, Precinct Chairs and activists from Dallas County and surrounding counties, elected officials, and interested newcomers. $25 donation. More info and required link for registration at this page. (8 AM - 5 PM, Northaven United Methodist Church Campus, 11211 Preston Road, Dallas Register for Blue in the Heart of Texas - Tarrant County Democractic Party FUNdraiser!!
TCDP is having a FUNdraiser on June 15, 2013 . . . it is a good-ol' fashioned FISH FRY! Catfish (Tilapia available upon request!) and all the trimmings, including adult and non-adult beverages, will be available. Each adult ticket purchased includes 2 drink tickets...they can be redeemed for beer and/or wine. Catfish (Tilapia available upon request!) and all the trimmings, including adult and non-adult beverages, will be available. Each adult ticket purchased includes 2 drink tickets...they can be redeemed for beer and/or wine.The cost of this FUNdraiser is a reasonable $25/adult! Children under 12, donation is at your discretion (yep, we are trusting you to be fair!). |
Texas prohibits nearly 70 percent of its counties from having a fire code | 
Texas prohibits nearly 70 percent of its counties from having a fire code Victoria County, a little slice of the Texas chemical coast, has nearly 39 million pounds of concoctions that can poison and nearly 11 million pounds that can catch fire. "A potential for a catastrophic event" is how one federal agency described the risk if they leak. A temptation for terrorists, added another. But Victoria County cannot use a firefighter's basic tool for preventing industrial disaster: a fire code. read on |
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| The Big Shrug
by Paul Krugman NYTimes | 
I've been in this economics business for a while. In fact, I've been in it so long I still remember what people considered normal in those long-ago days before the financial crisis. Normal, back then, meant an economy adding a million or more jobs each year, enough to keep up with the growth in the working-age population. Normal meant an unemployment rate not much above 5 percent, except for brief recessions. And while there was always some unemployment, normal meant very few people out of work for extended periods.
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Dangers of Fracking | 
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5 Myths About Military Sexual Assault | 
On Tuesday the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Judge Advocate Generals of the Armed Forces testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on various proposals to combat sexual assault in the military. Testimony was offered in the wake of the release of the Defense Department's annual report showing that despite the military's efforts to ramp up sexual assault prevention programs in recent years, rates of sexual assault in the military climbed by 34 percent between 2010 and 2012. A total of 26,000 service members are estimated to have experienced unwanted sexual contact in 2012 compared to 19,300 in 2010. Moreover, less than 3 out of every 100 estimated sexual assaults in the military in 2012 were ever prosecuted-a shockingly low percentage that has shown no sign of improvement.
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Department of Justice Meets Snuggly the Security Bear! | 
| Department of Justice Meets Snuggly the Security Bear! |
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Did Your Senator Vote to Expand the Government's Spying Power ? | 
Passed in the wake of Sept. 11, the PATRIOT Act received only one dissenting vote but has since become one of the most controversial bills in recent history. It is the legal basis for a government program exposed by the Guardian on Wednesday that collects the call records of Verizon, AT&T, and Sprint Nextel customers. Every time many Americans make a call, the "NSA gets a record of the location, the number called, the time of the call and the length of the conversation," according to the Wall Street Journal. The program relies specifically on Section 215, which allows the government to compel organizations to give up certain records, even if the records are about individuals who are not terror suspects. here |
Instagram for a cleaner world | 
Instagram can make any situation look better: Flowers appear rosier, skies brighter and complexions clearer. Even garbage can become a work of art on the mobile photo-sharing platform. About a year ago, Jeff Kirschner was walking with his two young children through the woods, when his daughter Tali noticed a can on the ground. "That's not supposed to be there," Tali noted to her father 10 Inspiring Non-Profits on Instagram That's when he began using Instagram to document photos of trash, on the account @litterati and with the hashtag #litterati.
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Bill Maher Attacks Ronald Reagan: 'The Original Teabagger |
| Bill Maher Attacks Ronald Reagan: 'The Original Teabagger,' 'Pitchman For Batsh*t' |
Not safe for work - lots of bad language and hilarious! |
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