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June 11, 2014The Washington Post reports, "A Norfolk Circuit Court ruled Tuesday that a statewide school takeover board created by the Virginia General Assembly to manage struggling schools is not constitutional. Judge Charles E. Poston said that Virginia's constitution vests the authority to establish school divisions in the Board of Education, not the General Assembly, and gives local school boards the authority to supervise the schools. The so-called Opportunity Educational Institution was championed by former Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) and passed by the General Assembly last year amid protests by many statewide education groups and local school districts." Progressive Point: Virginia's economic future depends on our children receiving a stellar education. That means we must protect it from corporate front groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) who would privatize for pure profit. The ruling that ALEC's school takeover bill is unconstitutional marks a victory for Virginia's kids and families. This ruling only underscores the harm ALEC's corporate schemes bring to Virginia. Corporate lobbyists wasted our time and money on a privatization scheme that not only isn't constitutional, but the General Assembly's own watchdog recently found it wouldn't improve students' education. Helping our children succeed in an increasingly global economy should be the driving factor in public education decisions, not who can profit off of it. ALEC schemes with state legislators to introduce bills written and endorsed by corporate lobbyists, with zero disclosure. Sound Commonwealth polices prioritize our community schools, not private profits. Get the Facts:
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March 10, 2014The Virginian-Pilot opines, "Virginia's ethics laws have long been predicated on the notion that transparency, rather than any cap on money or gifts, is sufficient and proper. But state lawmakers, at least in the House of Delegates, aren't quite willing to let go of taxpayer subsidies that help fund their travel to conferences put on by special-interest groups that don't share an affinity for disclosure... The measure sailed into the House, where it hit a brick wall in the Rules Committee this week... [M]embers of that committee decided on an unrecorded 'voice vote after less than three minutes of discussion' to kill the bill." Progressive Point: We elect our legislators to moderate the influence of special interests--not do their bidding in Richmond. Politicians like Speaker Howell, who killed pro-transparency legislation in an unrecorded vote, only highlight how big the problem is. Virginia voters won't trust politicians who are on the take, and today it is clear they shouldn't. Working Virginians have a right to know what our tax dollars pay for. Instead, out-of-touch politicians in the House of Delegates have sided with corporate-front groups like ALEC rather than their own constituents. Politicians in ALEC's pocket, like Speaker Howell, have chosen taxpayer funding for out-of-state, closed-door meetings with lobbyists instead of transparency. We will never have a government by and for the people if secret corporate donors continue to run the show in Richmond. |
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February 11, 2014The Daily Press reported yesterday, "The Virginia Senate added an extra sentence to its ethics bill during today's floor debate that would prohibit legislators from getting reimbursed for the cost of attending, for lack of a less provocative phrase, secret meetings. That fits a handful of things, but most notably ALEC - the American Legislative Exchange Council. This group suggests model legislation across the country. It's on the right of the political spectrum, and it caught a lot of heat a while back because one of its model bills was based on Florida's stand-your-ground law, which of course was at issue in Trayvon Martin's death." Progressive Point: Our elected leaders should be moderating the influence of special interests -- not doing their bidding in Richmond. Virginians are fed up with out-of-touch politicians who would rather listen to corporate-front groups like ALEC than their own constituents. Restoring accountability to Richmond means ending the expenditure of taxpayer dollars for out-of-state closed-door meetings with lobbyists. Working Virginians will not trust politicians who are on the take. If corporations want to influence policy in Virginia, they should play by the same rules as everyone else: register as a lobbyist and do their work out in the open. Instead, our tax dollars are paying for our representatives to meet with corporate lobbyists behind closed doors and plan legislation to increase their corporate bottom lines. That's not democracy by and for the people. |
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December 5, 2013The Guardian reports, "An influential US lobbying network of Republican politicians and big businesses is seeking to avert a looming funding crisis by appealing to major donors that have abandoned it over the past two years following criticism of its policy on gun laws. The Guardian has learned that the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec), which shapes and promotes legislation at state level across the US, has identified more than 40 lapsed corporate members it wants to attract back into the fold... The documents obtained by the Guardian include a variety of papers prepared for Alec's board of directors... Among them is a draft agreement that was prepared for Alec's board of directors that set out the proposed responsibilities of the group's state chairs from prominent, largely Republican, legislators. The draft agreement contains the proposed commitment from state chairs that: 'I will act with care and loyalty and put the interests of the organization first.'" Progressive Point: Our elected leaders should be protecting Virginia against special interests, not doing their bidding in Richmond. Not only is the corporate front group ALEC ghostwriting Virginia's laws and influencing our legislators, but representatives under ALEC's influence are now blatantly pledging to put special interests first above voters. ALEC already works with state legislators to introduce bills written and endorsed by corporate lobbyists, with zero disclosure. Now they are asking legislators pledge allegiance to ALEC above their constituents, as well. ALEC's primary purpose is to influence legislation at the state level, yet for years it has claimed on its tax returns it isn't spending a penny on lobbying. If you want to influence policy in Virginia or anywhere else, you need to play by the same rules as everyone else: register as a lobbyist and do your work out in the open. Now, new evidence makes it clear that ALEC has misled reporters, the public, its members, and even the IRS. Policies designed to block accountability aren't good for our Commonwealth or our country. We need leaders who work for us, not corporate front groups like the ALEC. |
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Tweet it: Asking VA legislators to pledge allegiance to ALEC? http://bit.ly/1hAuXVY via @ProgressVA |
September 13, 2013The Loudoun Times reports, "State Del. Tag Greason (R-32nd) says he has yet to meet a single parent in his Loudoun County district who doesn't support his school grading bill approved by the General Assembly in 2013, but his critics are questioning the brain trust behind the seemingly straightforward legislation... Yet in recent weeks, Greason's critics, including Democrat Elizabeth Miller -- Greason's challenger in the Nov. 5 election -- have pointed to the fact that A-F grading has been a lobbying point of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a conservative think tank that promotes limited government and free markets." Progressive Point: We need leaders who work for us, not corporate front groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC works with state legislatures to introduce bills written and endorsed by corporate lobbyists, with zero disclosure. These sorts of policies aren't good for Virginia and they're not good for our community schools. Helping our children succeed in an increasingly global economy should be the driving force behind public education decisions, not helping national conservative organizations who want to make a buck off our kids. If corporations want to influence policy in Virginia, they should play by the same rules as everyone else: register as a lobbyist and do their work out in the open. Instead, our tax dollars are paying for our representatives to meet with corporate lobbyists behind closed doors, to plan legislation to increase their corporate bottom lines. That's not democracy by and for the people. Our elected leaders should be protecting Virginia against corporate special interests -- not doing their bidding in Richmond. |
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ALEC provides Virginia members with "issue alerts," "talking points," and "press release templates" expressing support or opposition to state legislation, despite its claims that "ALEC does not lobby in any state." As detailed in ProgressVA's 2012 report, "ALEC Exposed", ALEC model legislation has been frequently introduced in Virginia's legislature, at times word for word. The 2012 report also found the Commonwealth had spent over $230,000 in public funds to subsidize legislators' participation in these meetings with corporate lobbyists. Despite claims to the contrary, ALEC's agenda is not based upon ideology, but rather upon financial rewards for its corporate funders. Corporate lobbyists work behind closed doors to draft legislation designed to benefit their bottom lines. Virginia has seen a range of the resulting ALEC "model bills" that have been adopted by ALEC "task forces" introduced in the General Assembly. To read the original report on ALEC's impact on public policy in Virginia, please see "ALEC Exposed: Who is writing Virginia's laws?" To review the new report on ALEC's impact on education policy, please see ALEC v Kids. Tweet it: The corporate front group writing VA's education laws http://bit.ly/181TT0v @ProgressVA |
June 27, 2013This morning, ProgressVA Education Fund released a new report detailing the damaging influence the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate front group, has on public education policy in Virginia and across the country. The report, entitled ALEC v Kids, documents the growing footprint that ALEC has in Virginia, and across the country, including its unprecedented access to elected officials and the drafting of 'model' education policy designed to benefit ALEC's corporate funders which compliant lawmakers then push into law. Progressive Point: Virginia voters deserve a state legislature that works for them--not the for-profit education industrial complex. Big corporations are profiting off of our children and they are using the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a corporate front group, to push legislation designed to privatize our community schools. When it comes to public education, one question should guide us: What is best for our students? Ensuring our kids receive a world class education that prepares them to succeed in a global economy must be our first priority when it comes to public education, not how much money big corporations can make in the process. Thanks to ALEC, private interests are overshadowing the needs of those attending and working in our public schools. We need to put children, not profits, first. |
Get the Facts: via ProgressVA Education Fund: Among the report's key findings:
ALEC provides Virginia members with "issue alerts," "talking points," and "press release templates" expressing support or opposition to state legislation, despite its claims that "ALEC does not lobby in any state." As detailed in ProgressVA's 2012 report, "ALEC Exposed", ALEC model legislation has been frequently introduced in Virginia's legislature, at times word for word. The 2012 report also found the Commonwealth had spent over $230,000 in public funds to subsidize legislators' participation in these meetings with corporate lobbyists. Despite claims to the contrary, ALEC's agenda is not based upon ideology, but rather upon financial rewards for its corporate funders. Corporate lobbyists work behind closed doors to draft legislation designed to benefit their bottom lines. Virginia has seen a range of the resulting ALEC "model bills" that have been adopted by ALEC "task forces" introduced in the General Assembly. To read the original report on ALEC's impact on public policy in Virginia, please see "ALEC Exposed: Who is writing Virginia's laws?" To review the new report on ALEC's impact on education policy, please see ALEC v Kids. Forward to a Friend via emailTweet it: Corporations are profiting off our kids http://bit.ly/1261w25 @ProgressVA |
Our final list of Virginia elected official attendees to the American Legislative Exchange Council's (ALEC) annual conference in Salt Lake City included:
- Delegate Riley Ingram
- Delegate John Cosgrove
- House Majority Leader Kirk Cox
- Delegate Terry Kilgore
- Delegate James Massie
- Delegate Kathy Byron
- Delegate Mark Dudenhefer
- Delegate Jim LeMunyon
- Delegate Tim Hugo
- Speaker William Howell
- State Senator Ryan McDougle
For more information be sure to check out "ALEC Exposed: Who's Writing Virginia's Laws" at www.ProgressVA.org/alec
By Anna Scholl
The week before ALEC's annual conference, ProgressVA and Virginians for Responsible Gun Laws requested meetings with the Virginia legislators attending the conference to learn about the discussions happening behind closed doors and what legislation might be coming back to Virginia. Unsurprisingly, we didn't get a very positive response. In fact, no one agreed. So Lori Haas from VRGL and I did a little reconnaissance to find out what was going on behind those closed doors.
While ALEC may have dissolved the controversial Public Safety and Elections Task Force earlier this year, in response to outrage over Stand Your Ground and Voter ID, former Task Force Chair the National Rifle Association is just as involved as ever. The NRA's booth was the largest and most prominent in the exhibit hall and Chuck Cunningham, the NRA's Political Director, was schmoozing it up with legislators. Saturday afternoon the NRA even hosted a trap shoot for legislators and lobbyists to wine, dine, and relax together.
Perhaps the most absurd item on ALEC's agenda last week was a seminar entitled "Can Tobacco Cure Smoking?" The seminar was led by Dr. Brad Rodu, whose chair at the University of Louisville is primarily funded by US Smokeless Tobacco, a prominent ALEC member.
Opulent chandeliers. A 5 Diamond resort. And corporate lobbyists everywhere. The legislators attending the American Legislative Exchange Council's annual conference in Salt Lake City sure weren't roughing it.
The annual ALEC conference last week at the Grand America Resort in Salt Lake City Utah featured legislators and corporate lobbyists coming together behind closed doors to craft and vote on model legislation to them be introduced in state houses across the country, like Virginia, with no disclosure of from whence it came. The corporate largesse was evident early, with scattered signs thanking (Koch-brothers funded) Americans for Prosperity and the American Insurance Association for providing snacks at the bar. ALEC definitely doesn't miss an opportunity to squeeze corporate sponsors for money.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE IN WAKE OF AURORA SHOOTINGS, WHY ARE 12 VIRGINIA LEGISLATORS SPENDING TAXPAYER MONEY ON AN ORGANIZATION WITH 17-YEAR HISTORY OF OPPOSING COMMONSENSE VIOLENCE PREVENTION? Public should ask if the continued use of taxpayer funds to subsidize the American Legislative Exchange Council is inappropriate Salt Lake City, UT - In light of the July 20th shooting in Aurora, Colorado, it's time for Virginia families to question why Virginia legislators continue to spend taxpayer funds on an organization that has opposed commonsense gun violence prevention measures for over seventeen years. Twelve Virginia legislators are currently in Salt Lake City at the closed-door American Legislative Exchange Council conference. Since at least 1995, ALEC, at the urging of member and sponsor, the National Rifle Association, has pushed model firearm legislation that destroys families and communities. Of note, ALEC's model legislation initiatives include a "Resolution on Semi-Automatic Firearms" that opposes bans on weapons like the Smith & Wesson M&P 15 Assault Rifle equipped with a 100 round drum magazine that James Holmes used to kill or injure 70 Americans in Aurora, CO Since 1995, ALEC has pushed legislation roundly opposed by Virginia families, including attempts to legalize guns on campus and to force Virginia to recognize concealed handgun permits from other states whose standards are not as tough as ours. While ALEC has recently attempted to distance itself from its own radical record on gun policy, the events here in Salt Lake City tell a different story. Far from being disowned, the National Rifle Association is a prominent exhibitor in the conference hall. Chuck Cunningham, political director at the NRA, is in attendance and meeting with legislators and the NRA is sponsoring a trip to a local shooting range on the last day of the conference. Virginia families need to know why legislators who are members of ALEC continue spend taxpayer funds in support of an organization with such a dangerous public safety record. Lori Haas, the mother of a VA Tech shooting survivor who is in Salt Lake City this week, said, "Legislators are entitled to their own opinions, but not to use taxpayer dollars to subsidize campaigns for irresponsible and dangerous public policy. As was made clear again this week, assault weapons are deadly instruments of war designed with one purpose--to kill and wound large numbers of people--and have no place in our communities. The more we learn about ALEC, from their support of Stand Your Ground Laws to advocating for Assault Weapons in our communities, it's clear they have a long record of opposition to measures combating gun violence that cannot be redeemed. It's past time for our elected representatives to stop spending our dollars to support such radical positions." ### Virginians for Responsible Gun Laws, a project of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, seeks to secure freedom from gun violence through research, strategic engagement and effective policy advocacy. ProgressVA is a multi-issue, progressive advocacy organization devoted to engaging citizens from across the Commonwealth around issues of immediate state and local concern. www.ProgressVA.org |
Next week, at least 12 Virginia legislators will head to Salt Lake City, Utah to meet with corporate lobbyists behind closed doors at the 39th Annual American Legislative Exchange Council conference. If that name sounds familiar, it's probably because ALEC has been in the news recently as 26 corporations, 4 nonprofits, and 55 state legislators have fled the organization as their extreme and controversial agenda has been exposed.
You may remember from our January report that Commonwealth taxpayers have already spent over $230,000 on sending our representatives off to these conferences. Those numbers are about to tick upwards as most of those 12 legislators will again be traveling on the taxpayer dime. While they're in Salt Lake City, those Delegates and Senators will be meeting with lobbyists to find more corporate-sponsored bills in ALEC's arsenal to bring home and add to the 50+ ALEC bills that have been introduced in Virginia.
But this year, something is going to be different. Thanks to FOIA requests, we've identified the 12 legislators who are attending. So next week, ProgressVA and Virginians for Responsible Gun Laws are heading off to Salt Lake City as well. We're asking all 12 legislators to find just half an hour for us out in Utah to talk about what they're learning in closed sessions and find out what ALEC bills they intend to introduce in the 2013 General Assembly session.
I'll be reporting back right here at Blue Virginia (and also at ProgressVA) all next week about the happenings and sightings in SLC. Have a question about ALEC for the legislators who are attending? Leave a comment right here and we'll try to get you an answer.
Want more information about why you should be concerned about ALEC? Stick with me after the jump!
Just last week ProgressVA, along with some great progressive allies, participated in a forum on the corporate front group the American Legislative Exchange Council and their role in writing our laws. It was a great event with a fully packed room and we appreciate everyone who was able to attend and watch online. Additionally, the entire event is now available on YouTube.
Some quotes and highlights after the jump.
Let's talk! This Thursday, I'm going to be in Arlington to join great progressive allies for a forum on the corporate front group American Legislative Exchange Council and their role in writing our laws. I know you've heard a lot about ALEC from Brian and me, so this is a great opportunity to hear more about ALEC's influence in Virginia and across the country from smart folks like Tom Perriello. Please see the invite below for all the details. I hope to see you there. If you do make it out, please come say hello--I'd love to meet you!
July 12 Forum on "Purchasing Democracy:
The Role of ALEC in Writing Our Laws"Thursday, July 12, 2012, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
Join us for a forum on July 12 about the role of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in writing state laws. Delegate Patrick Hope will moderate a panel discussion about ALEC's mission and tactics, which put corporate profit ahead of public interest. The forum will be held in Arlington, VA.
July 12 Forum - "Purchasing Democracy: The Role of ALEC in Writing Our Laws"WHO:
Delegate Patrick A. Hope, Virginia General Assembly
Kim Anderson, Director, Center for Advocacy , National Education Association
Diallo K. Brooks, Director, Field Mobilization, People for the American Way
Doug Clopp, Deputy Program Director, Common Cause
Tom Perriello, Former Congressman (VA-5)
Anna Scholl, Executive Director, ProgressVA
Naomi Walker, Director, State Government Relations, AFL-CIOWHERE:
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, 4301 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA 22203
Map: http://mapq.st/KqMXxiWHEN:
Thursday, July 12, 2012, 7:00 to 9:00 PM
June 5, 2012The Washington Post reports, "Virginia Democrats are urging state legislators to leave a conservative group that has been under fire in recent weeks... Party leaders adopted a resolution at this weekend's convention to urge legislators to leave ALEC, to both 'expose and reverse or amend ALEC-drafted bills already passed in Virginia' and block future ALEC bills." Progressive Point: Progressive Point: Virginia voters have made it clear they want their elected officials to represent their interests and values. Over the weekend, progressives from across the Commonwealth called on their representatives to follow the lead of over 40 of their fellow legislators in distancing themselves from the corporate front-group ALEC. Not only is ALEC ghostwriting Virginia's laws and influencing our legislators, but legislators under ALEC's influence are using our tax dollars to travel to their closed-door meetings. We thank those legislators who are publicly standing with Virginia families--but Virginians need all our legislators to be accountable to us. |
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May 31, 2012The Virginian-Pilot reported yesterday, "A press release issued today identifies and praises 35 Virginia state lawmakers for NOT belonging to a national lobby group. The legislators responded to a query from ProgressVA, a liberal group, that they do not belong to the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, a conservative organization that has come under attack lately on the left... It churns out model legislation that's introduced in state capitals around the country by its legislative members, including some from Virginia." Progressive Point: Putting Virginia's families first isn't a partisan priority--it's one that we all share. Since sharing our list of where our legislators stand yesterday, nine new Virginia lawmakers, from both sides of the aisle, have made the choice to stand with their constituents and not the corporate front group ALEC. Virginia voters deserve a state legislature that works for them and legislators who are honest about their affiliations--however, many of our representatives are still hiding behind a wall of silence. The legislature must work for all of Virginia's families, not just donors with the deepest pockets. While many of our representatives are choosing to keep quiet because they want to hide their ALEC affiliations from Virginia voters, the rest need a reminder that corruption flourishes when good people remain silent. |
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Tweet it: Break the silence on #ALEC #alecexposed http://bit.ly/LNNmhb via @ProgressVA |
May 30, 2012
Contact: Anna Scholl
(434) 218-2113
ProgressVA applauds bipartisan group of legislators for choosing constituents over out-of-state corporations
While 35 legislators stand with their constituents, 105 lawmakers refuse to comment on their affiliation with ALEC
ProgressVA today commended 35 Virginia lawmakers from both parties for declaring that they are not members of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a notorious corporate front group that has influenced Virginia legislation for years. The legislators responded to requests from constituents and ProgressVA asking them to state whether or not they are associated with ALEC. Over the past few weeks, 16 corporations, 4 nonprofits and over 50 state legislators have left the organization. ALEC is a corporate front group that ghost writes a range of anti-family legislation, including efforts to privatize schools, roll back clean air and water protections, encourage vigilante justice, and suppress the vote.
"We applaud these 35 legislators for putting their constituents first," said ProgressVA Executive Director Anna Scholl. "Unfortunately, a majority of Virginia's legislators still refuse to respond to requests from constituents to disclose their ties to ALEC. Delegates and Senators are the people's representatives. They should be putting our interests first--not corporate lobbyists."
Thirty-eight current Virginia legislators are known members of ALEC. However, since ALEC does not publish its membership lists, it is impossible to know the full list with certainty. Therefore, all Virginia legislators must disclose their ties.
The 35 legislators stating they are not members of ALEC are:
- Senator George Barker
- Delegate Bob Brink
- Delegate David Bulova
- Delegate Betsy Carr
- Delegate Anne Crockett-Stark
- Senator Creigh Deeds
- Senator Adam Ebbin
- Senator John Edwards
- Delegate David Englin
- Delegate Peter Farrell
- Senator Barbara Favola
- Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn
- Senator Thomas Garrett
- Delegate Gordon Helsel
- Delegate Charniele Herring
- Senator Mark Herring
- Delegate Patrick Hope
- Senator Janet Howell
- Delegate Barry Knight
- Delegate Lynwood Lewis
- Delegate Alfonso Lopez
- Senator David Marsden
- Delegate Jennifer McClellan
- Senator Donald McEachin
- Delegate Donald Merricks
- Delegate J. Randall Minchew
- Delegate Joseph Morrissey
- Delegate Kenneth Plum
- Delegate Richard Saslaw
- Delegate James Scott
- Delegate Mark Sickles
- Delegate Scott Surovell
- Delegate David Toscano
- Senator Jill Holtzman Vogel
- Delegate Vivian Watts
A full of legislators with ties to ALEC and those refusing to disclose their affiliation is available atwww.progressva.org/alec-sides.html ProgressVA will continue to update the list as legislators respond to calls from their constituents.
For more information:
- ALEC Exposed: Who is writing Virginia's laws? - www.progressva.org/alec
- PRESS RELEASE: Advocacy groups launch petition drive urging companies to quit ALEC
ProgressVA is a multi-issue progressive advocacy organization dedicated to engaging citizens from across the Commonwealth around issues of immediate state or local concern. www.ProgressVA.org
May 1, 2012The Institute for Southern Studies reports, "After the massive TVA Kingston disaster inundated a Tennessee community and two rivers with a billion gallons of coal ash in 2008, it appeared the tide was turning for the largely unregulated toxic waste produced by burning coal for electricity. But for four years, the energy industry has successfully fought off federal regulations -- thanks in part to the American Legislative Exchange Council, which has close ties to energy companies with a financial interest in blocking strict oversight of coal ash." Progressive Point: Putting profits above public safety is just plain wrong. But corporate front-group ALEC and their legislative allies have been working behind the scenes to kill environmental regulations designed to protect us from the life-threatening dangers of coal ash--all for the sake of protecting coal company profits. Our elected officials cannot mistake our well-being for the well-being of coal companies. Our representatives need to put our health and safety above coal industry bottom lines. |
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Tweet it: Putting profits above public safety http://bit.ly/J62x1D via @ProgressVA |
April 18, 2012The Virginia Progressive Caucus held a news conference today "to highlight Virginia's involvement in ALEC and to call on the General Assembly to cease using taxpayer dollars to send legislators to future ALEC conferences. Delegate Patrick A. Hope, co-chair of the Virginia Progressive Caucus said, 'We are now learning that ALEC is a corporate-front group that is the ultimate "pay to play" organization. Those who can write the biggest check can get an audience of eager legislators willing to shop their corporate interest across the nation in the form of legislation.'" Progressive Point: Virginia voters deserve a state legislature that works for them. It's simple: we voted for our representatives, not corporate-front groups like ALEC. Virginians and Americans across the country are making it clear--they want their legislators to cut ties with ALEC, and many companies that once backed ALEC have gotten the message. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Mars Inc., Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Kraft Foods, Intuit, McDonald's, Wendy's--the list goes on. But today, many of our own legislators are showing just how out-of-touch they are with Virginia voters by choosing to keep their ties to ALEC. We don't want our tax dollars to pay for their junkets, we don't want our representative introducing their bills, and we don't want them putting the wants of the 1% and big corporations above the needs of Virginia families. It's simple: choose Virginia families, not corporate-front groups like ALEC. |
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Tweet it: Choose Virginia families, not corporate-front groups #ALEC http://bit.ly/I4GRRh via @ProgressVA |
For Immediate Release ProgressVA Launches Campaign Calling On VA Legislators To Quit ALEC 10 companies have fled corporate front group while Virginia lawmakers remain silent ProgressVA today launched a new campaign urging Virginia legislators to cut ties with the controversial corporate front group, American Legislative Exchange Council. Ten major companies have left the organization in recent days over the organization's push for Voter ID and "Stand Your Ground" legislation across the country. Tom Perriello, former Virginia Congressman and current President of Center for American Progress Action, launched the campaign with a call to action to thousands of Virginians. "ALEC crafts bills that put their corporate funders ahead of consumers, assault public health and basic environmental protections, and systematically make it more difficult for Virginians to vote, reversing decades of progress since the Jim Crow era," said Perriello. "I encourage all Virginians to encourage their representatives to start prioritizing constituents over corporate donors." A recent ProgressVA report detailed the full effect of ALEC--which allows large corporations to write big-business friendly bills and helps legislators advance this legislation on the state level--on Virginia's political system. At least 50 bills introduced in the General Assembly are directly traceable to ALEC and over $230,000 of taxpayer money has been spent sending legislators to ALEC junkets. Center for American Progress Action recently released "Voter Suppression 101", a comprehensive report about ALEC and other groups' efforts to roll back progress on getting young people, communities of color and rural seniors to vote. In recent days, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Kraft, Intuit, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wendy's, Mars, Inc., Arizona Public Service, Reed Elsevier, and American Traffic Solutions have quit ALEC. For more information:
### ProgressVA is a multi-issue progressive advocacy organization dedicated to engaging citizens from across the Commonwealth around issues of immediate state or local concern. www.ProgressVA.org |
Via MSNBC: "Candy company Mars is the latest corporation to abandon the right-wing agenda group ALEC. Some ALEC-associated lawmakers are feeling the heat. Director of Progress VA Anna Scholl tells Ed Schultz about her confrontation with the Virginia Speaker of the House over his party's ties to ALEC."


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A Connecticut bioscience company has decided to go ahead with production of a swine flu vaccine.
But Protein Sciences in Meriden says it's still waiting for a decision on a government contract that would help it expand its manufacturing capacity.
One of the buildings at Protein Sciences' headquarters is nearly half filled – with a big empty space….
"So this is going to be where we intend to put a very large scale manufacturing facility… "
CEO Dan Adams has had plans for this area for a long time – a facility that could turn out 100 million doses of vaccine each year, key infrastructure in fighting a pandemic. But Adams says, such a venture needs government backing.
"For H1N1, as a pandemic vaccine, there's no assured market for that. We don't know whether anyone would buy it if we made it, so it's very difficult for especially a small company to start making an H1N1 pandemic vaccine, when as happened in 1998, the whole thing peters out."
The company is just months away from FDA approval on its groundbreaking vaccine production method. Most vaccine production uses chicken eggs infected with the live virus as incubators, but Protein Sciences instead uses insect cells, in a cleaner and quicker method. The cells are infected with a harmless baculo virus, that acts as a kind of template – scientists can splice on the genetic code for any disease that they want to make a vaccine against. This is called recombinant DNA technology. Other companies are working on similar techniques, but none are as close to approval for a commercial product as Protein Sciences.
"Insect cells will make anything….all we have to do is change the virus, so we can change from making a flu vaccine to a diabetes vaccine, to a hepatitis B vaccine – we can just change by just changing the code on the baculolovirus.….if we want to change to making an H1N1 vaccine, it's a Friday to Monday thing. We clean the bioreactor, and we start infecting it with the code for H1N1."
Protein Sciences has decided to take a chance and go ahead with production of an H1N1 vaccine, encouraged by positive signs from the US government, and an invitation to apply for fast track approval in Europe. Having done a lot of the preliminary work already, the company now says it can turn out 100 thousand doses of swine flu vaccine by the week of June 8th. Companies using egg based technology are still months away from an H1N1 product. But says Adams, up until very recently, government dollars have been focused on those older methods.
"Historically the large pharmaceutical companies have gotten the money – they've been paid hundreds of millions of dollars to establish capacity for basically old technology. I understand that you need to have people who can turn out a lot of doses, but the egg process is a slow process."
In 2006, the federal government set up BARDA, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, as a response to the outbreak of bird flu that threatened a pandemic. Dr Robin Robinson, head of BARDA says he does see the agency's role as promoting the development of new and better technologies.
"Our motto has been leave no stone unturned. We're always looking for more capacity, and certainly vaccines that can become available sooner."
By 2011, the federal government aims to have the capacity ready in the US to turn out 600 million doses of vaccine within 6 months of a pandemic being declared, so manufacturing infrastructure like that planned by Protein Sciences is key. Fifteen months ago, the Meriden company applied for a contract with BARDA which would allow it to go ahead with its new facility. But despite encouraging noises, there's still no concrete announcement on the money. That's in contrast to the Mexican government, which gave preliminary approval for Protein Sciences to set up manufacturing there within a week of contacting the company. Robinson admits that sometimes allocating cash for development of vaccines doesn't move fast.
"Sometimes not as quickly as I would like or others would like, but we're always finding ways to do that quicker. We're always working to move faster on this."
In a lab just down the corridor from where the new manufacturing facility is still on hold, Dr Clifton MacPherson and his team are running tests. He says there's a little extra pressure with their new mission.
"For the most part the production process is the same as for the other proteins we're making a the tests are the same. It's a little bit higher pressure because there's potential for a true pandemic, and lots of people getting sick, and we wanna push to get it out the door as quick as possible."
The panic over swine flu seems for the moment to be easing, as the virus proves to be less lethal than was feared. But Dan Adams says as global warming forces human populations into what was previously wilderness, we come more and more into contact with animals, and their viruses.
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Residents in Stearns County are now able to own chickens. On Tuesday morning, the Board of Commissioner voted to change the County's Land and Zoning Ordinance to allow for chickens in the R-1 and R-5 residential districts.
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May 27/08, Winning Picks
Ok so yesterday our under in the Texas/Tampa was blown in the top half of the 9th scoring 2 runs to push our game over. It was 2-0 going into the top half of the 6th, and everything seemed like we were gonna chalk up another win, Boy were we wrong!
Today were coming back with another solid play, and hope to make up for the abundace of runs late in the game. Were gonna take the Atlanta Braves, Tim Hudson (7-3, 2.97) vs Dave Bush (1-5, 6.56). The Braves here are at -117 a reasonable line considering they are on the road.
- Hudson is 2-2 with a 3.38 ERA in five career starts against the Brewers (24-27),
- Bush didn't get a decision in his only previous start against the Braves on May 30 of last season despite holding them to one run and six hits in seven innings. Atlanta scored eight runs in the last two innings of that game en route to a 9-3 win
Reaserch more trends on this game Atlanta Braves, Tim Hudson (7-3, 2.97) vs Dave Bush (1-5, 6.56).


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Handsome gray caterpillar sporting prominent horn on dorsum of fifth abdominal segment. Head with sharp black line over top. Dorsal setal bases raised, red-orange, those on eighth abdominal segment enlarged with oblique black line beneath. Fringe dense and comparatively long. Food: apples, cherries, and related plants. Caterpillar: May to June; 1 generation.


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She just started at a new school and has her very own locker and uniform. She's learning a lot and kindly let me share her ideas with other San Antonio tweens!
When it comes to lockers, you always want yours to be organized AND stylish but yet the challenge comes when you try to do both. I have recently been looking at my other friends' lockers, and I have got some tips for your locker to look the best:
* First comes first you're gonna need a self or two so what I have seen people do is either buy shelves made for lockers or get plastic boxes, take the bottom and put it up against your locker and stack several on top of each other. I really like that idea!
* Get some magnetic hooks and add them to your locker for an ideal place for your backpack!
* Get tons of pencil cups fill the inside door of your locker for tons of storage
* Get a giant white board to put on the inside of your locker door so you have a large space to write and since the whiteboards are magnetic you can attach all your magnets and pencil cups!!
* Go to a local store, I have seen "Locker Curtains" I got some and they are VERY cute! Also if you don't want them over your stuff put them on the inside locker door then put stuff over it and use the curtains as wallpaper.
* I have also seen "Locker Chandeliers." I haven't tried them but they look awesome!
* Go to a local accessory store and get cute headbands, clips and other awesome stuff! I got a cute red flower headband that I love, some awesome scrunchies and a dazzling white flower clip!
* Get 20 or 30 different colored clips, then tie your hair back into a ponytail, take all the clips and arrange them on your head. This sounds sort of quirky but my friend does it and she looks awesome!
* Get a few fun colorful ties and wear a different one everyday
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Lloyd E. Mintzmyer, 66, Hays, died Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012, as a result of an automobile accident south of Glade.
He was born May 2, 1946, in Holdrege, Neb., to Edward Lloyd and Rose (Fecht) Mintzmyer. He attended elementary school at District No. 27 northwest of Orleans, Neb., and graduated from Orleans High School. He attended National Electronics School, Denver.
He married Karen Schluntz on July 22, 1972, in Huntley, Neb. He was the chief electronics engineer for Smoky Hill Public Television. He was a U.S. Navy veteran, serving during the Vietnam War. He served in the Navy from 1966 until 1972 and was aboard the USS Monticello from 1967 until 1968. Prior to moving to Hays, he was the chief engineer for ABC channel 13 in Kearney, Neb.
He was a member of High Plains Baptist Church, Hays, Hays American Legion, was president of the Praise Radio Network, and deacon and missions treasurer at High Plains Baptist Church.
He was a HAM radio operator and handyman. He enjoyed restoring antique radios.
Survivors include his wife, of the home; three daughters, Tracy, Jody and Katie Mintzmyer, all of Hays; and a sister, Arlene Mintzmyer, Holdrege.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Thursday at High Plains Baptist Church, Hays; burial will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Fort Hays Memorial Gardens, with military honors by Hays American Legion.
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Director's cut: Bravo, Houston Press! At least one Houston newspaper realizes that the Houston Symphony deserves a cover story ["Can the Band Play On?" by Marene Gustin, September 7]. The orchestra is important not only to the concertgoers but also to the community at large.
The symphony, under the leadership of Christoph Eschenbach, added fame and luster to Houston's claim as a city of culture. The level of musical quality, so esteemed by local and foreign audiences, has risen and remains at new heights. The musicians are determined to keep it there.
It is unfortunate that the quality of administrative performance did not keep pace, and it was refreshing to see that discussed in the article by Gustin. The lackluster efforts at fund-raising and the ineptness of public relations have been all too evident for years. One can only wonder if board members would have tolerated such incompetence within their own organizations.
Hopefully the current board will seek the best music director and the best executive director to restore the level of excitement audiences felt during Eschenbach's tenure. Houston deserves nothing less!
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Legs, lungs and liberty: Regarding "Live Free and Die" [by Wendy Grossman, August 31], Dave cannot objectively discuss the issues surrounding smoking because he is addicted to cigarettes. Of course Dave says, "it isn't about smoking." What it is really about is the huge costs of treating tobacco-related illnesses.
I cannot be objective about smoking either. The doctor said my father would die if his leg was not amputated. Horrified, I asked what caused this condition. "Fifty years of smoking" was the simple reply. After the second leg had to be amputated, he just asked for a cigarette. His body was screaming for some nicotine. My husband held his father's hand as he died from lung cancer. My mother-in-law quit at age 62 without a program or even nicotine patches. It can be done.
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Good foundations: Now, thanks to Brad Tyer, maybe no one else will feel the sting of David Allen Zovath ["Home Sweet Cell," September 7]. Moral of the story: Don't build until you get a performance bond signed and sealed!
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Paint peeler: KPRC is "caustically conservative" [Insider, by Tim Fleck, September 7]? And I suppose KPFT is "soothingly liberal." The voice of Amy Goodman (host of KPFT's Democracy Now) would strip the paint off a barn.
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Crock-a-doodle-doo: Not George W. Bush -- George Polydoros! It seems my friend George is having trouble with crowing roosters at the Wabash Feed Store on Washington Avenue ["Room to Crow," by Melissa Hung, August 24]. I like roosters and the Wabash. So I bought every crowing rooster they had. Wabash has agreed to call me when the next group of young roosters starts crowing.
If you would like to help George, please make a small contribution payable to True To Texas and mail it to 14501 Katy Freeway, Houston, TX 77079.
As a bonus, upon receipt of your contribution we will forward George's recipe for fried chicken.
Craig Dickson
Cinch for the Grinch: I can't believe Mr. Polydoros missed his chance to audition for the Grinch! The Wabash Feed Store is a wonderful place, and both my girls love going there every chance they can. It seems like Mr. Polydoros is trying his best to change a wonderful place that holds many happy memories for many children. If he took some children there, I bet he would have a change of heart, kind of like the Grinch, since he would see how much they would love the place.
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Dallas or Downtown?
Zoned out: People have zoning in Dallas, so when they move to Houston they freak out ["Murphy's Law", by Melissa Hung, August 3]. Get a life or move. How can you move into a bohemian neighborhood and expect it to change because you coughed up a quarter-million dollars for some generic town house. Stop the madness.
Tim Lincoln
Move to the burbs: Seems that Mr. Murphy got more than he bargained for when he moved from the Dallas suburbs into the Heights. It should be readily apparent to anyone who has spent time inside a city that what makes a city a vibrant place to live and work is the diversity of the people who surround you.
If he wants to be surrounded by people who look like him and think exactly like him, and where the riffraff go home each day after mowing his yard and cleaning, and where there are no neighborhood joints to give it character, he should move to the suburbs. Hell, I live in the burbs and can't wait to get out.
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Head job: Apparently someone on your staff was dozing in journalism class. They misheard the statement "headlines should jump out at the reader" as "headlines should jump out at the reader, club them, drag them off to a cave and scream at them until they wake up and beg for mercy." What's up with the big fonts?


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Brackenwood is a series created by Adam Phillips, webmaster of the Bitey Castle website. It currently includes a continuing series of short Flash animations about the inhabitants of a small fictional forest planet called Brackenwood. There are currently six Brackenwood animations, with one supplemental music video.
Adam Phillips' plans for the Brackenwood series is to create an ongoing television series, a graphic novel, a series of books, a feature film screenplay and a series of merchandise based on Phillips' own innovations.[1] The animations have already developed a growing fanbase, partly with the help of the Flash portal website Newgrounds. In September 2006, Cold Hard Flash named the Brackenwood episode Prowlies at the River to be the fourth most influential flash animation of all time. [2]
The series is set on the fictional planet of Brackenwood. It seems to contain creatures based on Irish mythology (faeries), Cryptozoology (yeti/bigfoot creatures called "morrugs"), and others from the creator's own imagination. The planet is so small that one could walk from pole to pole in about a month. Covering the entirety of the planet's surface is a seemingly endless paradise that varies from grasslands to jungles. Beneath the surface, however, is a vast and unexplored aquifer that nourishes the forest above. One of the series various mysteries includes the nature of the aquifer's elusive pale faced denizens.
By far, Brackenwood's most prominent feature is its forest. It has no end, and plant life is its most diverse and varied form of life. Nearly any form of plant life able to evolve and thrive is said to be found somewhere on the surface. There are countless species yet to be discovered. Some of the more notable species in the Brackenwood series include:
One distinguishing aspect of Brackenwood weather is what is known as the Musical Breeze, a soft, soothing music that carries on some of the planet's winds. It begins like the tinkling of a bell or the trill of a tiny bird, and gradually the strange, sometimes haunting melody builds. The origins of the music are a mystery.
Sometimes the winds are silent, so the music isn't always to be heard. While musical breezes are soothing, Musical Storms are far from this. They are a deafening and frightful cacophony of colliding notes and detuned howls. This gale does nothing to damage the ears, but instead sends one insane.
Musical storms also produce "waterlollies," which are small spheres of highly compressed water with a tough, transparent shell no larger than a fist. When they are struck or exposed to sudden shock, they rapidly expand to nine times their original size. Only waterlollies that land in bodies of water remain unshocked, but their shells dissolve in three days (those that hit landmasses are shocked and their shells, stretched tight, disintegrate after a day), releasing water that is very good for life on Brackenwood. As such, waterlollies are often used to nourish rare or sick plants. They can also be consumed in a similar manner to gobstoppers, with a small hole pierced in the shell to prevent potentially dangerous expansion due to shocking. The water within is said to taste pleasant and cure all pains. According to Lemonee Wee, they are also called "storm eggs."
The origin of Brackenwood and its inhabitants is another mystery in the series, but they come together to build an intricate, if not bizarre tapestry. The wealth of Brackenwood's environment supports a great deal. Despite this profusion, civilized, let alone intelligent inhabitants number very few. Those few take so little from nature and give so much that they are likened to greenkeepers. For this reason Brackenwood appears untouched since its dawn of time.
So far the series displays Brackenwood's characters moving around in their environment. It brings them to life with individual personalities, showing how they relate and interact with one another. For this reason each Brackenwood episode so far is more of an introduction for one or more characters than an actual story.
In addition to the more well known characters, there are also a number of secondary creatures still significant to the series and its development.
Brackenwood's animal life is as diverse as its plant life. Each new episode reveals at least a few new fantastical creatures.
The Brackenwood series currently consists of seven official episodes and one unofficial music video. So far, Adam Phillips' Brackenwood has had a major impact on the Flash animated community. Several episodes in the series have won numerous awards.
Plans for Brackenwood merchandising include a graphic novel, an 'Art of Brackenwood' book, a 'Brackenwood Wildlife Field Guide' book, plushies, caps and bags, as well as other Adam Phillips' merchandise innovations.
Of all requested merchandise, the most common is for "anything with the yellow farty thing". Fatsack plushies are unarguably the most desired articles by the Brackenwood fanbase. There is also a great deal of hype among fans for a Brackenwood video game which resulted in Adam Phillips creating an online game called Brackensack, and currently producing a new online game called Dashkin, named after Bitey's own species.
Currently the only available Brackenwood merchandise are Bitey dolls, t-shirts and posters.
So far, Adam Phillips has showcased a few Brackenwood episodes in some competitions to get the series noticed. Adam wants to be able to bring Brackenwood to the big screen, hoping that when the series is recognised that he will gain the sponsorship to be able to do this. Several Brackenwood episode titles with storyboards have been constructed but have yet to be animated (Take note that all the previous Brackenwood Episodes were also listed with the exception of littleFoot and The Yu-Yu, and so although the story-boards were made by Adam Phillips, it is not yet finalised whether they will be animated or be officially included in the Brackenwood Franchise). These include:
Am online game Flash-based game called Brackensack has been made by Phillips and is available online for free. The gameplay is simple, and to play you simple move Bitey around hitting a Fatsack with Bitey's head to make him fly up again.
A new online Brackenwood game, titled Dashkin, is currently being produced. The game was announced in July 2011 on Phillips' personal site blog. The article included a screenshot of the game in its early stages and a screenshot from a new, yet to be released sequel to Last of the Dashkin.
The game is reported to be a side-scroller, in which the play takes control of Dashkin and plays through different levels. It was originally planned that the game would have 8-11 levels, and 4 regions, but in a cinematic "intro" released in July 2011 on Phillips' site blog, it was announced that it would be 20 levels, and a whole 6 regions, each of which represent their own part of Brackkenwood, such as forets, grasslands or plains. At this point, due to the large amount of work and time that the game took, Phillips decided to turn to crowdfunding, so that he, and his partner and programmer McGee, which would ensure that they would be able to spend more time on the game. They set up a fundraiser campaign on the website Kickstarter, which uses a reward system, so that every backer gets something in return. The cinematic was created the sole purpose of promoting the fundraiser, and a special cut was even made for the fundraiser's page, containing sample game footage and gameplay announcements. Four game modes were announced, named Hunt, Flee, Time-Trial and Endless. It also stated that the game would involve special "pickups" and "powers" that the player find along the way. The game will also unravel more of Bitey's secret past and presumable advance the plot of Brackenwood, and it will put the player up against the menacing YuYu horde. The cinematic was animated by Adam Phillips and accompanied by an original score by Lee Darkin-Miller. A special cut of the cinematic was made for the fundraiser and some gameplay footage. In the game you play as Dashkin. It has a system which makes the game change the light to day and night. It has been reported that the game features a time-based day to night transition during gameplay. It will an atmospheric art design and style, as well as an atmospheric sound effects track and a score composed by Lee-Darkin Miller, inspired by Irish folk music. The game's design and animation is all done by Adam Phillips through Toon Boom Animate Pro and Adobe Flash Professional. Sean McGee is programming.
Around the time of the cinematic's release, lucky beta testers had also been chosen to partake in an official testing of the game, and was allowed to make reviews, as long as they did not spoil the anything significant, like plot points in the storyline. They were chosen among the subscribers to the Dashkin game's Facebook fan page, but only the ones that had been there since May. The original, estimated release date were May 1. It was too hard to make, so they decided to aim for the end of May instead. As time went on, the game did not get finished. They swapped sponsor at one point.
Then a year went by without many updates, and in November 2012, Phillips revealed that they had started to rebuild the game, learning from their past mistakes. The game had started to come together, but every time a new feature was implemented or changed, it caused some bug or glitch and did not perform perfectly. He said, though, that it would get a redesign.
In December Phillips published a new update on his blog titled "Bottlenecks," which talked about how he barely made enough off his hard work doing paid freelance animation and visual effects. In the post he had opted to refrain from an official release date for the Dashkin game and opted to use a progress bar instead.


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Due to the dangerously cold temperatures, Buhr will be closed today; Thursday, February 19th.
Buhr Park is a 39-acre park serving the south central part of Ann Arbor. The park is open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. year round and features softball diamonds, two tennis courts, play equipment, a basketball court, open field play, a sledding hill, picnic facilities with a grill, an outdoor pool with a family activity pool (open in the spring/summer) and an open-air ice arena (open in the fall/winter). Summer day camp is one of the popular programs offered at Buhr Park. To sign up for programs, please use the online registration system. Buhr Park is adjacent to Cobblestone Farm, a historic barn that serves as a venue for weddings and other rental opportunities, as well as the home of the Ann Arbor Parks and Recreation Customer Service Center.
Thanks to the participants and sponsors of our 2014 Dog Swim at Buhr Park Pool. We're happy to say that 512 dogs swam and played in the pool during the two-day event. Watch the video below, shot by Community Television Network (CTN), on the first day.
The rink has a cooled subfloor that allows us to maintain ice even when it is over 50 degrees outside! Activities include public ice skating, drop-in hockey, and rental hours. The facility has a heated lobby, vending machines, restrooms, and four separate locker rooms for hockey. Skate rental and sharpening are also available.
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Tuesdays from 7:45 - 8:45 p.m. (half price and broom ball)
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Thursdays from 7:15 - 8:45 p.m.
Fridays from 7:15 - 8:45 p.m.
Saturdays from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. and 7:15- 8:45 p.m.
Adult: $5 residents; $6 nonresidents
Youth (17 & under): $4 residents; $5 nonresidents
Senior (60 & over): $4 residents; $5 nonresidents
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Skate learners are free
Youth/Senior Resident: $30 for 10 visits; $85 for 30 visits
Youth/Senior Nonresident: $40 for 10 visits; $112 for 30 visits
Adult Resident: $40 for 10 visits; $112 for 30 visits
Adult Nonresident: $50 for 10 visits; $142 for 30 visits
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Overnight: $5
The first Friday of each month during general skate from 7:15 - 8:45 p.m. Skate to themed music and dress up to win prizes for best costume!
Nov. 7: Disco Skate Bring out those bell bottoms and skate to the music of the 70's.
Dec. 5: Oldies Night Rock around the clock to the early sounds of rock-n-roll.
Jan. 2: Hoedown Skate Bring your cowboy hats and skate to country-western originals.
Feb. 6: Rock the 80's Skate Rock the 80's and skate to big hair bands and monster ballads.
March 6: Reggae Night Chase the winter blues away with some tropical beats.
Additional public skating sessions will be held the following days:
Nov. 26 and 28 from noon - 2 p.m.
Dec. 22, 23, 24, 26, 29, 30 and 31 from noon - 2 p.m.
Jan. 2 and 19 from noon - 2 p.m.
Feb. 16 from noon - 2 p.m.
Mondays from 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. (drop-in; women only)
Tuesdays from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. (sticks & pucks; all ages) and 9 - 10 p.m. (drop-in; men only)
Wednesdays from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. (drop-in; all ages)
Thursdays from 9 - 10 p.m. (drop-in; all ages)
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Saturdays from 1:15 - 2:15 p.m. (drop-in; all ages)
Adult Resident: $6
Adult Nonresident: $7
Youth/Senior Resident: $5
Youth/Senior Nonresident: $6
Adult Resident: $50 for 10 visits
Adult Nonresident: $60 for 10 visits
Youth Resident: $40 for 10 visits
YouthNonresident: $50 for 10 visits
*With purchase of pass the 11th visit is free. Passes are good for sticks and pucks and drop-in hockey ONLY. Not valid for open skating.
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Non-prime Time Rental: $120 resident; $150 nonresident
*Saturdays, Sundays, after 3 p.m. on Monday through Friday, and after noon during Ann Arbor Public School breaks are considered prime time.
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Non-prime Time Rental: $145 resident; $180 nonresident
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Google doesn't have stores, and physical retailers who may carry this tablet in the future are, in the consumer's minds, relatively seedy places such as Fry's and Best Buy (BBY) -- simply not in the same league as the Apple stores. The only competitor to those are the Microsoft (MSFT - Get Report) stores, but there are only 20 or so of those, and obviously they won't be carrying this Google-based product.
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This yearŌĆÖs Maben FarmersŌĆÖ Market has closed ahead of schedule due to low attendance from vendors and shoppers, but vendors and organizers report that the season as a whole was successful.
Starkville High School theater opens on Friday when students take to the stage for ŌĆ£While the Lights were Out,ŌĆØ their first production of the year.
The play will start at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Starkville High School theater. Tickets are $5.
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Dan Mullen has said many times this season that he has two starting quarterbacks. The Mississippi State head coach has two reliable guys in senior Tyler Russell and sophomore Dak Prescott.
Usually teams look forward to an open date for the rest, but not the Panthers of French Camp. When the Panthers came across the opportunity to add a game to their already tough schedule, they jumped on it. For them, the chance to play a challenging team like Starkville Academy meant more in the long run than resting their players.
The Greenville-Weston Hornets look to do something for the first time this season on Friday and that's to get a home victory. In three home dates, the Hornets have suffered defeat. Greenville-Weston have lost to Grenada 32-14, to Greenwood 34-6 and to Class 6A, Region 2 opponent Murrah 33-13.
Multiple citizens expressed strong support for gun ownersŌĆÖ rights and other conservative initiatives during Mississippi Speaker of the House Philip GunnŌĆÖs visit to Mississippi State UniversityŌĆÖs Hunter Henry Center Tuesday for his second iteration of ŌĆ£Mississippi Solutions ŌĆö an Ideas Tour.ŌĆØ
Starkville School District Board of Education talked fundraisers at its Tuesday evening meeting at the Greensboro Center.
The discussion arose while the board discussed approving the last set of fundraiser requests for different groups in the district. During the discussion, board secretary Eric Heiselt wondered if some fundraisers were conducted to cover costs the district should pay.
The leaves are changing colors and the birds are still chirping at Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, but nobody is there to see it.
The refuge is going on its ninth day of closure because of the government shutdown. Steve Reagan, director of the refuge, noted the traffic has been noticeably lighter on Bluff Lake Road since the closure.
The March of Dimes will hold StarkvilleŌĆÖs first Golden Triangle Signature ChefŌĆÖs Auction at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 17 at Mississippi State UniversityŌĆÖs Hunter Henry Center, raising funds to prevent and manage premature births by bringing together StarkvilleŌĆÖs top chefs.
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The No. 20 University of Arkansas baseball team rallied with a pair of sixth-inning runs Friday evening and used a stellar relief outing from sophomore Zach Jackson to rally past Loyola Marymount 2-1 in game one of a three-game series at Baum Stadium.
Ky Madden and Alandise Harris will play their last game at Bud Walton Arena vs LSU on Saturday afternoon.
The Arkansas Razorback basketball team beat South Carolina by four coming back from eleven points down the final seven minutes.
With the win, the Razorbacks improve to 17-12 on the season and move on to face No. 1 seed South Carolina in the quarterfinal round on March 6, while the Rebels fall to 17-13 overall.
Arkansas football will take to the practice fields and officially open the spring season on March 16, practicing a total of 14 times before the Red-White Game on April 25.
No. 20 Arkansas returns to action this weekend, playing host to Loyola Marymount Friday and Saturday at 3:05 p.m. and Sunday at 1:05 p.m. at Baum Stadium.
The University of Arkansas football program held its annual Pro Day on Wednesday in front of numerous NFL scouts and media. Representatives from 30 NFL teams were in attendance despite inclement weather.
Already announced as the third sellout of the season two weeks ago, the No. 18 Arkansas men's basketball team's home finale on Saturday against LSU will also be a stripe out with every fan in attendance receiving a free cardinal or white t-shirt
The No. 17 University of Arkansas baseball team used a four-run fifth inning to cruise to an 8-1 victory in game two Monday evening and complete a doubleheader seven-inning sweep over Eastern Illinois at Baum Stadium.
The No. 17 University of Arkansas baseball team scored a pair of early runs Monday afternoon in game one of a doubleheader and held on for a 4-1 victory over Eastern Illinois at Baum Stadium.
Post game comments following Arkansas' Monday afternoon doubleheader sweep of Eastern Illinois.
The University of Arkansas women's basketball team faces Ole Miss in the first round of the 2015 Southeastern Conference Tournament Thursday in North Little Rock.
The loss drops Arkansas to 16-12 overall and 6-10 in the SEC while Missouri moves to 17-12 and 7-9 in the league.
Hours after completing competition at the SEC Indoor Track and Field Championships in Lexington, Kentucky the Arkansas men's and women's track teams found themselves stuck on the road with no answers in sight.
Arkansas Pro Day is scheduled for March 4th. Just the next event in a very busy month of March for the Razorbacks. The team will work out these next two weeks leading up to the start of spring football Monday March 16th.
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Bo Mattingly of Sports Talk with Bo Mattingly and Mike Irwin join our Aaron Peters for this Razorback Nation roundtable discussion.
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The Razorbacks will return to play on Monday after an eight day layoff.
The Arkansas Razorbacks couldn't get anything going on Saturday and fell at Rupp Arena 84-67 to the number one ranked Kentucky Wildcats.
The Razorbacks three game series with Eastern Illinois has been reduced to a Monday double header due to continuing snowfall in Northwest Arkansas.
Due to continued inclement weather and cold temperatures, Sunday's Arkansas baseball game against Eastern Illinois has been cancelled
18th ranked Arkansas and top ranked Kentucky with more on tomorrow's game. Our razorback nation beat the weather and got out to Lexington earlier today- Drew Amman at the university of kentucky with more
The opening game of a three game series between Arkansas and Eastern Illinois has been cancelled due to the weather.
The Razorbacks fall to 16-11 on the season and 6-9 in conference play with the loss to the Wildcats.
The process to bring former Oklahoma State running backs coach Jamel Singleton to Arkansas started with a tip from Air Force head coach Troy Calhoun.
Watch the uncut press conference with Mike Anderson about the Razorbacks game with Kentucky Saturday.
New running backs coach Jemal Singleton addresses the Arkansas media for the first time.
Watch the uncut interview with Head Football Coach Bret Bielema.
Arkansas has named Jemal Singleton as the football program's new running backs coach and special teams coordinator
The Arkansas Razorback basketball team won its seventh straight SEC game beating Texas A&M 81-75 at Bud Walton Arena on Tuesday night.
Former Arkansas Basketball coach Nolan Richardson was honored with a banner on Tuesday night during a ceremony at Bud Walton Arena.
Due to the threat of extreme cold temperatures on Thursday and Friday Arkansas' four-game series against California has been cancelled.
Hogs: 6-1 with Beard in the Starting Lineup
Arkansas Newcomer Batting .440
Trey Flowers, Darius Philon, Martrell Spaight and AJ Derby all at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis this week.
Behind four players in double-figure scoring, the University of Arkansas women's basketball team defeated visiting LSU Sunday afternoon at Bud Walton Arena, 63-41.
Bo Mattingly and Mike Irwin join Aaron Peters for this week's Razorback Nation roundtable discussion.
Richard Davenport of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette joins our Aaron Peters for this week's Razorback recruiting report.
It may not have been pretty but by beating Mississippi State the Razorbacks assured themselves of a winning SEC road record for the first time in twenty years.
FAYETTEVILLE -- Arkansas defensive end Tevin Beanum was arrested early Sunday morning.
Arkansas gave up nine runs in the six with four defensive errors leading to those runs in the loss to Maryland.
The No. 1 Arkansas women's track and field team closed the regular season at the Arkansas Open on Saturday, Feb. 21.
The reigning SEC Indoor Track Champions and No. 3 Arkansas men's track and field team closed the regular season at the Arkansas Open and Notre Dame's Alex Wilson Invite on Saturday, Feb. 21.
With Saturday's results, Arkansas is now 7-7 through the first three weeks of the season.
It marks the second straight weekend that Crawford has entered Sunday as the 36-hole leader, as he holds a one-stroke lead at five-under par.
Mike Irwin and Alyssa Orange break down the Razorbacks 65-61 win over the Mississippi State Bulldogs on the road in Starkville.
The Razorback Basketball team won a hard fought game in Starkville, Mississippi on Saturday afternoon.
Former Razorbacks Trey Flowers and Darius Philon met with the media at the NFL Combine.
With Friday's results, Arkansas improves to 5-7 on the year.


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RANCHI: The political crisis in Jharkhand deepened on Tuesday with Jharkhand Mukti Morcha formally withdrawing support from the Arjun Munda-led NDA government and the cabinet recommending the dissolution of the assembly to the governor.
Munda called an emergency meeting and apprised governor Syed Ahmed of the cabinet decision just an hour before JMM chief Shibu Soren met the governor with his 18 MLAs, and handed over a formal letter of withdrawal of support.
Shortly after Soren's visit, Munda and his MLAs from BJP, AJSU Party and JD(U) trooped in and handed over his resignation to the governor. Accepting Munda's resignation, governor Ahmed asked him to continue until an alternate arrangement was made.
"In the interest of the state, the cabinet has decided to dissolve the assembly and seek fresh mandate," Munda said, adding that the cabinet's move will prevent any possibility of horse trading by opportunist parties.
Shibu Soren said the step taken by Munda was unethical and constitutionally invalid. With JMM withdrawing support, the BJP-led NDA government has support of only 26 MLAs in the 81-member assembly.
"How can a government in minority recommend the dissolution of the assembly?" asked deputy CM Hemant Soren, also the leader of JMM legislative party. The party, he said, has requested the governor to not accept the cabinet's recommendation.
Munda justified his move and said the governor was informed of the cabinet's decision before JMM leaders formally withdrew support. "JMM is claiming that it made a public announcement and even sent a fax to the governor, but as far as I know such important letters cannot be faxed and have to physically submitted to the governor," he said.


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