Colin Delany over at e.politics points to a survey being conducted by the Politics Online conference to help determine what sessions will be held this April in Washington, DC. He suggests a few that he is involved in, but when you visit the survey you will find a wealth of panel and presentation titles from…
Greg Mitchell offers an excerpt of his new book Why Obama Won at Huffington Post. In it, he attempts to explain the new state of politics. This excerpt poses the essential question that Mitchell attempts to explore: How did sites with names like Politico and FiveThirtyEight and Eschaton and Crooks and Liars and “HuffPo” collectively…
The web enables activists to deploy innovative and often humorous campaigns — often efforts that would have been far more difficult and certainly much more costly using traditional methods. The current economic crisis has stirred frustration and anger among many. One West Coast activist is now taking advantage of new media to drive home his…
Chris Kelly, a writer for Bill Maher’s TV show, uses his column at Huffington Post today to take aim at an online petition drive surrounding the F-22 Raptor fighter jet program. He laments the fact that he has seen ads for this petition on a variety of conservative web sites, and he skewers the merits…
DCI Group’s Katie Harbath will be speaking to the Public Affairs Council’s grassroots conference in Tampa, Florida today, and she has posted her presentation slides in advance of her talk. I’m sure they will be even more illuminating when she has a chance to speak and supplement the text and pictures. In the meantime, there…
Marshall Cobleigh was an old-fashioned New Hampshire pol who had held many posts in that state, including Speaker of the House and governor’s chief of staff. On one occasion, he famously ran for Congress while touring the state with a pound of hamburger in an effort to highlight the substance of his economic message during the trying times of the late 1970’s.
The following is a transcript of the conversation with Jesse Devitte that aired on January
15, 2009.
Today at noon, Barack Obama will take the oath of office. He ushers in what is unquestionably a new era in American politics. For many, he instills a new sense of hope. For others, that optimism is tempered to varying degrees by concern over the policies he will implement.
The following is an unverified transcript of the conversation with Christopher Penn that aired on January 14, 2009. Chip Griffin: My guest today is Christopher Penn. He’s the producer of the Financial Aid Podcast and, probably, one of the more informed people I know about the state of financial aid in this country. I welcome…
Christopher Penn of the Financial Aid Podcast discusses how the current economic environment impacts student options when paying for college. He shares tips and advice on how to minimize costs and maximize aid.