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Listening to America

Reflecting on the Platform Draft - Santa Cruz, California

L.D. Janakos | Posted 09.14.2008 | Home

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L.D. Janakos

The New Hope: It's a Start The theme of the get together in Santa Cruz, California, to make suggestions for the democratic platform was The New Hope...

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The Draft Democratic Platform: Local-Meeting Attendees Weigh In

Amanda Michel | Posted 09.11.2008 | Home

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Amanda Michel

Full byline below. OffTheBus Special Ops members who reported on local Democratic Party platform meetings are sending in attendees' responses to the...

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Obama's Politics As Usual

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 09.11.2008 | Home

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Henryk A. Kowalczyk

The problem is not in Washington, but in the misguided understanding Americans have of the issues. Obama's platform meetings suggest he doesn't have the guts to tell us we're wrong.

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Let My Data Go: How Activists Can Transform Government Through Public Data

W. David Stephenson | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business

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W. David Stephenson

This public data movement has two components: liberating government data, so more people can interpret it, and displaying data visually, rather than in mind-numbing charts.

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