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Rick Smith Discusses Obama’s State of the Union Address with Isaiah Poole from the Campaign for America’

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Rick Smith Discusses Obama's State of the Union Address with Isaiah Poole from the Campaign for America'

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Isaiah Poole, On Line Editor at the Campaign for America’s Future is back for Our Future Friday to look back at the State of the Union Address and look forward to fights on the horizon. […]

Rick Smith Talks with PennLive Opinions Editor, John Micek, about Gov. Wolf’s Move to Undo Corbett’s Lame Duck Political Appointments | January 23, 2015

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Rick Smith Talks with PennLive Opinions Editor, John Micek, about Gov. Wolf's Move to Undo Corbett's Lame Duck Political Appointments | January 23, 2015

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John L. Micek, Editorial and Opinions Editor for PennLive and The Patriot-News joins Rick to talk about Governor Tom Wolf’s recent moves to undo lame duck appointments and backroom patronage deals. Listen to John’s interview […]

#PhlEd: Phila. School District Taking Actions Against Teachers for Informing Parents about Opting Out

January 26, 2015 3

Last week, Dan Denvir from the Philadelphia City Paper released a bombshell story revealing that 17 percent of students at Feltonville School of the Arts and Sciences in Philadelphia have opted out-of-state mandated exams that determine whether […]

Divesting America of Ozone-Destroying Energy Sources: Churches, Colleges, and Investment Funds Walking Away from Big Oil

January 26, 2015 1

Long before the price of gas and oil began to plummet, socially conscious churches, universities, non-profit organizations, and local governments began to divest themselves of fossil fuel stock and shock the fossil fuel industry to […]

Flipping Some Tables

January 26, 2015 0

Editor’s Note: This was originally published on @GracieG’s blog, The Unarmed Education Mercenary. Check out her blog for excellent posts on higher education labor and the growing adjunct activist movement. A few weeks ago, I […]

Governor Wolf Follows Rhetoric With Action Regarding Erik Arneson

January 24, 2015 3

For Keystone Politics, Jon Geeting makes the argument that Governor Wolf has the right to appoint people who agrees with his vision to cabinet positions or to head governmental agencies, and that’s what Governor Wolf did […]

Three Degrees of Separation: Tom Wolf, Fresh Start PAC and Big Gas

January 22, 2015 1

This is an extended version to today’s post about Tom Wolf getting $1.5 million in campaign contributions from supporters of Big Gas, and the key players in this are Mike Mikus, Fresh Start PAC spokesman, […]

Sins of Omission: The State of the Union & Obama’s Race Problem

January 22, 2015 0

Speech-making has never been Barack Obama’s problem. From the first time the nation heard him as a young state senator from Chicago at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, through the Hope and Change stump speeches on […]

PennEast Pipeline “Scoping” Meetings Unacceptable for Citizen

January 22, 2015 0

PRESS RELEASE from Delaware Riverkeeper Network Opponents of the proposed PennEast pipeline submitted a letter today to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) outlining concerns with the upcoming scoping meetings scheduled to begin next week. […]

Environmental Groups: Big Gas Gave Tom Wolf $1.5 Million in Campaign Contributions

January 22, 2015 2

In a joint effort, Pennsylvania Food and Water Watch and Berks Gas Truth issued a report claiming that Governor Tom Wolf received $1.5 million in campaign contributions from organizations, individuals and political action committees that […]