“Save Your Home” Event in Maryland: One View

On October 30, Congresswoman Donna Edwards Hosted a “Save Your Home” Event at the Sports and Learning Annex in Maryland. Gov. O’Malley had a respresentative from his office present. She talked about the governor’s program. I have a video clip that I will post later describing some of the statistics and issues surrounding the bailout/corpwelfare [...]

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BarCampDC Morning Gathering

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BarCampDC: We Are Unintentionally Divided

BarCampDC2 was held on Oct. 18, I realize that is was also the day LifeTime aired their movie Living Proof. (I went to the screening but I will post that later). On a day that LifeTime airs a movie about a scientist testing for a breast cancer gene to attack a disease that [...]

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Voucher System in Education: D.C. is the New Battle Ground

Tonight’s presidential debate included the voucher system that has been implemented in D.C.. For those that don’t live in the nation’s capitol this maybe an unfamiliar topic. For those that live in the district and don’t have children in the public school system this topic is also very unfamiliar.
I can’t say that as a parent [...]

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Final Presidential Debate: Who’s Campaign is More Negative?

Sadly this question had to be asked. McCain continued to talk about Obama’s spending on his ad campaign that has been clearly more than the McCain Campaign. Current numbers estimate that Obama’s Campaign spends 4 million to 1 million of the McCain Campaign on ads. However, every campaign ad that McCain has put out is [...]

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What Does Poverty Look Like? It Can Look Like Me

I grew up in the projects of Harlem and the Bronx. Most would love to believe that my mother was a young teen who had children out of wedlock. It is considered the norm for poor black women today. She was married, had two children, and then got divorced, in that order.
My [...]

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Diverse Political Women & Social Media Panel @ BlogHerDC

BlogHer had their Reach Tour in DC (Bethesda) yesterday, just shortly after leaving their Boston Tour.
I moderated the the session Online Community Building for Political Action. The session focused on how much action can be taken at the screen vs. by stepping away from the screen. The panelists were PunditMom, Momocrat Joanne Bamberger, Liza [...]

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