For many the drop off in civic participation and voting among youth is seen as a failure of schools. I agree, however our recommendations on improving schools to better foster such civic participation is where we diverge. Peter Levine, of CIRCLE, threw out some ideas on his blog:
We know (more or less) what […]

I had meant to do an entry on this topic for a while now, but after spotting a blog entry suggesting a link between NYRA and Socialism, I think now is a particularly appropriate time to discuss the issue.
The author of the above came up with the idea of a NYRA/Socialism link because of one […]

Monday August 7, 2000
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Holy shit. Day 33. Over a month on the road. A whole month of driving, of traveling. Sleeping in my car, in my tent, rarely more than a night in the same place. A true vagrant’s life. I’ve lived this life for an entire month. […]

Sunday August 6, 2000
Pictures
The original plan was that Matthew would take me paintballing on the Saturday when I first got there. I had even delayed the trip because he said Saturday was the day his friends went paintballing. Well, when I got there he didn’t have any paintballs and we couldn’t go. […]

Saturday August 5, 2000
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This morning it started to thunder & start to rain, so I made Daniel get up so the tent wouldn’t get caught in the storm. We were able to get all packed up before the really heavy shit hit, but Daniel was still pissed off that I woke him up, thinking […]

Friday August 4, 2000
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Last night Daniel & I talked about a lot of things. I told him all about Jackie, the good & the bad, he talked about his girlfriends (Internet). We also talked a lot about youth rights fortunately. Both of us were sick of nothing being done so we decided […]

Wednesday August 2, 20000
Pictures
This morning just before I was going to get up out of the tent a squirrel came by to investigate our tent. He went to the screened in door and put his paws up on the screen so he could look in. It was damn cool. But then he […]

Tuesday August 1, 2000

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I’ve been writing July so much it feels weird to put an August in there. I’m amazed by how much I have written in here on my trip. I have nearly 2/3rds of this notebook filled. In the past it would have taken a whole year to fill […]

Monday July 31, 2000
We got a much later start tonight than I wanted, I had some laundry to do, I put it in last night and once I got up I put it in the dryer. So we had to wait for that to finish. Plus Daniel had to get packed up. […]

Sunday July 30, 2000
Idaho & Utah Pictures
Daniel had a few things he wanted to take care of before we left so he wanted to wait till Monday to leave rather than start a day early. Which is fine because we have some time to kill.
We got a lazy start this morning, sleeping in (it […]