Yesterday I went into our office for the first time. We rent a room inside the office of Common Cause on the 9th floor of 1133 19th St, NW in downtown Washington, DC. Right by the Farragut North metro stop. We are just over a block from the famous K Street where […]

For those who don’t know, NYRA, for the first real time in its history has an official office. Last year we spent a few months sharing some space with Fairvote but we were on borrowed time and the office was never truly ours. But now with our new grant NYRA has at long […]

The Dawning of a New World View, Part 1
A wonderful thread has started in the NYRA forums that I think deserves some more exposure. It asks the question of what us youth rights supporters felt about ageism and youth rights before our eyes were opened, and while the opening post didn’t ask it, I […]

My response to a post on the NYRA Forums.
Well. On my way home, I started thinking about all the forums I was reading last night. And I was thinking about one forum in particular. Now. I am 14 and ALL for youth rights. My question is. What do you all think about the development of […]

As an outside group unfamiliar with Gallaudet University and the deaf community it is inappropriate for us to comment on what does or does not make a good president of the university. Those most qualified to decide what makes a good president are members of Gallaudet itself, its administration, its faculty, and most especially […]

The assault on MySpace is gaining traction. ABC News just covered the new policy at Libertyville High School in Illinois that would penalize students for content they’ve posted on their MySpace page. At the same time a bill in Congress called the Deleting Online Predators Act is increasingly getting attention.
Those of us […]

Adam B. Kushner has a great piece in the Washington Examiner about Sen. John McCain’s commencement address at Columbia last week that was “cloaked in a terrifically condescending homily about the arrogance of youth.”
NEW YORK - Last week, as they sat in the pouring rain, John McCain insulted Columbia’s graduating class. He also delivered praise, […]

Somewhat related to the last post about the War on MySpace, now this is a case of schools using information posted on student’s websites and MySpace pages to punish them. The Chicago Tribune did a story on it, and asked for our comments. Excerpts:
A north suburban school district could become one of […]

Well it was bound to happen. With all the media hysteria over MySpace, any student of our opportunistic elected officials should have known what was coming next. Congress has proposed a bill that would ban MySpace, Facebook, LiveJournal, and potentially all chatrooms, forums, blogs & Instant Messaging from school & library computers. […]

NYRA just released a fascinating new study that Mike Males put together that makes a very convincing case that a large part of the reason for high traffic deaths among teens is not simply due to their age, but because of their poverty level. This is an angle of the issue that to my […]