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Jaime Peters I was robbed. So I decided to save the planet.

Recently, I decided to move back to NY from New Orleans where I’d been helping with the recovery effort. While I enjoyed the work I was doing, New Orleans just wasn’t my home. What can I say? I’m a New Yorker. So I looked for some job opportunities, made some phone calls and scheduled some interviews. Then I packed two suitcases and my dog into my car and drive to New York. Of course I broke down in Harrisonburg, VA. It’s approximately 7 hours from my parent’s home on Long Island where I was he… Continue

Added by Jaime Peters on November 17, 2009 at 12:23pm — No Comments

Karen Abdul House Democrats roll out Health Care Bill

Today marked a huge milestone for the House Democrats as they unveiled the Health Care bill. For the last several months, the debate of health care reform has been ugly and brutal. Both parties have had a lot to say and many have provided false information to their constituents making the debate even uglier. Let me be real America, I am very happy that we are going to possibly have some sort of health care bill that will insure the uninsured. My mother is one of those uninsured. In 2007, her com… Continue

Added by Karen Abdul on October 29, 2009 at 12:53pm — No Comments

Laura Davis Thank you goes a long way

The more I do this job, the more it is clear to me that people really just want to be thanked and recognized for their hard work. Tonight we passed our 2010 county budget, which at times was contentious and divisive. It was nice to see that some of my fellow commissioners took the time to thank the county staff. The staff often does a thankless job, researching our ideas and bringing resolutions to us repeatedly due to little "tweaks" we request. It has to be frustrating. The upside is that if t… Continue

Added by Laura Davis on October 27, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Julie Vruggink Oct. 21

Today a friend of mine and I were talking about how many changes are required within the legal system in Michigan and the nation. Granted neither of us had really thought about things are the level we do now after the events of the last couple years. But today, we both decided it is time to start making changes where we can. We have both studied human services, worked as volunteers or employees for special needs populations and through our network have seen where the legal system is failing many… Continue

Added by Julie Vruggink on October 21, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Karen Abdul Are term limits needed in Congress?

Why have our politicians and politics changed over the years? When did we stop learning to dialogue with one another on political issues without feeling fear or hatred from the other party, and when did politicians care more about getting re-elected than truly working for the welfare of their constituents? Over the years, it would seem that politics has changed, but in many ways it remains the same. We have the same leaders who continue to speak about the same issues every election year, along… Continue

Added by Karen Abdul on October 17, 2009 at 1:18pm — No Comments

Victoria FittsMilgrim Opportunity to Come Home to Yourself

Today I was listening to an old Bonnie Raitt song – it starts: “These men that I’ve been seeing, Got their soul up on a shelf…” Actually it’s a Chris Smithers song and I’ve known it for almost 30 years! Yikes, I’m dating myself there. Anyway, I couldn’t get that line out of my head --- soul up on the shelf. Forget the men – I work with many women who put their soul up on a shelf many moons ago and are longing to find it again. It’s fascinating to me how that happens and then there’s this… Continue

Added by Victoria FittsMilgrim on October 14, 2009 at 12:46pm — No Comments

Alexa Bailey Free eBook: Social Network Marketing, 12 Steps for Success

I got this one from a friend last night and read it cover to cover. This should help us all get to the next level in regards to marketing on social networks and social media. You can download it here: http://tinyurl.com/ybbbdo9 Continue

Added by Alexa Bailey on October 9, 2009 at 6:48pm — No Comments

Alexa Bailey Free Ebook on Social Networking and Leveraging Social Media

I ran across this free ebook yesterday on social networking and was very impressed by what I learned. The sections on Facebook and Twitter were by far the best. Here is the location where you can download it from: http://tinyurl.com/ya2xyqo Continue

Added by Alexa Bailey on October 2, 2009 at 4:28pm — No Comments

Laura Davis Grace for President--where are the girls?

Today is my birthday, and I got to be the "mystery reader" in my son's 3rd grade class. I read them "Grace For President". It features a little girl who asks the teacher why there are no girl presidents, which spurs a race for class president. In the end she wins by a very narrow margin. My son brought home 20 thank you notes from his classmates. My favorites were: My favorite part of the story was when she won the election. My favorite part of the story was when she asked where the girls were… Continue

Added by Laura Davis on October 1, 2009 at 9:39pm — No Comments

Courtney Macavinta Domestic Violence Awareness Month: Free Workshop Session & Enter to Win a Rally

Free Workshop Session (Leader's Guide) You can use the leader's guide for this 60-minute session, an excerpt from our Respect: Keep It Going! Kit, to help teens explore how to use the Respect Basics in their own lives, relationships and, ultimately, to end forms of disrespect like domestic and dating violence. We hope this session will strengthen your domestic and dating violence prevention programs by showing teens that no matter what form of disrespect they're struggling with: respect is the… Continue

Added by Courtney Macavinta on October 1, 2009 at 3:39pm — 1 Comment

Laura Davis finding ways to say YES

Just watched this 12 yr old girl speak truth to power (from 1992). I want to know where she is today, and how I can vote for her!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmz6Rbpnu0 I saw Ruben Gonzales, 3 time Olympian luge athlete, give a very inspirational speech last night at a Cesar Chavez awards dinner. He told his story, which is the story of anyone who has ever become great. He wasn't born great. Not everyone believed in him. His high school soccer coach told him he was only allowed off the b… Continue

Added by Laura Davis on September 30, 2009 at 10:04pm — No Comments

Alexa Bailey How to Get Free Email Mail Marketing that Converts Like Crazy

First... Set Up a Free Account With a Company that is White Listed... There are many email marketing companies that offer free campaigns, but two stand alone as the best. 1) iContact - Included in their free package is a 31 page white paper that will make even the most novice marketer an email pro. They have a fully integrated survey sytem along with email scheduling capabilities. iContact also has the best selection… Continue

Added by Alexa Bailey on September 22, 2009 at 4:58pm — No Comments

Laura Davis Learning to bounce back better & smarter

I was inspired recently by an unusual source: fitness magazine. Seriously, you can stop laughing. This was a particularly challenging week in which I learned not to be so trusting, and that anything I say can be misquoted and tweeted before I finish a sentence. I was called a scumbag, turncoat, puppet, hero, fighter, advocate and leader above the rest--all from people within my own party! ha ha ha At the end of the day, I know I have worked my tail off for my district, and that is what matters… Continue

Added by Laura Davis on September 22, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

Stacy Bayton Public Launch of new environmental non profit organization, NaturalEarth

Greetings ladies! For three years now I have wanted to open an environmental non profit organization that brings balance to environmental and social needs, and after many years of hard work we have finally opened the doors of NaturalEarth and I am doing just what I set out to do. I wanted to share the company information with you so you could see what the company is about and what we are doing. The intentions we had when creating NaturalEarth was to find a balance between environmental, socia… Continue

Added by Stacy Bayton on September 17, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Stacy Bayton NaturalEarth's New Health Initiative

The Healthy Earth, Healthy Body Initiative™ NaturalEarth launched the “Healthy Earth, Healthy Body Initiative” as a means of educating our global society on the direct link between the health of our environment and our personal health. This initiative is in support of the organizations mission of improving the health of society through improvements in our environment. Through education comes change, and through this initiative we will provide society with factual information that… Continue

Added by Stacy Bayton on September 17, 2009 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Stacy Bayton What getting healthy means to me

I have always considered myself to be a health conscious gal, but never before had I thought about a lot of the things associated with being healthy until I purchased P90X. I have never been a super skinny girl, but I have never considered myself overweight either. A great deal of my body is solid muscle, but there are spots that are "soft" and as I age I struggle with the weight I carry around my hips and belly, especially after the birth of our fourth child. As I was taking my weight and measu… Continue

Added by Stacy Bayton on September 17, 2009 at 1:12pm — No Comments

Laura Davis Not a quitter, not even close!

Honestly, I have to vent. I have been a "rookie" elected person for 9 months now. It has not been easy, especially in this economy. I have wanted to quit on more than one occasion. But that would be irresponsible at the very least. In recent months I have seen more than one person quit in one form or another: resign to be with family, retire early to save the budget, resign due to relocation in another district, you name it. I am sure they are all fine reasons, and they are nice enough people.… Continue

Added by Laura Davis on September 15, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Gwendolyn Grace Washington As a campus safety advocate it hurts me to see the case of missing Yale graduate student Annie Le. I…

As a campus safety advocate it hurts me to see the case of missing Yale graduate student Annie Le. I hope that her family can find justice and peace. It is important for all us to realize that even on a prestigious campus as Yale no one is safe. Crime can happen any where, any time, and to anyone. My prayers are for her and for her family. Continue

Added by Gwendolyn Grace Washington on September 14, 2009 at 1:35am — No Comments

Kelly Clayton This is how I handled my thesis writing

It was such an embarrassing situation for me when I had to finish my thesis writing and I was not getting enough time to understand thesis paper writing guidelines, and I wasn’t getting enough thesis writing help. It was torturing to see others celebrating the success of their PhD thesis leaving me behind. Well, I never lost hope and I once thought of getting my thesis paper written by online thesis… Continue

Added by Kelly Clayton on September 11, 2009 at 12:24am — No Comments

Stacy Bayton Our Health Care Scam

As we see the health care issue finally take center stage in the political arena, I feel a great deal more fear than I do relief. Let's face it, I do not think there is one person out there today that says the health care in our country is working for everyone. There are a great deal of issues...the greatest of which to me is that we have a large percentage of our citizens who remain uncovered, and secondly that the coverage a great number of people have is a joke that covers little to nothing o… Continue

Added by Stacy Bayton on September 4, 2009 at 12:56am — No Comments

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