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An Olympic Feat

Anonymous on August 1, 2012 - 4:53pm

I love the Olympics. The strength of the athletes, the pride of country and all the ceremony - I just love it all. 

An ad from the Why Marriage Matters Project was played during the opening ceremonies here in Maine, showing up on television sets from Portland to Bangor and beyond. Have you seen it yet? It was pretty powerful and if you haven't had a chance, you can watch it here. 
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National KIDS COUNT Index Tells a Positive, Yet Cautionary Tale

Anonymous on August 1, 2012 - 3:20pm

In light of recent press around Maine’s Hunger Initiative, pioneered by Preble Street, it is timely to take a look at child well-being indicators as researched by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

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Why Worry If You Have Nothing To Hide?

Anonymous on July 31, 2012 - 4:05pm

For those of us concerned about privacy and surveillance the "Why Worry" question is especially infuriating.  Not only does it lazily condone the latest surveillance intrusion (ALPR's, by the way) but naively accepts the government's actions as righteous.
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Health Insurance is Good

Anonymous on July 31, 2012 - 2:18pm

As summarized in the New York Times last week, two recent studies show that Medicaid works.

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License Plate Readers Come Under New Scrutiny

Anonymous on July 30, 2012 - 4:38pm

The ACLU launched a nationwide effort today to find out more about automatic license plate readers (ALPRs). This relatively new technology allows for photographs to be taken of every license plate that passes by – up to three thousand per minute – with all of that information stored in a massive database. | continue reading

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Let Nancy Vote

Anonymous on July 27, 2012 - 5:14pm

Did you know that in the last 38 years there have been only two cases of voter fraud in Maine? Both were effectively taken care of and did nothing to alter election results.  Yet, for some reason, talk of voter ID won’t go away.
 
Instead of securing election systems, voter ID laws create unnecessary obstructions to voting. Take Nancy Wilde, for example.  She has been voting since 1957 when she was 21. Unfortunately, Wisconsin recently passed voter ID laws that have complicated Nancy’s attempt to vote in this fall’s election.
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New Depths of Racial Profiling Exposed

Anonymous on July 27, 2012 - 1:18pm

On Wednesday, the AP came out with a story about a peculiar 911 call in New Jersey from June of 2009:

A building superintendent at an apartment complex just off the Rutgers University campus called the New Brunswick Police 911 line in June 2009. | continue reading

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Come Fly With Me

Anonymous on July 26, 2012 - 5:20pm

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reinstated the ACLU's challenge to the no-fly list, which was brought on behalf of people who were told that they could not fly on an airplane but were not told why. More importantly, the plaintiff were never told what (if anything) they could do to get their names off the no-fly list.  
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Out of the mouths of babes…

Anonymous on July 26, 2012 - 3:01pm

Scott Moody, executive director of the Maine Heritage Policy Center (MHPC), had this to say yesterday in response to a Portland press event on child hunger:
When you’re running an unprecedented trillion dollar deficit, we have to start taking a step back as a country and be asking ourselves do we really need to be still doing these things.

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Free Future at the ACLU

Anonymous on July 25, 2012 - 5:11pm

Those kind enough to read my weekly blog posts understand that privacy is an issue I care about.  It's especially important because as Jay Staley writes:

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