League of Women Voters of Wyoming
This talk is the second of three sponsored by CWC-Jackson, the WY Humanities Council, the WY Cultural Trust Fund, and the Teton County Library. The other dates are March 2 and May 4. The theme for this event is“Reintroduction of Bison:
This zoom session is hosted by the LWVUS Immigration Interest Group. The speaker, Theresa Cardinal Brown, is a Senior Advisor on Immigration and Border Policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center in DC. Until recently, Ms. Brown was the Managing Director
Talented UW faculty are selected twice yearly to receive this coveted award. This semester Dr. Jeff Lockwood. The flyer for his talk, shown below, suggests the humor we can expect during the conversation. On campus, find Jeff on the 2nd
Amendment 23 was passed in 1961. A 1978 effort to ratify a constitutional amendment giving DC voting representation in Congress failed. Its text appears below. Read more>>> Section 1. A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole
Join LWVUS for a walkthrough of our new Legal Center, a one-stop shop for locating the League's litigation at the national, state, and local level. This webinar is a great resource for League leaders and members tracking their litigation work.
On April 25, the Brookings Center on Regulation and Markets will hold a workshop for young scholars to explore these topics. Of particular interest might be the 20 minute intro at 11:00 and the rural example described here. Read more>>>
Join the MT Chapter of Country First, co-chaired by former state legislators Joel Krautter and Bruce Grubbs, virtually for a gathering. Country First is led by Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL). It supports campaigns with a tailored combination of fundraising, advertising, texting, grassroots
Library subject specialists Michelle Krowl and Ahmed Johnson will explore the historical context of the document and provide genealogical research related to the thousands of names on the petition. Since this petition is also a new transcribing project, information about
Hanks & Robinson, former ACLU deputy legal director, have produced a short, animated film about the contested and consequential 1876 presidential. The Washington Post’s Kate Woodsome will moderate the conversation about “How to Rig an Election: The Racist History of
The National First Ladie's Library sponsors this zoom event and it's one of their monthly Legacy Lectures. In describing both the book and this lecture, author William Kuhn writes: She was a book editor in New York for nearly two
Amendment 17 passes in 1913. Its text appears below. Originally state legislators chose congressional senators. A striking example of how dysfunctional this process could be comes from Delaware 1895. Their legislators were completely deadlocked and Delaware didn't have a senator