On March 25, the Civitas Institute is sponsoring a lecture by Father Robert Sirico, President of the Acton Institute who will be speaking on “Does Social Justice Require Socialism?”
Too see a bit of what Fr. Sirico is about, check out his “Tangle with Rangel” from a House Committee hearing in 2007.
To attend the lecture, sign up on the Civitas website here. The cost is $10 for individuals, $15 per couple.
Last Friday current school board members and interested individuals gathered in Raleigh for a day of professional training. Attendees heard from Lindalyn Kakadelis, former member of the Charlotte Mecklenburg School Board, on the roles and responsibilities of school board members. Doug Punger, General Counsel with the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools led a session on employment law. In the afternoon, Phil Price of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction talked about school finance issues, while Phil Strach of Ogletree Deakins closed out the day with a discussion of parliamentary procedure. Feedback for Civitas’ first school board member training was encouraging. So, stay tuned for information on upcoming sessions.
Conservative pundit Mary Katharine Ham recently addressed a crowd of 50 people at Meredith College. Her topic: “NeW Wave Feminism: Girl Power without Government.” Hosted by the NC chapters of the Network of enlightened Women, her talk came mere hours after Apple’s release of the “IPad” and just before the President’s State of the Union. Talk about timing.
Be sure to watch MKH’s interesting perspective on all things women, conservative and SOTU.
Political writer Mary Katharine Ham will join the NC chapters of Network of enlightened Women tonight to discuss “NeW Wave Feminism: Girl Power without Government.” The event will begin at 7:00 pm at Meredith College, Ledford 101.
The event is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there to support these students and hear from an excellent speaker!
The Civitas Institute will be holding its monthly poll luncheon this Wednesday where we will be releasing the results of our latest poll results. Our guest commentator this month will be Dallas Woodhouse. Dallas has been involved in North Carolina politics for many years. Beginning his career as a Raleigh-based political journalist with NBC-17, he also spent time on the evening news at WKFT and WLFL. Woodhouse began his stint with Americans for Prosperity as the Communications and Legislative Director for AFP–North Carolina, and took command of the North Carolina chapter in August 2007. Through his position, Dallas leads the fight to ease the burden of big government in North Carolina. Woodhouse was placed on the “10 to Watch in 2010” list by the News and Observer.
The next poll lunch will be on Wednesday, January 27 at the Clarion Hotel at 11:45 a.m. The cost is $10.
Looking for a stimulating discussion for a Thursday lunch? Tomorrow our friends at the Pope Center for Higher Education are sponsoring a Headliner Luncheon Panel Discussion to highlight a new report titled “The UNC School of the Arts: Should it be Self-Supporting?”. Panelists include the author of the report, Max Borders, Executive Editor of the Free to Choose Network. Borders argues that the high expense of the UNC School of the Arts ($24,943 per student) and lack of tangible benefits for North Carolina taxpayers makes a compelling case for privatizing arts education. John Hood, President of the John Locke Foundation and J.Peder Zane former Ideas columnist for the Raleigh News and Observer round out the panel. For additional information and to register.
For all of our friends in western North Carolina, this message is for you. Next Saturday, October 31st, the Civitas Institute is bringing Trent Seibert of Texas Watchdog and Erik Telford of Americans For Prosperity to Asheville for a day-long training dedicated to strengthening your investigative journalism and new media skills. The training will cover such topics as: making public records requests, investigating individuals and schools, using databases and mapping, blogging and social networking. The Doubletree Hotel — 115 Hendersonville Road in Asheville – will host this event. Cost is $20 and includes a boxed lunch. For additional information and to register, click here. Come join us for what promises to be a fun day packed with useful information and valuable skills. Hope to see you next week! Questions? Call the Civitas Institute: 919-834-2099.
Round 2 of voting has begun in the Bad Bill of the Year tournament!
Congratulations to all of last week’s winners in their first round matchups. Thank you to all the readers out there for casting nearly 4,000 votes in the first week of our little tournament.
And always, remember the mantra of Chicago-style politics, “Vote Early, and Vote Often”!
You can now vote for you favorite “Worst Bill” of the year. The polls are open! Over the course of this year Civitas wrote on 32 bills as our “Bad Bill of the Week.” Unfortunately 32 is really not enough to cover all the “Bad Bills” introduced this year in the General Assembly but these are bills that struck our fancy and help to illustrate some of the ridiculous actions of our elected officials.
Hope you enjoy and don’t forget to vote for you favorite team “Bad Bill“.
The Civitas Institute’s Conservative Leadership Conference was an extreme success and we thank you all for coming out! Our story was covered on News14 and featured clips from Carrie Prejean’s speech during Saturday’s lunch. You can watch the story below.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSkuMzaJ4tU
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