How does your community's government work? What type of government does your community have? I live in a town. We have a town administrator, selectmen, and representative town meetings. The town administrator oversees the daily operations of the town. He or she is not elected but hired for a multi-year term. This is one of the responsibilities of the selectmen. The selectmen and the representatives of the town meeting are the authority. The selectmen, in some communities called...

Introduction Technology is interesting. It allows us to communicate regardless of time zone and from just about anywhere. A laptop computer, a wireless Internet card, and a table at Starbucks, and I can write, post, email, and communicate with anyone in the world. This article discusses a variety of ways that the Internet and technology are useful tools for political and community activism. It discusses the use of the Internet for ranting, activating and informing. Some useful sites ar...

The federal hourly minimum wage is $5.15. Some states pay more and some pay less. Some states have no minimum wage. Rent, gas, food, clothing and utilities. Can you afford to be minimumWaged ? The following list displays the minimum wage paid in each state and the District of Columbia. Alabama None Alaska $7.15 Arizona None Arkansas $5.15 California $6.75 Colorado $5.15 Connecticut $7.10 Delaware $6.15 District of Columbia $6.15 Florida None Georgia $5.15 Hawaii $6.25 Idaho $5.15...

Political Party Web sites Our political process rests on two major parties, the Democrats and theRepublicans. We also have two popular third parties, the Green Partyand the Libertarian Party. Third Party politics has a permanent place in history. They havebrought many ideas and issues to fruition. Third Parties have helpedto end slavery, give women the right to vote and have influenced manylabor issues. The United States is home to many Third Parties. Some are one issueparties and s...

The Green Party is in the news lately. Some believe that they gave the past election to Bush while others believe that it was Gore's election to lose. The other prominent third party is the Libertarians. They truly believe in the least amount of government. The Greens are progressive. Ecology is only one part of their platform. They also believe in racial diversity, a living wage, and laws and policies expressed in a humanitarian manner, locally, nationally, and globally. Libertaria...

I am a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union (www.ufcw.org). The UFCW represents workers in the following industries: health care, meat packing, chemical trades, textiles, and retail food. Their goals are workers' rights, better wages, benefits, and safer work areas. Members of this union comprise workers from the following stores. (This is a partial list.) Shaws, Pathmark, Fry's, Zehrs Markets, Stop & Shop, and Kohl's Bloomingdale's, Sears Roebuck, and Value Ci...

Introduction Everybody needs to pay attention to labor issues. It doesn't matter whether you work at a minimum wage job or you are a software engineer. Any company's main goal is to make a profit. I don't begrudge them; it is only natural that a company cannot stay in business unless it does makes a profit. However, I do begrudge the behaviors companies engage in to make a profit ! Companies oursource! It doesn't matter if it is manufacturing or software development. Actually, computer pr...

Which United State's city is not in a state? It is located within the continental United States. It is on the East coast. It is the capital of the United States. Yes, it is Washington D.C. Washingtonians have a mayor but have no governor or Senate representation. They have one member in the House of Representatives, Eleanor Holmes Norton. Thomas Jefferson selected their first mayor in 1802. This city consists of 69 square miles of land that was originally part of Virginia and Maryland....