Capitol Hill Day Success

July 19, 2010
blog post
Federal Advocacy intern, Sumeet Singh
http://abouthomelessness.blogspot.com

Every year, Capitol Hill Day offers a time for advocates of ending homelessness to sit down with their Senators and Representatives and discuss pressing and pertinent issues regarding homelessness. In doing so, it also provides another great opportunity – a chance for these passionate advocates to come together and have their voices heard. This year, those voices were heard as loudly as ever before – advocates from 40 states and Guam held over 215 meetings with Congressional offices, and the results are still pouring in! With every additional meeting, the value and effectiveness of Hill Day 2010 increase that much more. We’ll do a follow-up blog post in a few weeks once we have finalized all of the results. In its decades-long existence, Hill Day’s track record of spreading knowledge, creating awareness, and igniting political movement clearly demonstrates just how powerful a tool it has been.

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Posted by ks on 07/22/10 at 11:50 AM
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Funding For Public Transit In Alabama: Alternatives To The Gas Tax

By:

Sumeet R. Singh
Junior, Birmingham Southern College

Edited By:
Adam R. Snyder
Executive Director, Conservation Alabama Foundation

Issues related to oil and gas have bred a great deal of dissent at all levels – domestically, nationally, and internationally. Unfortunately, lost in the vast sea of extensive studies and exhaustive discourse about the issue of gas is the vital link fuel currently has to infrastructure. Although it may ostensibly seem that concerns about fuel’s price, its environmental impact, and relations with its foreign suppliers are most pressing, these fears have no place if America’s infrastructure – particularly the infrastructure within many of her states – continues to deteriorate.

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Posted by ks on 07/02/10 at 07:06 PM
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Why I choose to read a book over watching television

By Nirmal Choradia
1st year student, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine

For as long as television has been around, people have been told that it is rotting their minds and destroying their ability to think.  Instead, people say read a book. 

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Posted by ks on 06/29/09 at 08:41 PM
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