Originally posted on AZCentral.com: Religion could be an important factor in the race for U.S. House in the East Valley, if voters' questions at a candidate forum this week are any indication. The 5th District, where four Republicans are competing to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., is deeply religious and conservative. It includes parts of Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert and Queen Creek. According to two polls of likely GOP primary voters: 53 percent attend religious services at least once a week. 65 percent are Catholic, Protestant or evangelical Christian. 20 … [Read more...]
Jones hired as executive director of The Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement to succeed Woman Gamer Changer Marsha Ternus
Oringinally posted on News.Drake.edu: Drake University President Marty Martin announced today that Joseph Jones, a Drake alumnus and former legislative assistant to retired U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, has been hired as executive director of The Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement. Jones will serve as the Institute’s first full-time executive director beginning Aug. 1. He worked as legislative assistant for Harkin’s office in Washington, D.C., from 2010 to 2013, and currently serves as senior vice president for government relations and public policy at the Greater Des … [Read more...]
DO-IT-YOURSELF CLIMATE ACTIVISM? WOMEN GAME CHANGERS BUILDING AN APP FOR THAT!
As originally posted on NewsMaker.com.au: Friday, June 10th, 2016 - 1 Million Women International women’s climate movement 1 Million Women is creating an app to turn millions of women around the world into everyday climate activists. 1 Million Women's innovative app will give women two crucial elements for leading transformation in their own homes and communities: a plan on how to live a low-carbon life, and the tools to transition to this lifestyle. With an estimated 17% of all global carbon pollution emissions contributing to climate change coming from our homes, lifestyle change is … [Read more...]
The Outsider: Woman Game Changer Christine Jones crashes the party in CD5
As originally posted on 960ThePatriot.com: Friday, June 10 June 2016: It is dusk in south Chandler, a sprawling city of roughly 250,000, whose dwellings spread out and punctuate the East Valley’s dry, flat desert landscape. As the sun begins its descent, the horizon turns into a deep hue of red and orange. Yet even as the sun is fading, there’s no sanctuary from the heat but going indoors, and it is here, in a beautiful home in an affluent neighborhood, that Christine Jones, a former executive of GoDaddy, has come to beg for votes, not money. Jones is seeking to represent Arizona’s … [Read more...]
Farming, Family and Succession — Woman Game Changer Hamilton turns gaze toward family orchard in latest novel
As posted on JournalTimes.com: ROCHESTER — Place, especially the rural pockets of America, plays a big role in the novels of Jane Hamilton. In her latest novel “The Excellent Lombards” the author has turned her gaze toward a subject and a place with she is intimately familiar — life on a family apple orchard in Wisconsin. Published this April, the novel focuses on life at the orchard, and the questions each character faces, as the time comes to determine the future of the family business with regard to the next generation. Raised in the historic and well-heeled … [Read more...]
Tracy Chevalier’s ‘At the Edge of the Orchard’ and Women Game Changer Jane Hamilton’s ‘The Excellent Lombards’
It can’t be great, even for a best-selling author, to find out that a second best-selling author has also written a new novel about a family’s obsession with its apple orchard. Think of the potential for confusion. Or all the weak “how do you like them apples” jokes that might have to be endured at readings. But the latest Tracy Chevalier and Jane Hamilton novels, stylistically distinct, respectively, as plot-heavy historical fiction and leisurely evocative contemporary literature, form a complementary double feature. Paired, they make the case that the beautiful lunacy of trying to earn a … [Read more...]