The Whitewater-Area League of Women Voters’ April 2011 Newsletter is out, and it includes articles and a calendar of upcoming LWV events. The latest copy of the LWV newsletter is available as a link on my blogroll, and is embedded below, with coding through Google.
Here’s a sampling of upcoming events for the Whitewater-Area League —
Date: April 5 (Tuesday)
Event: Spring Election
Date: April 12 (Tuesday)
Event: Legislative Day
When: 11 AM – 3:30 PM
Where: Madison
Date: April 28 (Thursday)
Event: LWV Public Program “State Budget Impact on Environmental Programs and Transportation,” Steven Hiniker, Exec. Dir. of 1,000 Friends of Wisconsin.
When: 7 PM
Where: Common Council Chambers
Date: May 21 (Saturday)
Event: LWV Annual Meeting
When: 10 AM
Where: Fairhaven
Voters’ Guide to Wis. Supreme Court Candidates On-line
The LWVWI 2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court Candidates’ Answers Voter Guide can be accessed on-line at 2011 Supreme Court Voter Guide.
The League of Women Voters does not endorse individual candidates but provides information for citizens to make an informed choice on Election Day.
UW-Whitewater Lecture
The Political Science Department’s 26th Annual Kyle Lecture will take place Wednesday, April 13 at 7 PM in the Summers Auditorium in the University Center on the UW-Whitewater campus. Former state assemblyperson and state senator and current UW-Milwaukee professor of governmental affairs, Mordecai Lee, will present: “Trying to Understand Wisconsin Politics, circa spring 2011.“
Mordecai Lee is a 3rd generation Milwaukeean who graduated from UW- Madison and received degrees of MPA and Ph.D. in public administration from Syracuse University. Professor Mordecai specializes in public administration and nonprofit management, writing mostly about historical topics and about public relations as a management tool.
His books include The First Presidential Communications Agency; Bureaus of Efficiency: Reforming Local Government in the Progressive Era; and Nixon’s Super-Secretaries: The Last Grant Presidential Reorganization Effort. In August, the University of Oklahoma Press will publish his Congress vs. the Bureaucracy: Muzzling Agency Public Relations.
The event is free and open to the public.