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This week is the prelude to a life-changing journey, Cancer. It’s game time. Meanwhile, your ninth house of justice is crammed with a nagging sense of civic responsibility. Whether jury duty calls or that subpoena finally arrives in your drop box, embrace what life tosses at you or that journey to Jamaica might well turn into a sojourn to the slammer...
...purpose is not just to make signs and raise hell," says Lloyd, sitting in a hotel lobby with two members of the Lynchburg Tea Party. Like many Tea Party leaders, he's preaching the power of civic engagement - the importance of poring over voting records, parsing candidates' rhetoric and tapping those who will do the people's bidding. In this district, as in other regions where distrust of government runs deep, the congregation is growing. "People need to understand that whoever you vote for, these guys work for you," says Dion Richardson, a Lynchburg lawyer. "They're not rock stars...
Serves everyone in your new Civic...
Putnam, a public policy expert who has written extensively on the decline in social and civic engagement among Americans, focused his remarks on the importance of forming social networks to promote psychological well-being...
...Television is about half of the story, actually,” Putnam said. “Watching the news is good for your civic health. But most people aren’t watching the news. They’re watching ‘Friends,’ instead of having friends...