Sunshine Week Celebrates Right to Know (News Clips) 3/28/2014 To the editor: Launched in 2005, Sunshine Week has grown into an annual national initiative to promote open government and push back against excessive official secrecy.
Spring Election Hurtling Toward Us; Are You Informed? (News Clips) 3/28/2014 The first Tuesday in April comes early this year. It falls on April 1, meaning we're less than two weeks away from the annual spring elections. Are you prepared to vote?
Join League of Women Voters in Honoring Sunshine Week (News Clips) 3/28/2014 March 17-23 is Sunshine Week, an annual nationwide effort to call attention to transparency in government and freedom of information.
This Women’s History Month, Remembering the Women That History Books Forget (Blog) 3/27/2014 Women possess unbridled power to effect change, especially at the grassroots level. But there are many admirable women that history books often fail to recognize.
Illinois Suffrage at 17: Successful Youth Voter Registration in Greater Rockford (Blog) 3/27/2014 A new law in Illinois allows 17-years-olds to vote in the primary election if they'll be 18 in time for the November general election. Following passage of the law, the League of Women Voters of…
The Commission on the Status of Women, the United Nations and the League (Blog) 3/27/2014 League members recently attended the United Nation's 58th Commission on the Status of Women. Following World War II, the League of Women Voters helped lead the effort to establish the United Nations.
California Health Exchange Slow to Offer Voter Registration (News Clips) 3/26/2014 Supporters of the new national health care law portray California's exchange as among the most successful at signing up residents for medical coverage.
League Urges Representatives to Co-Sponsor H.R. 270 (Legal Document) 3/24/2014 The League joined with reform groups to ask Representatives to Co-Sponsor H.R. 270, the Empowering Citizens Act.
Facing Lawsuit, Covered California Ramps up Voter Help (News Clips) 3/24/2014 Facing a deadline of early next week for a voting rights lawsuit in federal court, California's health insurance exchange appears to have agreed to send out almost 4 million voter registration
Where are the Female Candidates? (News Clips) 3/24/2014 Kohout began participating with the League of Women Voters of Door County on the “Observer Corps,” where a person sits in on various County Board and committee meetings and simply watches and liste