Our site has many resources. On the sidebar to the right, you’ll find links, videos, our rss feed, an events calendar, and pages.
Commenting on our blog:
We’ve recently made it easier to comment on our blog (October, 2008). Please see our discussion and usage guidelines page before you comment. Thanks!
Finding old articles:
Looking for old articles (posts)? You can always find everything mostly everything we write have ever written on this blog in the Categories section in the right sidebar. Just click on the topic, and you’ll see little excerpts of old articles. Then pick the article you like. Or, another way to find what you need on our site: enter a keyword into the search box. (updated Oct 08, 2008)
Polls:
There may be a poll or two in our sidebar. Please vote!
Our events calendar:
Our events calendar will contain information about meetings, etc. You can see what’s happening on an individual day by taking your cursor and hovering over a date on the calendar. See the image for help:
If you would like to see a whole month’s listing of events, you can click on the name of the month. See the image for help:
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Signing up for our rss feed:
There are many ways to gather and organize rss feeds. Since 70% of you or more use IE7, here’s instructions for Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) users to subscribe to feeds using your browser. This way to gather the feed does not tell the last few story titles, but it is pretty easy:
1. Go to the spot on a website or blog which says “Rss feed”, and click it. OR, simply go to the page and look at the top of your browser. If you have your browser set to show icons, and you have them displayed, you will see an orange square. Click that. See image below for help:
2. Once you’ve clicked on “rss feed” or have clicked on the orange square at the top, you’ll see the feed. On that page, you’ll find “subscribe to feed.” See this image:
3. Click Subscribe to feed and a box will appear. Click OK and you have subscribed to the feed! You can now see what’s happening on our blog without actually going to the blog.
4. To use your browser to see the feeds you’ve subscribed to, go to favorites and then to feeds. Supposedly, the bold will be the ones with new entries. See this image for help:
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Information on our pages:
Our pages describe issues more indepth and contain static informatin we’d like you to readily find. Please peruse at your leasure, and offer suggestions.
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Links we’ve provided:
Progressive sites, local and national– It is a building list of web links to various progressive sites. Our subscribers continue to send in exceptional sites for posting.
Just the Facts– Sometimes political advertising and rhetoric can be pretty inflamatory. Highly distorted or incorrect information is sometimes passed on as truth. Just because something is inflammatory does not make it right or wrong. There are places out there that focus on bringing truth to light– one example is FactCheck.org - The Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania is a non-partisan that provides an oversight resource that follows what is said and by whom and then evaluates the truthfulness of the information. Wonder if an ad or a statement is the truth? This site is up to date and uses plenty of video. Check it out! Here is a sample: Fact From Fiction
Think Tanks:
These links are a growing list of resources which are simply devoted to the issues. These are not issue advocates so much as they are resources that offer clear heads and information about issues that may concern our communities.
Especially interesting might be Mn2020.org, which is a non-partisan progressive group that focuses on:
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