25 November 2021
Blog Post: What's Up? Food for Thought notes
What's Up?
02 October 2021
Blog post: Littlemouse Vision Quest
Littlemouse Vision Quest
Some of you might be wondering, What is with the Word for the Day?
I find myself surrounded by individuals that just seem to be lacking in the proper perspective on behavior, history and law.
So, call it mentoring to a larger audience. It allows me the opportunity to utilize a formidable education for the greater good.
Now, have a very good month. I have a lot of web work to put together.
09 September 2021
Word for The Day: Cyber-bullying
Word for The Day: Cyber-bullying
It has been some time since I have addressed the word; cyber-bullying.
In 2006 and 2008, teenagers were the victims of cyber-bullying in Missouri. Those incidents brought attention to the lack of laws to punish the criminals having damaging effects on the lives of others.
Today, there are about 45 states that have laws in their State's to legally address this crime. Before the cyber-bullying laws were put into place, teenagers got the word out among their peers to stop being cruel.
So, here it is 2021, and cyber-bullying is widespread among adults especially when politics has a voice in this abuse utilizing tech instruments and social media platforms.
Arkansas is one of the states that has a cyber-bullying law (Ark. Code Ann. § 5-41-108.) Is it time for adults to wake-up and realize that it is not just young people that utilize their devices (internet, social media, phones, letters and gaming) that causes harm to others?
Word for the Day: Oppression
Word for the Day: Oppression
27 August 2021
Blog Post: Littlemouse's Vision Quest journey
Littlemouse's Vision Quest journey
- Gathering together all the locations I have utilized over the past twenty-years.
- Word for Day is in draft for the moment.
- Sized a masthead to fit Creekside News Journal's RSS feed and published the first short article for a local news item hosted at the Creekside News Journal (CNj).
- And the final assignment is to gather facts together after receiving replies to a long list of FOIAs in order to write short articles regarding local governments. One fact that is clear, government needs to be transparent and reporters need to write What is transparent. Well, let's see how long it takes to sort through a tangled mess of mis-information provided by Pandemic isolation and many, many ZOOM meetings.
20 July 2021
Word for the Day: Social Media
Word for the Day: Social Media
14 July 2021
Word for the Day: Gerrymander
Word for the Day: Gerrymander
In 1812, Eldridge Gerry was the Mayor of Boston and signed a bill that created a partisan voting district. Gerrymandering is the political term, named after the Mayor, and the term is considered to carry negative connotations including corruption of the democratic process.
The term will be used most often when voting districts are re-drawn utilizing the data collected and provided by the Bureau of the Census and when the new voting blocks result in greater advantage for some and unfair representation for others; Gerrymandering is the word of choice.
In 25 states, the state legislature has the primary responsibility for creating a redistricting plan and in many of these states the state governor has the final approval.
"On June 27, 2019, the Supreme Court, by a 5 to 4 vote, ruled that claims of unconstitutional partisan gerrymandering are not subject to federal court review because they present non-justifiable political questions, removing the issue from the federal court's purview."
Congressional Research Service
https://crsreports.congress.gov
LSB10324
update 5/ 15/2021
The community where I reside became an incorporated town and then a city all within less than a year; during the Covid outbreak. At a workshop meeting, procedures were discussed for the creation of Wards. The following information was being researched and here is an example that I found at MRSC in Washington state.
https://mrsc.org/Home/Explore-Topics/Governance/Offices-and-Officers/Council-Election-by-Wards-or-Districts.aspx
Election Procedures
" Council candidates must be a resident of the ward they wish to represent. Candidates are elected by the voters within the ward at the primary election to select the finalists who will appear on the general election ballot for election by all voters in the city."