The Hot Sheet

School Board District 1 public education forum

We are helping facilitate a Community Forum on Education & Schools for School Board District 1 - which includes the neighborhoods of Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar, Homewood North, Homewood South, East Hills, Friendship, Shadyside, Point Breeze, Larimer, and Point Breeze North

WHEN:  Monday, May 4th, 6pm - 8:00pm
WHERE:  Faison Primary School, 7430 Tioga Street 15208

The Community Empowerment Association is organizing this community forum to address topics effecting the community, parents, youth, teachers, and administrators from District 1.  They hope it will be the first of a series of discussions regarding reform in the Pittsburgh Public Schools.  All school board candidates for District 1 have been invited to attend and participate.

Tags: and Point Breeze North, board, candidates, christine stone, East Hills, forum, Friendship, Homewood North, Homewood South, Larimer, Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar, pittsburgh, Point Breeze, public schools, school, Shadyside, sharene shealey, sherry brooks

Check out our 2009 Voter Guide

See candidate responses for Mayor, City Council, School Board, County Council, and even the Judicial races here on our website:

http://pahotsheet.com/2009-voter-guide

We wanted to make sure we got answers from the candidates on important issues, so we collaborated with the Sierra Club Allegheny Group and Planned Parenthood of Western PA to come up with the questions for this voter guide.

Consider this one more tool in your arsenal to elect the most responsive and responsible government possible.  More voter guides are coming from groups like A+ Schools and the League of Women Voters, and we’ll link them here once they’re available, too.

And please join us for our Voter Guide Release Party, Saturday April 4th at Town Tavern on Carson Street from 9pm-Midnight.  A $5 donation gets you in for a make-your-own-taco bar with chips and salsa and also a cheese-and-veggie option, with $2 wine, beer, and well drinks.

Add in a DJ and the chance to meet and chat with some of the candidates, and you’ve got a great night and can help us with our mission to inform and turn out young voters.  (Roxanne and I are guest bartending!)

We’d love to get your feedback, so please leave a comment or send us an email with your thoughts and suggestions.

-Carly

Tags: allegheny county, candidates, city council, common pleas, commonwealth court, county council, election, judicial, local, mayor, mayoral, Pennsylvania, pittsburgh, primary, school board, superior court, supreme court, vote, voter, voter guide

Everyone knows our Voter Guides rock

Ashley DiParlo at WTAE interviewed our own Carly Dobbins-Bucklad about the League of Young Voters special DIY voter guide website, theballot.org — where you can see all the League non-partisan voter guides (including PA’s!) with information on all of the down-ballot candidates and referendums, as well as upload your own voter guide.

People and organizations can submit guides all over the country, so if you’ve got a friend in another state, pass theballot.org on!

Tags: ballot.org, candidates, DIY, election, election information, League of Young Voters, national, non-partisan, online, Pennsylvania, state representative, vote, voter guides, wtae, Youth

Westmoreland Candidates Forum

Hello from the Westmoreland Co candidate forum! Put together by the League of Women Voters, candidates Anthony Bompiani and John Boyle were in attendance. I submitted a question asking if they would support a reincarnation of the Reach Scholarship; we’ll see what they have to say. TWO MORE FORUMS LEFT!!! -Carly

Tags: candidates, candidates forum, election, vote, voter education, voter guides

What does your Auditor General do?

“The proper role of the state auditor general — Pennsylvania’s designated fiscal watchdog — is disputed by the two major party candidates for the position, who made appearances in Monroe County last week.”

Today the Pocono Record ran a story about the differing views two candidates for Auditor General, Jack Wagner and Chet Beiler, have about what the position is supposed to do for PA.

The two candidates featured in the article also responded to our Voter Guide questionnaire — read their responses here!

Tags: Auditor General, candidates, election, inform the vote, Pennsylvania, vote, voter guides