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Newsletter: Agenda

July 2008

This issue includes:
- Changing Health Care 2008: Problems with the American System
- Changing Health Care 2008: Lessons from Abroad
- Subprime Mortgage Crisis in NYC
- Self Help among Immigrant Women
- Rockefeller Drug Laws
- Insert: Civic Spirt Gala 2008
- Fiscal Crisis and NYC Schools
- New Museum Tour
- Poverty: The Forgotten Cause
- Poverty: Views of Presidential Candidates
- Changing Health Care 2008: Building a Better System

February 2008

This issue includes:
- Is the Mayor’s Housing Plan on Track?
- Greetings from the President
- Council Member Rosie Mendez
- A Tour of “First Houses”
- A Walk To Beautiful
- What Happens When Prisoners are Released?
- “Greening” the Code
- Libraries for Brooklyn’s Diverse Population
- From the Executive Director
- The Solaire: WCC Tour
- WCC’s Theater Benefit
- Council Member Jessica Lappin
- A Brooklyn Adventure

Fall 2007

This issue includes:
- Greetings from the President
- Global Warming in NYC
- Elsie’s Tours, a WCC book
- Ellis Island Tour
- Old & Poor in City of Riches
- Keeping Abortion Legal
- Profile of President Acker
- Restoration of the Armory
- Reforming Albany

Spring 2007

This issue includes:
- Immigrants in NYC
- Training for Diversity
- Neuberger Lecture: The President &
The Constitution
- NYC’s Energy Needs
- Slavery Exhibit at New-York Historical Society
- Gloria Browne-Marshall’s Race, Law &
American Society
- Human Trafficking
- Are You a Feminist? A Male Perspective

Special Gala Edition 2007

Winter 2007

This issue includes:
- Borough President Stringer’s Talk
- City Council Speaker Quinn
- Board of Elections Executive Director John Ravitz
- CUNY Chancellor Goldstein
- Taxes: A Woman’s Issue with Mimi Abramovitz
- Government vs. Privatization
- WCC Visits Ground Zero & The Tribute Center

 

Summer 2006

This issue includes:
- Public Authorities: Next Steps to Reform
- Insert: Civic Spirit Awards Dinner
- Fixing Family Court
- Aftermath of 9/11

 

Spring 2006

This issue includes:
- Non-Citizen Voting Rights
- NYC Councilman John Liu, Transportation Chair
- William L. Taylor, Esq. on his memoir, The Passion of My Times, and 50 years of civil rights activism
- WCC’s 90th Birthday Bash at Gracie Mansion
- Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
- Power of One: Peggy Shepard, Exec. Dir., Harlem Environmental Action
- David Von Drehle on Triangle: The Fire that Changed America
- Are You a Feminist? II
An Intercultural Perspective

 

December 2005

This issue includes:
- The Mayoral Agenda
- Pathways to Affordable Housing
- Dial 311
- Medicare Prescription Drug Plan
- Neuberger Lecture with Barry Scheck:
   The Innocence Project
- The Artist as Citizen
- Are You a Feminist?
- Emergency Contraception
- Women in the Sciences
- Women of Saudi Arabia

Special Gala Edition 2005

Summer 2005

This issue includes:
- WCC Annual Meeting Speakers
- Social Security Debate: Impact on Women
- Solid Facts on Solid Waste
- Carmen Farina, Deputy Chancellor, NYC Dept. of - Education and John Mattingly, Comm., Admin. for - Children's Services
- Civil and Voting Rights
- Betsy Wade's Hidden History
- Brooklyn Borough Pres. Marty Markowitz
- Honoring Shirley Chisholm
- David Shipler: The Working Poor

 

Special 90th Anniversary Conference Edition 2005

Speakers & Presenters:
- Marie Wilson, President, The White House Project
- Alair Townsend, Publisher, Crain’s New York Business
- Madelyn Hochstein, President, & Co-Founder, Dyg, Inc.
- Jason Gooljar, Co-Chair, Democracy for Westchester
- Chellie Pingree, President & Ceo, Common Cause
- Joe Trippi, Political Consultant, Trippi & Associates
- David S. Birdsell, Ph.D., Baruch College, CUNY

 

Fall 2004

This issue includes:
- March For Women’s Lives, Washington, D.C.
- New York Times Editor Gail Collins on Her New Book
- Robert Hayes, Medicare Rights Center: Reforming the New Medicare Law
- Shortchanging NYC’s School Children
- City Council Education Chair: Eva Moskowitz

 

June 2004

This issue includes:
- How WCC acts to protect your vote
- Citizens Rate City Government
- WCC's Questions on Hudson Yards
- The Sly Ways Albany Controls NYC
- NYC Campaign Law Debates
Special Report:
- Negotiating Welfare Reform Legislation

December/January 2004

This issue includes:
- Peanuts are out! So are Dinosaurs
- How Schoolbooks and Tests are being Censored with Diane Ravitch
- New York City Comptroller Bill Thompson - Optimistic and Cautious
- The Medicare Revolution
- Why the WCC is 90 Years Old

 

August 2003

This issue includes:
- Chancellor Klein's Vision of NYC Schools this September ...and Thereafter
- "Dysfunctional Decision Making" - Senator Liz Krueger looks at Albany
- The Aging of America
- Alice M. Rivlin on Greed, Ethics and Honest Numbers

 

March 2003

This issue includes:
- An Insider's Look at How Albany Operates with NYS Senator Eric Schneinderman
- What's New and Different In Charter Schools
- Women and the Practice of Law

 

December 2002

This issue includes:
- NYC Council Speaker Gifford Miller
- Consumer Affairs Commissioner Gretchen Dykstra
- Coverage of Health Care for All New Yorkers: How Can We Make It a Reality? and more.

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