Update, Thursday, March 26, from New York Civil Liberties Union: Albany Agreement a Step Toward Dismantling Rockefeller, But Not a Done Deal and Not Repeal. The deal reached in principle … could be an important step toward dismantling New York State’s draconian drug laws. But what has been outlined so far is only an agreement in principle ” not law” and it does not fully repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws.
Archive for the ‘I Didn’t See This on the Evening News (A Work in Progress)’ Category
New York Times: Albany Reaches Deal to Repeal ’70s-Era Drug Laws
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Hundreds Rally at Governor’s Third Avenue New York City Office to Demand End of Rockefeller Drug Law
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Outside Governor Paterson’s Office on Third Avenue, Manhattan, between 40th and 41st streets, mid town, March 25.
New York Civil Liberties Union, March 25, 2009 – Hundreds of New Yorkers rallied today in front of Governor David Paterson’s Manhattan office, urging him and the State’s legislative leaders to enact a sweeping overhaul of the Rockefeller Drug Laws, the infamous mandatory-minimum drug sentencing scheme.
Quality of Health Care Journalism Being Eroded?
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009New Report and Survey Examine State of Health Care Journalism
A survey of members of the Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ), conducted in partnership with AHCJ, and the report, The State of Health Journalism in the U.S., authored by Gary Schwitzer of the University of Minnesota School of Journalism, detail how the financial pressures on the media industry and the fierce competition to break news on new and expanding platforms on the Internet are affecting the quality of health reporting.
Free Tibet
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009Â
Union Square, about 6:30 p.m., across from Whole Foods. Not a particularly big rally, but definitely attention getting. March 11, 2009
A work in progress about news.
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“Drop the Rock!”
Saturday, March 14th, 2009WORD Writer Frankie Garcia and WORD Senior Editor/Producer Kisha Allison covered a rally and lobbying effort in Albany, March 10 to convince the legislator to repeal the Rockefeller Drug Laws. They both took pictures and Allison’s planning on expanding on their multimedia reporting later this week in the WORD. Picture below was taken by Garcia.
I bet no one saw this image on the evening news, March 10, 2009
Tags:Albany, lobbying, Rockefeller Drug Laws
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