Success Story

Great news--Governor Doyle signed the Healthy Youth Act into law! The Healthy Youth Act will ensure that public schools use comprehensive sex education programs that are medically accurate, age-appropriate, and proven effective to reduce rates of unintended pregnancy and STDs among teens.

Last week, the citizens of Deer Isle, a town of about 1900 residents off the coast of Maine, voted at their annual town hall meeting in favor of a resolution that "commands Maine's member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the second Maine Congressional District to oppose all legislation brought before the U.S. House of Representatives that provides further funding of the U.S. warfare and U.S. military occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan." The resolution passed with a 67% "yes" vote.

 WisPolitics reports: The Wisconsin Assembly voted 51-42 Thursday, Feb. 25, to approve legislation that could require schools to drop race-based nicknames, logos or mascots if a district resident complained to the state.

Republicans objected Tuesday to a final vote on the bill, forcing today's vote. They also objected to messaging the bill to the Senate to delay further action as GOP members complained over what they said was the oversensitivity of some and allowing a state bureacrat to weigh in on a local issue over a school's mascot.

Haitian immigrants and Immigrant-rights advocates hailed a decision by the Obama administration, in response to the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti, to halt all deportation proceedings for an estimated 100,000 undocumented Haitian immigrants in the US. "I screamed. I got on my knees. And I cried: Lord, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you," said one woman, a Haitian immigrant living in Takoma Park, MD.  "Nine years I have been waiting for this." The order allows undocumented Haitian immigrants to remain in the U.S. for another 18 months, and was advocated for by many immigrant-rights groups, including WNPJ member group Voces de la Frontera.