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Capital Connection – Today’s PA & NY Issues – 9/27/24

Capital Connection – Today’s PA & NY Issues – 9/27/24

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Capital Connection – Today’s PA & NY Issues

It’s our weekly Family Life News cultural/political/social roundtable, for the week of 9/27/2024

It’s “Capital Connection”, the Friday news feature from Family Life News.  Noon Report anchor Bob Price guides our ten-minute conversation, digging into the issues in our two states — and far beyond.

Christian advocates Jason McGuire and Michael Gere have commentary from the two capital cities on these major issues in the news:

  • NY’s regents pause consideration on policies for transgender inclusion in girls scholastic sports, but will such rules be back after the election?
  • Do voters realize that Proposition One may enshrine such gender diversity in the New York Constitution? What will the “Equal Rights Amendment” do to women’s rights, parental rights, and parental notifications about counseling and medical treatments for their children?
  • Thousands gathered in Harrisburg this week. What is happening in the battle over abortion regulations?
  • What do our watchdogs see as trends in legislative priorities this fall, swings in the 2024 election, and voters’ confidence in how the ballots are distributed and counted?

 

 

 

Our guests on most editions of “Capital Connection” are Jason McGuire, the executive director of the New York Families Foundation and New York Families Action, and Michael Geer, the president of the Pennsylvania Family Institute.

 

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Capital Connection – Politics & Easter, Marijuana Biz, and more – 4/05/24

Capital Connection – Politics & Easter, Marijuana Biz, and more – 4/05/24

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Capital Connection – Politics & Easter, Marijuana Biz, and more – 4/05/24

This week’s Capital Connection roundtable examines the “big issues” in New York and Pennsylvania. The agenda for this episode includes:

  • Politics and faith had a big overlap during Easter Week, with Joe Biden’s triple Sunday proclamations and Donald Trump’s promotion of a specialty Bible
  • Legalization of marijuana in Pennsylvania could trigger the same economic, criminal and social problems other states have already seen
  • Phrasing of a New York legislative proposal affects the debate: is it “death with dignity” or “physician-assisted suicide”?
  • Some legislators recommend action that could affect PA charter schools, limiting some families’ school choice

Dan Bartkowiak substitutes for Michael Geer this week. Bartkowiak is the Director of Communications for the Pennsylvania Family Institute. [ online at PAFamily.com ]

Jason McGuire is Executive Director of the New York Families Federation.  [ online at NewYorkFamilies.org ] In this podcast, McGuire explains the “rebranding” of that group, previously called New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms.
Capital Connection – 3/22/24

Capital Connection – 3/22/24

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“Capital Connection” on Family Life

Two family-values watchdogs join the Family Life Noon Report each Friday, to recap and analyze the biggest social, cultural and political stories of the week. Among the events and issues on the agenda for Jason McGuire and Michael Geer this week:

  • New York is losing support for government support of legalized marijuana (but doubling down anyway)
  • Pro-abortion matters in the PA legislature and pro-life matters in a number of Pennsylvania communities
  • Bypassing doctors, Governor Hochul says pharmacies can dispense abortion-inducing drugs, without a prescription
  • The start of “March Madness” is a prime time to evaluate sports betting in our two states

Jason McGuire is executive director of an advocacy/educational group which recently updated its name and logo to reemphasize its mission: New York Families.

Michael Geer founded the Pennsylvania Family Institute in 1989, serving as its president since that time.

 

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Capital Connection – 3/08/24

Capital Connection – 3/08/24

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The Disastrous Rollout of Marijuana Inc.  in New York

A Christian Perspective to the IVF Debate

Protecting Election Integrity

Previewing Legislative Day 2024

 

Christian watchdogs Jason McGuire and Dan Bartkowiak discuss the weighty issues in the news from the state capitals in Albany and Harrisburg.  Here’s what’s going on this week …on Family Life’s “Capital Connection”.

 

Capital Connection – Migrants, Marijuana, Motivating voters – 09/08/23

Capital Connection – Migrants, Marijuana, Motivating voters – 09/08/23

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Family Life’s “Capital Connection”

This week marks the “season premiere” of Capital Connection, our Friday noon News Feature with a roundtable of experts on social, cultural and political issues which affect the people of Pennsylvania, New Work, and the entire nation.

Christian watchdogs Jason McGuire and Michael Geer are back from a well-deserved summer break and they “dig deep” on the issues that matter from the state capitals of Harrisburg and Albany.  Among the topics happening this week on “Capital Connection”:

  • Migrant crisis
  • Marijuana Inc.
  • How Pro-Lifers can win again at the ballot box

Jason McGuire leads New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms. Michael Geer heads the Pennsylvania Family Institute.

Previous roundtables with these two veteran commentators and other NY and PA opinion leaders are available from the Family Life News Podcasts page. Search for “Capital Connection“.

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