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Capital Connection – 11/15/24

Capital Connection – 11/15/24

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Election Aftermath: What kind of Government will result from last week’s vote in NY and PA ?

How “Christians Engaged” helped Influence the vote

NY’s Prop 1’s impact for religious organizations, women’s/girls’ sports, and more

 

Family Life’s Capital Connection connects you each Friday with a pair of Christian watchdogs from the state capitals of Albany and Harrisburg. This week, our guests are Jason McGuire of the New York Families Foundation and Dan Bartkowiak from the Pennsylvania Family Institute.

  

Abortion on the ballot: a few Pro-Life victories (& future strategies) – 11/14/24

Abortion on the ballot: a few Pro-Life victories (& future strategies) – 11/14/24

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Abortion on the ballot – a few Pro-Life victories

The “Faith Under Fire” podcast from Family Life News

Ten states decided proposed amendments to their constitutions in the October and November voting, a little more than two years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the national Constitution does not include rights to abortions, leaving the decision on any limits (and taxpayer funding) to each individual state.

Seven of those state approved pro-abortion ballot measures, but three did not. Family Life News asked Kelsey Pritchard of Susan B. Anthony Prolife America to offer a pro-life perspective on the election results. Pritchard is the public affairs director for SBA Prolife is South Dakota, one of the three states that turned aside constitutional protections for this practice of ending pregnancies.

She also notes that the states where abortion proposals were approved by majorities of voters, abortion is already legal and accessible in each of those states.

She not only points to the example of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, but other ways that public opinion was swayed. In this expanded conversation, she also talks about lessons from Florida, South Dakota and Nebraska that can be used to protect preborn babies elsewhere when legislatures and electorates make their future determinations.

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SBA Prolife offers analysis on related issues:

“Faith Under Fire” invites you to listen to the voices from religious battlegrounds in this nation. Our weekly Thursday interviews delve into social, religious and political matters from health to freedom to faith practices. This feature airs on the Family Life Noon Report and 5 O’Clock Report, and bonus content is also included in many of our podcast versions as well.

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11/14/2024

 
145 Rise Up: Say “Grace” for the Holidays

145 Rise Up: Say “Grace” for the Holidays

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Holidays, family, politics? Don’t forget the grace!

Then: Steve gets his hands on some extra tiny recordings.

Rise Up is a morning radio show hosted by Steve & Tim on Family Life, a network of stations across New York and Pennsylvania. Our podcast is a weekly conversation designed to help you think, laugh, and keep your eyes on Jesus. If you haven’t already, subscribe today, so you don’t miss a single episode! Listen online and find out more about our show at familylife.org.   
Capital Connection: The Post-Election Implications – 11/08/24

Capital Connection: The Post-Election Implications – 11/08/24

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Family Life’s “Capital Connection”

Implications and Effects of Election 2024

Our Christian watchdogs in the state capitals of Pennsylvania and New York are back to recap the biggest stories of Election 2024. This is our weekly roundtable for commentary and analysis with Jason McGuire in Albany and Michael Geer in Harrisburg.

Family Life Noon Report anchor Bob Price guides this discussion,  reviewing election results from early voting, ballots cast on November 5, and the decisions still pending as the week ends:

  • The significance of the “red wave” in presidential and congressional voting
  • How voters in our two states chose their legislative leaders, statewide and national
  • Did voters who are Christian turn out better than expected?
  • Amendment One passes in NY, and other states decide abortion-related ballot issues
  • Trends from this week which will carry over into the new year

 

Michael Geer (president of the Pennsylvania Family Institute) and Jason McGuire (executive director of the New York Family Foundation and New York Family Action) were also on the air with us election night for analysis of the news as it was happening.  You can listen to or share those special reports from these two Family Life News podcasts:
The Presidency: A Conversation – 10/31/24

The Presidency: A Conversation – 10/31/24

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The Presidency: A Conversation

a Family Life News Feature

As two candidates race toward the end of this year’s campaign for the White House, what can we learn from all the Chief Executives who came before?

In this podcast from Family Life News, you’ll hear from a best-selling author and presidential historian. David M. Rubenstein has compiled stories, records and reflections on all 46 presidents so far, and says the American presidency is “The Highest Calling” in the world.

Rubenstein tells interviewer Greg Gillispie about how the presidency has been reshaped across U.S. history, the uniqueness of Americans choosing their own leaders, and how his broad scope across history provides insights into the 2024 election. He is concerned that 80 million citizens who are eligible to vote and shape their governance choose not to take part.

David M. Rubenstein is a lawyer, businessman, philanthropist, author and host of a history program on television. He has served as a government official, and is a co-owner of the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball.

His book The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency includes interviews with most of the living presidents, essays by other commentators and journalists, and anecdotes about the people who were chosen to lead their nation.

 

10/31/2024

 

 
Vote Maximizer – Where the most voters have the most influence – 10/30/24

Vote Maximizer – Where the most voters have the most influence – 10/30/24

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Vote Maximizer – Where the most voters have the most influence

A Family Life Newsmaker Interview – 10/30/2024

The developer of a web-based tool to evaluate action plans based on political polls and populations says control of Congress runs through Pennsylvania and New York again this year:

Dr. Sam Wang and his team created the “Vote Maximizer” website which shows statewide and national trends to measure how and where individuals and groups have the largest influence on government through their votes and other political activities.

VoteMaximizer.org shows several Pennsylvania counties where an individual voter has the most influence on their state government: Centre, Erie, Mercer, Luzerne, Lackawanna and Allegheny. The biggest influence this year for New York voters is on some Congressional seats from Syracuse and Utica toward New York City, including Districts 19 and 22.

 

 

Sam Wang is an Ivy League professor, as well as the founding director of the Electoral Innovation Lab. Princeton University’s Neuroscience Lab is named after him.

Their website is VoteMaximizer.org.  An introductory video is here.

He has an interest in improving the government through the ways voting districts are mapped. He gave a TED Talk this fall on “Using Math to Repair Democracy”.

 

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Issues in Education – 10/28/24

Issues in Education – 10/28/24

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Indoctrination versus Education when it comes to Talking Politics at School

 

Recently, the “League of Women Voters” put on high school assemblies in NY encouraging students to vote “yes” on Prop 1.  Dr. Ralph Kerr with the “Teaching and Learning Institute” says that crosses a line between teaching students “how” to think and not “what” to think.  He discusses more this controversy in the latest installment of “Issues in Education” from Family Life News

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10/28/2024

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