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Voting Rights: Today’s LWVs And The 1972 Party Platforms
This is part two of a series testing the claim that the LWV 2023 stances have remained stable for decades as evidenced by comparing to the GOP and Dem Party…
Read MoreIn Perspective: Is LWV Liberal?
On Sept. 30, our local League of Women Voters of Montgomery County hosted presidents from other Leagues statewide, during which one president shared that some non-League people believe the League…
Read MoreLWV: We Cannot Have Too Much Subsidized Housing: Part 2
Ever had a season of life that you thought might break you? Chances are you were living through multiple life stressors, any of which strain a person but when piled…
Read MoreLWV Presents Panel On Abortion Laws
In The Early Summer Of 2022, The Supreme Court Of The United Sates In The Dobbs V. Jackson Decision Overturned The L972 Roe V. Wade Decision. This Ruling Brings Major…
Read MoreReader Takes LWV Writer To Task
Dear Editor, I had to chuckle when reading the “unusual column” by LWV member Maria Reynolds-Weir. When asked by her European hosts if America is “OK,” she says she “didn’t…
Read MoreLWVMC Climate Team Powers Up For Nature Day
On Saturday, June 18, everyone reading this column is invited to our downtown Crawfordsville Carnegie Museum from 1-4 pm to celebrate nothing less than the natural world. To top it…
Read MoreLocal LWV leaders impact state
Myra Dunn Abbott, second vice president of the League of Women Voters of Montgomery County, who leads voter outreach for our county, recently accepted a post on the League of…
Read MoreYou My Not Have Heard These Stories
In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf wrote“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” For millenia, most women’s stories slipped into anonymity or oblivion, such that half of…
Read MoreFor Women’s History Month midwifery then and now
Happy Women’s History Month! We turn to one of the oldest professions for women, relevant in a county where maternal healthcare options have been decreasing. “Midwifery is an ancient practice,…
Read MoreAWL Needs You To Help All Creatures Great And Small
“I’m a very tough person, but in this job, I cry a lot. Sometimes, though it’s happy tears,” said Nickee Sillery, medical director for the Animal Welfare League. “Like I…
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