January 11, 2016
In December 2014, we posted “New Messaging Toolkit Helps Advocates Counter Preemption,” introducing the Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF)’s research to help advocates counter state preemption by providing effective messaging for the public, media, and policymakers. RFF just released an updated toolkit, developed from brand-new research, entitled “Protecting Local Control: A …
June 19, 2015
Al Jazeera America June 18, 2015 by Amadou Diallo Moments before Adam Briggle was arrested in early June along with other protesters for blocking the entrance to a fracking site in Denton, Texas, police Sgt. Scott Jenkins approached him with a smile. “He shook my hand and thanked me for …
February 24, 2015
The New York Times, 2/24/15 By Shaila Dewan Darren Hodges, a Tea Party Republican and councilman in the windy West Texas city of Fort Stockton, is a fierce defender of his town’s decision to ban plastic bags. It was a local solution to a local problem and one, he says, …
October 27, 2010
Rarely does an industry make so clear its strategy of stopping a health movement as in the case of menu labeling. In a June 29 presentation, the National Restaurant Association featured before and after slides of the vibrant local and state movement for menu labeling. The first slide shows a …