Making Democracy Work
Useful Links and League Documents
Useful Links and League Documents
Nominees, Bylaws, and Budget for Annual Meeting Approval
Other League Websites
LWBCC Nonpartisanship Policy
LWVBCC Newsletter
LWVBCC Annual Report
LWVBCC Original Essays
Other Useful Websites
Nominees, Bylaws, and Budget for Annual Meeting Approval
The following members of LWVBCC are nominated to a two-year term on its Board of Directors:
Linda Cheek
Kathleen Fleming (currently serving, having been appointed by the Board during the 2016-17 fiscal year to fill a vacancy)
Marilyn Klawiter*
Dorothy Parker (currently serving, having been appointed by the Board during the 2016-17 fiscal year to fill a vacancy)
Jane Raymond
John Ripley*
Karen Ristau*
Christiana Zilke*
- Completing a two-year term and nominated to a new two-year term
Donna Dutton will continue on the Board, to serve the second year of a two-year term.
Proposed 2017-2018 Budget This year, in the interest of saving "clutter", the proposed 2017-2018 budget is available here and will not be available in printed form at our meeting. Please review this information now. You will be asked to approve this budget at our June 15 meeting. IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS or concerns, please e-mail me (chris_zilke@yahoo.com or John Ripley for clarification prior to June 10. Thank you.
Other League Websites
League of Women Voters of the United States <http://www.lwv.org/>
League of Women Voters of Michigan <http://www.lwvmi.org/>
LWBCC Nonpartisanship Policy
LWVBCC Newsletter
November 2016 Newsletter
January/February 2015 Newsletter
If you would like to be on the LWVBCC newsletter mailing list and receive one of the very spiffy original newsletters e-mail wm@lwvbcc.org
LWVBCC Annual Report
Each year LWVBCC issues an Annual Report. These are large files and take some time to open.
LWVBCC Original Essays
What Lies Beneath An informative essay about oil and natural gas pipelines. May 2011 with June 2011 and July 2011 updates.
Great Asian Carp Story More of the story than you will probably find anywhere in one place.
What a Revolt'n Development This Turned Out to Be About current developments in education.
Other Useful Websites
To check the accuracy of political statements and ads go to PolitiFact <http://www.politifact.com/> or FactCheck <http://www.factcheck.org/>
The Citizens Research Council is a privately funded, not-for-profit public affairs research organization that publishes consistently good research papers on many Michigan topics. <http://www.crcmich.org/>
Michigan Campaign Finance Network is nonpartisan, nonprofit coalition of organizations and individuals concerned about the influence of money in politics and the need for campaign finance reform. <http://www.mcfn.org/>
The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law is a nonpartisan public policy and law institute that focuses on the fundamental issues of justice and democracy. <http://www.brennancenter.org/>
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