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Blogs

Welcome to our blog page. Clearly, strong partisan opinions will be found in many of these blogs, but we hope that regardless of your own party affiliation and political ideology you will find many useful ideas and observations herein. SLLF does not endorse the opinions of the bloggers we feature on this page, but SLLF values the free market of ideas and believes that practical solutions to our many challenges may come from unexpected sources.

Linsky on Leadership
Marty Linsky is co-Founder of Cambridge Leadership Associates (CLA), a global leadership development firm. He has been on the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School for over 25 years, teaching about leadership and politics, except for three years in the early 1990's when he was Chief Secretary to then Massachusetts Governor William Weld.

Stateline.org
From Stateline.org: "Stateline.org is a nonprofit, nonpartisan online news site that practices journalism in the public interest by reporting on emerging trends and issues in state policy and politics.

New Democratic Network (NDN)
NDN is a leading center-left think tank and advocacy organization based in Washington, DC and led by veteran strategist and thought-leader Simon Rosenberg.

Politico

Calendar

March 4 - 7, 2010

SLLF Issues Summit
Energy & Environmental Summit of the States
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA

Program Schedule (pdf)
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April 21, 2010

AC Forum
Roundtable discussion and reception in Washington, DC

June 16 - 20, 2010

National Speakers Conference
19th Annual Meeting
Annapolis, Maryland
Program Schedule
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August 18 - 22

Transatlantic Leadership Forum
Dublin, Ireland

July 12 - 15, 2010

Emerging Political Leaders Program
Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Sept. 30 - Oct. 3, 2010

SLLF Leadership Summit
Democracy 2.0: 
Connecting
with the 21st Century American 
University of Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts
Program Schedule
Registration Form - Legislative Participants
Registration Form - Corporate Participants