New Website for Progressive States Network

In General on November 15, 2008 at 7:24 pm

The following is a communication from Progressive States Network:

We invite you to check out PSN’s new website at www.progressivestates.org

While it is very much a work in progress, we hope it will make it easier for state leaders to access the wide variety of legislative and policy resources that Progressive States Network has archived over the three years of our existence, along with information from allied organizations that we highlight. From health care to tax policy to election reform to technology issues to fighting foreclosures, our website aims to be a “first stop” destination for legislators and advocates, who can read about topics and find links to legislation enacted in other states, research reports, and the range of organizations available to support legislators looking to enact similar policies in their state.

Right now, the major content on the website is a reorganization of past Stateside Dispatch information in our new Policy Resources section organized around our key values of Rewarding Work, Valuing Families, Increasing Democracy, Promoting Justice, and a Growing Economy.

As we finish archiving all our past Dispatches by policy area, these will be supplemented with additional policy resources, making the site an expanding archive of information for legislators and advocates. We encourage legislators and others to email us additional resources at resources@progressivestates.org.

On the website, we track the technical support PSN offers legislators and advocates in Our Campaigns where PSN highights Strategic Services we provide from conference calls to events we sponsor to legislative updates (archives to appear shortly), as well as broad-ranging Political Strategy in promoting policy, including key Dispatch Strategy Items.

Most importantly, this website area highlights our Current Campaigns, issue areas where we are providing strategic support, including Wage Standards and Workplace Freedom, Balancing Work and Family, Health Care for All, Smart Growth and Green Jobs, Broadband Buildout and Technology Investments, Clean and Fair Elections, and Tax and Budget Reform, along with our State Immigration Project.

For tracking news from the states, the News & Analysis section with highlight current state updates from the Dispatch, News Links, Research Roundup,Eye on the Right, while our Press Room will track PSN Op-Eds, Press Releases and when PSN is In The News.

Our Publications section will host our major Reports, Stateside Dispatch archives and other PSN-written policy materials. Finally, while it’s pretty bare bones now, we will be filling out our In Your State sections with key policy and legislative information about each state.

Upgrading the website completely is a major ongoing project and we appreciate your patience as we fill in empty sections with materials from our own archives and allied organizations. But in the meantime, we hope it provides useful support for your legislative work and we welcome additional feedback and features and resources that would make it more useful for you.

[Source: Excerpt from communication sent by PSN November 11, 2008]

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