Advocacy Journalism In Action

Robert Koehler is a syndicated columnist who attended the national election reform conference ( "Nash-ional" ) in Nashville last m...

The Voter Confidence Movement

For a variety of converging reasons, the GuvWurld raison d'etre is evolving under the banner of the Voter Confidence Movement. An all-n...

Voter Confidence Resolution

BREAKING NEWS (7/21/05) : Arcata, CA City Council becomes nation's first to adopt the Voter Confidence Resolution. Click HERE for the ...

Marla Ruzicka, R.I.P.

An American Aid Worker Is Killed in Her Line of Duty By ROBERT F. WORTH Published: April 18, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 17 - For more than tw...

State Dept Nixes Report Showing Huge Increase In Terrorism in 2004

Knight Ridder has published a story picked up by lots of papers (multiple links in GuvWurld News Archive ) announcing the discontinuation of...

Peak Oil Transformation Task Force

At the conclusion of my recent letter to Eureka Times-Standard editor Charles Winkler, I presented the idea of a task force "so that w...

Response to Fred Mangels' No Confidence Critique

I regret that it has taken me so long to address comments by Fred Mangels posted to his blog on March 15 . I told Fred I would respond as so...

Recently Added to the GuvWurld News Archive

Periodically I like to call attention to stories recently added to the GuvWurld News Archive , a document repository containing over 3,000 a...

Logan Dake Discrimination Hearing Set for April 26

Former City of Eureka maintenance worker Logan Dake will have his discrimination complaint heard by the Labor Commission on April 26. In a ...

Open Voting Consortium

At the recent No Confidence workshop in San Francisco, I was given a flier for the Open Voting Consortium . They have an open source electr...

RCV Presentation Scheduled for Next Eureka City Council Meeting

Eureka's town hall forum on Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is coming up on April 28 and the Voter Confidence Committee is now into advance...

Humboldt County Supervisors Approve Diebold Touch Screen Machines

I feel rather disgusted at this moment. The Elections Department made a presentation today to the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors in w...

Action Alert: Speakers Needed At Humboldt Supervisors Meeting Tuesday 9am

The Elections Department personnel is planning to be at the Board of Supervisors meeting when it begins tomorrow at 9am. It is still unclea...

Humboldt County No Confidence Movement Update

Humboldt County Board of Supervisors The Supes are meeting again this Tuesday, beginning at 9am. The published agenda shows the Election D...

GuvWurld 1st Anniversary Post

I'll be short on fan fare. Click HERE to read how it began. That first entry has set the course we still maintain. One year later, ...