Today is Tuesday March 1, 2016. It is also known as Super Tuesday in American politics. This is the day that Arkansans are to vote in the primary election. According to my clock, you have about 5 more hours to make it to your polling place.

Voting is one of the fundamental rights in our nation. I encourage you to exercise this right by going to the polls today. Governor’s school sought to develop the critical thinking skills of its students and I encourage you to utilize those skills to select candidates that you have determined will help better our communities.

If you forgot your polling place, you can look it up here.

In Arkansas, poll workers are required to ask if you have ID, BUT you are not required to present an ID or at the polls UNLESS you can check off all three of these things as a “yes”.

1. registered to vote by mail after January 1, 2003
2. did not submit a copy of the required identification with the application
3. AND are voting in an election for federal office FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE STATE

There are several different types of ID that satisfy this requirement. You can use any one from the following list

1. Valid Arkansas driver’s license or photo ID card
2. current utility bill that shows your name and address
3. current bank statement that shows your name and address
4. current government check that shows your name and address
5. any other government document that shows your name and address

If you are required to show an ID and don’t have one, you can still vote on a provisional ballot. That means that you can still fill out a ballot. It will be set aside and the Board of Election officials verify the registration and determine whether the vote should or should not be counted.

So go vote people. It’s important.

AGS Alumni will be having a meeting to discuss the year’s programs and regular business for the coming year.

Date: Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015
Time: 10:30 a.m. until noon
Location: Cox-2nd floor meeting room of the Central Arkansas Library Main building.

Address:
100 Rock St., Little Rock, AR 72201

The Cox Building sits on the East side of the parking lot. It’s a red brick, triangle shaped building, with green awnings. The library operates a café and bookstore on the first floor, so if you want to grab a cup of coffee or snack on your way up, please help yourself. Food is allowed in the meeting rooms.

Also, there will be a conference call number as well. Please email me at Melissa dot sawyer at gmail dot com for details.

Hope to see you there.

In order to better give you quality programming that you want to utilize, we at AGS Alumni have created this short sweet survey to gauge alumni interest. Please fill it out for us. TWO SECONDS

Click here

One of the movies shown at Governor’s School in recent years is Miss Representation about how the media’s perception of women influences politics. It goes on to show the dearth of female producers, writers, and directors in Hollywood. Muffintop is a female written and produced movie that was bought here by Women Lead Arkansas. Tickets are 10 dollars with 8 left but there are also 10 free tickets available. . If anyone would like to attend for free, please let me know. The email is womenleadarkansas@gmail.com. There will be door prizes! DOOR PRIZES!

The movie will be shown on Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 6:30PM – 8:11PM
at Dickinson Chenal 9 IMAX Theatre
17825 Chenal Pkwy, Little Rock, AR, US, 72223

$10.00 General
https://www.tugg.com/events/12149

ATTENTION ALUMNI OF ARKANSAS GOVERNOR’S SCHOOL. I am looking for volunteers. According to the AGS website https://www.hendrix.edu/ags/, AGS will be from June 14-July 25, 2015. If tradition continues, tht means we will need to recruit a speaker to speak for July 23, 2015 in the early afternoon. If we want to have alumni day in the same format as last year, we need to plan that as well. I will post a survey within a week to see gauge programming interest. I got an estimate to build an AGS website and that total was $2800. I would like to be more streamlined and have monthly meetings (with phone in or video chat capabilities) either during lunch 12-1 CST or in the early evening 5:30-7:00. If you have a preference on that please let me know.

Pretty much everything is open including treasurer, parliamentarian, social chair, chair elect, fundraising committee (with chair), speaker committee (with chair), and class reps. If you are interested, please message me via facebook or send me an email at melissa.sawyer@gmail.com.

We have had two amazing speakers as part of our annual speaker series: Doug Shipman (Class of 90) the Chief Executive Officer of the Natinal Center for Civil and Human Rights who spoke in 2013 and Karama Neal (Class of 88) who promotes equity in health, education, and opportunity through teaching, research, practice, advocacy and service. We should definitely have another one.

If you would like to participate, please comment here (it is screened but I will get an email address), contact me via Facebook, or email me at melissa dot sawyer at gmail dot com.