Observations of a Citizen-Legislator

Have we reached the point that citizens have retreated from public debate about the issues that impact their lives, their communities, our state and nation? Many observers and scholars report that the civic life of America has changed dramatically.

Some assert that America has become a diminished democracy. We have been told that we are a nation divided along lines of red and blue, religious and secular, urban and rural, but Richard Harwood refutes that understanding of our modern civic life. Read more about it at The Harwood Institute.