The Fracking Debate … as far as I am concerned … was the best HVDU event so far. Plenty of Points of Information, plenty of back and forth among Principal Speakers, and a real mind expansion among those attending. It was a first for many reasons — our first time working with the Rockland County [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Patrick McGrath 845-915-3159 Dylan Skriloff, Rockland County Times, 845-627-1414 Richard Quinn, Nyack Village Theater, 845-826-2639 The Hudson Valley Debate Union In association with the Rockland County Times and the Hudson Valley Business Journal Presents THE FRACKING DEBATE at the Nyack Village Theater Event to be livestreamed at RocklandWorldRadio.com NYACK, NY (16 [...]
What I’m presenting here is the other story — my encounter with Points of Information and the whole Oxford/Cambridge debate tradition. Which is what I’m trying to bring across with the HVDU. Because after the encounter at the L&H, the Bush vs. Gore debates of October 2000 just did not match up. And I wanted to bring that face-to-face action here — which I’ve now started to do with the HVDU.
Planning, that’s what’s been happening. Planning for the Fall 2009 Hudson Valley Debate Union series, that is. The plans are not quite final yet, and I don’t want to spill the bean jar quite completely, but I can say this: The Fall 2009 season will be Rockland-focused The Fall 2009 season will definitely be newsworthy [...]
Here are some links to photos and comments at some HVDU events: Ed Mechman of the Archdiocese of New York blogged on his experience at the Marriage Equality Bill debate, and so did talk radio host Kevin McCullough of Musclehead Revolution. You can see photo albums of HVDU events here: The Marriage Equality Debate (6 May [...]
In the biggest turnout ever for an HVDU event, an audience of more than 70 came out to the King’s Daughters Public Library for the Marriage Equality Debate Originally scheduled to be a No Confidence in the Stimulus Bill debate, the subject was changed on 16 April when Governor David Paterson of New York introduced [...]