"The commission has agreed among its members not to feed the partisan political environment by appearing in any partisan forums or contributing to partisan interpretations of our report," he said.
"Each of us had our own particular set of changes that we wanted to present to the University, but lacked a concrete, non-partisan forum through which we could communicate and discuss ways to improve the Columbia experience.
Patch's journalists will cover issues on the sites and the hyperlocal news sites will also aim to serve as a non-partisan forum.
At a Trans-Partisan Forum in Gold Lake Colorado in 2005 a group of very prominent conservative leaders, exposed to an early version of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, summarized their tribal faith as "the planet is robust, economic freedom is weak" and one participant conceded to me, "we are terrified that climate change solutions will feed the big government beast, Leviathan".
Shows like Meet the Press and Face the Nation routinely serve largely as hyper-partisan forums that provide little in the way of fact-checking.
It's the Newseum, a one-year-old, $50 million interactive news museum, sponsored by the non-partisan Freedom Forum.
William Phillips, the co-founder and longtime editor of Partisan Review, the forum for the brilliant and contentious stable of writers who became known as the New York Intellectuals, died yesterday in Manhattan, where he lived.
In Cleveland and Philadelphia, art installations and performances — taking the form of neutral civic forums, partisan provocations and everything in between — will be cropping up all around the convention centers.
Meanwhile, if you are interested in a non-partisan, non-denominational forum, Flintridge Prep's headmaster, Peter Bachmann, will moderate a candidate forum next Wednesday, Feb. 9, at 6 30 p.m. at Flintridge Preparatory School, 4543 Crown Ave ., La Cañada
But if it becomes a permanent feature of city government, the new site also promises to provide an enduring forum for partisan politics.
