The  Pardon The Progress Art & News Blog would like to welcome it’s first contributing author, Mark Goodman. Mark is a Professor of Communications at Mississippi State University. He has an extensive research and teaching background in Mass Media and Society, Persuasion through Media, Mass Communication, Advertising, Women’s Issues, and Politics. He is also an [...]

I recently came across a great site called the National Environmental Scorecard. The Scorecard was created by The League of Conservation Voters (LVC). The LVC is a group committed to educating the public about environmental issues and advocating for elected officials to champion environmentally conscious causes.
The Scorecard gives people who are not Washington know-it-all’s the [...]

In my opinion, the 2008 Presidential Election was one of the best ever. Besides all the historical aspects we keep hearing about, I say this because President Elect Barack Obama and his staff were able to reach millions of people. For the first time in my lifetime, common people actually knew what was going on [...]