Tonight I'm excited to welcome my long-time friend, co-blogger, and political ally Michael Connery to Philadelphia. Mike, who founded Music for America and who blogs at Future Majority, where I also blog at times, will be at Robbins Bookstore from 6-7 talking about his new book Youth to Power: How Today's Young Voters Are Building Tomorrow's Progressive Majority. If you can't get the basic idea from the title, here's a description from Amazon:

PHILADELPHIA, March 12 – State Rep. Babette Josephs, chairwoman of the House State Government Committee, said the committee will hold two public hearings in Philadelphia this week.

The first hearing, on legislation to change the redistricting process (H.B.s 81, 84 and 2047), will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, March 13 in the Irvine Auditorium of the University of Pennsylvania.

The agenda will be as follows:
10 a.m. -- Rep. Daylin Leach, D-Montgomery
10:20 a.m. -- Rep. Steve Samuelson, D-Northampton/Lehigh
10:40 a.m. -- Rep. Mark Cohen, D-Phila.
11 a.m. -- Kenneth Myers, vice president, Jewish Social Policy Action Network
11:20 a.m. -- Sara Steelman, chairwoman, Common Cause, Pennsylvania
11:40 a.m. -- Andrea Mulrine, president, League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania
Noon -- Nathaniel Persily, law professor, Columbia Law School
12:20 p.m. -- Dennis Baylor, Pennsylvania Accountability Project.