It’s very late in the day, and I’ve only recently gotten around to researching any of these candidates. That said, if you haven’t voted yet, and you’re interested in a pseudo-informed opinion, here’s who I’m going for this round.
GOVERNOR – PAT QUINN (D)
U.S.
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I’ve been getting progressively more worked up each day the last few weeks and it finally spilled over into this letter I just wrote to my congresswoman and senators.
On consideration, I think the analogies here (trite as they seem) are worth sharing precisely because they are so very obvious and applicable.
… Read the restEvent:Pass Health-Care Reform Yesterday! Read More »
Not silly stuff this week. But engaging and worthwhile.
Also: Watch this one on Facebook videos.
… Read the restEvent: It’s Friday. Some videos. Read More »
Dear editors,
Most Americans understand now that health care reform is necessary. Most of us, eighty percent according to some polls, support a public option. The economic analysis and historical precedents have been examined; nobody proposes we go where angels fear to tread.
… Read the restEvent: My letter to the newspapers. Read More »
Dear Senator Durbin,
I am a Michigan transplant who has been living and voting in Chicago for the better part of the last ten years.
I am writing you today about an issue that will supersede in importance the life of the auto industry; this is a bold statement for me to make as many of my family and many friends are or were employed by GM.
… Read the restEvent: My letter to Sen. Dick Durbin. Read More »
My renewal of support.
Dear Ms. Schakowsky,
In the last election I voted against you because I didn’t think you had taken as strenuous a stand against funding the war in Iraq as I thought was possible, given the level of support (and strong, progressive support) you’ve enjoyed here in Chicago.
… Read the restEvent: My New Letter to Congresswoman Schakowsky. Read More »
New York Times: Health Plan Opponents Make Voices Heard.
This is one thing that the new (meaning post-1994) generation of conservatives have excelled at; compensating for numbers with virulence. I’m nont saying that progressives should strive for such shrillness, but we should at least be emphatic.
… Read the restEvent: Health Care Reform Post #2 – Interesting Articles Read More »
I’m really annoyed at myself for not having covered this more in the past several weeks.
Here’s an astute argument from Uwe Reinhardt:
A ‘Common Sense’ American Health Reform Plan.
And here’s an unabashedly emotional appeal from Jeff Danziger:
National Health Post. Read More »
Almost to the end.
I’m allowing myself a closing argument.
Flint has been in decline since before I was born, and very soon almost the entirety of its residents will only remember the city’s downfall. In the last fifty years, the population has halved, and Flint has gone from an expansionist vision of a future that saw it eclipsing competing cities to the possibility of demolishing whole neighborhoods that have emptied out.
… Read the restEvent: The Closing of Flint Central (Part 4 of 4) Read More »
Monologue, as captured via the New York Times Laugh Lines blog:
… Read the restHow about those Somali pirates? So they bring one of the pirates to New York City so they can put him on trial. But he will also be doing some other stuff.
Event: David Letterman, the trenchant observer. Read More »