Colorado State Open Thread, 8/21/2017, Eclipse edition
Hey! Who turned out the lights?I’m writing this from Missouri, where I’ve dragged my wife to come see the eclipse from the home base of my sister. The opening picture is the sun taken by my camera...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread, 8/28/2017
I don’t have much to discuss today — still on the job hunt, and contemplating just where I’m willing to work just to get benefits. I was hoping for an interview today. If you’re reading this, it...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread, 9/4/2017
Hope you all had a good Labor Day today, with an opportunity to thank a laborer who has made your day special. I don’t have anything in particular to discuss. The smoke over Denver was particularly...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: Pork, Pollution, Silent Sam and the...
WELCOME TO THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR SUNDAY, september 10th, 2017121st Weekly EditionThis is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform gives readers interested in...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: Data & Democracy Conference next Sunday in Durham
WELCOME TO THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2017122nd Weekly EditionThis is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform gives readers interested in...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread, 9/18/2017, Denver area Meetups
The next event I’m planning is one for Smileycreek and Paradise50 who will be in town the last weekend of September into October. They suggested a meet-up at a coffeeshop or restaurant either before...
View ArticleTips From The Hitchhiker's Guide to Persuasion Canvassing in Virginia
As I knocked on what was at least my 1,000th door canvassing for Virginia candidates in 2017, I wondered. Will it be a solid consistently-voting Democrat? An independent? A low-frequency voter? Would...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread 9/25/17 - Meetup 10/1 Sunday morning
This coming Sunday morning, 10/1, World-renowned Kossacks Smileycreek and Paradise50 will be in town for a variety of reasons, including meeting local Denver progressives. We plan on meeting for...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread, 10/2/2017
So much sorrow and sympathy to the people at that concert in Las Vegas last night. My mother’s family lived in Las Vegas (and one or two still do) and she graduated from Las Vegas High School in the...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread, 10/9/2017. Hello, old man Winter!
Today the weather took a decided turn in the direction of winter along the Front Range. The weather forecasters have been predicting this storm front for about a week and they got it right. Yesterday...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread 10/16/17 - Denver Hospice Labor Unrest
This will be one of the shorter diaries, because I am not supposed to be posting tonight (outpatient surgery this AM so I should be resting and getting over the drugs, so I’m cautioned to stay away...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread, 10/23/2017
Just returned yesterday from the memorial service for my father. It, along with the placing of the gravestone for my father and mother, was held in Kansas on Saturday. It has been a very different...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread
WELCOME TO THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR SUNDAY, october 22nd, 2017127th Weekly EditionThis is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform gives readers interested in...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: Helpful 11/7 election resources
WELCOME TO THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR SUNDAY, october 29th, 2017128th Weekly Edition This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform gives readers interested in...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread, 10/30/2017
Halloween Eve, with an election coming up next week. Anybody doing anything special?I’m going to first highlight a Community Spotlight diary from local Kossack erunyauve about the vote and the...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: United in apathy
WELCOME TO THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR SUNDAY, November 5th, 2017129th Weekly Edition This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform gives readers interested in...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread, 11/6/2017, Election Eve
This is a weekly feature of Colorado COmmunity. We hope this regular platform gives readers interested in Colorado and Colorado politics a place to share their knowledge, insight and inspiration as we...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: NC Election News
WELCOME TO THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR SUNDAY, November 12th, 2017130th Weekly Edition This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform gives readers interested in...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread, 11/13/2017
First, I’d like to invite you to Caffeinating Liberally this coming Saturday morning the 18th at Common Grounds Coffeeshop, 44th and Vallejo in Denver, from 9AM to about noon. We’ll have a table...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: Good GenX news, bad news for NC female soldiers
NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR SUNDAY, November 19th, 2017131st Weekly Edition This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform gives readers interested in North Carolina...
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