Colorado State Open Thread: How are you coping with the DK5 changeover,...
Hello, fellow Coloradoans! If you are a Kossack dwelling in Colorado, the biggest common news item we’re facing these days is the massive change which has just occurred to our beloved blog, Daily...
View ArticleGet Thee to a Campaign Training. I did. Michigan Open Thread.
Campaigning for Democrats, not just knocking on doors. Last weekend I attended a Train To Win event for candidates and campaign managers sponsored by the local county Democratic Party , and I learned...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread
This is the North Carolina Open Thread For Sunday, November 15th. This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers interested in North Carolina politics...
View Article"We Live Now in a Time of Water Wars": Updates from Detroit and Flint
The despoliation and privatization of water continue in Southeast Michigan, but the people also continue to fight back. Brief updates follow about the latest in the ongoing struggles in Flint and...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread
This is the North Carolina Open Thread For Sunday, November 29th This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers interested in North Carolina politics a...
View Article"Curiouser and Curiouser": Update on Current Homrich 9 Trial + Justice for...
In a controversial move yesterday, a Wayne County (MI) Circuit Court judge has issued a temporary stay at the request of prosecutors to interrupt the trial in District Court of two protestors charged...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread: Lamentations
Greetings from the Centennial State! We’re settling into late Fall/early Winter here with some snow on the ground. That also brings the excitement of another Winter season of outdoor activities! Ski...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread
THIS IS THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR SUNDAY, december 6th. This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers interested in North Carolina politics a...
View ArticleMichigan Meetups--What Say You?
But I just returned from my first trip to the Caribbean, so I hope you’ll excuse me on several counts—first, for not being quite ready to adjust to our cold and gray, and second, for not having a post...
View ArticleColorado Open Thread: Depressed and Angry in Colorado Springs
Today, I am depressed and angry. I am depressed and angry about the Planned Parenthood shooting.I am sick and tired of continuously having to deal with the inevitable fruits of the Ku Klux...
View ArticleThe Children of Flint Deserve Justice (Updated)
Not to be poisoned. But the latter is what has happened, thanks to the malfeasance of the people put in power over them, which makes the former now a moral obligation.As Joan McCarter reported...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread: I'll See Your Thread, And Raise You An Open House
Hey everyone,Short Open Thread to say that as of TODAY, as of NOW, the Bernie Sanders Campaign has opened its first office in Colorado, at 5705 W. 25th Ave (between Eaton and Fenton) in Edgewater....
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread
I'm trying this on a Kindle rather than my normal system since I am traveling to my parents'home in blood red. Kansas. I'm one of about six billion Americans traveling this holiday weekend. At...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread: Building A Statewide Community of Communities
Good evening, and welcome to CSOT. I hope you have survived our Novemblizzards without having to nourish yourself by gnawing off your own frostbitten fingers. Along the Front Range, Winter Storm Ajax...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread
THIS IS THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13TH. This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers interested in North Carolina politics...
View ArticleWeekly Michigan News/OT: None of It Good (Water in Flint and Detroit; MI...
I love my state, I really do. And if I didn’t, I wouldn’t be so upset about all that’s wrong with its politics right now.First, an update about the Flint Water Emergency. I reported on the coverage of...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread
Well, the diary setup says to “Write Your Story”…The Open Thread is not a story tonight — I had planned all sorts of things. A Christmas Diary. A Diary about Family and Friends. A Diary about Family...
View ArticleMichigan Weekly Update/OT: Wyant, MI DEQ Head, Out; More to Follow? (Flint...
The big news yesterday arose from MI Gov. Rick Snyder’s “apology” to the residents of Flint, along with his announcement of the resignation of Dan Wyant, the head of the Michigan Department of...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread: Happy New Year 2016!
I’ve got almost nothing for you this week. Kindly please allow me to explain. My ongoing series of Colorado State Open Thread Diaries describing how the Pikes Peak Region became the right-wing nutjob...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread
THIS IS THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR SUNDAY, January 3rd This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers interested in North Carolina politics a...
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