For those of you interested in the race to fill Senator Kennedy’s seat, Greater Boston held a truly fantastic forum of the four principle candidates, Michael Capuano, Martha Coakley, Alan Khazei and Steve Pagliuca. Topics ranged from national security to healthcare reform to matters pertaining to each individual candidate. If you want to get to know these people — and you don’t already — this is a must watch.
It’s past 8PM on Saturday evening on November 21, 2009, and the United States Senate just voted — weirdly enough — on one of the most critical votes of the year, if not perhaps a generation, that of proceeding with debate on Healthcare Reform.
I say ‘weirdly enough’ because it’s actually a really simple procedural vote that has since become perhaps THE most contentious vote of the year. Simply put, NO Republican wants to even talk about Healthcare Reform. And that’s embarrassing to us as a Nation and to the Republican Party, in particular.
Again, NO Republican actually wanted to formally talk [ more . . . ]
Elections can be funny things some times — Take Senator Al Franken winning in Minnesota!
What’s interesting — and what I picked up on Twitter thanks to @KatyinIndy — is that the vote in New York’s 23rd district is still being counted. More importantly, the gap in votes between the ‘winner’, Bill Owens, and the principle ‘looser’, Doug Hoffman, is tightening, though it’s still a fairly wide margin. And that raises an interesting question, exactly how / why was Bill Owens sworn into office on Friday, November 6?
Well, it’s an interesting question — and I do think this is worth looking [ more . . . ]
