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This was published as an op-ed in the October 15, 2010 edition of the Conway Daily Sun.
All of the miners trapped for 70 days in the collapsed San Jose copper mine in Chile have been rescued. It's a remarkable story. After the collapse of the mine in early August, they were assumed to be dead, since rescuers could not reach them at all. For two weeks, rescuers tried to get in there to get the bodies out. After drilling in some deep bore holes, the rescuers learned that the miners were still alive. After many logistical problems were overcome, by people working together, the 33 miners were all rescued. This wasn't a scripted reality show, designed to tug at our heartstrings. This was the real deal - ordinary working stiffs who were part of an extraordinary series of events. We saw humans at their best, which made for quite a contrast to the current acrimonious election season in NH.
It's been almost a year since I posted a diary although I comment occasionally and lurk often. Politics has had to take a back seat to paying the bills and other energy draining activities that I never anticipated having to struggle with as I approached my 60th year. However, as the primary and the election approach the intensity of the fund raising has increased from the usual constant drone to a deafening cacophony. I hate it!
This was published as an op-ed in the January 8, 2010 Conway Daily Sun newspaper.
I've had a complaint about the way the text came out in this diary. My computer died just before Christmas, and I'm using my late husband's laptop, which does not have a word processing program in it. I spent half an hour trying to fix the text - to no avail. I'm sorry if it's annoying, but I assure you, it's not intentional.
During last year's NH legislative session, the minority party frequently accused the majority party of wasting time on unimportant issues, instead of focusing on jobs and the economy. They wailed and gnashed their teeth over the time spent on the issue of marriage equality - even though that was an issue of justice and civil rights. In looking over the bills ready to be worked on this year, it seems that the minority party has chosen to actually do exactly what they whined the other guys were doing all last year.
(Excellent roundup. A little more put below the fold by me. - promoted by Dean Barker)
Labor Day Weekend is a good time to take stock of where things stand in the campaign for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. We are now probably more than half way to the first delegate selection events in Iowa and New Hampshire. The next few months are key in the campaign because once the holiday season starts it will be hard to get voters to focus on the candidates and then after Christmas it is likely only a couple of weeks to the caucus and the first primary. Candidates are turning up the heat and trying to develop momentum going into the early states. Time is getting shorter and shorter.
Where have the candidates concentrated their efforts so far?
Not surprisingly, since January 2007 most of the candidates have concentrated their efforts in the early states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina with most of the candidate campaign events occurring in Iowa. All of the data is from the Washington Post Campaign Tracker.
The other candidates are spending comparable amounts of time in the early states as well. For example, Governor Richardson has had 71 campaign events in Iowa and 73 campaign events in New Hampshire. He has also had 32 campaign events in Nevada. Senator Dodd has had 89 campaign events in Iowa and 60 campaign events in New Hampshire.
