This election season I’ve tried to make sense of the assorted “races” in the early preliminary “wars” over who’s “winning” the election for President, 2016. Previously, I posted about Iowa, New Hampshire, and Minnesota. Here’s the morning after data about Michigan. 7,292,065 – Registered Voters 2,515,911 – Total Voters This, and following from official data […]
POSTNOTE March 7: Here is a powerful video from Kathy, who says: “Here is a short video recently completed under IARP [Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project Minnesota] guidance. A refugee story of recent reluctant Iraqi refugee. Ali lives here in Mpls. now. I find his telling of his story quite impactful.” PRE-NOTE: If you haven’t […]
March 1 an e-mail from Tea Rozman-Clark, Executive Director of Green Card Voices announced a fundraiser which ends Sunday night. I enthusiastically support this fundraiser for this wonderful, indeed essential, organization whose purpose is to celebrate the contributions of immigrants to the United States (thus “Green Card”). You can contribute here. I just looked at […]
POSTS about Michigan, Iowa and New Hampshire are accessible here. More personal comments about Minnesota are found at end of this post, for March 2 and 7, 2016. Our Precinct Caucus was one mile from our front door. The traffic was so heavy that it would have made more sense to walk than to drive, […]
December 6-13, 2003, I made my first visit to Haiti. There were a half-dozen of us in a group led by Paul Miller. I knew little about Haiti. We spent our time in Port-au-Prince visiting assorted persons, idealists all, enthusiasts for democracy, who were allied with the cause of then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. There was a […]
My friend, Wayne Wittman, won’t be at his Minnesota Precinct Caucus on Tuesday, March 1. My guess is he’d never miss his Precinct Caucus. He was always an activist. From his obituary: “Wayne lived every day of his 86 years to the fullest. He had a long, satisfying career, a family he deeply loved (who […]
My friend Lynn Elling died early today, Valentine’s Day, 2016. Lynn was four days short of age 95. His daughter, Sandy, said “I think he may have planned to head up to Heaven on Valentines Day to be with his life long sweetheart, my mom, so it is quite fitting.” Lots of words will be […]
Cathy and I were among 4,000 people who heard Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders each give long speeches in person at the Annual Minnesota DFL (Democrat Farmer Labor) Party Humphrey-Mondale dinner Friday night, February 12. Here are their bios, as printed in the program booklet: Hillary & Bernie 2-12-16001 Both candidates were respectfully and enthusiastically […]
After the Iowa caucuses I posted, here, an unconventional look at the data. Every state has different procedures for selecting their delegates to the national political conventions, so New Hampshire’s Primary processes are different, though you could hardly tell from the endless (and conflicting) analyses about what the results from each state meant. Each party […]
UPDATE May 1, 2016: The official Lois Phillips Hudson website is here. UPDATE Feb. 27, 2016: Six pages from North Dakota State University (Fargo) Archives, Feb. 23, 2016. Hudson NDSU Arch001Mrs. Hudson taught at NDSU 1967-69. * In 1962, Lois Phillips Hudson published “The Bones of Plenty”. A New York Times Book Review commentary said […]