“Regardless of where you live, please visit and share this website: VOTE.GOV”. Minnesota Primary Election is Tuesday, August 13. Information including sample ballot accessible here. August 19-22 is the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. That will be my “Act Two” in the 2024 election drama. (Act One was the Republican Convention last month.) This post […]
POSTNOTE August 23, 2024: An editorial and a commentary about Tim Walz in Saturday Aug 23, Minnesota Star Tribune (formerly Minneapolis): Tim Walz Minnesota Star Tribune Aug 24 24 Wednesday night Tom Walz accepted the nomination for vice-president of the United States at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The next morning was the first […]
My post relating to Tim Walz is here. “Regardless of where you live, please visit and share this website: VOTE.GOV”. Minnesota Primary Election is August 13. Information including sample ballot accessible here. Today (August 9) is the 78th anniversary of the second Atomic Bomb which struck Nagasaki, Aug 9 1945. I noted this in #1, […]
“Regardless of where you live, please visit and share this website: VOTE.GOV”. Today is the opening of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. From now through August 11 we can experience the world’s finest athletes. I basically walk every day at the local indoor soccer field – 4 1/2 rounds to a mile. (I generally […]
“Regardless of where you live, please visit and share this website: VOTE.GOV”. Minnesota Primary Election is August 13. Information including sample ballot accessible here. This post, here amended, was first published July 25, and is about peace and the realities and consequences of war. See especially #1, programs for next week. Golden Rule, #2, and […]
“Regardless of where you live, please visit and share this website: VOTE.GOV”. We watched Joe Biden’s 12 minute or so speech from the Oval Office tonight. I don’t plan to add anything to the hours of analysis. Joe contributed immensely to this country in his over 50 years of public service; and his greatest contribution […]
“Regardless of where you live, please visit and share this website: VOTE.GOV”. Yesterday, brings to mind The Beatle’s, Yesterday. There is no adequate way to recap the four days between Thursday July 19 in Milwaukee and yesterday. Last evening nine of us had a regularly scheduled Democrat conversation group (“Coffee and Conversation”) at a local […]
I have followed but seldom watched the Trump Coronation festivities in Milwaukee, since there has been four years of campaigning already. There was no package to unwrap, so to speak. We know the positioning. In a little over 100 days we’ll know about the vote. As is always true, we will get exactly what we […]
Regardless of where you live, please visit and share this website: VOTE.GOV. There is much content to follow. Your choice, as always. * The title of this post concerns the Republican Convention beginning Monday in Milwaukee, and anticipates the expected outcome. Succinctly, this year for the first time in my adult life, I am urging […]
Monday I took a short trip east to a memorial service for Dean, who died recently at age 89. It was a nice service, a good showing of Dean’s friends and relatives. A beautiful day all around. I hardly knew Dean. He was the guy who checked folks in at the local health center when […]