The Detroit News has a poll on their website about who Michiganders will be supporting for governor in 2006 – Democratic incumbent Jennifer Granholm or Republican Dick DeVos. They also run comments from readers after the poll. —–
DCist In the Washington Times
The W. Times noticed a post Mike wrote for DCist about how their paper was for sale in Billings, Montana – for $2.50 – in their “Inside the Beltwayâ€? feature in today’s paper: Still a bargain “DCist,â€? a popular Web site (www.dcist.com) about everyday life in the nation’s capital, has posted a photograph from a […]
Bernie Sanders Drops by Take Back America
U.S. Rep Bernie Sanders (campaign website, house website) stopped by the Take Back America Conference today during the send-off lunch to talk up his bid for U.S. Senate. Some googling found me this story which reports he was endorsed by Howard Dean in May. This from an AP story: Sanders remains a socialist, although not […]
Political Tech Firm in Hot Water
Via E, this from AmericaBlog: Convio, a big Internet consulting firm in DC, worked on Howard Dean’s campaign among other big lefty clients. Well, now they’re working for the Alliance for Marriage, the lead group of anti-gay religious right bigots trying to write us out of the US Constitution. —–
Online Fun at Art.com
The website art.com, which sells posters and prints online, has come up with an interesting way to build their email list. They provide visitors a neat graphics tool called artPad where visitors can create art and send it to their friends, and the website collects the resulting email addresses for their list. (Although I was […]
AAPD Chief Criticized
Some Ann Arbor activists have set their sights on AAPD Chief Oates: … Before coming to Ann Arbor in August 2001, Daniel Oates, an attorney, was the commander of the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) Intelligence Division. In that position, Deputy Chief Oates, while not a named defendant, was an important figure in three First […]
‘Take Back America’ Day 2 Down
The folks at TBA have posted transcripts and videos of some of the speeches. Antonio Villaraigosa’s is good, and probably worth checking out as he seems like the flavor of the month. He also had the harshest things to say about the conference, interestingly. John Edwards’ address (not up yet) was good, he abandoned his […]