Thank you, Deeds campaign; because of you guys, we now no longer have a great public servant named Bobby Mathieson in the Virginia House of Delegates. Great job!
If true, this could be a battle of heavyweights.
Joe Lieberman has been doing whatever he could to prevent Congress from moving forward on real health care reform, so I wasn’t at all surprised when the news broke that he would be joining the Republican filibuster if people aged 55 to 64 were able to [...] Set aside the romanticized Quileute Reservation seen in the Twilight Series for a darker version of what is happening on some reservations. Many native reservations are known for extreme poverty, poor living conditions, broken homes, lack of basic infrastructure, chronic illness, substance abuse, unemployment, and now gang violence. Today’s New [...]
A little conjecture and perspective on the todays' WaPo article on moving local elections (Will Falls Church Voters Move To Fall Elections? ).
The article was pitched by opponents of moving local elections as a way to cudgle the discussion that will happen at the council meeting' [...]
Set aside all the glamour of places like the Quileute Tribal Reservation depicted in the Twilight Series. Indian reservations are all too often places of great poverty, illness, substance abuse, broken homes, and gang violence. Today the New York Times featured an expose on just how serious the gang problem [...]
Sierra Club's Virginia Chapter Director, Glen Besa, is in Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change conference. Last week he had the opportunity to take a boat tour of Middelgrunden (Denmark) offshore wind farm. Glen recorded this 1 minute video interview with Jakob Lau Hoist with the Danish Wind Industry Association [...]
Stephen King
Best selling prolific author Stephen King and his wife Tabitha have donated $12,999 to bring 150 members of the Maine National Guard home for Christmas. King is superstitious about numbers and would not donate the $13,000 he was originally approached about. The Maine troops will eventually [...]
After voters in Maine narrowly rejected a marriage equality law, there were some pundits who were quick to declare momentum had shifted away from equality. Those pundits are absolutely wrong as more and more people continue to express their support of love and equality. Furthermore, it [...] This terrific video, "America's Response To Climate Change," was produced by Falls Church City's own Bob Burnett and is being featured at the US Center in Copenhagen at COP15. Bob works at the DC-based media firm GVI and has posted several well received guest author posts here at Blueweeds.
Over at Chris Cillizza's "The Fix" blog, they've been polling on the "best" and "worst" campaigns of 2009. Here are the results: Bob McDonnell by a landslide for "best campaign of 2009" and Creigh Deeds in a landslide for "worst campaign of 2009" (see graphs;' [...] Army public affairs officer Gary Tallman reminds the USA Today journalists that it is, in fact, not illegal to hire retired general officers acting as individuals and not as a company representative. It's not something he ought to have to say, but for some strange reason, some people [...]
The “Party of No” (a.k.a. the modern Republican Party) showed its colors one more time on Friday voting en masse in the House of Representatives against reform aimed at Wall Street. New York City got hit with a dose of white powder, and it didn't come from the sky. It hit the American Express headquarters in lower Manhattan.
Detective Mindy Diaz said no injuries were reported after the police were called to the building in [...]Global Security Newswire reports that the Washington DC metro is going to get updated chemical and biological sensors in addition to video links - because although it's been eight years since 9/11, 14 years since Aum Shinrikyo, and there are no terrorists known to [...]
I haven't been a big Joe Lieberman fan for a long time now, certainly not since he campaigned for McCain/Palin over Obama/Biden in 2008. At that time, I argued that Democrats should kick Lieberman - an independent - out of the Democratic Senate caucus, but the counterargument was' [...] 
Every year in Richmond a group of neighbors on the 1500 block of Grove Avenue decorate their homes to draw attention to, and ask for support for, the Central Virginia Foodbank.
Over at Bacon's Rebellion, Jim Bacon has an excellent post on "cogeneration as a technology for district heating." Bacon cites this article, which talks about how cogeneration is used in Copenhagen.The setup in Copenhagen, created by a regional accord of five mayors in 1984, captures heated water [...] 
Earlier today, the U.S. Senate passed, by a 57-35 margin, a $446.8 billion omnibus bill (plus $650 billion in mandatory funding for Medicare and Medicaid) that "combined six separate spending bills and will keep federal agencies operating through Sept. 30." Both of Virginia's U.S. Senators, Jim Webb' [...] 
I'm looking for video and/or a complete transcript [UPDATE: here's the transcript] of Mark Warner's appearance on CNN's "State of the Union" this morning. For now, here are some highlights of what Warner had to say, courtesy of CNN's Political Ticker:The oldest mountains in America [...]
It’s time for another Sky Event. (Dec. 13)
Tonight, if the skies are clear, those who are hearty enough to brave cold weather might have a real treat in store. Tonight is an annual meteor shower that is only increasing in intensity.
Before the Civil War, the meteor shower [...]
Annise Parker was the first openly gay person elected mayor of a large US city Saturday. Houston is the fourth largest city in the country. Congratulations to Ms. Parker – and to the voters of Houston. [...] The Fifth District Republican Committee has chosen a primary as the method of selecting their nominee against Rep. Tom Perriello, Janelle Rucker writes in the Roanoke Times. It was a 19-13 vote. That’s a significant blow for the backers of basically all of the candidates but Sen. Robert Hurt [...]
Hahahahahahahaha.Ever since I posted A different perspective on the health care debate, written after my first day of volunteering in July at a [...]
If you read the Democratic-leaning and/or left-of-center blogs these days, you can't help but see an increased level of overall frustration at the "lack of progress" being made in Washington, DC. In part, I think this is a reaction to the heightened expectations people had coming out of the' [...] 
...then we're not doing a very good job cashing in.
Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, December 11.
I couldn't agree more with Tim Kaine on 
