Colorado State Open Thread: Who Doesn't Love Some Validation?
Good evening, and welcome to our Open Thread! Can you believe it's already been a month? This thread is so... well it's not tall, per se, and it hasn't outgrown any clothing because that makes no...
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North Carolina Open Thread: Asheville Connects
Welcome to North Carolina Open Thread For Sunday, August 22nd. This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers interested in North Carolina politics a...
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Colorado State Open Thread: How's your bench?
Small town living has it's pluses & minuses. Here's how small town life can be good, and how one learns of our Democratic candidate bench.
View ArticleMichigan Weekly Open Thread: Where Do We Go from Here? Transforming the MI DP
As you most likely already know, the big political news in Michigan today is the announcement that Dan Benishek will not run for re-election next year. Today's Daily Kos Elections, Morning Digest diary...
View ArticleMichigan Weekly Open Thread: How to Start a Moral Fusion Movement Here? +...
I traveled to Asheville last weekend for the sake of hearing Rev. Barber and strategizing with some of the most active and progressive Kossacks on the site. As much as I looked forward to the meetup,...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread: Historical Notes on the Pikes Peak Region: 1850 -...
Hello and welcome to the Colorado Community Open Thread!The first few decades in which the Pikes Peak Region was "settled" was a rather interesting time! Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs were...
View ArticleMichigan Weekly Open Thread: Women Making the News
Just about all the major news to hit Michigan this week involves women in an important way.First, the news of the passing, at age 100, of Grace Lee Boggs. Second, also out of Detroit, an important new...
View ArticleMichigan Weekly Open Thread: Water Justice in Flint--But Who Pays?
The biggest state news IMO this week was the announcement that the good people of Flint, who have been subject to dangerously-contaminated water since the former EM decreed that the city should get off...
View ArticleMichigan Weekly Open Thread: Let's Help Elect GwenM Mayor of Novi!
This week I'd like to promote the campaign of our own GwenM, Gwen Markham, for mayor of Novi, MI. Gwen has been a Novi City Council member for the past four years, serving her community well and...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread: Building A Statewide Community of Communities
Good evening, and welcome to CSOT. I hope you have survived our Novemblizzards without having to nourish yourself by gnawing off your own frostbitten fingers. Along the Front Range, Winter Storm Ajax...
View ArticleMichigan Meetups--What Say You?
But I just returned from my first trip to the Caribbean, so I hope you’ll excuse me on several counts—first, for not being quite ready to adjust to our cold and gray, and second, for not having a post...
View ArticleThe Children of Flint Deserve Justice (Updated)
Not to be poisoned. But the latter is what has happened, thanks to the malfeasance of the people put in power over them, which makes the former now a moral obligation.As Joan McCarter reported...
View ArticleWeekly Michigan News/OT: None of It Good (Water in Flint and Detroit; MI...
I love my state, I really do. And if I didn’t, I wouldn’t be so upset about all that’s wrong with its politics right now.First, an update about the Flint Water Emergency. I reported on the coverage of...
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North Carolina Open Thread
THIS IS THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR SUNDAY, January 3rdThis is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers interested in North Carolina politics a...
View Article#ArrestSnyder Demo in Flint, Friday 1/8 4:40 PM (& other MI news)
Yesterday, the US Department of Justice announced that it was opening an investigation into the Flint water calamity. [Thanks to Lennon Beatific for the diary yesterday, Michigan Governor Declares...
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North Carolina Open Thread
THIS IS THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR SUNDAY, JANUARY 10thThis is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers interested in North Carolina politics a...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread - 1/13/16
What are y’all doing this coming Monday to celebrate Martin Luther King’s birthday? Now I could go into a long history of who the man was, where he came from, what he means to African Americans in...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread for January 19, 2016: The Pikes Peak Region Story:...
When we last left the Pikes Peak Region’s story, General William J. Palmer had left the principal scene, and we had yet to move beyond him and what he did.The next phase of this story, and the leaders...
View ArticleMichigan Weekly Open Thread: Who's Here & What're You Doing? (People's...
I mean, electorally, what are you working on? And in terms of activism, what are you doing? What groups do you work with? Where do you spend your time, money, and energy?I’m a little burned out this...
View ArticleMichigan Weekly Open Thread: How Are We Holding Up? Calls to Action; Calls to...
At this time of year, Michigan is usually not a great place to live, unless 1) you like snow and 2) you actually have some snow on the ground. (FTR: I do like snow, and no, we don’t have any at all...
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