Open source, procurement, and gov tech.
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch: The State Board of Elections wants to prevent the public from seeing documents describing voting security assessments or audits by local electoral boards in Virginia. Security of voting machines was a major issue across the nation during last month’s presidential election. Yesterday at a meeting of the Freedom of Information Advisory …
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From today’s Richmond Times-Dispatch: Attorney General Jerry W. Kilgore announced a team of veteran Republican political strategists yesterday as he took a step closer to his actual run for governor. […] Scott Howell, president of Dallas-based Scott Howell & Co., will be the media strategist. His most recent winning clients include Sen.-elect John Thune of …
From the Miami Herald: Florida’s election supervisors, impressed by the success of early voting, proposed dramatic reforms Tuesday that would eliminate Election Day, replace it with an 11-day election season and do away with precincts. […] This past election season marked the first time that Florida used early voting across the state and it was …
U.S. using Napalm in Iraq
Moonstruck is on Turner Classic Movies, and it’s letterboxed. Damn my lack of ownership of blank videotape. Moonstruck is only available letterboxed on Laserdisc, which not only can’t be found, but who owns a Laserdisc player? On VHS and DVD, it’s cropped badly, no doubt to Norman Jewison’s horror. Eventually, I’ll settle and get the …
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Federal grand jury indicts Bush’s New England campaign chairman.
2002 state senate candidate and ostensible Democrat Steve Sisson writes: Warner’s fan club membership is solely comprised of younger, high-tech liberal members of the Democrat Party of Virginia, insulated in the urban-congested areas of the state, such as Arlington, Alexandria, Charlottesville and Richmond. Their counterparts, younger conservative Republicans, have for years said the more liberal …
Today’s Roanoke Times has a sad and fascinating story about Virginia Tech biologist Sue Daniels. It seems that she was killed by a fellow activist, Niklan Jones-Lezama, in a murder-suicide on November 18th. She sounds like a really interesting woman — she lived on a farm without electricity in Giles County, for example — who …
“Homosexuals can get married. They just have to marry someone of the opposite sex. It’s a requirement of nature.” —Del. Bob Marshall, Potomac News My God, won’t somebody think of the penguins?