tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-102560412011-08-05T11:31:43.779-05:00A Proud Member of the Reality-Based Communitysheabrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11355525602134152545noreply@blogger.comBlogger691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10256041.post-1119543727773322052005-06-23T11:19:00.000-05:002005-06-23T11:22:07.783-05:00

a ruling for economic developers everywhere.... I just hope it doesn't become abused.

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I'm in!(Hopefully) I'll be liveblogging it as well. It's July 13th and speakers include Bill Clinton and others. Are you going? Let me know and we can meet up!

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Hello stranger!I haven't seen you in forever. Mainly because I had a horrible end of term rush, followed by a trip home and then the beginning of a new job.Alas! It has all worked itself out. I ended my term with a 4.0! I even had two A+s! For those that requested copies of my housing paper, they're on their way so long as I have your email address.ANYWAY... today is election day here in the

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I have successfully made it though all of my final papers, projects and tests- except one. I have a very large policy paper on downtown housing and economic development that I'm working on. It's due next Friday and its going to be amazing. I've been doing a LOT of research for it. Now, for my faithful readers, you may remember me talking about using student housing as a means to drive

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I meant to mention in my last post that I'm now well over 2000 hits since January. I think we're at about 2250 right now, which is amazing in my opinion. Especially since I've only written junk in my opinion. I've been considering posting my manifestos, but something tells me that a 70 page statistics paper isn't going to get read by many people.Speaking of site statistics, I've noticed

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Idaho passed The. Best. Law. Ever. Pedro's House is for sale. And, I'm in the midst of finals mayheim. Each of my professors thought they were doing me a great service by making my papers and projects and tests early. Little did they know they weren't the only Pitt professor with a bright idea. And, alas, now ALL of my finals are nearly two weeks early. I'm working on about 100 pages of

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I was very lucky that my post (below) on Kos garnered about 250 comments and stayed recommended for a full day. I was even luckier to meet someone in the thread named Samantha- a mother of two that also became inspired by Chuck Pennacchio. Take a look at her post at Democratic Underground:I left the event, thoroughly inspired and hopeful, fully aware that as a Pennsylvanian, I have an awesome

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I can't say that I was always a Democratic activist. In fact, I don't think of myself as one now. I worked with non-profit organizations for the past eight years. I adopted highways. I dished out meals. I built houses. I donated to the United Way. In general, I felt like I made a difference in my world. I didn't, however, vote. The road of my life has drifted over the past eight years,

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As I sit here listening to the Fiona Apple "Extraordinary Machines" album, I realize something. I've made a decision today upon seeing Michael Lamb's plan for Economic Development. I don't support any of the candidates for mayor of Pittsburgh.Why aren't we demanding more? Is Pittsburgh really in this bad of shape? I find all three of the major candidates dull and uninspiring. I think they

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Note: I will be writing a bit of a recap entry regarding the Pennacchio event on Friday night. I'm trying to hold off until Monday though.Peter Jackson (the AP reporter) redeems himself somewhat in my eyes today, as I have come across an article he wrote recently re: Casey's abortion stance. Despite Rendell's attempts to clean house, at least one candidate who favors abortion rights has vowed

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Several things to report:1. TOMORROW AT 5:30 pm at ROLANDS IN THE STRIP is the PENNACCHIO reception. Come by, have a beer, be inspired, and then run Santorum out of office.2. Unbossed.com and my debut as a "real" blog writer unveils on Friday! 3. I'm working on some interesting research projects for classes that are spawning some good writing from yours truly. I've got about 10 posts "in the

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Pro ChoicePro LaborPro EnvironmentPro Health CarePro WomenAnti WarDoes it get any better? You bet. Come hear Dr. Chuck Pennacchio talk about how he's the guy who will take down Santorum. Friday night, April 1, 5:30pm at Roland's in the Strip. Have a beer and get in on the ground floor with the next PA Senator. Daily dose of inspiration promised. :-)Hosted by Progress Pittsburgh!!

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Well, only three months after our start my little blog has made it big time. I may still have no readers, but I do have a mention in the largest newspaper in PA- the Philly Inquirer! Pennacchio, who hopes to raise $3 million for the primary, has asked his supporters to start their own blogs. He spent $5,000 on his first ad buy. But that kind of money wouldn't buy a few seconds on TV or radio, so

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Disclaimer: I do not believe that copy and paste is a trait that journalists should undertake. Like a certain... um... fake journalist...**coughGANNONGUCKERTcough**. Good thing I am not a journalist. --Two debates refused by O'Connor campaign-- PITTSBURGH- Today Michael Lamb criticized Bob O'Connor for not participating in a debate scheduled for this Thursday, March 24, and another debate

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BREAKING NEWS!! ANNOUNCEMENT!!! Progress Pittsburgh to Host Democratic US Senate Candidate Dr. Chuck PennacchioNewly formed progressive coalition Progress Pittsburgh (www.progresspittsburgh.org) will host a reception for United States Senate candidate Dr. Chuck Pennacchio on Friday, April 1st, 2005 at 5:30 pm at Roland's In the Strip. The event is looking to give Pittsburgh area residents an

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Things have been a bit crazy for me lately. Midterms have required much more work than I anticipated, and they're just ending now. Starting next week I'll also be writing (much more proficiently I hope) at a new blog- www.unbossed.com It looks to be a great time.I'm also working on several articles that I think you'll find particularly compelling. They're regarding women's issues and mental

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Covers are released!I cannot wait! Ahh!! :-)

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I'm glad to see the Post-Gazette picking up the slack for the AP-Chuck Pennacchio, a Philadelphia college professor, said yesterday that he would seek the nomination. And with more than a year to go before the filing deadline in the race, there is plenty of time for other candidates to emerge, although Rendell and Rep. T.J. Rooney, the state party chairman, can be expected to try to quash any

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Welcome to everyone visiting the blog through Chuck Pennacchio's blogad. Feel free to stick around for the fun. :-) Thank you for visiting!

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Dear Friends,In late 2003, while the Bush administration was trampling civil rights at home and waging and threatening wars across the globe, a group of old-time Democratic “insiders” came together to fight back.We started America Coming Together with urgency, based on our undying belief in the power of individuals like you to make a real and lasting difference. We knew from the start that change

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Mayor:Bob O'Connor 500Michael Lamb 253State Senate seat:Fontana 210Kotik 166Gigliotti 30Woodard 22Judges:Ed BorkowskiAlan HertzbergMcCarthyWrenna WatsonTom FlahertyDwayne WoodruffBeth LazzaraCity council district 2:Dan Desay 29Mike Galovich 23Bill Urbanic 16Missy Rossiter 8Paul Mastandrea 8Paul Renne 0City council:Tanya Payne 54Sala Udin 37City Council:Stone 39Bill Peduto 28Very interesting.

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Colin (my boyfriend) thinks the right wing blogosphere will blow a gasket over the Oscars. Barely an hour into them and already what do we have?- Our hero Michael Moore- Bush jokes- Other gay cartoons?- Singing in French!Damnit! Those Hollywood Liberals are at it again!

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For those that care, I'm still a bit sick, but I'm slowly moving through the stages. I'm hoping to be truly better by Monday.Yesterday, despite the fact that I was late, I was able to listen in on a conference call held by Dr. Chuck Pennacchio, candidate for Rick Santorum's Senate seat in 2K6.Now, first a disclaimer- I was already on board before the call. I have a bad habit of letting my

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He takes on Social Security..."Kudos to President Bush for saying we need to save Social Security from him."Jon Stewart is my hero.

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Chuck Pennacchio's website has video of the embarrassment that happened at Drexel as well as video of Santorum shilling and then backtracking. It's swell. Kudos to them for snagging it.

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This is good news for Pittsburgh-Member of Pittsburgh Oversite Committee Resigns

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From Chris at MyDD-Outside the hall before the event, Philly DFA began chanting "Hey-hey, ho-ho, Riock Santorum has got to go!" Local college Republicans, who are just about the only Republicans in West Philly, responded with a chant that beautifully was captured live by CNN: "hey-hey, ho-ho, Social Security has got to go!" I love it when the other side does your campaigning for you! Inside the

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Today, also in the Post-Gazette- Lamb announced his "Plan for Pittsburgh"Lamb -- currently the county's prothonotary, in charge of civil court records -- also said the city should accelerate plans to lower the 50 percent parking tax. He said the city could keep its budget balanced, without the extra parking tax revenues, by putting more abandoned properties onto city tax rolls with the help of

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As you may know, Santorum is on a rampage tour of PA- 10 stops, probably the most time he's ever consecutively spent in the state give for election season- trying to shill for Social Security Privitization. Today's Post-Gazette had a roundup of his Pittsburgh visit, which didn't go as well as he'd planned.Those concerns led to several outbursts while Santorum was talking yesterday. At one point,

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US Constitution PreambleWe tha People of tha United States, in Hustla ta fizzorm a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillizzle provide fo' tha common defence, promote tha general Welfare, n secure tha Straight Trippin' of Liberty ta ourselves n our Posterizzles do ordain n establish this Constitizzles fo' tha United States of America.Damn straight Dawg!;-)

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Go Hizzle!

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From today's NYT-The "real" news from CNN was no news at all, but it's not as if any of its competitors did much better. The "Jeff Gannon" story got less attention than another media frenzy - that set off by the veteran news executive Eason Jordan, who resigned from CNN after speaking recklessly at a panel discussion at Davos, where he apparently implied, at least in passing, that American troops

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Take that atrios at blogspot dot com!- "Ted Hitler"He makes me swoon.

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My article (which I posted below) will be front paged tonight at Liberal Street Fighter. Please stop by for the conversation!

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After some careful consideration and research, I am changing my mind. I have decided to support Michael Lamb for Mayor of Pittsburgh.I know that out in this big bad blogosphere that may not mean much, but it's important to me. I plan on further clarifying and laying out exactly WHY I made this decision, but that is for later. To put it simply, technology is the what this city needs to invest in

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(I posted this over at Liberal Street Fighter- thought I'd keep it here for posterity. Enjoy!) How often have we heard it said that Democrats live in the city and Republicans inhabit our suburbs and rural towns? In fact, isn’t this the concept the Red/Blue map of America is based upon? ( here and here ) When did our geography become the basis for our political affiliation? If it’s

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Contribution amount: $

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So there's a new group in town, to add to the 50 other new groups in town from last November until now. Progress Pittsburgh is looking to create a progressive voting block to vote in the May primaries. note: Progressive in their terms basically = Bill Peduto for mayor. This sounds blanket and bad and it is but it isn't. I obviously support Bill- namely because his is the *only* progressive

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If you want to know about Social Security, thereisnocrisis is your place. The call was very informative in learning BlogPAC's strategy for combating the war of the medias in regards to Social Security. I'll probably write more about it later when I'm less tired, but there are some general feelings I want to share. This is a war being waged over the truth and over the internet. It feels really

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I'll be participating in the BlogPAC conference call. I'll probably have a recap/summary when it's all done.

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I have to change the channel because MSNBC has a total republican panel, it's giving me a stomach ache. I'm switching to ABC.

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Pelosi's got a plan for withdrawing from Iraq and improving homeland security. Calls Bush out on inaction on true security issues. Talks about Partnership for America's Future. I don't think that Bush's speech was effective. Is it me or did it seem like the soldier's mom got her sons dogtags STUCK on the Iraqi woman's shirt? Did she give it to her? It was in her hand afterwards. I'm not

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Democratic Response Liveblogging? Reid's response: "And that's why we so strongly disagree with the President's plan to privatize Social Security. Let me share with you why I believe the President's plan is so dangerous. There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the quaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of

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Speech is over... listening to MSNBC comentary, because Chris Matthews loves me as much as I love him. State of an American Empire... Imperial. I cannot think of any other words that better describe this speech.

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10:02 pm Yes, there have been attacks that have united us, there have been moments when americans were on their knees. I have a dream for my generation- I dream that we will not sit by while decisions are made and politics are used against us. I am waiting for the time when politicians respond to what people cry out for. Luckily, I think that time is soon.

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9:51 pm Iraq elections... were a success... yes, I agree. What is your plan now? 9:52 pm Shorter SOTU Speech: "Freedom, liberty, terrorist, election, freedom, terrorist, responsibility, courage, freedom, strong, terrorist, elections" 9:53 pm Sophia, you go girl, I'm proud of you. (for real!) PS. I like your shirt 9:56 pm We're not leaving Iraq anytime soon. 9:57 pm Dick is a little

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9:43 pm Freedom! Tyranny! 9:44 pm Was that another jeer? Does he know what irony is? 9:45 pm Look, there's a woman who voted in Iraq! 9:48 pm List of countries we're going to war/liberating against: Afghanistan Iraq Syria Iran North Korea

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9:32 pm When did the term "activist" become synonomous with "crazy"? 9:34 pm He winked at me! or... that judge who legislates from the bench, you know, that one sitting in the front row 9:34 pm Look at the audience laughing at him. 9:36 pm Laura is going to take on the gangs, oh, and aids... in her blue suit and pumps 9:38 pm Responsibility is the word of the day 9:38 pm September 11!!

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9:27 pm I'm still happy they jeered him! Go you! 9:28 pm Voluntary personal retirement accounts... NEW NAME ALERT!! 9:28 pm Barack Obama.. you're so sexy when you're not clapping 9:29 pm What happened to exploring all of the other ideas to "save" social security? Personal accounts? Ugh! Personal accounts are a tax shelter for the rich. That is all. 9:30 pm Thrift Savings plan is NOT

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9:19 pm Four years of debate are enough! I won that election, damnit. My way. Now. Wah! 9:20 pm Archaic tax code. Let's get a new one that is fair to my buddies over there in corporate headquarters. 9:21 pm Blah Blah Blah 9:21 pm SOCIAL SECURITY!! It WAS a great success? has it gone somewhere already? Oh look, John Kerry is reading his program, I bet he's bored too. Save SS? 9:22 pm

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9:14 pm He's going to eliminate 150 federal programs... bye bye social security... bye bye head start... bye bye federal education.....nah nah nah na....hey hey 9:15 pm He's going to increase the size of pell grants... by.. umm... cutting pell grants 9:16 pm Frivouslous asbestos claims? is that a top national concern? 9:17 pm Health savings accounts AND "personal" accounts... it's like we

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9:10 pm Dick Cheney looks constipated 9:10 pm Mentions Iraq elections 9:11 pm Social Security- right off the bat... woohoo.. let the good times role

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How nice is it to listen to Tweety critique and discuss people walking into a room.... especially nice were his comments re: Laura's blue suit

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For those of you interested... I will be scoffing in public tonight, liveblogging for the sake of social security- which I intend to write much more about this weekend.

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Au Revoir Marty....

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Today's NY Times has an article on the hoopla around the ASDC Executive Committee vote to endorse Fowler over Dean. Perhaps I'm in the minority who'll ask, what the hell were they thinking? I fail to see how this is good for Fowler or the ASDC. First, the ASDC has minimized themselves, drawn attention (and bad attention at that) to their "insider" antics that, for their part, was much better

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Despite the fact that I didn't vote for him, I'm very proud lately of Senator Specter's new backbone. This, from the Hill- Activists on the right are buzzing about two recent controversial hires by Specter: Hannibal Kemerer, a former assistant general counsel with the NAACP, and Carolyn Short, who is married to Joe Torsella, who ran as a Democrat in Pennsylvania for Congress. Specter hired both

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(finally revived from the cyber graveyard- enjoy!) What came first- the chicken and the egg or Pittsburgh's fifth and forbes dreams? Yes, it is hard to tell. On Jan 20th, the Post-Gazette unleashed an article unveiling to the public (so to speak) the City of Pgh's Plan D (of the lettered plans, and who knows what number of the un-lettered plans) to revitalize the Fifth & Forbes Corridor in

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Outside of being sick the past few weeks, which is a result of a biyearly trouble I seem to have, I must say I've been oh so busy. Seems I'm now running the YearlyKos convention and things are full steam ahead. Gina, Tom and I are working hard on setting up our infrastructure. I'll be setting up meetings with consulting firms and lawyers all week and, frankly, it's really taking up time.

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Note: * First in a new series to discuss the newpapers & writers in Pittsburgh, namely the Post-Gazette. Today in the PG, there was an article discussing the wages of Port Authority bus drivers. The article cited a study by Booz Allen that placed the average bus driver's salary around $50,000/yr. Now, I don't think that the PG meant (and I may be naive here) to imply that bus drivers in Pgh

sheabrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11355525602134152545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10256041.post-1106773817206092132005-01-26T16:08:00.000-05:002005-01-26T16:10:17.206-05:00

Silly me, I thought that not working full time would give me more time to do things like blog. Well, life is starting to slow back down after a hectic week. I hope that by this weekend we can be up to about two posts per day that are about more than my busy schedule and ineptitude with blogger. Ciao!

sheabrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11355525602134152545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10256041.post-1106339554745561682005-01-21T15:31:00.000-05:002005-01-21T15:32:34.746-05:00

Do not type out a four page post in the blogger window and expect it to work correctly. Will retype tonight. For those of you interested (which would be me), it was on the Fifth-Forbes plan and housing.

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Things in D.C. must be unpleasant enough for Georgie-poo to "deny" access to his friends in the media. According to yahoo news, about 10-15% of those that applied for media clearance had their efforts botched. I wonder if the Prez-nit is so worried about the protesters and his $40 million price tag that he's trying to limit even his friends. Of course, it could all just be one big government

sheabrianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11355525602134152545noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10256041.post-1106239609085797502005-01-20T11:41:00.000-05:002005-01-20T11:46:49.086-05:00

The Hill has a picture today on their website of Orrin Hatch and Santorum, with Santorum wearing a Utah Utes tie as consolation for losing a bet over whether Pitt or Utah would win the fiesta bowl. My first thought- you can really tell who is REALLY spent some time in Western PA. Hatch went to Pitt Law- he knows that when the stakes are high, you shouldn't count on a Panther. Santorum

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From AlterNet- a good idea (in theory) Shut the economy down for a day- inaugaration day - in protest of the Iraq war. Not One Damn Dime Day - Jan 20, 2005: Since our religious leaders will not speak out against the war in Iraq, since our political leaders don’t have the moral courage to oppose it, since Bush is wasting 40 MILLION dollars on his inauguration party…while the soldiers have

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Washington D.C. is twelve hours away from inagural madness. Half of the world is asleep. I'm thinking about another type of inaguration- that of the Democratic party. While Chimp-King George is basking in his glory, at the expense of me, the nation, and the 20.4% of people in Washington D.C. below the poverty line, I can't help but be filled with a little hope. I see the Democratic Party as

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One year ago all of my hopes for a democratic revolution (in 2004) were crushed. One year ago Howard Dean, in a fit of overenthusiasm that inspired me more than any of his words, screamed. Of course, I would never have remembered the date of the Iowa caucuses. It was only thanks to PTI that this little fact came to my concious knowledge. I don'tknow that I'll ever be able to express in

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Welcome to Urban Democracy. A brand new blog, destined to be lost in cyberspace forever.

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