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Blogging the Mayoral Forum I did my best to correctly record the information as the candidates were speaking without editorializing or twisting their words. I was trying to capture the essence of what they were saying - if they used a particular phrase or word that jumped out at me, I made certain to [...]

Warning. The following video are not for the pollyannish.
I used to respect the hell out of our troops, all of them. I guess I was being naive.
In the process of writing the post below this one, I spent some time looking for video’s that support the thesis of the post. Much to my disappointment, [...]

This has been the bloodiest summer for U.S. forces in Iraq since the war began and Iraqi civilian deaths in Anbar have risen under the “Surge.” These are facts the media distorts every time they repeat one of the half-truths dripped from General Betray Us like slobber from one of Pavlov’s dogs.
Listening to all the [...]

What about a commission on housing with authority? 
Becker:  We may need a commission to do it, but this is a new proposal for me.  In the past, was on a board with authority to make decisions and a also to advise the council and that was 15 years ago.  SRO’s - single room occupancy - needs [...]

Gina Cornia, Utahns Against Hunger:  Farmer’s Markets are popular gathering places in cities, but many low income persons can make purchases because they can’t use their cards and the farmer’s markets don’t have POS machines for food stamps.
Buhler: It’s not an issue I know about but I would work with the Downtown Alliance to get the EBT [...]

There are some technical difficulties with the sound, so this could be interesting.
Mayoral Forum - Ralph Becker and Dave Buhler and being introduced.
Opening Statements 3 minutes.  I’ll do my best to summarize.
Buhler:
Usual boilerplate welcome for our commitment to fighting poverty.  Personal details:  Salt lake city native, his dad was a police officer, attended South High, [...]

Props, first, to Luke Garrott (candidate for City Council4 ) for attending today’s People’s Summit on Poverty.  His opponent Nancy Saxton didn’t make the event.
Becker and Buhler are speaking at the Mayoral Forum at the People’s Summit on Poverty.
I’ll be liveblogging the event trying to get an accurate impression of who says what.
There are some other Crossroads Urban [...]

Apologies in advance for this very long post.  I’ve been working on it for a while now. 
Tom Colicchio’s blog on Bravo – the post Shave and a Haircut.  Dim Wits  – chronicles some backstage antics on season two’s Top Chef.
. . . the Top Chef producers were on the line, asking me to please head to [...]

Jenny Wilson is the gift that keeps on giving. 
In this morning’s D-News she’s quoted as saying her loss a result of sexism and will hurt the cause of women politicians in Utah:
Just nine women serve as mayor of 174 municipalities statewide. And the possibility of a 10th female mayor ended abruptly Tuesday when Jenny Wilson [...]

Sunni insurgents have accounted for most of the U.S. military casualties in Iraq. They are the ones with the IEDs and the car bombs. Their commander (and Saddam Hussein’s successor as head of the Iraqi Baath Party) is Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri. Has General Petraeus and the Bush administration forgotten about them in [...]

Like Jennifer K-K, I was kind of bothered by this morning’s Trib piece in which Jenny Wilson said,
 ”There were a lot of things that happened in the last week,” Wilson said. “We had negative blogging going on. I mean, who knows.”
In addition to my posts asking if Wilson Would be Awol, I found a post [...]