Tomorrow is Election Day in the Hoop City and unlike the municipal election of two years ago, much of this election is a snooze. Yes, the mayoral race was a snooze then, too, but at least we had real races in the wards and to
…And the World is getting short shrift today. The Feds: The October Snow Bomb that pulverized the Northeast hit hardest in Massachusetts and Connecticut. However its destruction was widespread encompassing New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and other states. The New York Times reports
…And the World: The first country that flung off its dictatorship in the Arab Spring became over the weekend, the first to hold free elections over the weekend. While a moderate Islamist party is expected to take the most votes and, maybe even a slim
…And the World: The French Socialist Party has nominated Francois Hollande to challenge incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy in next year’s presidential election. Hollande won the nomination after an American-style primary rather than a more traditional selection via an internal process. Hollande became the front runner
Belatedly, Happy Columbus Day. …And the World: Elections in Poland over the weekend made history as the governing Civic Platform won a second term, the first political party in Poland to do so since the fall of Communism. Prime Minister Donald Tusk led the government
…And the World: Hot on the heels of an announcement by the Greek government that it will miss deficit reduction targets, largely due to contraction of the Greek economy, Great Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne has announced new measures to aid the British
…And the World: The United Kingdom sits in an odd position in the world. Like the United States and the rest of the West, Great Britain’s economy has been languishing and the risk of the sovereign debt crisis are acute given London’s place in the
The results are in for the Springfield 2011 Preliminary. Turnout was expected at about 10%, but ended up being nearly 15%. Still abysmal, but above average for past Springfield races, very probably influenced by the presence of the city’s first mayoral primary in many years.
…And the World: On Friday Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is expected to submit to the United Nations Security Council a formal request for full membership of Palestine. That is the area controlled by the Palestinian Authority, the West Bank, would become a nation in
…And the World: Israel’s political and diplomatic situation has continued to deteriorate coming to a head with the attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo. Egypt and Jordan are the only two Arab country’s with normal diplomatic relations with Israel. The attack was both a