Politics
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Reflections on Ned Lamont’s appearance on Connecticut Local Politics.
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 01/18/2006 - 21:35This is my summarized digest of Ned Lamont’s appearance on Connecticut Local Politics. To see the full set of comments, visit http://connecticutlocalpolitics.blogspot.com/2006/01/ned-lamont-qa.html
First and foremost, I am very glad that Ned Lamont showed up and participated in a good give and take. I firmly believe that these sort of discussions are crucial in strengthening democracy in our country. Whether or not in the end he decides to run, he has already done an important service in encouraging debate about the issues that matter.
Read the Bill
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 01/17/2006 - 12:44Today, in Branford, Rafael DeGennaro launched ReadtheBill.org.
Read the Bill is a new organization which advocates that all federal legislation should be posted online 72 hours before coming to the floor of Congress. I've been helping Rafael a little with the website and I'm very excited about its launch.
In my discussions with him, I've also suggested that we should be advocating for this not only on the Federal level, but also on the State level, and perhaps even on the Municipal level for large municipalities.
I hope that everyone stops by and reads a little bit about ReadtheBill.org.
CT BloggerCon 1
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 01/06/2006 - 16:18Last night, various bloggers from around Connecticut gathered at Drescher’s in Waterbury. It was a small gathering that got off to a late start due to some ceremony for Waterbury Police Cadets. One blogger even joined in briefly via cellphone IM. The gathering was dominated by liberal leaning political bloggers from along the coast, so much of the discussion centered around the Governor’s race, and the possibilities of a U.S. Senate race.
There was a discussion about the upcoming Democratic Town Committee Caucuses. Greenwich, Torrington, and Canterbury have news of their Caucuses up on the web. Stratford also supposedly does, but their website seems to be down right now.
Good bye to 'the land of the free'
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 12/08/2005 - 18:04Hossein 'Hoder' Derakhshan is perhaps one of the most important bloggers in the world today. He was born in Tehran and has written many great posts about the struggle for Democracy in Iran.
Today, I received an email on a list about blogging and journalism from Hoder talking about a blog post he wrote a couple weeks ago about his latest attempted trip to the United States.
Be careful about what you write in blogs, the land of the free is a little less free and somehow this makes me feel less safe in our country.
My take on Murtha
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 11/21/2005 - 22:21I imagine many of you have followed what has gone on with Rep. Murtha's proposal for withdrawl of troups from Iraq. Today I stumbled across two websites that address this issue for people from Fairfield County.
First, check out this.
When you have read that, please check out this.
Aldon
