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Friday, October 31st, 2008
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A special holiday treat, after the jump …
Archive for October, 2008
true horror
Friday, October 31st, 2008People getting thrown
out of work, out of their homes.
Trick or treat, indeed.
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Heads up: Former Commissioner Buckelew pleads guilty
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
After 16 years of service on the Jefferson County Commission, Mary Buckelew has gone down in disgrace. She plead guilty Tuesday to one count of obstruction of justice.
Buckelew lied to a grand jury about receiving $4,000 in designer shoes, a purse, a spa treatment and more, all to influence her vote on sewer bonds and swaps.
For eight years, she served as commission president. In 1997, Governing magazine honored her as a Public Official of the Year. Now, she’s expected to lead prosecutors to bigger targets in the ongoing investigation of the county’s poorly managed sewer system.
She joins a growing list of convicted commissioners: Jeff Germany, Chris McNair and Gary White.
Meanwhile, Jefferson County has considered declaring bankruptcy over the $3.2 billion owed in interest alone. How deep is the financial hole, and how deep is the corruption that led us here?
• Birmingham News: Former Jefferson County Commissioner Mary Buckelew pleads guilty
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where did the year go?
Thursday, October 30th, 2008Quite suddenly, it’s
cold and there’s Christmas shopping
to be done. No time.
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the crooked road
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008The broken asphalt
skewers the dirt fields on its
journey to somewhere.
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death to pundits and attack ads
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008the tempo of fall
Monday, October 27th, 2008Vote 2008: Alabama newspapers endorse Obama by 2-1 margin
Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Alabama may be a solid red state, with polls predicting a 20-point John McCain victory come Election Day, but the newspapers have endorsed Barack Obama by a more than 2-1 by a 5-3 margin by a 2-1 margin. [See third McCain endorsement by the Opelika-Auburn News, added Oct. 28, and sixth Obama endorsement by the Selma Times-Journal, added Nov. 4.]
Of the eight nine 10 newspapers that have published endorsements in the presidential race, five six support Obama, two three support McCain, and one endorsed neither. Before the cries of “liberal media bias” ring out, keep in mind that most of these same papers endorsed Republican George W. Bush in the previous two elections.
See what the editorial boards had to say …
ponderings on mid-life
Sunday, October 26th, 2008It was then his life
had spun out of control, a
hopeless wreck of dreams.
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uncool beans
Saturday, October 25th, 2008Sitting in Starbucks
makes me smell like burnt coffee
long after I leave.
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the eerie quiet
Saturday, October 25th, 2008Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 11
Friday, October 24th, 2008- yin and yang
Much is given, much
is asked. Somewhere, the harvest
matches the hungry. - pastoral inhabitants
Farm roll call: goats, cats,
peacock, chickens, puppies, cows,
llamas, pigs and worms. - composed at a keyboard
Can we break grip of
technology’s distractions?
Are we not machines?
like a bomb went off
Friday, October 24th, 2008something’s amiss
Friday, October 24th, 2008too many directions
Friday, October 24th, 2008The phone rings. The files
pile up. The project changes.
All on a Tuesday.
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