Uneasy Rhetoric

After a year of nearly pointless navel gazing by the Democrats over what went wrong in the 2004 election, it’s nice to see the Republicans doing a little nearly pointless navel gazing and silver lining construction of their own here in my little corner of the world.
Economics, quo vadis, lemons, Prop 73, defeated candidate.
In a [...]

Now, if this doesn’t remind me of the good old days in Portland, I don’t know what does. I’ve been hitting reload on my browser since 8:20pm and watching the election results come in. With 45.2 percent of the precincts reporting, only Proposition 75 is passing, and that barely. Unfortunately, 73 and [...]

I’ve said before that I think Americans have only weak party identification. Instead, people vote for the person, not the party. In an article in The American Prospect, Mark Schmitt comes to a similar conclusion - that a party can swing power if it can find good candidates to carry the torch:
…good candidates [...]

Remember when I mentioned that one of the light rail ticket dispensers at the 4th Avenue/Wayne Hultgren stop was broken? That was last Thursday. Here it is Tuesday and it still isn’t fixed. Apparently, RT took the same four-day weekend I did.

The Housing Tracker looks at current housing inventories (homes for sale) and shows home prices at the 25th, 50th (median), and 75th percentiles. Even better, if you click on a particular city, it shows the change in median price and the change in inventory since the statistics were compiled.
In Sacramento, median price is down [...]