Oconee County is way small sometimes, but that does not excuse our lack of participation in elections, be it one race or 12 on the screen. I whole heartedly join Sheriff Scott Berry in endorsing Dr. Cathleen Quillian-Carr for election as Coroner in the run-off election against recently fired Assistant Coroner Ed Carson. Athens Banner-Herald reporter Adam Thompson writes an even-handed story about the...
Sunday 7PM! Listen live or download the podcast. You won't want to miss both Democratic candidates vying for the Democratic Senate nomination. Your regular host, David McLaughlin, co-hosts Tim Shifflet and yours truly will be joined by former US Senate...
In the July 15 Republican primary, state Sen. Nancy Schaefer of Turnerville finished second to Jim Butterworth in the District 50 race — not a good sign for any incumbent. Looking toward the Aug. 5 run-off, Schaefer — who registers...
The state health department is undertaking a series of construction projects this summer designed to improve the control of runoff at the Summitville Superfund site .
Georgia's U.S. Senate race disappeared from the national radar for a long period of time, as the DSCC seemed to have had a rare recruiting failure in the state. Saxby Chambliss, last seen trashing American hero Max Cleland in the most shameless and vile manner, has enjoyed a healthy polling lead for the majority of the campaign. His lead isn't so safe anymore. Democrats Vernon Jones and Jim Martin...
Kathmandu, Jul 21: The run-off election for the Nepal President began on Monday, July 21, as none of the candidates who contested in first presidential elections on Saturday could get the minimum votes required to get elected. Click Here To Read the Full Post
A runoff will be held in Nepal to determine the country's first president after Saturday's election failed to produce a majority winner, an official says.Constituent Assembly Chairman Kul Bahadur Gurung said since the assembly failed to give one of the three presidential candidates 298 of the 594 eligible votes, the election will now move into a runoff Monday.Meanwhile, former supreme court justice...
The incomprehensible web-log Hipster Runoff went and reblogged an Alt Bingo card , and then then tweaked and reposted an improved version -- but it still doesn't feel quite right, at least not for San Francisco's special hipster needs. For one thing, we've got so many azns in this city that it's kind of cheating to even put them on the card. And although we long to see a rcrd hat in the wild, it's...
Sonny Perdue says he is neutral in the runoff in SD-50: In the July 15 Republican primary, state Sen. Nancy Schaefer of Turnerville finished second to Jim Butterworth in the District 50 race — not a good sign for any incumbent. Looking toward the Aug. 5 run-off, Schaefer — who registers strongly among conservative Christians — put [...]
In California, only charter cities have the freedom to use Instant-Runoff Voting to elect their own city officers. Davis, California voters voted in 2006 to use IRV, but since Davis is not a charter city, the vote cannot have any effect. But on July 22, the Davis City Council voted to put the [...]
In my previous article , you learned a bit about the origins of the water provided by the Nevada Irrigation District (NID) that you drink and enjoy in the environment. You learned that for the most part, it originates in the high mountains as runoff from rain and snow and flows many miles through a complex system of canals and reservoirs to the domestic and agricultural end users in Nevada and Placer...
Silly season for Georgia politics has officially been declared open by DeKalb County CEO Vernon Jones who today accused his run-off opponent, Jim Martin, of not supporting Illinois Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign. In an email to supporters, Jones wrote that his campaign had "uncovered evidence" that Jim Martin did not want Barack Obama to be president and even voted against Sen. Obama...
A new study from University of Southern California was just released, appearing in PNAS Early Edition the week of July 21, showing that run-off from the Amazon River powers a large carbon sink in the tropical North Atlantic ocean. New Scientist talks about it here . According to the press realease, which I will quote at the end of the post, this overturns the previously held view that this area of...
Vernon Jones and Jim Martin, the two Democrats battling for their party's U.S. Senate nomination, are scheduled to meet for their final debate before the August 5th run-off. The debate, sponsored by the Atlanta Press Club, will be broadcast live on Georgia Public Broadcasting Sunday, August 3rd in front of a studio audience beginning at 7:00PM.
