Swing State Project (Free subscription) | yesterday
Post-Thanksgiving food coma = digest on a diet. ? FL-Sen : The 99th-most senior senator in the United States, George LeMieux, has been working his new colleagues on behalf of Charlie Crist. After James Inhofe endorsed Marco Rubio, LeMieux began trying to play the role of gatekeeper, urging other fellow senators to see him first before picking sides. Supposedly, LeMieux has told some of these people...
Peak Energy (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Dave Roberts at Grist has a blast from the past - Exxon boasting how burning fossil fuels will melt glaciers (when they changed their mind about this remains unclear) - Oil: enough energy to melt glaciers! . From a sharp-eyed reader comes this ad for Humble Oil (which later merged with Standard to become, yes, Exxon). It may win the All Time Millenial Award for Maximal Irony. It’s from a 1962...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
VETERAN 6ABC weather anchor Dave Roberts announced his retirement during last night's 11 o'clock broadcast. Roberts, 73, will give his last forecast Dec. 11.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
After 31 years at WPVI, weatherman Dave Roberts announced his retirement on last night's Action News. Roberts, the town's dean of TV personalities at age 73, will wrap his 56-year broadcast career Dec. 11.
Inq The Insider (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
He announced on the 11 o'clock Action News that he's retiring.
PhillyGossip (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
• Richard Dunwoody advises Richard Johnson to switch agents • Sam Stronge believes agent's grip will be hard to break Sam Stronge, once a client of the jockeys' agent Dave Roberts but now one of his competitors, said yesterday that Roberts has "a hold on the sport [of National Hunt racing] that will be hard to break". Echoing a view expressed by Richard Dunwoody, the former champion...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Earlier today, Dave Roberts told his television family that he's ready to watch TV, rather than be on it. After 56 years in the business, and 31 memorable years at WPVI, the legendary broadcaster will retire in December. Roberts will co-host his final 6abc IKEA Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1 week, and his final Action News AccuWeather forecast on December 11th.
Philadelphia Weather (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Dave Roberts is an icon at Channel 6, having been at the station since the 1970's. Along with Jim Gardner, they are the longest tenured on air broadcasters at Channel 6 as of present. Channel 6 is running promotions highlighting a significant announcement that Dave Roberts is sharing with viewers . Is it the announcement of retirement? Word on the street seems to suggest that is the case. Roberts was...
Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
It is 8.25 on Remembrance Day morning. Andrew Flintoff and Dave Roberts, head physiotherapist at his county, Lancashire, are waiting to meet Britain’s top knee specialist.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
BELMONT, CA (MARKET WIRE) Dave Roberts, vice president of strategy for Vyatta, will present at this year's Interop conference held in New York on November 16-20. Joined by representatives from Juniper and Arista Networks, Mr. Roberts will address the topic of "Breakthrough Network Technologies," in a session led by Jim Metzler of Ashton, Metzler & Associates.
Peak Energy (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Dave Roberts at Grist has some words on the baseload fallacy - Do we need nuclear and coal plants for baseload power? . On Friday, Matt Yglesias made the point that only socialist state control seems capable of creating a robust nuclear power industry. After all, the only countries building nuke plants these days are the ones where governments are making the decisions. David Frum replied with a series...
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Michael Shellengerger and Ted Nordhaus have decided that the right thing to do is to stand up to a bully . Good for them. Here is an excerpt: What are the warning signs that one is dealing with a bully? Wiki names, "Quickness to anger and use of force, addiction to aggressive behaviors, mistaking others' actions as hostile, concern with preserving self image, and engaging in obsessive or rigid...
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Californication by digby This piece by Dave Roberts gets to the nub of our ongoing national problem with governance and it's a biggie: the Senate and its supermajority rules: What’s that dysfunction? It’s simple: a supermajority requirement coupled with an extreme, unified minority . Everything else—and I mean pretty much every lamentable feature of American politics —flows...
TYWKIWDBI (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
There are a seemingly endless number of pix of this sculpture on the web, but I like the way this photographer seems to have converted all the image to greyscale except for the child on the bike with the training wheels. Photo credit: Dave Roberts
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