Virtual Skipper 5 : 32nd America's Cup - The Game
GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Well, I had hoped to have been able to announce this with a more positive manner, but someone's unwillingness to defend their ideas of governance has put a kibosh to this: The Left: Carol Shea-Porter (Democrat) ...
GraniteGrok (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Well, I dipped my toe into the real Liberal waters over at Blue Hampshire where I just burst out laughing when I read this observation by Dean Barker (head honcho over at BH) of Governor Sarah Palin coming to NH...
Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
There's a new SUSA Senate poll out today: Shaheen 48%, Sununu 40%. They also have a state Presidential poll: Obama 53%, McCain 40%. They see Obama headed to the biggest Dem win here since Johnson in 1964.
Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
So says PolitickerNH . Even though it wasn't his intention, BlueHampshire.com has become a place where New Hampshire Democrats talk and argue among themselves. It's changing how political narrative is formed. If Dean's said that wasn't his intention, he and I started from more different places than I knew. But nonetheless, damn, boy! Not bad! And thanks to the community that made his exalted status...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/29/2008
Mike Golding, 48, is one of Britain's best hopes for victory in this year's Vendée Globe. He is competing for the third time in his yacht Ecover after finishing third in the last competition four years ago.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
The paralysis which has gripped the America's Cup for over a year seemed to be relaxing over the weekend after a one-to-one summit between the Swiss holder, Ernesto Bertarelli, and the man challenging him in the courts over the structure of the next event, the American Larry Ellison.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 09/28/2008
Feuding America's Cup billionaires Larry Ellison and Ernesto Bertarelli met for about an hour in San Francisco yesterday in an attempt to get sailing's premier event out of legal gridlock and back on the water in its traditional format.
Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Tuesday Jeanne Shaheen was joined by stem cell activist and actor Michael J. Fox to shine a light on the importance of a new direction in stem cell research. We put together a video of the events: Share the video and contribute to a new direction for stem cell research here: https://jeanneshaheen.org/stem...
CoreEcon (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
[HT: Mark Richards] A Pittsburgh school district has set 50% as a student’s minimum grade. Pittsburgh Public Schools officials say they want to give struggling children a chance, but the district is raising eyebrows with a policy that sets 50 percent as the minimum score a student can receive for assignments, tests and other work. … “A [...]
Brier Dudley's blog (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
After big hits with Imagekind and Shelfari, Kelly Smith's Curious Office incubator has launched a new venture called Pressplane with $1.7 million led by his friends at Second Avenue Partners. Board members include Second Avenue's Mike Slade and MTV's Mika Salmi.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
California dreaming could turn to America's Cup reality this weekend as the warring factions of Swiss holder Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi and would-be challenger BMW Oracle's Larry Ellison meet face to face after circling each other for over 12 months.
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
Who could blame the Garcia girls for not knowing which way to turn? As novelist Julia Alvarez first revealed in her well-received 1991 novel, "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents," the sisters were wrenched from circumscribed, privileged childhoods in Rafael Trujillo's repressive Dominican...
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Tonight's Snowmail comes from Jon Snow in Manchester and Alex Thomson in London.
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Tonight's Snowmail comes from Jon Snow in Manchester and Alex Thomson in London.
SouthAfrica.info RSS feed (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Team Shosholoza is among the first of the 2007 America's Cup challengers to accept an invitation to compete in a new international match racing regatta - the Louis Vuitton Pacific Series - to be held in Auckland, New Zealand in 2009.
