Naked Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
So posits the Times of London. "Expect the unexpected," the newspaper says. "Few predicted that Dick Cheney, asked to find a running-mate for George Bush in 2000, would end up recommending himself. Four years ago the New York Post proclaimed...
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
Campaigning today in Bradenton on behalf of Democrat Christine Jennings, (she's challenging Rep. Vern Buchanan in a contentious re-match) Florida Sen. Bill Nelson offered his vice presidential picks for Barack Obama. "My first choice is that he'd pick Hillary," said...
The New York Observer (Free subscription) | yesterday
John McCain leads Barack Obama by five points in the new Reuters-Zogby poll. According to CNN's "poll of polls," Obama is in the lead, but barely . Via the Miami Herald, The Times of London floated Florida Senator Bill Nelson for Obama's running mate. Michael Bloomberg wants to see wind power in New York City. Windmills, he said, could go on top of places like bridges and buildings. Anthony Weiner...
Reality TV Website (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
ABC's "All My Children" is conducting a nationwide search to cast a real life Iraqi War veteran to play a new role on the Emmy Award-winning daytime drama.
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
WASHINGTON -- With the veepstakes in full swing, every little detail can launch a 1,000 ships of speculation. Here’s another example, involving Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida. As noted by Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell, the website www.ObamaNelson.com goes directly...
Virginia Virtucon (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Speculation abounds that Barry Obama will announce his running mate no later than this Thu.: “Obama cannot announce during the Denver convention and it makes no sense in terms of the news cycle to announce during a weekend,” said one Democrat with no ties to the Obama campaign. “So I would be very surprised if he [...]
Space Politics (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
In this week’s edition of The Space Review, I provide an overview of some of the space policy developments of the last week, including the McCain and Obama documents and the Garver-Cunningham debate. If you’ve been reading the posts here, there will not be much in the way of new information (other than some [...]
Naked Politics (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Florida Sen. Bill Nelson tells the New York Times that Sen. Joe Biden would make a great veep pick for Barack Obama in Florida. Nelson told the newspaper that Biden's age is an "asset, not a liability, particularly among many...
Daily Tech (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
The U.S. government must now decide whether it will overlook Russia's skirmishes with Georgia
Oliver Willis (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
Crazy delicious Two well-known space pioneers on Sunday endorsed Senator Barack Obama’s space program, which calls for lengthening the life of the Space Shuttle so that the U.S. is not without its own ride to the International Space Station. Former Ohio Senator John Glenn and current U.S. Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, both former astronauts, said flying [...]
Time (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Florida Sen. Bill Nelson and former Ohio Senator John Glenn will announce they’re backing the Land of Lincolner’s plan for space exploration, research in a media call Sunday afternoon. * * * * Get The Page delivered to your inbox. Sign up for TIME’s daily political newsletter here.
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., got a friendly earful from local officials he lunched with this week at Sunrise Grille.
Scientific American (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
Here's a scenario that might be going through the minds of NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff and his two fellow Russian crew members on the International Space Station (ISS). [More]
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
“Manson Behind The Scenes” by Bill Nelson, who has previously written a book about Charles “Tex” Watson called “Tex Watson The Man The Madness The Manipulation,” gives updates on all the major players in this tragedy and points out many loose ends in the quarter-century old case. William Garretson, the groundskeeper who was inexplicably [...] ShareThis
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
3M Co. chemicals in a former Washington County landfill should be moved or incinerated, area legislators were told during a hearing in Woodbury.
