SLANTblog (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
There's a lively conversation going on at the Fan District Hub, a community news web site/neighborhood blog that I publish. It started with a couple of cracks I made to set up a link to the Back Page piece that Bill Farrar wrote about Paul Goldman. Now it has evolved into other areas. School Board member Carol Wolf has weighed in. Save Richmond's publisher Don Harrison has commented....
Buttermilk & Molasses (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
Despite his thick briefcase stuffed full of plans for a future Richmond, his keen analytical mind and his reputation as a Kingmaker, Paul Goldman was never a serious contender to grab the gold ring as Richmond's next mayor. Blame it...
SLANTblog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2008
A new, post-Goldman-withdrawal analysis of the Richmond mayoral contest, "The Wilder Factor," is up at Richmond.com. It was penned by your narrator. At various mayoral forums in different parts of town Paul Goldman, Robert J. Grey, Jr., Del. Dwight C. Jones, Councilman William J. “Bill” Pantele and Lawrence E. Williams, Jr. have all made remarks that were critical of the sitting...
WorldBlog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
By Paul Goldman, NBC News Producer TEL AVIV, Israel – With Israelis in the grip of U.S. election mania and anxiously awaiting the results, Israeli radio rang out the dulcet tone of Abba’s "The Winner Takes it All." Mike's Place, a bar in Tel Aviv, that was decorated with American flags and eight TV sets transmitting the live events from the U.S. became a gathering place for Obama supporters....
Buttermilk & Molasses (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
... Richmond does a good job of shaping this story out , using the TD endorsement, observations from Paul Goldman and his own perspectives. Let’s play a civics version of “The Price is Right.” What did carrying the water for Metro Richmond’s biggest wigs buy Bill Pantele? Why, only an endorsement from the Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial page . Not only an endorsement, but a piece of...
MSNBC.com: Middle East and North Af (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
McCain has an edge among U.S. voters in Israel Posted: Thursday, October 30, 2008 3:51 PMFiled Under: , By Paul Goldman, NBC News ProducerTEL AVIV, Israel – Thousands of Americans living in Israel cast their votes this week for the U.S. elections. With approximately 40,000 Americans in Israel registered to vote, their numbers are small, but significant. And Shimon Greenspan and Dina Lerner,...
Vivian J. Paige (Free subscription) | 10/28/2008
He may be running for Mayor of Richmond but Dwight Jones has friends in Hampton Roads. Sunday afternoon, some of them gathered for a fundraiser for him. L-R: Del. Ken Melvin, Del. Bobby Mathieson, Hampton Mayor Molly Ward, Sen. Ralph North, Del. Jeion Ward, Congressman Bobby Scott (back row), Del. Mamye BaCote, Dwight Jones, Sen. Mamie Locke, Del. Paula Miller, Norfolk Mayor Paul Fraim,...
Buttermilk & Molasses (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
Political satire is as American as ignoring the issues, and sometimes Tobacco Avenue delivers a strong chuckle or three. This week, the mayoral race provided plenty of laughs -- including the TA profile of Dwight Jones and its story on Paul Goldman's departure from the race . I'm still waiting for the obligatory, " Grey takes local weblogger to ABC warehouse for a drink " story. On the...
