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50 State Blog Roundup: Oct. 26, 2007

by: Isaac Smith

Fri Oct 26, 2007 at 03:00 PM EDT


Here are some updates from around the 50-State Blog Network, brought to you this week by Wasatch Watcher, the progressive community blog in Utah.  Also boadicea stepped up once again and was a big help...thanks!

Texas
   In a story TJX (parent corp of TJ Max, Marshall's, et al) wishes would just go away, the security breach reported a few months ago is even more ginormous than first reported.

California 
   Fire, water and global warming are all related.

Isaac Smith :: 50 State Blog Roundup: Oct. 26, 2007

Ohio 
   OH-05: Gimme A G@d D@mn Break

Colorado 
   Introducing the SquareState Small Donor Committee - getting ActBlue to operate for state and local candidates in Colorado

Colorado 
   Semi-official DCCC event only invites "establishment" Democrats

Wisconsin 
   In a thirsty world, Uppity Wis says "Water is the Next Oil".

West Virginia
   With his usual gift for distilling complex ideas to understandale ideas, WV Blue's Carnacki gives us the "FISA Scandal in Simpler Terms".

Washington 
   Washblog sounds the alarm, as the FCC comes to Seattle for a critical media consolidation hearing and asks "Does the FCC Hope We Won't Show Up?"

Virginia 
   Think the Bushies actually do learn from their mistakes?  Perhaps not, as Raising Kaine catches  the White House silencing another scientist on climate change.

Vermont 
   Inftrastructure issues are an everywhere story.  In VT, Green Mountain Daily notes the Grand Isle Drawbridge Deemed Unsafe.

Utah 
   IWell, if it looks like a vote buying scheme, and it smells like a vote buying scheme, it may be that Free Capitalist in Utah is buying votes for Referendum 1.  Take a whiff, and see what it smells like to you.

Utah 
   Well, if it looks like a vote buying scheme, and it smells like a vote buying scheme, it may be that Free Capitalist in Utah is buying votes for Referendum 1.  Take a whiff, and see what it smells like to you.

Texas 
   Beleagured Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick is grasping at straws to defend his weakening hold on  power. Last stop for the floating pity party and crap game?  The Lions Club in his hometown, Midland Texas. 

Tennessee 
   Rudy Guliani's  Rudy Guliani's Rudy Guliani's 

Tennessee 
   Rudy Guliani's American Idol: Fearmonger Racism Edition Tour catches KnoxViews eye.

South Dakota
   Badlands notes that Bob Kerrey's decision not to run for Nebraska's Senate seat isn't all bad news for Dems, and the coverage includes some interesting omissions as well.

Rhode Island 
   Seems Blusterin' Don Carcieri never met a perk he could turn down-but that doesn't mean he won't expect everyone else in Rhode Island to do so.

Pennsylvania 
   A low interest mayoral contest in Philly may lead to lower expectations for PA Dems in statewide races, notes Keystone Politics.

Oklahoma
   Senator Inhofe is still lowering the bar in Oklahoma's name. Latest move? Coming out firmly  against open access to research.   Keep 'em stupid, that's Sunny Jim's motto.

Ohio
   In the Buckeye State,  Bob Latta is showing how you fight back when Club For Growth comes in to spread manure in your neighborhood.  You shove it back in their face with the biggest shovel you've got.

New York 
   The truism that all politics is local turns a little sour when it's Karl Rove's spectre haunting local politics.

Alabama 
   This is why Jena bothered so many of us

Connecticut 
   A closer look at education in Connecticut.

New York
   As the cacophony rises regarding his immigrants ID initiative, Daily Gotham weighs in with a suggestion on The Speech Eliot Spitzer Should Give

Florida 
   Rep. Tom Feeney is looking very vulnerable

Idaho 
   Idaho Democratic Senate candidate Larocco Calls for Timetable of Iraq Strategic Withdrawal

New Mexico 
   As Domenici Dominos continue in New Mexico, NMFBIHOP keeps track of Who's in the House Races

Illinois 
   Republican Peter Roskam votes against SCHIP...again.

New Jersey 
   Sometimes, the headlines really do write themselves, as in Blue Jersey's 400 Organizations for Marriage Equality

Georgia 
   Jim Marshall still one lonely man

Indiana 
   Honda's hiring practices should be opposed.

New Hampshire 
   The Bush Justice Dept tries to slow the investigation to the crawl, nonetheless Latest Phone Jamming Funny Biz Shows Up in Court Documents

Louisiana
   Louisiana GOPers VOTE against SCHIP...AGAIN!

Kentucky
   Great videos of a McConnell protest and organizing another one in L'ville this Friday.

Maine 
   Primary Challenge to Tom Allen

Nevada
   The controversy over Barack Obama' The controversy over Barack Obama'The controversy over Barack Obama'

Nevada
   The controversy over Barack Obama's connection to anti-gay activists hits very close to home for some at Silver State.

Maryland 
   Hoyer: Telecom Immunity "Unacceptable"

Massachusetts 
   A real conversation about controlling health care costs

Nebraska 
   There's more going on in Nebraska than a Senate race.  For example, you can sign the petition to "Fight Back the Broadband Betrayal".

Michigan 
   Suit filed over party having access to voter records for the presidential primary

Minnesota 
   Iraq and the Senate Race in Minnesota

Montana 
   Left in the West weighs in on the insanity of the medical marijuana debate in Montana in "Put this in Your Pipe".

Mississippi
   Republicans getting stupid - FEMA coming for our guns

Missouri 
   Why is college costing so much in Missouri?

North Carolina 
   Greg uncovers blatant "misrepresentation by the John Locke Foundation", a Bush Republican think tank in North Carolina, of the state Treasurer's recommendations for county fiscal responsibility. The report is being used by The Realtors Association to claim that counties are flush with cash and do not need the "Transfer Tax".

Missouri 
   Fired Up Missouri catches a not much reported story from Milwaukee that should get a lot more circulation. To wit:  Education Vouchers Don't Work.

Louise Slaughter

Missouri
   Why are Missouri Teachers Denied Social Security Benefits?

New York
   SCHIP is set to make a return to the floor of Congress today

New York 
   Rep. Louise Slaughter fired the first shot in the second battle over SCHIP

Oregon
  Howard Dean visited the Rose City to talk up his new good neighbor" repeat-canvass plan, and took some time to talk one-on-one with LO about that and a few other subjects as well. In OR-SEN news, we take a look at the evolving views of WaPo Senate ranker Chris Cillizza, showing that--by gum--we got ourselves a primary race!

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