In a groove now.
Starting at 9 a.m., one trip every hour from Kent State to the Board of Elections in Ravenna. As many as five students signed up per trip.
The pace is picking up.
Category Archives: Politics
Vote Today Ohio–Day 4–On a Timetable
October 2, 2008 – 8:20 pm
Vote Today Ohio–Day 3–Shuttling in the Rain
October 1, 2008 – 8:34 pm
After nearly two months of on-campus work by various organizations, almost all students at Kent State University now say that they’re registered to vote.
The temperature is in the low 50s. The sky is light gray. And a hard rain falls intermittently.
This is my third day on campus, standing beside the Vote Today Ohio van outside [...]
Vote Today Ohio–Day 2–Tach It Up
September 30, 2008 – 11:55 pm
Yesterday was our first day on the Kent State campus. We arrived with a 15-passenger van festooned with signage that invited early voting and positioned it right in front of the Student Center. Under cloudy, often rainy skies, hundreds of students passed by.
“How would you like to avoid the long lines on Election Day and [...]
Vote Today Ohio–Day 1–On the Ground
September 29, 2008 – 9:36 pm
Ohio election law permits voter registration through October 6. But Early Voting begins September 30. This means that for one week, Ohio residents may register and vote early in all of Ohio’s 88 counties.
Secretary Paulson Wants a Section 8
September 24, 2008 – 5:58 pm
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson
Wall Street’s financial mess is complicated. The bail-out is complicated.
But one thing is clear: whatever is to be done must be done in the sunshine with full recourse for chicanery and self-dealing.
Vote Today Ohio–A Grassroots Effort
September 18, 2008 – 12:03 am
My wife and I are going to Ohio to register voters.
Ohio recently changed its voting laws in a way that creates an extraordinary opportunity to register new voters. For one week only (Sept 30—Oct 6), Ohio residents may register and vote early in all of Ohio’s 88 counties. They need make only one trip to [...]
“If You Don’t Vote, You’re a Moron!”
September 17, 2008 – 11:38 am
On September 10, CBS Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson, a Scotland-born, recently naturalized American citizen, delivered an impassioned rant about the importance of voting. Airing immediately after Obama appeared on Letterman’s show, Ferguson’s screed was trenchant, funny, and exactly right.
“If you don’t vote, you’re a moron!”
At the end of this month, I’m heading to [...]
Vetting the Candidates
September 6, 2008 – 12:27 am
“Has she been thoroughly vetted?” they ask. It’s an apt question. But do they know what the word actually means?
Science in the Muslim World
August 9, 2008 – 11:44 am
Egypt’s Library of Alexandria
In a guest editorial published in the 8/8/08 issue of Science, the magazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Director of Egypt’s Library of Alexandria, Dr. Ismail Serageldin, states:
“Throughout the Muslim world we are witnessing an increasingly intolerant social milieu that is driven by self-appointed guardians of religious [...]
Solar Breakthrough at MIT? A Lesson for Politicians
August 3, 2008 – 12:47 am
On July 31, researchers at MIT announced a “revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source. Requiring nothing but abundant, non-toxic natural materials, this discovery could unlock the most potent, carbon-free energy source of all: the sun.”
Funded in part by a $10 million grant from the [...]
