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Toward a the Next Wave -- Regional Blogs

Progressive blogging began back in 2001 when Jerome Armstrong founded MyDD back in 2001, and really took off in mid-2003 when recently founded DailyKos started to take off in popularity in combination with the Dean campaign.  These were national blogs and tackled mostly presidential campaigns, the US congress, and certain high-profile Senate (Obama, Lamont, Tester, Webb, etc) and some House campaigns, but not most...

From the JRE08 Blog:

Senator John Edwards today sent a letter to President Bush challenging the president to join him on a tour of places in America that are too often ignored and to talk to Americans who are working hard, but still living in poverty.

From MoveOn

Last night, through Al Gore's Live Earth concerts, 2 billion of us rallied to stop the climate crisis. Now, it's time to change more than our light bulbs, it's time to change our leaders.

That's why we're holding our Virtual Town Hall on the climate crisis. All eight of the Democratic presidential candidates responded to MoveOn members' questions about global warming. Now, it's time to watch their responses and weigh in on which one has the best plan.

Watch John Edwards answer three questions at the Live Earth / MoveOn Climate Change Townhall.

The three questions for John Edwards were:

Last week, Edwards may have started to pre-introduce a National Service program, something like AmeriCorps, but expanded, or maybe tied to his College for Everyone program, or perhaps even made a requirement for teens.

On Saturday, 21 April, the day after protesting George Bush's visit to my hometown, and the morning after coaching some youth soccer, greee and I packed into his car and drove the three hours from Grand Rapids (the west coast of Michigan) to Detroit for the Michigan Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner.  

There I videoed the entire thing so that you can virtually be there -- just click the links to go to YouTube and/or read along.

Sandra Svoboda wrote a very interesting article in today's Detroit MetroTimes about DaveBonior, his relationship with John Edwards, and the roll unions may play in the 2007-2008 Democratic primaries: http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/stor y.asp?id=10103

Here are some excerpts, summaries and my commentary: