Mark Osterloh believes a chance to win $1,000,000 will get Arizona residents out to the polls. In 2004, voter turnout was about 77% of all registered voters in Arizona. In 2002, when Osterloh ran for governor, it was 56%. Osterloh thinks the shot at a million bucks will get more people out to vote. He Read More
Culture
Eye In The Sky
A few days ago, someone posted to my military unit’s alumni site that Google Earth had updated a lot of it’s foreign sat imagery. They posted coordinates to our old missile site (now defunct). Thought that was pretty cool, then I wondered… In 2001, I went on a 2-week missions trip to Northern Thailand, to Read More
A Day in My Life
I never intended this to be a diary. Of course, I never intended this to languish the way it has. It’s been up since March of this year, and I’ve only made 58 posts. That works out to something like a post every 2.6 days. Now, if I were really posting that often, it’d be Read More
Founding Fathers – 2005
While I consider that I know more about American history than some people, I realize that I don’t know enough. I’m not really a student of history, but I’m very interested in the beginnings of our country.
The End of an Era
The Village of New Rome, Ohio, one of the most notorious speed traps in the country, is no more, dissolved in September of last year. But the village left behind a number of debts. An auction was held a few days ago to help pay off those debts. The sale of village property raised just Read More