Boston Herald Biden lays into Trump during New Hampshire stop By MATTHEW MEDSGER mmedsger@bostonherald.com | Boston Herald PUBLISHED: October 22, 2024 President Joe Biden was in New Hampshire on Tuesday to spread the word about his administration’s work to lower the price of prescription drugs, but he also used the visit as a … Continue reading Campaign Notes Tuesday Oct. 22, 2024
Figures below are through Sunday October 20th, from the NC State Board of Elections (NCSBE) Late Monday, officials in Wake County, home of the capital city of Raleigh, the state’s second-largest, told reporters that
A friend messaged to ask how it’s going? A brief update in North Carolina, as of Friday evening 10-18-2024: I hear it was a record first day yesterday (Opening Day of early voting). At our polling place nearby, they told us 800 had voted there yesterday ), a record. A later statewide report came from … Continue reading News of The (Voting) Day from (One of the) Front Lines
A year ago last Saturday, the Friends Meeting I’m part of took a big step, for us: we rented a booth at the Alamance Pride Festival, held in a large park in downtown Burlington NC. Outwardly, our booth was not particularly eye-catching. Amid the fluttering of a thousand floating rainbows, the yellow table banner we … Continue reading The Shadow at the Pride Festival
Burlington is in North Carolina’s Alamance County, once notorious as a hotbed of the Ku Klux Klan back in the day, Neo-Confederates now. A 35-foot statue of a rebel soldier still guards the county courthouse, and the monument itself is surrounded by a thick wrought iron fence and plenty of Don’t-Tread-On-Me attitude. The county … Continue reading A Quaker Doing His Incognito Bit in North Carolina Politics