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Green Party candidate Chris Lugo for U.S. Senate will be having a fundraiser this Saturday. You can see the details here. Personally, I’ve having a little trouble with the entertainment description:

A commenter points out the troubling make-up of the Planning Commission and Mayor Dean's priorities:

This past Tuesday a group of us Square Pegs/songwriters got together over at Randall’s house for a meeting of the Weaklings.

It’s good to be back home. I did finally get the recording stuff going and it was so fun to play those tunes. Ben’s record is amazing and it’s an honor to be a part of it.

I know what you’re thinking. “George Bush really didn’t have to give me this $300, $600 or $1200 check, but I’m sure glad he did. Now what should I spend it on?”

No score and three years ago… was a very painful day. Just in case you’re keeping track. Maybe someday I’ll have a party.

So yesterday was drums and bass day on my new project. Andy Hubbard and Aaron Sands were the backbone, Andy Hunt was tweaking the knobs, and Neilson and I were getting them to do whatever we wanted. It was fun.

Well, Neilson and I have finished up our first week of working together. We’re doing four tunes, and they’re turning out great. Tuesday we’ll go back in and cut drums and bass, but right now it’s just some guitars, some vocals, a few finger snaps and a lot of Garett’s thumpings and bangings. And that’s a good thing.

When I was a young lad toiling away at Mitchell-Neilson Elmentary School my music teacher was a young lady named Miss Kidd. She rocked the Dorothy Hamill haircut and had the obligatory amount of folk singing fervor and enthusiasm that was the hallmark of elementary education music instructors perhaps the world over. I don't remember much about what we actually did in the class that met a few

It's back to school time and with my eldest daughter starting 3rd grade and my youngest beginning kindergarten my thoughts are wandering back to when I was elementary age. This led me to a murky place in my memory called 5th grade Mitchell-Neilson Elementary School. The disappointment I felt at the beginning of that school year is still fresh today. I got Ms. Murks as a teacher who was known