Random Musings

On Monday, President Obama announced a tentative deal with the Republicans in Congress over extending the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthi...

This actually is a blog post, written in the form of a letter, but since I consider the "open letter" format to be lazy and preten...

Last week, I (as well as many others) contacted Congressman Harry Mitchell to urge him to vote for the health care reform bill before the H...

Later this week, or perhaps early next week, the US House will vote on a health care reform bill. Its passage (assuming it passes, a likely ...

This letter was submitted to them via the City's website contact form - Mayor Lane and members of the Scottsdale City Council, On Tuesda...

On Friday, I wrote a letter to Congressman Harry Mitchell (and the Blue Dogs). It must have been an incredibly eloquent and persuasive lett...

Normally, these “open letters” are something that I’ve written and submitted to a particular public official. As I am living in CD5 that usu...

This is an open letter to the President, submitted via email. I don't expect that he will read it, but since I consider the "open l...

On Tuesday, the Democrats in the U.S. House introduced a health care reform package. It will be considered and marked up by three committee...

Congress will soon be considering the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) ( H.R. 1409 in the House; S.560 in the Senate). It's been the su...

Since the Rep never publishes my letters anyway, here is the letter I just submitted regarding the economic stimulus package winding its way...

Jerry Gettinger, a PC in LD8 and a friend, submitted this letter to the editor to the AZ Republic and has graciously allowed me to publish i...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a letter to Congressman Harry Mitchell about the economic stimulus package that was passed by the U.S. Hous...

This one is rooted in the previous post, but while that was more of a rant, this one is more reasoned. At least, I hope it comes across that...

A few days ago, I wrote a letter to Congressman Harry Mitchell concerning the Wall Street bailout proposal floated by the Bush Administrati...

Surprisingly enough, occasionally I *can* exercise some self-restraint, and a letter to my Congressman is one of those occasions. The lette...

Tonight, the Scottsdale City Council is meeting for its last meeting of 2007. In addition to the normal consent agenda (mostly mundane stuff...

The following letter was submitted to the Congressman via his House website (note: the links didn't go through; it's a text-only mes...

With another Iraq vote coming up, likely the week after next, it's time to let our Congresscritters know how we feel. To that end, I ju...