Bird’s-Eye View

Initial impression following Hillary Clinton’s speech tonight: The most important part was when she addressed her supporters directly, asking them why they became involved in the spring primary in the first place. Was it because 47 million people are without health care? Was it because somehow the Iraq war has to end? Was it because […]

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A movie released in 2007, a remake of the classic 3:10 to Yuma, provided not only a superb, tense and well-acted contemporary western but a look at the human psyche. A humble, hobbled and poor rancher (played by Christian Bale of The Dark Knight fame) accepts a wealthy contract to deliver an infamous, deadly and […]

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We don’t know whom Republican John McCain will pick to be his vice presidential nominee, but is anyone else out there jazzed about the prospect of a Joe Biden-Mitt Romney debate on live television? It might be a more entertaining verbal dispute than the McCain-Barack Obama debates and produce more one-liners than any other debate […]

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The Nest is breaking for a rest. A week off is ahead of me, and I’m going to take it. I might check in now and then, but I’ll be back in full force after Labor Day. Enjoy the last days of summer, all.

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Lois Herr, former congressional candidate and executive director of the Lancaster County Democratic Committee, is blogging from the Democratic Convention in Denver here. Herr is a delegate for Hillary Clinton, although I doubt she made it to Colorado on the back of Mayor Rick Gray’s motorcycle. That seat’s reserved for his wife, Gail.

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And not the one you think … If Barack Obama calls on U.S. Sen. Joe Biden to be his No. 2, Pennsylvania will have a native son on the ticket. Biden was born in Scranton and grew up there for 10 years before his family moved to Delaware.
Jonathan Alter of Newsweek lists three attributes (disguised […]

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Perhaps this is why Bill and Hillary Clinton have such prominent slots to speak during next week’s Democratic National Convention. From the MSNBC story about a new poll with the Wall Street Journal:
Yet perhaps the biggest factor keeping the presidential race close has been Obama’s inability to close the deal with some of Hillary Clinton’s […]

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Lt. Gov. Catherine Baker Knoll announced today she’s been diagnosed with a form of cancer but she’s vowing to have gavel in hand to conduct the Senate’s business.
From the governor’s press office:
Lieutenant Governor Catherine Baker Knoll today announced that she has been diagnosed with neuroendocrine illness.
She was diagnosed during a routine medical examination earlier in […]

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Josh Drobnyk of the Allentown Morning Call reports that the McCain campaign has finalized plans to hold a rally in a Pennsylvania minor league stadium on the Saturday prior to the Republican National Convention. No, it’s not Clipper Magazine Stadium. It has, however, fueled more speculation that Gov. Tom Ridge is closer to becoming the GOP’s […]

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That’s right, Nesters. Today is Bruce Springsteen Day at the Nest because I’m shortly heading up that highway choked with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive. Springsteen comes to Hershey for the first time in his career, and I’ll have the privilege of covering the show. Sometimes, journalism can be a charmed life.
I won’t […]

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