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DEAN’S HEALTH CARE PLAN HITS THE PRESS Both Reuters and CNN have great stories on the health care plan Dean unveiled this morning. Also, the Dean for America website now has a side-by-side comparison of Dean’s and Gephardt’s health care plans, a full summary, and a health care survey—along with a downloadable file including the…

In the 18 months that I’ve kept this weblog, I’ve been very fortunate to meet with some people whose contributions to the field I consider to be significant. Tonight is another one of those moments – I had drinks with Marc Barrot, creator of activeRenderer and developer of an as-yet-unannounced new project that will be…

Run, Joe, Run In this article, Beinart refers to Dean as the “candidate of Democratic fantasy” and Lieberman as “the candidate of Democratic desperation”. Of most interest (to me, anyway), is the deconstruction of Lieberman’s strategy: focusing on blacks and moderate whites. Beinart points out that in past primary elections, those groups tended to solidify…

I received my beta copy of Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 last week, and just loaded it up. If you have any experience with this, or want to share some tips before I dig in, please leave a comment. I’d love to know what others are doing wtih it. From the Microsoft web site: OneNote 2003…

I’ve bought my tickets, we have a babysitter lined up (and proving why I love her, my wife – not me – threatened the babysitter with grave, unspecified injuries if she can’t make it), and we’re all set for Thursday’s premiere of Matrix Reloaded. (Of course, I just discovered that they’re actually starting to show…

More details later, but Edgar has announced that contrary to President Bush’s wishes, he will not run for the US Senate seat being vacated by Peter Fitzgerald.

Illinois State Fair — Daily Events Work is underway to welcome Governor Dean to the Illinois State Fair on August 13 (“Governor’s Day”). More details as they become available…

Great write-up from a blogger who went to the Meetup in New Hampshire where Gov. Dean spoke: Howard Dean Meetup in Nashua, NH: This guy rocks! It’s way beyond midnight, heading towards 2am and I’m tired. Philip, again, is talking about schools in his community.nbspBut all I want to do is nbspgo to bed. And…

Why Dean is still the Democrat to watch In fact, the former governor of Vermont is still a man to watch, if not the man to beat.

In response to my last post, Kevin Thurman tells me to “shove it.” He was reacting to my sarcastic comments about Hart’s assertion that he had an army of young people who would have delivered $8m to him in the next eight months. I am skeptical of this claim – younger volunteers supply endless amounts…