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Election Reflection: Primary 2015
May 24, 2015 By Tom Borthwick

Upsets!  Surprises!  Where did the readers of the tea leaves go wrong? In most elections, those readers of the tea leaves are, like most prophets, colored by their own desires.  It’s like looking at shapes in the clouds or staring at Rorschach blots: we see what we want, a reflection of our subconscious minds. Does […]

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On the Lackawanna Study Commission Proposal
April 16, 2014 By Tom Borthwick

Chuck Volpe: Crusader for the Public Good or Megalomaniac Millionaire (or Milgalomaniare)?  It’s the question on barely anybody’s mind (minus three or four hundred political insiders, out of the tens of thousands of voters in the county). Mr. Volpe’s brainchild: The Lackawanna County Study Commission.  Its history is long and storied.  Or maybe brief and […]

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