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The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

President Obama visited Dallas,Texas this week to promote Obamacare in the very Redsate home to Texas Perry and his Rock.

Pro Football Hall of Famers Tony Dorsett and Joe DeLamielleure, and former NFL All-Pro Leonard Marshall have been diagnosed as having signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative condition many scientists say is caused by head trauma and linked to depression and dementia(Outside the Lines)

For the first time in 40 years, predominantly black Detroit elected a white person as mayor.Mike Duggan beat Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon in the city whose population is 82% African America. Many African Americans in Detroit, he said, “feel as though this is an attempt to redo Detroit absent the African-American influence. ... Redo it without us being part of it. I have to tell folks, we ain’t going nowhere.”Kenneth Cooper, a Boston political journalist (DFP)

Bostonred is joined by Jerry Pippin the Redstate Liberal.

"Yes, Boston is growing and attracting new people but the high cost of living makes it hard for seniors and middle class families to stay in the city they know and they love,”Martin Walsh

Polls leading  had Terry McAuliffe coasting to victory,  in the Virginia governor’s race. Instead he squeaked by, beating Republican Ken Cuccinelli by less than 3 percentage points.

We at the Wigi Board had a by 2 points.

“Despite being outspent by an unprecedented $15 million, this race came down to the wire because of Obamacare,” Cuccinelli said in his concession speech .

Former House Speaker Jim Wright was denied a voter ID card Saturday at a Texas Department of Public Safety office.“Nobody was ugly to us, but they insisted that they wouldn’t give me an ID,” Wright said.The legendary Texas political figure says that he has worked things out with DPS and that he will get a state-issued personal identification card in time for him to vote Tuesday in the state and local elections.But after the difficulty he had this weekend getting a proper ID card, Wright, 90, expressed concern that such problems could deter others from voting and stifle turnout Star Telegraph

State Sen. Wendy Davis went to the polls to vote early Monday and found herself facing a situation that many Texans may encounter:The name on her driver’s license and voter registration card were slightly different, so she had to sign an affidavit at the Southside Community Center stating that she is the person registered to vote.

Jerry Pippin co-host

A Morning quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

 

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and more

Reform make changes in (something, typically a social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it:an opportunity to reform and restructure an antiquated schooling model the Oxford Dictionary

Douglas County is The  MOST INTERESTING

SCHOOL DISTRICT IN AMERICA

For a decade or more, school reform has been an urban tale dominated by cities with high rates of poverty and troubling records of high-school completion and academic achievement. Frederick M. Hess

The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

 

Jerry Pippin co-Host

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

We take a dialectical look at Halloween 2013.

Jerry Pippin(jerrypippin.com) is the host