Democrats of Douglas

CNN just announced the death of Civil Rights pioneer Rosa Parks. My wife Alysa and I toured the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama last year. The museum is at the same stop where she courageously refused to give up her seat to a white man in 1955. A few blocks away […]

Here in Douglas we’ve been discussing the possibility of underground utilities through the downtown area. Andy Rooney of 60 Minutes has been thinking about it too. His opinion, “Power companies argue that it’s too expensive to bury wires and cables. Well, it’s never too expensive to do the things that absolutely ought to […]

I’ve always admired C-SPAN, the cable channel that covers Washington like no other. They are actually three cable channels and a radio station, all without commercials, and all without significant editing. If it happens in Washington, or relates to Washington, you can bet they’ll be there. No soundbites either. They tape […]

Octoberfest was a smashing success, for both the Democratic Town Committee and the town as a whole. No one could have asked for better weather. The whole town Festival Committee deserves a big round of applause for putting on a great show. By the end of the day we’d sold out of […]