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• Video lampoons Aspen Instant Runoff Voting election - vote early, vote often, vote outside mayors office

  
  Black Box Voting — Authority: 91
  A group called Better Bad News lampoons Aspen Colorados instant runoff election held this May.  The election was rife with questionable or amateurish antics.  Early voting began way before it was supposed to and there really was a ballot box just outside the mayors office during early voting was not a joke. ...
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• Demonstration of Green/Gray Infrastructure for Combined Sewer Ov...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 155
  This project is a major national demonstration of the integration of green and gray infrastructure for combined sewer overflow (CSO) control in a cost-effective and environmentally friendly manner. It will use Kansas City, MO, as a case example. The project will have a major influence on EPA?s goal to implement green ...
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• Still more on Parker’s win

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 147
  Hereare a couple of photo slide shows from the Annise Parker victory party on Saturday, from TPM and Hair Balls , the latter of which has some pix from the Gene Locke event as well. And BOR has a recording of a voice mail message President Obama left for Parker to congratulate her on her win. There’s a mighty ...
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• Ski Green

  
  CT Green Scene — Authority: 124
  by Eileen Weber Feel like schussing down the mountains of soft powder with the wind in your hair this winter? You’re not alone. Every skier on the planet waits with bated breath to hit the slopes. But there’s one thing...
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• Chile runoff pits Ex-president against billionaire

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  A conservative billionaire who fell shy of a first-round presidential victory can win a January runoff if he peels enough voters away from the center-left coalition that has governed Chile for nearly two decades. Sebastian Pinera, the rights greatest hope of regaining the presidency since the 1990 departure of ...
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• Sex, Lies & Audiotape

  
  AAA-Fund Blog — Authority: 138
  Sex, Lies, and Audiotape:  Why We Need Instant Runoff Voting   When a lawmaker brags about his sexual exploits, taxpayers beware:  it might end up costing us millions of tax dollars. The trouble began last summer, when then-Assemblymember Mike Duvall (R-Yorba Linda) boasted about his extramarital affairs to a ...
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• Houston elects first openly gay mayor

  
  Entertainment News, Sports News, Celebrity News, African American Culture & Community News and Events - Bilal Ali Productions — Authority: 152
  Annise Parker made history Saturday as Houston’s first openly gay mayor. Parker, who served five years as city controller, beat former city attorney Gene Locke with 53.6 percent of the vote in a runoff election. Both are Democrats who faced off for the second time because neither emerged with more than 50 percent ...
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• First official results confirm Pinera-Frei runoff in Chile

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Santiago, Dec 14 (DPA) Conservative millionaire Sebastian Pinera and ruling-party candidate Eduardo Frei Sunday led the first round of Chile’s presidential election, according to the first preliminary official results.Pinera got 44.67 percent of the votes to Frei’s 32.08 percent, with more than 12 percent of the ...
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• Houston elects first openly gay mayor: Annise Parker

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 151
  December 13, 2009Who knew?Texas of all states – a state where gay marriage is against the law and Houston voters rejected a referendum to offer benefits to same-sex partners of city.Houston has elected its second female and first openly gay mayor: ANNISE D PARKERShe beat former city attorney GENE LOCKE 53.6% vs ...
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• How others are viewing the election

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 147
  This AP story about the Mayoral runoff election contains a paragraph you won’t see very often. Houston became the largest U.S. city to elect an openly gay mayor, with voters handing a solid victory to City Controller Annise Parker after a hotly contested runoff. Several other U.S. cities, including Portland, ...
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• Initial thoughts on the runoffs

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 147
  I’ll go through them one race at a time, with the unofficial vote totals minus Montgomery County for each. Once I have precinct results, I’ll go through those and do a more detailed analysis. Mayor Annise Parker – 81,971, 52.78% Gene Locke – 73,331, 47.22% This was perhaps a bit closer than one might have ...
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• Parker beats Locke in historic win in Houston mayoral runoff

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 522
  City Controller Annise Parker has beaten former City Attorney Gene Locke in today’s runoff election to be Houston’s next mayor.According to my Twitter feed, the Chronicle called the race (via tweet, at least) around 10 p.m. tonight, saying Parker had an unbeatable lead with 88 percent of precincts reporting. As I ...
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• Off Topic: No Vocalization for Disembodied Thoughts

  
  Gryphon Mountain Journals — Authority: 112
  In a university class I took called “Reading Theory for Writers,” the professor had us write a page about whether we thought we had an inner voice. Not the kind that argues with you about which shoes to wear, but the one that speaks in your mind while you’re reading. I argued that I do have an inner voice. My ...
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• Water board moves to enforce ban on trash in L.A. River: Cities along the watershed are required by 2016 to keep all trash out of their storm drains

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 498
  From the Los Angeles Times:“Regional water quality officials on Thursday put some teeth into their long campaign to cleanse the Los Angeles River system of the tons of trash that turn it into a movable landfill after major storms.Standards previously adopted by the Los Angeles Water Quality Control Board give cities ...
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• KHOU/KUHF poll gives Parker a big lead

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 147
  This was the top story on the 5 PM news. The final 11News/ KUHF Houston Public Radio poll shows Controller Annise Parker has a 13-point lead over former City Attorney Gene Locke. In the poll, which was conducted this week by the Center for Civic Engagement at Rice University , likely voters pick Parker 49 ...
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• Endorsement watch: Another takeback

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 147
  Got a press release yesterday from Lane Lewis announcing that he had won an endorsement that had previously gone to his opponent. HARRIS COUNTY COUNCIL OF ORGANIZATIONS RESCINDS STARDIG ENDORSEMENT Houston, Texas – City Council District A candidate Lane Lewis has earned the endorsement of the Harris County ...
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• Day Two of the Hipster Runoff Photo-Stealing Scandal, Or, A Bloggable New Story

  
  Sound of the City — Authority: 641
  "What percentage of what you do is completely sarcastic, as opposed to mostly sarcastic?" we asked Hipster Runoff blogger Carles, back in February. "Are you basically playing a character? A...
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• One last look at the early voting numbers

  
  Off the Kuff — Authority: 147
  Here is a copy of that Johnston report I’ve been referring to, updated through the end of early voting. A few things to note. - The total number of people who voted in the City of Houston election through the end of early voting is 63,560, which is really not that much different that the 62,641 that showed up ...
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• Hipster Runoff, Meet the Wrath of Freelance Photographer Kyle Dean Reinford

  
  Sound of the City — Authority: 641
  The gist of this being that Hipster Runoff borrowed one of Kyles photos for the sake of his art. The above ensued. Photographers should be credited. But there is something admirable in the ...
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• Storm gives O.C. 500 million gallons of water

  
  Aquafornia — Authority: 498
  From the O.C. Register’s Science Dude:“The storm that drenched Orange County on Monday sent runoff streaming down the Santa Ana River, where roughly 467 million gallons of precipitation had been captured by 1 p.m today. behind Prado Dam. The figure was expected to surpass 500 million by tonight. That’s enough to ...
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