As you have heard, we are sending a delegation to your city to personally deliver the Golden Duke Award your Mayor won in the 2013 Golden Duke Awards. It’s a delegation from TPM and the Golden Duke Awards Association not from all of America. But in a broader sense, sure, we are representing all of America. I And we’ve heard from some members of our Toronto readership that you’d like to welcome our delegation when we arrive in your country, teach us your local customs, see what the actual Golden Duke statuette looks like in person and perhaps help us meet your leader to give him his award.
Hrrmmm. Port Authority in no big hurry to produce documents in the Bridge scandal investigation.
Since the Supreme Court ruling in June, the writing has been on the wall for banning of marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples in the United States. Since June the number of states with marriage equality has jumped from 12 to 18. But last week’s lower court decisions in Utah and Ohio leave little doubt that the political fight over gay marriage is now essentially over and that gay marriage will be the law of the land in every state in the country in the pretty near future.
Here’s some useful background on David Wildstein, one of the two guys – but I kind of suspect the guy – at the heart of the bridge closure scandal. It’s written almost two years ago in the Bergen Record. So there’s nothing about the current scandal. And it’s generally positive about him – or at least sees ambiguous points in the most positive light. (He and Christie were high school classmates.) But you get the sense of how things could go very wrong. Here’s a key passage right at the top …
