I was up past 1am last night, so when Balt woke me up at 6am I wasn't really in the mood to stay up but I wanted to finish editing the layout for the school paper so that I could meet with students at noon today and get it ready for print, so I just got up, made coffee and go to work. This issue features what most of my contributors like to write about the most; world and national politics. For a whole year, I have tried to stay away from that and keep the paper about students and what is happening inside the school. Finally the two subjects collide! While Jessi had basketball practice, I met up with the editor-in-chief to finish final edits and then after I took Monika to tennis I went to have it printed. The kids really want it printed in color but with only 3 double-sided pages, each paper would cost almost $10 each. Yes, it's going to being in black and white-- but the color issue will be on line for free.
Nearly 100,000 made it to the capitol today, that is half of the population of our city. I don't know how people do it-- maybe most people don't have anything going on every Saturday. I would have loved to spend part of the day there, but there was just too much to do between getting the girls to where they need to be and work. In general, I'm pretty a-political. I don't like politics in part because no matter what side you chose, there's typically corruption and deception. As this story unfolds, it just keeps getting worse and worse but in some ways more and more interesting. Last night the state assembly passed the dreaded bill in the middle of the night (see imbedded news story to see how it went down-- it wasn't pretty) and now it needs to go to the senate but those "fab 14" are missing, so that may not happen for a while. After 12 days of protests there is no end in sight. Tomorrow night the city wants to close the capitol just to clean it because after 2 weeks of 24/7 protesting the place is starting to stink. Boy, I'd hate to be on the cleaning crew.
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