The 2008 Presidential election has been very intense on the Democratic Party’s side. While it appears that Senator Barack Obama is going to be the Party’s nominee, Senator Hillary Clinton has not ended her presidential run. The two have campaigned throughout the country and broke old and new spending records.

I have several maps of Florida that have the cities that the two Presidential-hopefuls have campaigned in. And not surprisingly, it is very blank. Because the State of Florida broke Democratic Party rules and moved their primary ahead, they have thus far been disqualified from the delegate count. That is why the Senators did not campaign there very much.

And my Arizona maps does not have many pins either. Neither candidate spent very much time there. Barack Obama did air several commercials though. He also had the endorsement of Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano.

The maps of Texas have many pins tacked into the cities and town of Texas. This is a huge state and both wanted to get as many delegates as possible. Obama went throughout most of the state, giving speeches and gaining a lot of support from the Hispanic community. Clinton also went through most of the state and gained the support of many leaders in the Hispanic community.

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I recently saw a documentary called “Crystal Darkness.” The methamphetamine crisis is so terrible that all of the stations here in Arizona aired the documentary without commercials at the exact same time. I think that a lot of people must have called in with concerns or seeking help.

It seems like the only way any of these people will live is if they get into drug rehab programs. The addiction is too strong to do it on your own. And from what I’ve read, meth is more addictive than other addictive drugs. There is a drug rehab in Arizona that participated in the documentary. Some of their counselors worked the phones.

And from what I’ve heard and read, alcoholism is just as much a problem as meth and other drugs. The difference is that alcohol is legal for those over 21. But getting into an alcohol addiction treatment program can be difficult also. While meth might be more chemically addictive for most, alcohol holds a strong grip on those that suffer from alcoholism.

Every state should simultaneously air that documentary also. I think that if it helps one person, it is worth it.

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The majority of Americans are wage earners. They neither have their own businesses nor help run businesses. Their wages have been more or less stagnant for two decades while the cost of living has risen relentlessly. Now their jobs are being exported and their unions broken, and yet the business section of their newspaper doesn’t interest them as much as, say, sports or obituaries.

Something is wrong with this picture, something verging on hoax. We need to reexamine the history and function of business news, whether it’s the business section of a newspaper or the business segment of a telecast or even publications given over wholly to business.

As newspapers grew from muckraking and often scurrilous weeklies to staid metropolitan and regional dailies in the 19th Century it was thought that their readers would be primarily affluent and literate upper-class citizens, decision-makers. But as the country expanded westward a middle class was created, and this newly affluent and educated middle class was interested in money matters. But it was assumed, wrongly that money matters would never rate high on reader interest indices. As we discussed in the last segment of this series, that’s not true. Disasters and money rank Number One and Number Two among reader preferences. Read more

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