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Stateside With Rosalea - Is everybody happy?
Monday, 4 November 2002, 9:45 am | Rosalea Barker
The Republicans really are too comic. (Should there be an 'al' in there somewhere?) The sight of the Prez and his Vice lickety-splitting it up and down the country trying to get out the Republican vote is as much fun as watching a couple of chickens dancing ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea - New York, New York
Wednesday, 30 October 2002, 8:47 am | Rosalea Barker
Columbus Day this year was observed on October 14. As usual, it wasn't observed by everyone, including my employer, so I had to take a day's leave in order to have a long weekend. But it was a holiday for most schools and federal and state employees, ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea - Battered voter syndrome
Tuesday, 29 October 2002, 9:05 am | Rosalea Barker
The Democrats really are too tragic. To hear them begging voters not to desert them for third party or independent candidates this election is like hearing an abusive partner in a relationship begging to be forgiven for past misdemeanours - just so ... More >>
Cheap 'n' Cheerful East Coast Quickie
Wednesday, 23 October 2002, 8:55 am | Rosalea Barker
Stateside With Rosalea - October is the height of the fall foliage on the East Coast, so on Columbus Day weekend I flew JetBlue to Washington DC, took an Amtrak train up to New York, a local train north along the Hudson River, spent Columbus Day in ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea - Here come da judges
Monday, 21 October 2002, 8:29 am | Rosalea Barker
On October 17, President George W. Bush gave an address via satellite to the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which was meeting in New Smyrna, Florida to honour Hispanic businesswomen. After congratulating the women on their achievements ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Not a pretty story
Wednesday, 16 October 2002, 8:45 am | Rosalea Barker
Monday night I'm standing in the JetBlue terminal at New York's JFK airport looking at the rack of travel mags and the words on one cover leap out at me - "Bali" it says in fluorescent orange, "still paradise?" More >>
Slimin' Simon and His Gray Eminence
Monday, 14 October 2002, 9:07 am | Rosalea Barker
I wasn't going to write about the California Governor's race so soon, having heard from a pollster that it won't get interesting till two weeks before the election, but really! the events of this week beggar even disbelief. More >>
Stateside With Rosalea - Quiet, please!
Wednesday, 9 October 2002, 9:55 am | Rosalea Barker
The monarch is here. She flew in from Canada to be at a garden party last Sunday at the Museum of California in Oakland, which is where I saw her. No, I don't mean Betty Windsor! I mean the monarch butterfly. Thousands of them have arrived, as they ... More >>
The wheres and what-withs of voting
Monday, 7 October 2002, 9:16 am | Rosalea Barker
In this third background piece on the California elections, the topic is polling places and equipment. On Monday, October 7, California's Secretary of State is coming to Alameda County to declare absentee voting open. In California, the Secretary of ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Pollies on Parade
Friday, 4 October 2002, 8:59 am | Rosalea Barker
On the last Sunday of September each year, Berkeley holds a street parade called "How Berkeley Can You Be?". It's a great opportunity for the locals to poke fun at their own reputation for outrageous ideas, and in election years it comes at just ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: I Long To Hear You
Wednesday, 2 October 2002, 9:23 am | Rosalea Barker
Google searches take you to strange places. I was looking for stories about 'American Candidate' - the FX cable TV program to choose a presidential candidate for 2004 - and the search tickled me with an american candidate for sainthood. Her name is ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Who votes and what for
Monday, 30 September 2002, 8:45 am | Rosalea Barker
I'm somewhat discombobulated this Sunday morning from having just seen a US Democrat visiting Iraq say that Presidents are capable of lying and that the current one is. His comment came during an interview on 'This Week', and the comment and its fallout ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: Civility
Wednesday, 25 September 2002, 9:29 am | Rosalea Barker
Ooops! I said I'd provide a Wednesday-lite column and then forgot that I'd have to write it on Monday night, my time. Blame it on the Civil War. Or at least on the epic documentary called 'The Civil War', which first aired in 1990 and has now been ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Middle-politics
Monday, 23 September 2002, 8:19 am | Rosalea Barker
Halfway through each President's 4-year term, the entire US House of Representatives and one-third of the US Senate is elected, thus mid-term elections are seen as a way of measuring how effective the President has been in building support for the ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: The TV Duel
Monday, 16 September 2002, 8:32 am | Rosalea Barker
Midweek, a Yugoslavian work colleague went out of his way to tell me what a great team the Tall Blacks are, thus saving me from the conspiracy theory that had been forming in my mind since the previous weekend. Who can blame me for thinking that ... More >>
Stateside: Two Movies And A Lecture
Monday, 9 September 2002, 10:13 am | Rosalea Barker
"I can't slip you the tomahawk 20 minutes of the day, but I can give you a wonderful life the other 23:40," says Sy to the woman he loves but has just told he is "two-spirited" (gay). They are both students at a university in Seattle, ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Just browsing
Monday, 2 September 2002, 9:40 am | Rosalea Barker
Cue sound f/x: audio of Klondike Bar hitting flesh. Woman's voice: "Ouch! Oooch! No! Don't stop! This chocolate and ice cream is delicious!" So. Alaska nixed Measure 1 for alternative voting by a margin of 2 to 1 last week, and I'm bravely ... More >>
Stateside With Rosalea: North To The Future
Monday, 26 August 2002, 9:31 am | Rosalea Barker
Well, beat me with a Klondike Bar if those independent-minded mainlanders up north don't make history this Tuesday, August 27. Alaska - the word means 'mainland' - is holding its primary elections that day and also on the ballot paper is an initiative ... More >>
Stateside: 37 Cents Can Buy You Love!
Sunday, 18 August 2002, 11:58 pm | Rosalea Barker
Ever had one of those moments when you wish the Red Sea would open up and swallow you? Charlton Heston apparently hasn't or he wouldn't have done that cringingly egotistical video this week about how he's got symptoms consistent with the early stages of Alzheimer's. ... More >>
Stateside with Rosalea: Watermelon man
Monday, 12 August 2002, 9:42 am | Rosalea Barker
Forget the presidential pretzel; I nearly choked on a cheerio watching a football game last Monday morning. To be truthful, it was just a newsclip of the back of Andrew Mehrten's knees as he waited to take a penalty kick while two blokes - "buck ... More >>
