Today’s featured image is of Cranberry lake. The lake is located in St Lawrence County NY, in the northern edge of the Adirondack park.
As has been the case the past few days, we start today’s View with an election news round-up. We’ll start in the House of Representatives where it seems 2020 is the year of the Republican woman. So far, and there are still a couple of races yet to be called in NY, there are 15 new Republican women Representatives. The latest two are Beth VanDuyne from the 24th district in Texas and Michelle Steel in California’s 48th.
The Senate races in North Carolina has been called, with democrat Call Cunningham conceding to Thom Tillis. That puts the Senate at 49-48 repubs, with the pair of runoffs in Georgia coming in January. I really feel sorry for the people of Georgia, they’re not going to see or hear a “normal” commercial for months. How will they know when the McRib is back or when the local mattress emporium has the newest number bed in stock?
My home state has more than it’s share of issues, starting with the Douche in the Governor’s mansion, but at least outside of the 5 boroughs, nobody is defunding the Police. Oh, Rochester mayor Lovely Warren made some noises about that, but that was the extent. To cut the police budget by $150 million in the middle of a spike in violent crime seems a bit more than irresponsible to me.
While we’re on the subject of policing, let’s take a trip to the upper midwest. Minneapolis was ground-zero for the defund movement, and the city council there even went so far as to pass a resolution saying they were committed to replacing the MPD with a “community safety” model. While they never actually got around to defunding the MPD, more than a hundred officers left the job, leading to a shortage of cops. After being sued by residents, the council was forced to outsource police coverage at a cost of nearly $500k a month.
Tommy Heinsohn has died at the age of 86. The Basketball hall-of-famer was involved in all 17 of the Boston Celtics championships. As a player, Heinsohn was an eight-time NBA champion, six-time NBA All-Star, and he averaged 18.6 points, 8.8 rebounds, and 2.0 assists per game for the Celtics from 1956-1965. As a coach, Heinsohn led the Celtics to championships in 1974 and 1976. He was named Coach of the year in 1973.
Resquiscat In Pace.
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