Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Scene from American Democracy


Amount of TV time directed toward Democratic caucus in Calais, ME: O minutes

Number of voting caucus members: 51 persons

Number of write-in ballots: 2 ballots


Final Score: Barack Obama 27, Hillary Clinton 26

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Is it a chicken, or an egg?

The provincial government has just released another report, this one highlighting their plans to increase the population of the province.

The goal is to increase the provincial population by 100,000 by 2026. The list of recommendations supporting this goal is rather pedestrian, but at least there is a firm target of 6,000 more New Brunswickers by 2009.

Interestingly enough, employment growth in NB is the rosiest it has been in quite some time. This begs the question - will 6,000 new jobs attract 6,000 new citizens, or is it the other way around?

Perhaps another NB report will answer that one.