Red's cafe has character. Hiding across the street from the more well-known Living Room in Point Loma and a few doors down from Gabardine, Red's cafe is a good spot to hammer out some work, eat good food, or have a few drinks.
The Maine candidates for Senate traded blows as the race for the seat intensified this week. The current senator, Olympia Snowe (R) is not running for re-election, leaving three candidates to step up to replace her. Cynthia Dill (D), Charlie Summers (R), and Angus King (Independent) are running in a unique political environment, which has recently been complicated by their cutthroat campaigns.
With the first debate on October 3rd and some candidates like Gary Johnson and Jill Stein pushing for an alternative voice, the Independent Voter Network will be doing some additional focus on the Presidential Debates.
Whoever occupies the White House after January of 2013 will probably get to make at least one key appointment affecting the long-term future of the Supreme Court. The current bench is rapidly graying. On the liberal side of the Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be 80 next year, while on the right, Justice Scalia will be about the same age by the end of the next presidential term.
Eighteen government and media watchdog groups led by Open Debates, called on the Commission on Presidential Debates Thursday to release the secret presidential debate contract negotiated between the two major party campaigns.