Good news since I will be hitting the food banks this week (month?): Land O’ Lakes Donates 40,000 Pounds of Macaroni & Cheese to Second Harvest Food Bank of East Central Indiana.
City elections are on tap this year.
Here are the Muncie mayoral candidates: Cox: Decision to run for mayor a decade-long consideration (interesting the Republican speaks about parks as well as cops), Robinson as mayor: Wants to give back to community that helped him (who is talking about the food insecurity that I see here); Muncie mayor: Only candidate who can point to results instead of promises (I got to say Muncie's Republican incumbent sounds more gung-ho than does Anderson's incumbent Democrat, but then Tommy Broderick was always a bit terse and understated).
The Anderson Herald-Bulletin squeezed the three Democrats into one article, Democrats express differing views of Anderson. I wondered how long it would take Rodney Chamberlain to run. It might be a tough choice between him and Tony Watters (Another Democrat police officer) as both sound more imaginative and energetic than Broderick. They also squeezed the Republicans into one article, 3 Republicans seeking mayoral nomination. Of them, Carol Miller impresses by saying the days of General Motors is over - about time Anderson woke up to that fact.
I could not find the one statistic about Anderson that I saw yesterday and should be most troubling. Voter turnout is expected around 14 percent. Maybe the apathy I felt was not all in my head was not just my depression, but something inherent in Anderson.
Onto something fun - the EU and the Champagne of Beers. NPR's newsletter had a piece on this, and I find it a hoot: The 'Champagne of Beers' gets crushed in Belgium. I have never been a beer drinker, and my opinion of Miller was closer to the product of an over-watered horse than champagne. So, the EU might have been a bit too literal?
Less humorous and from NPR: When a prison sentence becomes a death sentence. A friend of mine died from bladder cancer while under the tender care of the Bureau of Prison. When I arrived at Fort Dix, during our orientation, the chaplain warned us against getting sick.
Why watch a zombie movie - Bill Murray and Tilda Swinton.
It is 9:03, and here is my reading list for the remainder of the morning:
‘The Reopening of the Western Mind’ Review: Old Ideas, New Dawn
And I need to fix some breakfast - oatmeal, Scottish soul food.
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