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Taking a bit of a tangent from doing more states in my US State Soccer Leagues universe to do a quick box on the first American Championship. It's been mentioned once of twice in some of the state boxes, but I've slowly been working out how I want the format to be and thought a look at the early...

Ronald D. Moore has said he has plan for seven seasons, so hopefully it gets that many and then ends.

2011 San Francisco mayoral election first round Jane Kim: 28.2% Leland Yee: 23.2% Michael Hennessey: 20.7% John Avalos: 12.1% Bevan Dufty: 6.4% Chris Daly: 5.5%

Dixon’s Defiance Divides Democrats in Baltimore Mayoral Race November 9, 2011 BALTIMORE - Yesterday’s election finally moved the saga of Baltimore mayor Sheila Dixon forward into a new chapter after years of controversy at the city’s highest office. Dixon rose to the height of the Baltimore...

Only a handful of states had popularly chosen electors at the time.

A lot of this is just because stadiums in the US generally tend to be bigger than you would expect elsewhere. Some of this is because of colleges and universities being nearby, some of it is the stadiums are drawing from a wider area, some is because of sponsors or building booms, but also it's...

Colorado & Missouri Alaska Florida Connecticut Wisconsin Washington, DC Delaware Ohio Next up, Montana! Turner Bison SC is one of a few clubs around the country owned by Ted Turner. At least one more will show up in this series. I did think about having the league not be split and just...

Colorado & Missouri Alaska Florida Connecticut Wisconsin Washington, DC Delaware Now that I've done a couple more small leagues, let's return to a bigger league. In fact now we go to the second entry in the Big Six, Ohio! The notes: I felt like the major top flight teams should be fairly...

San Francisco Mayor Matt Gonzalez Announces Campaign for President September 15, 2011 SAN FRANCISCO - More than a thousand people crowded into a corner of Dolores Park in San Francisco’s Mission District on a warm and pleasant evening yesterday. The occasion for the gathering was a rare sight...

Colorado & Missouri Alaska Florida Connecticut Wisconsin Washington, DC Next up in the state soccer leagues, Delaware. This one was actually a bit trickier to do because there's just not that much in Delaware.

Exactly. Especially considering how cost management and investment analysis is such a big plot theme this season.

There really does seem to be a strain of thought, not just in this thread but elsewhere on this website, where something is internally consistent within the narrative of a timeline, but people just can't view that perspective and instead insist on comparing things from an external perspective to...

Except it does because the show stated specifically that China abstained from the M-7 charter and is pursuing its own interests in space. Which may not include trying to get to Mars and instead be something closer to Earth where the return on investment is clearer and sooner. Yes, North Korea...

We really don't know what China is like in this world. And North Korea does make som sense. China would want to bring people back from Mars and doesn't necessarily need to be as gung ho in the space race to give it national prestige, so might not judge reaching Mars as worth the cost. We also...

Colorado & Missouri Alaska Florida Connecticut Wisconsin Next up, Washington, DC!