I was reading on the Time.com website that the EPA is going to be recognizing that Carbon Dioxide as a pollutant. At first I wondered why that was an important story, but as I continued to read it became clear that it is very important because it is going to effect the way new coal plants will be allowed to operate. It means that the EPA will regulate the emissions and that the coal plants will have to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. This means less pollution in the air, which is good for all of us!
Well I got up early this morning, as usual (I’m an early riser) but I got dressed and headed out the door at 5:40 to go to the polls to vote. The polling location is only three miles from our house, and I thought that I could get in the door and vote and get back home again PDQ. I was some surprised to find the parking lot full and a long line of people! I tried to park on the street, but a police officer told me that I couldn’t park there and had to move my car. Since I was hurt in a car accident last fall I can’t walk very far, so I couldn’t park far away and walk the rest of the way, so I just came home, discouraged. My wife says to wait until around 10am when most of the people will all be at work, hoping that the polls will be less crowded then.
We live in a small town, with only about 2,000 people in it, so I hope she’s right and that I will be able to vote in a few hours.
I thought it was terribly sad to hear on the news last night that Barack Obama’s grandmother died yesterday of cancer. I had heard that she was ill, and that Barack Obama had gone to see her recently because of her illness. I just think it is so sad that she died when she did - the day before the elections. Not knowing if her grandson was elected or not. And I’m thinking about how this will be such a mixed bag of emotions for Barack Obama, the stress of the elections and the stress of losing his grandmother, it must be a terribly difficult time for the Obama family.
