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Election Reflection: Primary 2015
May 24, 2015 By Tom Borthwick

Upsets!  Surprises!  Where did the readers of the tea leaves go wrong? In most elections, those readers of the tea leaves are, like most prophets, colored by their own desires.  It’s like looking at shapes in the clouds or staring at Rorschach blots: we see what we want, a reflection of our subconscious minds. Does […]

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On the Lackawanna Study Commission Proposal
April 16, 2014 By Tom Borthwick

Chuck Volpe: Crusader for the Public Good or Megalomaniac Millionaire (or Milgalomaniare)?  It’s the question on barely anybody’s mind (minus three or four hundred political insiders, out of the tens of thousands of voters in the county). Mr. Volpe’s brainchild: The Lackawanna County Study Commission.  Its history is long and storied.  Or maybe brief and […]

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PA-112, PA-113, & PA-114: And We Have Races!
February 4, 2014 By Tom Borthwick

The routine of breakfast consumption in NEPA involves more than mimosas and toast.  We get our truest, necessary sustenance from politics.  A slice of gossip here, buttered with a little bit of hearsay there, and a healthy balanced meal of the latest corruption arrests coupled with  rampant speculation about upcoming elections leaves us ready for […]

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What’s the Word? Edition #1
December 11, 2013 By Tom Borthwick

It’s important that I spend some more time blogging, as opposed to thinking about blogging.  The format of this space hasn’t really been solidified in my mind, yet.  Since this is TomBorthwick.com and not NEPArtisan.com, my former political blog, it’s obvious that the focus is different. So I’d rather my writing life take precedence over […]

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PA-113: The War for West Side
December 2, 2013 By Tom Borthwick

Usually the summer before the November election, rumors about what’s going to happen in the following primary start emerging.  Maybe that’s the nature of politics everywhere, maybe it’s unique to this area.  Regardless, it happens.  Because of both redistricting and having a delegation to the General Assembly that’s full of freshmen, we have a lot […]

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