 COMING TO INDIANA? Tom Bonier, a Democratic political strategist and the C.E.O. of TargetSmart, a data and polling firm, who wrote this revealing essay in The New York Times, told IMPORTANTVILLE that he's seen a 10-point swing in the gender split of newly registered voters in Indiana since the fall of Roe. Prior to the Supreme Court decision, men were registering at a margin of five points more than women. Now, that has flipped.
Welcome to campaign season, which unofficially kicked off yesterday across Indiana, with a flurry of television ad buys and no shortage of political intrigue.
WWJHD (WHAT WILL JOE HOGSETT DO?) Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett raised eyebrows on Labor Day with a trip to Boonville, Indiana—three hours south of Indianapolis, to be the grand marshal of the Boonville Labor Day parade. It was his first stop there since 2004. A handful of Indianapolis news outlets reached out to the mayor’s office when IMPORTANTVILLE broke the news, but got little in response: The move was the mayor acting in his personal capacity, they explained, not in his official capacity. Boonville Mayor Charlie Wyatt—a longtime Hogsett friend—invited the mayor. But statewide exposure is a welcome bi-product. “I’m just getting started,” Hogsett told Indiana Democrats at their June Big Dem Weekend, leading many party insiders to think he was laying the groundwork for a statewide bid.
There are several dynamics at play to consider. The first is that Hogsett, among elected leaders, is the putative leader of the Indiana Democratic Party. He has more than $2 million in the bank and is focused on helping elect political allies across the state. Already, he has given Democratic Senate candidate Thomas McDermott Jr. $1,000, the max allowed under federal election law. He’s given $7,500 to the House Democratic Caucus, $5,000 to the Marion County Democratic Party for 2022 races, and $2,500 to House Minority Leader Phil GiaQuinta. And the plan is for him to raise five figures for the full statewide ticket at an upcoming fundraiser. That money will flow through the Indiana Democratic Party rather than individual campaigns but will exclusively benefit the three statewide candidates.
The second dynamic, though, is that Hogsett, should he run for re-election, has at least one potential competitor at the door.Pre:: Dynamic and thermodynamic concepts and principles applied to synoptic-scale weather forecasting. Dynamics, energetics, structure, evolution, and motion of extra-tropical cyclones. Meteorological communications, interpretation and analysis of weather maps, and thermodynamic diagrams..
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Both countries have recorded over 100 cases together with the virus fast spreading among the populace.
President Sall has now ordered an 8 p.m. to 6 a.m curfew and banned public gatherings, closed public spaces and limited transport between different regions.
Ivory Coast, President Alassane Ouattara also announced a 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew.
He has also ordered the closure of all restaurants and banned “unauthorised” travel between cities.
In West Africa countries like Mauritania and Burkina Faso have also announced curfews.
South Africa has also imposed a lockdown which will be enforced from Thursday in an attempt to stop the spread of the virus.
Seems like Wilfrid Laurier University is not currently accepting applications for this particular scholarship.
There seem to be quite a few good noirs and gangster movies coming up on the Fox Movie Channel; rather than starting a new thread for each one, I thought it might be easier to keep it all in a single thread.
A New York police lieutenat (Victor Mature) walks a tightrope as he tracks tracks his former best friend, who is now a cop-killer.
Otto Preminger's moody film noir story of a detective (Dana Andrews) with a strong hatred for criminals who accidentally kills a suspect and must confront his conscience when an innocent man is accused of the crime. Oleg Cassini (costume designer) cameo.
A gripping drama about the events leading up to a bank robbery and how the crime effects the lives of citizens in a small Arizona town.
A secret force in the New York police department hunts down gangsters.
A small town is shocked by the murder of a waitress (Linda Darnell), and the prime suspect is the gold-digging press agent (Dana Andrews) of a high society heiress (Alice Faye). 1940's Otto Preminger film noir gem.

A man (Joseph Cotten) who has fallen in love with his sister-in-law (Jean Peters) begins to suspect that she may have murdered one of her step-children.
A tough drama about a war veteran turned truck driver out to avenge his father's mistreatment at the hands of a crooked fruit dealer in San Francisco.
?Black Widow? (1954) is interesting from a technical point of view. It marks the change-over from the classic B&W noir era to the flashy new Technicolor Cinemascope era.
This is scripted as a classic noir mystery, and it uses a lot of old noir actors, but it is photographed as a bright Technicolor film as if it is a 1950s musical or a light-hearted?50s romance film.
The cameraman seemed to not know what to do with such a wide screen. The color is unnecessary and is distracting. All the scenes are flatly lit from direct front lighting. No shadows. The older actors seem out of place, as if they are walking around on a large brightly-lit Broadway stage.
It is certainly interesting to watch and to imagine how good it might have been had it been shot in B&W in a 4:3 format in 1945.
I've been attending a 2-week noir festival at the Roxie theater (programmed by Dewey) and the idea of noir in anything but Academy Ratio seems a bit bizarre right now. (With the exception of the brilliant The Burglar, but even that one was 1.85:1 only).
I have just finished recording Cry of the City on FMC - it's a good thing I was watching it as it recorded because I realized just in time that this was a 95-minute movie in a 90-minute time slot, so I changed the settings to make sure I recorded all of it.
A British spy (Harrison) must pretend to be a German officer in order to save an inventor and his daughter (Lockwood), kidnapped by the Nazis.
Don't forget! Night Train to Munich is on today at 10am ET!
A small-time crook who turns state's evidence (Victor Mature) is tormented by a psychopathic accomplice (Richard Widmark) in this powerful film noir shot entirely in New York City. Notable as Widmark's film debut and Best Supporting Actor nomination.
A true account of the infamous gangster organization of the 1930s and its number one hit man (Falk).
Cast: May Britt, Peter Falk, Morey Amsterdam, Simon Oakland, Henry Morgan, Stuart Whitman, Vincent Gardenia, Burt Balaban, Sylvia Miles, Sarah Vaughan. Director: Stuart Rosenberg.
Cast: Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Barbara Lawrence, Jack Oakie, Millard Mitchell. Director: Jules Dassin.
A dangerous love triangle results when a jealous road house owner (Richard Widmark) frames his childhood friend (Cornel Wilde) for a robbery to insure the affections of the star singer (Ida L