As I mentioned a week ago, I'll soon be announcing a new West Michigan Progressive Blog. It'll be on SoapBlox, will hopefully be a group blog (if not immediately, then soon thereafter) and will concentrate on Kent County, Third Congressional District, and then to Muskegon and the 2nd Congressional District and eventually to Kalamazoo & St. Joe and the 6th Congressional District. It'll discuss local politics, and representatives from West Michigan in Lansing and Washington.
Any nominations for what I should name it?
I'm leaning away from anything with the word "blue" in it, since leftists have been "red" since the early 19th century (we've been "left" since the French Revolution), and I'm not going to let some arbitrary decision by CNN to use blue for Gore on a November night in 2000 change the political color scheme. So,
Grand Valley Blues, Blue Grand Valley, On the Shores of the Blue Grand, etc are out.
I'm currently leaning toward: Left in West Michigan. As I really want to have the phrase "West Michigan" in the blog.
Other possibilities
The West Michigan Progressive (a take on MichiganLiberal)
or something to do with Second Left Coast (if Michigan is the "third coast" then the Michigan side of Lake Michigan is the Second Left Coast....
I haven't given it too much thought yet, though I plan to go live in 1-2 weeks. So, let me know what you think a good name would be. Hopefully you can be more creative than I was above. -- Phil
Monday, January 28, 2008
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St. Joseph,MI
If you use any name that includes Grand Valley, some will think you are talking about Grand Valley State, e.g. a GVSU dem blog. Given your true blue UM fanaticism, er, I mean, of course, loyalty, would you want that?
I thought all of the Great Lakes are called the "3rd Coast" - not any one.
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