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I was just wondering how many more Dolfans are from Lee County in here? I have lived in Fort Myers/The Cape my whole life (34yrs) and am a lifetime Phins fan.
I was just wondering how many more Dolfans are from Lee County in here? I have lived in Fort Myers/The Cape my whole life (34yrs) and am a lifetime Phins fan.
I haven't found that many suprisingly, been here 23 years.
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Fire David Lee - CHECK
Fire Darren Rizzi
And last, thanks Mr. Parcells and Ross for screwing up my team
1-07-2011: Not renewing my season tickets
List of places to watch Dolphin games in Lee County
• B.A. HUSTLERS: 2138 Santa Barbara Blvd., Cape Coral. PHONE 574-6000.
• GATOR LANES: 7050 Crystal Drive, Fort Myers. PHONE: 939-0048.
• MISCUE LOUNGE: 2011 Carrell Road, Fort Myers. PHONE 936-1116.
• PINCHERS CRAB SHACK: 15271 McGregor Blvd., Fort Myers. PHONE 415-4009.
Ft. Myers native here. Can't say to much about where to go and catch the game. I have gotten it at Pinchers, Nick & Stellas & Bucketts. They all have Satelite systems and can get the game. Just ask them to put it on, they are not going to turn a beer chugging, food chowing, paying customer away.
Go Fins!!!! we are in the Naples/ Bonita Springs area...
I'm born and raised in Fort Myers lifelong Fins fan, I say we create our own bar by just going to a place because it just doesn't make sense that Fins fans don't have a home bar even though our team is maybe two hours away. I know we can do it, we have the people now we need the bar


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He also speaks of having a reaction to Doritio's in the post. Many Lay's products are made on shared lines so some of us do have to avoid them from a CC standpoint. That is why Lay's gives two lists. One of items made that are known to be gluten free and another list, a very long one, of their products made that have a CC risk. A reaction to CC is not the same as having a celiac reaction to corn.
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Although reports suggest Adrian Sutil could be without a drive next season, the German is expecting to stay on for another year with Force India...
Although reports suggest Adrian Sutil could be without a drive next season, the German is expecting to stay on for another year with Force India.
That, though, has not stopped him from slating his team's 2013 car.
Having failed to score a point in the final race of the season in Brazil, Sutil blamed the car.
"The car was not particularly good," he told Auto Motor und Sport.
"We had every problem that you could have: understeer, oversteer in the slow corners, the fast corners. You could not do much with the adjustments in the cockpit.
"Ultimately the car was simply a carrot. There is simply nothing that works."
Asked if he was glad the season was over, he said he was looking forward to the winter break and next season when "everything will be very different with the V6.
"I think it (the changes) will bring the field back together.
"Right now it's boring with Red Bull. They have dominated this era. Now let's see who in the new era has their nose in front."
However, it remains to be seen whether Sutil will hold onto his race-seat for next season.
With Nico Hulkenberg and Sergio Perez being hotly tipped to replace the German and Paul di Resta, both 2013 drivers may have already contested their final F1 grands prix.
Sutil, though, believes he's done a good enough job to secure another season in the sport.
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"We threw away many good results - by bad luck, other drivers or by the botched pit stops at the beginning of the year. This is something I've never experienced.
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With a land area of more than three quarters of a million square kilometres, Turkey is a huge country. It is situated at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea and is effectively a bridge between Europe and Asia. To the north, Turkey has a 1500 kilometre-long Black Sea coastline, whilst to the south lies the Mediterranean. The country has land borders with Greece, Bulgaria, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Armenia and Georgia. Quite naturally, a country of this size is comprised of a great variety of landscape. Generally, there is a coastal lowland region and higher plateau-land in the centre of the country, becoming increasingly higher and more rugged towards the east. In the far eastern part of the country, in the district of Eastern Anatolia, Mount Ararat rises to 5165m/16945ft. With a relatively high average altitude of between 1500 and 2000 metres, this is a dramatic region, with long cold winters and warm summers. Crops do not grow well and much of the farming effort is directed at the herding of livestock – cattle in the lower valleys and sheep and goats on the higher slopes. Turkey's Mediterranean shore, called the Turquoise Coast, is nearly 1600 km (994 miles) long, scattered with fine-sand dotted with beaches and picturesque ruins. The Toros Mountains form a dramatic backdrop along much of the coast, often dropping steeply right into the sea.
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Turkish is part of the Altaic family of languages and is widely spoken across much of central Asia, with true 'standard' Turkish spoken in Turkey itself. In tourist regions of Turkey, English is widely spoken, though not by everyone. In remoter regions, English is less widely used so we recommend you try to learn some simple Turkish phrases and greetings. Attempts to speak in the local language will always be appreciated and is all part of the fun. We recommended basic phrase books such as Berlitz and Lonely Planet.
The climate varies according to region and altitude. In Istanbul it can be hot and humid during the summer months with temperatures regularly approaching 30 degrees centigrade. In the mountainous areas to the east of the country, the air is drier and the temperature range much greater. Although situated some 1700 metres higher than Istanbul, temperatures in Van can be quite similar around the high 20's centigrade/ 80s Fahrenheit. Temperatures decrease with altitude at approximately 6 degrees C per 1000 metres or 3 degrees of Fahrenheit per 1000 ft. On the Tekke peninsular of the Mediteranean coast, it is extremely hot (up to 38ºC/100ºF) in high summer and a more pleasant 25ºC/77ºF in May, June and October. This part of Turkey enjoys one of the most favourable climates in the Mediterranean with 300 sunshine days a year. However, short lived storms sometimes with thunder and heavy rain, can occur.
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Turkey. Loney Planet Travel Survival Kit.
The Rough Guide to Turkey.
Turkish Odyssey. A Traveler's Guide to Turkey and Turkish Culture. Serif Yenin.
Landscapes in Panoramic Turkey – from Istanbul to Ararat. Gerold Yong.
The Trekkers Handbook. Tom Gilchrist.
Fodor's Exploring Turkey.
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Unfortunately, political poll after political poll reveals that the presidential election of 2012 has much to do – in fact, more to do – with the race of the presidential candidate than most anything else.
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On Friday, President Barack Obama told his supporters at a campaign rally – inside a public high school, no less – to vote for revenge!
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If you're still looking for a reason to decide on which candidate to vote for, think about Obamacare and the fact that one report after another clearly shows that it's going to cost the nation much, much more than originally stated by President Obama and his administration.
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The newspapers that are not endorsing President Barack Obama are extremely brave. They are to be positively recognized for their courage to stand up against the onslaught of the liberal media which refuses to speak in the best interest of the country as the presidential election nears.
Opinion: Go vote.
Now, the question is: Is the country better off than it was four years ago? Anyone – including you – can answer that question.
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As odd as it seems, President Barack Obama and Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey are in the midst of a marvelous "bromance".
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Whether it's because college kids are getting smarter or have just found better things to do with their energy and time over the past four years, there is a survey result which indicates that President Barack Obama's "star power" among the young is fading drastically in 2012 as compared to 2008.


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"Folks like the Koch brothers are attempting to ensure that as few people of color and as few young people show up as possible," says NAACP President Ben Jealous.
Today residents of Mississippi will decide whether voters must produce a government-issued ID in order to cast a ballot and voters in Maine will choose whether to keep or overturn a new law banning election day voter registration, which had previously been on the books since 1973.
These votes occur amidst the backdrop of an unprecedented, Republican-led war on voting. Since the 2010 election, at least a dozen states controlled by Republicans have approved new obstacles to voting—mandating government-issued IDs, curtailing early voting, restricting voter registration, disenfranchising ex-felons. Five million voters could be negatively impacted by the new laws, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, which found that "these new restrictions fall most heavily on young, minority and low-income voters, as well as on voters with disabilities"—in other words, those most likely to vote for Democrats.
A key component of the GOP's campaign has been orchestrated by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which receives substantial funding from the Koch brothers. ALEC drafted mock photo ID legislation after the 2008 election and in five states that passed ID laws in the past year—Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin—the measures were sponsored by legislators who are members of ALEC.
A new investigation from Brave New Foundation, in conjunction with the Advancement Project and amplified by a host of progressive groups, outlines ALEC's influence in the war on voting and spotlights the $245,550 in campaign contributions the Koch brothers have given to politicians supporting new voter ID laws, such as Scott Walker and Rick Perry. "Folks like the Koch brothers are attempting to ensure that as few people of color and as few young people show up as possible," says NAACP President Ben Jealous.
The video also features interviews with eligible voters who may be unable to cast a ballot because of the new restrictions. "Voter suppression is obviously a critically important issue," says Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films. "Our job is to put a face on this—take it from abstract policy to real people losing the right to vote because of right-wing attacks on our democracy." Brave New Foundation also launched a petition on their website asking Attorney General Eric Holder to enforce the Voting Rights Act.
On a related note, civil rights groups such as the NAACP and National Urban League today announced the formation of a new group, Stand 4 Freedom, to protest the new voting laws. Representative Keith Ellison also recently introduced two bills, the Same Day Registration Act and the Voter Access Protection Act, which would, respectively, "require states to provide for same day voter registration for a federal election," and "make sure election officials cannot require photo identification in order to cast a vote or register to vote."
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In 2013, some state legislators continue to push laws that would make it harder for eligible American citizens to vote. But there's good news, too. More and more states are pressing measures to improve elections.
Below you will find a regularly-updated, comprehensive roundup of introduced, pending, active, and passed voting laws. (See a detailed summary of restrictive legislation, as of April 5th.)
Numbers Overview Since the beginning of 2013, restrictive voting bills have been introduced in more than half the states:
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The story starts simply enough: African-Americans and Hispanics across Georgia were registered to vote at levels lower than their white state-mates, so the New Georgia Project was started by the non-profit Third Sector Development to register new voters, concentrating on minority communities.
And that is exactly what the New Georgia Project did.
Over the last few months, the group submitted some 80,000 voter registration forms to the Georgia secretary of state's office — but as of last week, about half those new registrants, more than 40,000 Georgians, were still not listed on...
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On September 11, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a major beltway advocacy group, filed suit against the Department of Defense (DoD) for withholding records on security testing of electronic voting systems for use by overseas service members. EPIC has requested the security reports in July under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
The suit alleges that the DoD had no intention of disclosing the test results as it had publicly promised to do to Congress nearly 2 years previously. The United States District Court for the District of Columbia had...
Gerry Bello | Free Press 05 Oct 2014 Hits:615 CFTE Articles
Over the last couple days, voter registration booths have been popping up in Ferguson. There was one by the ruined site of the recently burned-down QuikTrip convenience store, which has become a central gathering site of the protests, and another near the site where Michael Brown was shot.
Voter turnout was just 12 percent in Ferguson's last municipal election, and in a city that's 60 percent black, virtually all city officials are white. In December, the black superintendent of the Ferguson-Florissant school district was fired by the then all-white school board, and...
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On April 15, 2014 Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York State quietly signed into lawthe National Popular Vote, making New York the 10th state -- along with the District of Columbia -- to support this effort, while also boosting the total numbers to 165 of the 270 electoral votes needed to make a true national popular vote a reality. Every member of Congress has one Electoral College vote, which, along with D.C.'s three votes, makes a total of 538. Not an issue that receives much media coverage, this bill could be the...
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Working ballot by ballot, county by county, the Republican Party is attempting to alter voting laws in the biggest and most important swing states in the country in hopes of carving out a sweeping electoral advantage for years to come.
Changes already on the books or in bills before state legislatures would make voting harder, create longer lines, and threaten to disenfranchise millions of voters from Ohio to Florida, Pennsylvania to Wisconsin, Georgia to Arizona and Texas.
Efforts underway include moving election days, ending early voting and forcing strict new voter ID...
Zachary Roth | MSNBC 25 Nov 2013 Hits:1073 CFTE Articles
From courtrooms to the streets, civil rights advocates and grassroots organizations nationwide are doubling down to protect voters. Over the past few years, we witnessed an aggressive assault on voting rights, with a wave of policies making it harder to vote either passed or proposed in a majority of states. These measures included laws requiring current state-issued photo ID to vote, cuts to early voting and same-day registration and "show me your papers" proof-of-citizenship practices. The unprecedented attacks on democracy disproportionately affect voters of color. They are widespread, targeted and...
Judith Browne Dianis | BET 25 Nov 2013 Hits:1059 CFTE Articles
Some states that have tightened their voter identification laws are using workarounds to avoid voting problems for women whose names have changed because of marriage or divorce – even as opponents of the laws warn there is still potential to disqualify female voters.
Voter ID laws are intensely controversial: the Justice Department is currently suing Texas and North Carolina to block their new, stricter laws, and lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have also prevented voter ID laws from being implemented. Legislators supporting voter ID laws say they are necessary to prevent...
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A measure to scrap a new Republican-backed election law has enough signatures to qualify for the 2014 ballot, but legal challenges are expected.
A ballot measure to overturn a Republican-backed state bill that made sweeping changes to Arizona election law was certified this week as having more than enough valid signatures, but on Friday opponents vowed to challenge those signatures in court.
The effort to block the measure is the latest round in a growing fight in Arizona that revolves around voter participation and allegations of fraud.
Democrats contend that the Republican-led Legislature...
Cindy Carcamo | Los Angeles Times 02 Nov 2013 Hits:614 CFTE Articles
It is the kind of thought that rarely passes the lips of a member of the federal judiciary: I was wrong.
But there was Richard A. Posner, one of the most distinguished judges in the land and a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, saying he was mistaken in one of the most contentious issues in American politics and jurisprudence: laws that require people to show identification before they can vote.
Proponents of voter identification laws, who tend to be Republican, say the measures are necessary...
John Schwartz | The New York Times 18 Oct 2013 Hits:1073 CFTE Articles
The man who wrote Arizona's "Papers Please" law before running for Kansas Secretary of State in 2010 on the premise of stamping out "voter fraud" there ... before winning and subsequently not being able to find much, if any of it, at all, is nonetheless still at work attempting to keep legitimate voters from being able to cast their vote under the premise that thousands of non-citizens are somehow, secretly, illegally voting in the state of Kansas.
"In Kansas, the illegal registration of alien voters has become pervasive," Kris Kobach's personal...
Brad Friedman | The Brad Blog 18 Oct 2013 Hits:1071 CFTE Articles
ALEXANDRIA Virginia Democrats on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against Republican Ken Cuccinelli, Gov. Bob McDonnell and the state elections board, claiming tens of thousands of voters are at risk of being wrongly purged from voter rolls ahead of the state's gubernatorial election. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, was not listed on the court's electronic docket, but a copy was obtained by The Associated Press. The Democratic Party of Virginia accuses election officials, including Cuccinelli in his role as Attorney General, of pressing forward with a...
Associated Press 04 Oct 2013 Hits:881 CFTE Articles
Suppression of the black vote has been a flashpoint since June, when the U.S Supreme Court struck down a key section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The decision opened the door for historically racist regions(mostly in the South) to pass anti-voter laws such as ID requirements that disproportionately disenfranchise Black, Latino and poor people—who happen to overwhelmingly vote Democratic. The GOP is happily charging ahead.
But a robust counteroffensice is underway, buoyed by the 50th anniversay of the March on Washington. Speakers such as presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinto, and...
James Thindwa | In These Times 23 Sep 2013 Hits:933 CFTE Articles
Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday that the Justice Department will continue its efforts to protect voting rights in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision which gutted the Voting Rights Act earlier this summer.
During remarks to the Congressional Black Caucus, Holder explained that the lawsuits filed to stop Texas's discriminatory redistricting and voter ID laws are "just the beginning."
"Thanks to the hard work of our Civil Rights Division, we are continuing to refine and re-focus current enforcement efforts across the country," he said. "And while the suits we've filed...
Morgan Whitaker | MSNBC 23 Sep 2013 Hits:859 CFTE Articles
It will probably come as a surprise to most Americans that there is no affirmative right to vote in the U.S. Constitution as is the case, for example, with the 1st Amendment's express affirmation of citizens' constitutional rights relative to speech, press, religion, assembly and petition—rights which are fundamental to the maintenance of a liberal democracy.
Yet, we speak often of the right to vote in reverential terms and with the belief that it is as fundamental a right as those rights ensconced in the Constitution. Consent of the governed is...
Edwin Brown | Independent Voice 23 Sep 2013 Hits:908 CFTE Articles
Much has been justifiably made about the damage the Roberts Supreme Court has done to voting rights in their recent decision, Shelby County v. Holder. However, a potentially more insidious plot denying the precious right to vote is occurring in my own state of Michigan, where Republican Governor Rick Snyder has appointed an emergency manager to run Detroit in place of the duly elected mayor and City Council. Even more troubling, the governor did so after Michigan voters had rejected the emergency manager law at the ballot box, when late...
Rep. John Conyers, Jr | Huffington Post 16 Sep 2013 Hits:619 CFTE Articles
The Justice Department is preparing to take fresh legal action in a string of voting rights cases across the nation, U.S. officials said, part of a new attempt to blunt the impact of a Supreme Court ruling that the Obama administration has warned will imperil minority representation.
The decision to challenge state officials marks an aggressive effort to continue policing voting rights issues and follows a ruling by the court last month that invalidated a critical part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Justices threw out Section 5 of the landmark...
Sari Horwitz | The Washington Post 25 Jul 2013 Hits:787 CFTE Articles
The Senate Judiciary Committee held its first hearing today on the Voting Rights Act since the Supreme Court gutted the landmark civil rights law last month. The key witnesses were civil rights icon Representative John Lewis and Representative James Sensenbrenner, the former chair of the House Judiciary Committee who led the effort to overwhelmingly reauthorize the VRA in 2006.
In his testimony, Lewis described how he almost died fighting for the right to vote in 1965 and how friends of his never made it out of Mississippi alive. "I remember these...
Ari Berman | The Nation 22 Jul 2013 Hits:861 CFTE Articles
Access to the polls has not always been assured for all Americans, and before the Voting Rights Act of 1965, many were subjected to so-called literacy tests and poll tax.
The law was created to tackle such injustices, but in June, the of the legislation. Section 4 established a formula determining which states and localities had to get federal approval (known as pre-clearance) before changing their voting procedures.
The provision applied to nine states, mainly in the South, with a history of voter discrimination. The court deemed it unconstitutional for relying on...
Staff | NPR 22 Jul 2013 Hits:766 CFTE Articles
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled Section 4 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act unconstitutional.
"Section 4's formula is unconstitutional in light of current conditions," Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. "Coverage today is based on decades-old data and eradicated practices."
The Court did not issue a holding on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Basically, what this means is that while the Justice Department still has the authority to approve voting-related statutes in areas with a history of racial discrimination, the formula used to determine what those areas...
Aaron Blake | The Washington Post 25 Jun 2013 Hits:1001 CFTE Articles
States may not require additional proof of citizenship on federal forms designed to streamline voter-registration procedures, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The court rejected a requirement passed by Arizona voters in 2004 that potential voters supply proof of eligibility beyond an applicant's oath on the federal form that he or she is a citizen.
The court ruled 7 to 2 that the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 trumps Arizona's Proposition 200.
The federal law "precludes Arizona from requiring a federal form applicant to submit information beyond that required by the form itself,"...
Robert Barnes | The Washington Post 17 Jun 2013 Hits:1415 CFTE Articles
A pair of Democratic congressmen is pushing an amendment that would place an affirmative right to vote in the U.S. Constitution. According to Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI), who is sponsoring the legislation along with Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the amendment would protect voters from what he described as a "systematic" push to "restrict voting access" through voter ID laws, shorter early voting deadlines, and other measures that are being proposed in many states.
"Most people believe that there already is something in the Constitution that gives people the right to vote,...
Hunter Walker | TPM 28 May 2013 Hits:959 CFTE Articles
"The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected," wrote Thomas Paine in 1795.
Yet contrary to popular belief, there is no affirmative right to vote in the U.S. Constitution. This gap in our founding document has provided an opening for the wave of voter suppression measures that swept the country in recent years, and before that, the poll taxes and Jim Crow restrictions that disenfranchised millions. This week, two Congressmen -- both from states at the epicenter of today's voting rights struggles --...
Brendan Fisher | PR Watch 19 May 2013 Hits:2188 CFTE Articles
Federal Amendments of the 113th Congress
H.J.RES.29 introduced on February 15, 2013 by Rep. Richard M. Nolan. Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that the rights extended by the Constitution are the rights of natural persons only.
H.J.RES.25 introduced on February 6, 2013 by Rep. Donna Edwards. Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to clarify the authority of Congress and the States to regulate the expenditure of funds for political activity by corporations.
S.J.RES.5 introduced on January 28, 2013 by Sen. Max Baucus. A joint resolution proposing...
26 Mar 2013 Hits:1122 CFTE Articles
Posted Monday, March 4, 2013 by Molly Miller
From Campus Progress (Center For American Progress)
For many young people, even modest campaign contributions cut into a narrow personal budget. It's no wonder, then, that there is now such wide opposition to the 2010 Citizens United ruling, which established that corporations and s could make unlimited campaign contributions. Recently, West Virginians for Democracy took their discontent to the state capitol, calling upon state legislators to support a resolution that would encourage Congress for a constitutional amendment that would nullify the ruling.To date, eight...
Molly Miller 26 Mar 2013 Hits:847 CFTE Articles
From Progressive States Network
Charles Monacoon March 1, 2013 - 6:00pm
At least 6 of the 9 states covered in full by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act saw voter suppression efforts passed by their legislatures in 2012.
(Sources: Center for American Progress, Campus Progress and Fair Elections Legal Network)
26 Mar 2013 Hits:1191 CFTE Articles
As President Obama unveiled a statue of Rosa Parks at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, the Supreme Court considered overturning a key achievement of the civil rights movement: the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Signed in 1965 by President L. Johnson, the law requires several states and counties with a history of racial discrimination to clear election-related changes with the federal government. While the Supreme Court's four liberal justices appeared willing to back the Voting Rights Act, conservative justices were much more critical. Justice Antonin Scalia described the law as a...
Democracy Now 26 Mar 2013 Hits:923 CFTE Articles
Dr. David Gill isn't a "mad scientist," nor was he, as a Bloomington, Ill. emergency room physician, out to destroy Medicare. However, the American Action Network (AAN), a 501(c)(4) "social welfare organization," spent $1.5 million in 2012 telling the voters of the 13th Congressional District in Illinois exactly that. As a result, Gill, a Democrat, was forced to spend much of the waning days of his campaign responding to these anonymously funded attack ads. He lost his race against U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) by only .36 percent.
Now Gill is...
Rick Cohen | Nonprofit Quarterly 21 Feb 2013 Hits:1191 CFTE Articles
Desmond Meade stood with his wife on the National Mall on that sunny Inauguration Day, listening to a speech delivered by a president he did not vote for. But he followed attentively, hoping to hear just a few words that might address a man like himself:
African-American, one-time homeless, recovered from substance abuse, and formerly incarcerated. His felony status kept him from voting for Obama, because as a Florida citizen he is not eligible to vote at all. He would leave D.C. disappointed, not only because he heard nothing about felony disenfranchisement,...
Brentin Mock | The Nation 09 Feb 2013 Hits:791 CFTE Articles
WASHINGTON — With studies suggesting that long lines at the polls cost Democrats hundreds of thousands of votes in November, party leaders are beginning a push to make voting and voter registration easier, setting up a likely new conflict with Republicans over a deeply polarizing issue.
White House officials have told Congressional leaders that the president plans to press for action on Capitol Hill, and Democrats say they expect him to highlight the issue in hisState of the Union address next week. Democrats in the House and Senate have already introduced...
JEREMY W. PETERS | The New York Times 05 Feb 2013 Hits:1060 CFTE Articles
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Reps. John Lewis (D-Ga.), James Clyburn (D-S.C.), and Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) introduced tandem legislation to update the nation's antiquated voting systems.
The bills launched last week on the 49th anniversary of the 24th Amendment, which eliminated the poll tax. They closely follow the Brennan Center's longstanding recommendations for voting reform.
"The ramshackle voter registration system is a prime cause of long lines and Election Day chaos. We have a chance to modernize our elections so that every eligible citizen is on the rolls, with...
Brennan Center for Justice 31 Jan 2013 Hits:1600 CFTE Articles
As Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus promotes one of the most blatant assaults on democracy in modern times—a scheme to gerrymander the Electoral College so that the loser of the popular vote could win key states and the presidency—the number-one question from frustrated citizens is: What can we do about it?
After so many assaults on voting rights and the electoral process itself have been advanced, it is easy to imagine that Priebus, Karl Rove and their team could get away even with so audacious an initiative as the rigging...
John Nichols | The Nation 29 Jan 2013 Hits:927 CFTE Articles
As it is said when it comes to voting technology: As California goes, so goes the nation. To that end, there is some disturbing news on the horizon from BlackBoxVoting.org as the Internet Voting virus threatens to spread to the Golden State.
If you're not familiar with the many insane dangers of this idea, and if the Academy Awards' recent nightmare wasn't enough, here's an article or two or three or four from the past year or two here which should do well to appropriately scare the hell out of you.
Brad Friedman | BradBlog 29 Jan 2013 Hits:947 CFTE Articles
President Barack Obama won a commanding victory in this November's elections, defeating Republican candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by nearly 4 percentage points in the popular vote. In doing so, President Obama became the first president to twice win more than 51 percent of the popular vote since President Dwight D. Eisenhower did so in 1956.
If a Republican plan to rig the Electoral College had been in effect in 2012, however, it is reasonably likely that President Romney would be the one...
Ian Millhiser | Center for American Progress 25 Jan 2013 Hits:1139 CFTE Articles
Mickey Duniho: Evidence of Vote Counting Fraud in Pima County?
Editor's Note: With the analysis is a full video of the Election Integrity Commission's emergency meeting held on October 26th to hear retired NSA analyst Michael Duniho's
explanation of how his study of local elections support nationwide trends found in a paper published by Francois Choquette and James Johnson. Commission member Dr. Tom Ryan has a PhD in computer programming and agrees with what Duniho has discovered. The video begins with Benny White...
27 Dec 2012 Hits:1520 CFTE Articles
11/05/2012 [originally published at Election Protection Action, Inc.]
by Jill Simpson[1] and Jim March[2] [Download PDF of this article (MOVE Act nov 5th article.pdf ~2.5 Mb).]
Executive Overview
The federal MOVE Act of 2009[3] (Military Overseas Voting Empowerment) was supposed to improve ballot access for every sort of overseas and/or military-away-from-home voter.
It had the unfortunate side-effect of opening up the single worst security hole in the US election process ever seen. This is...
27 Dec 2012 Hits:2434 CFTE Articles
"I want to thank every American who participated in this election," President Obama said in his acceptance speech Tuesday, "whether you voted for the very first time or waited in line for a very long time."
At the mention of long waits, Obama paused. "By the way, we have to fix that."
Election Day saw news story after news story about interminable lines at polling stations. In some areas, people waited for two hours, three hours or more. To many observers, it seemed ludicrous that a country as advanced and as wealthy...
Brad Plumber | The Washington Post 09 Nov 2012 Hits:1031 CFTE Articles
Two of the pivotal field offices in the country making phone calls to voters in swing states aren't in Ohio or Colorado—they're in Idaho Falls and Rexburg, Idaho.
Frank VanderSloot, head of a controversial "multi-level marketing" corporation that sells dietary supplements and cleaning supplies, is donating two of his company's offices to Americans for Prosperity (AFP) to "create one of the largest call enters in the nation."
Lee Fang | The Nation 30 Oct 2012 Hits:1231 CFTE Articles
The Free Press has previously reported, Scytl, a Barcelona based e-voting company will be counting votes in 26 states. They will be doing so through something called the Federal Overseas Voting Program or FVAP. FVAP is a program designed to allow military personnel and other overseas Americans to vote in their home districts seamlessly through electronically delivered absentee ballots.
Intercepting and changing these ballots, as well as voting electronically on behalf of service people that have no idea such a thing is happening, is...
Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis, The Free Press | Report 22 Oct 2012 Hits:1841 CFTE Articles
Electronic voting machines owned by Mitt Romney's business buddies and set to count the votes in Cincinnati could decide the 2012 election.
The narrative is already being hyped by the corporate media. As Kelly O'Donnell reported for NBC's Today Show on Monday, October 8, Ohio's Hamilton County is "ground zero" for deciding who holds the White House come January, 2013.
O'Donnell pointed out that no candidate has won the White House without carrying Ohio since John Kennedy did it in 1960. No Republican has ever won...
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman | Common Dreams 14 Oct 2012 Hits:1417 CFTE Articles
Nine Republican governors have the power to put Mitt Romney in the White House, even if Barack Obama wins the popular vote.
With their secretaries of state, they control the electronic vote count in nine key swing states: Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, Arizona, and New Mexico. Wisconsin elections are under the control of the state's Government Accountability Board, appointed by the governor.
In tandem with the GOP's massive nation-wide disenfranchisement campaign, they could---in the dead of election night---flip their states' electronic votes to Romney and give him a victory in...
Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman 26 Sep 2012 Hits:6508 CFTE Articles
Because Bev Harris of Black Box Voting found a scheme of digital voter suppression in Shelby County (Greater Memphis), TN, by inspecting the voter history databases compared over several elections, activists are being encouraged to submit public records request for these databases.
In Shelby County, which is in the district of Rep. Steve Cohen, a rare Democratic House member from TN, voter histories were being retroactively erased to allow the voters to be purged as Inactive. 98% of the voters affected were African-American Democrats.
To deter this scheme elsewhere - especially where...
Mimi Kennedy - PDA Advisory Chair 25 Sep 2012 Hits:1157 CFTE Articles
In a setback for those trying to curb the secrecy behind election year 'issue ads' funded by shadowy special interests groups, the DC Circuit Court today overturned a lower federal court's ruling which made public disclosure of such spending a statutory requirement.
The earlier decision, in the case Van Hollen v. Federal Election Commission, stipulated that nonprofit 501(c)(4) organizations like Americans for Prosperity and Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS as well as 501(c)(6) associations like the Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute would...
Common Dreams Staff 22 Sep 2012 Hits:1190 CFTE Articles
Why would I even ask that question? I've been trying (with virtually no success) to get everyone to drop the election obsession and focus on activism designed around policy changes, not personality changes. I want those policy changes to include stripping presidents of imperial powers. I don't see as much difference between the two available choices as most people; I see each as a different shade of disaster. I don't get distressed by the thought of people "spoiling" an election by voting for a legitimately good candidate like Jill Stein. ...
David Swanson | War Is A Crime 18 Sep 2012 Hits:1053 CFTE Articles
Pity the poor Blue Dog. The ranks of self-proclaimed conservative Democrats have been decimated in recent years, victims of increasing polarization in Washington and the sweeping Republican takeover of the House in 2010.
But a new advocacy group has popped up this year with hopes of bolstering the remaining Blue Dogs and perhaps even helping a few new centrist lawmakers win election to Congress.
The nonprofit group, called Center Forward, has poured nearly $4 million into broadcast commercials aimed at helping conservative House Democrats keep their...
Don Eggen | The Washington Post 13 Sep 2012 Hits:1175 CFTE Articles
Having a home is not a prerequisite to vote in the United States. But activists and homeless service providers still face major challenges trying to help homeless Americans register.
Pitts v. Black (1984) and several subsequent cases in the 1980s and '90s established that homeless people could not be denied the right to vote because they did not live in a traditional residence. A shelter, park or street corner can be designated as a residence. In states that require...
Jin Zhao | AlterNet 10 Aug 2012 Hits:1219 CFTE Articles
Your presence is needed to send a message that elections matter and they must be verifiable.
Fact: "At the present time it is easy to cheat using our election computers and impossible to challenge a rigged election. The ease of cheating when matched with the impossibility of challenging any specific election requires court intervention in order to protect the purity of elections and ensure that we will have free elections." Attorney Bill Risner
New Motion filed Aug 6th: The county 'we only cheated once' argument: http://tinyurl.com/cp928z7
John R Brakey | AuditAZ 08 Aug 2012 Hits:1261 CFTE Articles
Could a narrow focus on Citizens United actually set back our drive for democracy?
That's been a real worry of mine, but my thinking has been fussy. So I was relieved to see Matt Bai, the New York Times Magazine's political correspondent, take on the challenge of deciphering what can and cannot be laid at the feet of this awful ruling.
In "How Did Political Money Get This Loud?" Bai suggests that Citizens United mainly "intensified" unintended consequences of earlier reforms. He argues that the burst of political spending...
Frances Moore Lappé | Common Dreams 31 Jul 2012 Hits:1409 CFTE Articles
Black Box Voting has been investigating and reporting on this disconcerting trend for nine years now. Everything we've been reporting has not only turned out to be true, but is increasing. A press release today about the planned expansion of Unisyn into more USA locations renews attention on foreign ownership of corporations selling voting systems into the United States.
Unisyn is owned by a Malaysian gambling outfit. Another major elections industry player, Canada's Dominion, purchased the massive Diebold Election Systems division (which it shares with ES&S); Dominion also...
Black Box Voting 20 Jul 2012 Hits:1290 CFTE Articles
Leaders in the House of Representatives introduced The Voter Empowerment Act of 2012 to protect and promote our freedom to vote. This bill seeks to provide more access to the ballot, more efficiency in our election systems, and more accountability in our elections.
The ability to cast a ballot that will be counted is a fundamental freedom that protects the other essential rights that Americans hold dear. The freedom to vote is how Americans, regardless of privilege or economic status, maintain the power to hold...
DEMOS 20 May 2012 Hits:1219 CFTE Articles
WASHINGTON -- Advocacy groups spending millions of dollars in the 2012 campaign are now faced with the prospect of having to reveal the donors who have been secretly financing their efforts after a federal appellate court panel refused to block a lower court order requiring the move.
In a 2 to 1 decision issued Monday evening, a U.S. Court of Appeals panel in Washington declined to stay a ruling by a federal judge requiring organizations that run election-related television ads to disclose their donors.
Matea Gold | LA Times 17 May 2012 Hits:1167 CFTE Articles
We saw him just the other day. He makes a great impression: well dressed, articulate, at ease in front of an audience. He is young (forty,) passionate about his convictions, well-versed in domestic and foreign policy. His positions would warm the heart and conscience of any liberal/progressive Democrat. He has graduate degrees, has worked to educate and train convicts, teaches history to middle and high school students, and has taught college and graduate courses. He does work for the Humane Society. His resources exceed...
Sam and Stephanie Levine | PDA Palm Beach 18 Mar 2012 Hits:1258 CFTE Articles
A federal court has rejected an appeal from the Republican National Committee to modify a 30-year-old legal agreement that prevented it from engaging in one of the most offensive forms of voter suppression: targeting minority voters whose credentials were to be challenged once they enter polling places.
The unanimous opinion of the three-judge-court of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit was a stunning rebuke of an ongoing effort by the RNC to use any means necessary to game the outcome of elections.
Steven Rosenfeld | Sourced from AlterNet 08 Mar 2012 Hits:2009 CFTE Articles
SUMMARY While it seems like everything can be done online these days, that's not actually the case when it comes to elections. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien explores the security, logistical and secrecy challenges of Internet voting.
JUDY WOODRUFF: Now another kind of election story, as both parties ramp up their efforts to get voters to the polls this fall.
NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien explores why most people still can't vote online.
NATALIE TENNANT, West Virginia secretary of state: We don't have archives. There are some secretaries around the...
Miles O'Brien | PBS News Hour 19 Feb 2012 Hits:1663 CFTE Articles
THE 2012 general election campaign is likely to be a fight for every last vote, which means that it will also be a fight over who gets to cast one.
Partisan skirmishing over election procedures has been going on in state legislatures across the country for several years. Republicans have called for cutbacks in early voting, an end to same-day registration, higher hurdles for ex-felons, the presentation of proof-of-citizenship documents and regulations discouraging registration drives. The centerpiece of this effort has been a national...
Alexander Keyssar | New York Times Opinion 19 Feb 2012 Hits:1461 CFTE Articles
A movement to reform the Electoral College and elect the president based on the national popular vote has half the states it needs.
Republican Senator Mitch McConnell calls it "absurd and dangerous." The Wall Street Journalsays it deserves to "die." The Heritage Foundation calls it "unconstitutional." The Washington Post calls it "flawed." A Republican National Committee resolutionsays it is a radical, un-American, "questionable legal maneuver."
It is awarding the presidency to the candidate who wins the most votes.
"The United States is not a democracy and shouldn't be," said Michael Munger, Duke University's Political Science...
Steven Rosenfeld | AlterNet 07 Feb 2012 Hits:2581 CFTE Articles
The argument over whether voters should have to present photo identification at the polls usually splits along party lines. Republicans who favor the requirement say it prevents ballot fraud. Democrats and election rights groups who oppose it say it is meant to suppress turnout.
And people of all political stripes wonder what all the fuss is about.
Most Americans are accustomed to whipping out photo IDs at work, the bank or even their own apartment buildings. And their driver's license — perhaps the most common...
Corey Dade | NPR 28 Jan 2012 Hits:1371 CFTE Articles
The voting systems in use for the nation's first three all-important electoral contests in the 2012 primary --- from Iowa to New Hampshire to Saturday's South Carolina Primary --- go from pretty great to intolerably horrible. And then comes Florida, which deserves its very own special category, thereafter.
The "First-in-the-Nation" caucuses in Iowa allowed voters to vote on hand-marked paper ballots, counted by hand in front of the public at the caucus site, with results announced to everyone right then and there before being called in...
Brad Friedman | The Brad Blog 20 Jan 2012 Hits:4160 CFTE Articles
As we enter another election cycle, our most urgent challenge will be to ensure that the right to vote and the right to have that vote counted is protected. It comes as no surprise that this "basic right, without which all others are meaningless" has come under massive attack as we prepare to re-elect the first Black POTUS, who was swept into office by voters of color, youth and women.
Voter suppression efforts take a variety of forms. Certainly there are the blatant efforts to legislatively restrict...
Nancy A. Heitzeg, Critical Mass Progress | News Analysis 08 Jan 2012 Hits:1760 CFTE Articles
Senators Ben Cardin (Md.) and Charles Schumer (N.Y.) have introduced a bill that would impose greater criminal and civil penalties for individuals who attempted to trick voters for political gain.
The legislation is an effort to crack down on misleading campaign literature like the 2010 Maryland "robocall" incident during the state's gubernatorial election.
"Efforts to mislead and confuse eligible voters by distributing false and deceptive voting information and campaign literature is part of what seems to be a larger strategy to keep certain voters away from the...
Jon Christian | Sourced from Campus Progress 17 Dec 2011 Hits:1410 CFTE Articles
"We need to pay attention to this, " says Ed Schultz. "171 electoral votes are in play."
He calls it a series of laws that could have a "political tsunami" effect ont he rights of groups like the elderly, the poor, minorities, the rural and students to vote in the next election--and potentially even have an effect on the election's outcome. These are "laws across more than a dozen states designed to severely reduced voter participation." And the voters from these groups are Democratic constituents.
"It's going...
Sarah Seltzer | Sourced from AlterNet 17 Dec 2011 Hits:1241 CFTE Articles
Austin, Texas - Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday entered the turbulent political waters of voting rights, signaling that the Justice Department would be aggressive in reviewing new voting laws that civil rights advocates say will dampen minority participation in next year's elections.
Declaring in a speech that protecting ballot access for all eligible voters "must be viewed not only as a legal issue but as a moral imperative," Mr. Holder urged Americans to "call on our political parties to resist the...
Charlie Savage, New York Times News Service | Report 14 Dec 2011 Hits:1478 CFTE Articles
Last-minute robo-calls in 2010 tried to discourage African-American vote
A Maryland jury on Tuesday convicted Paul E. Schurick, the 2010 campaign manager for Republican ex-Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., of four counts of election law violations stemming from an Election Day decision to make thousands of recorded telephone calls into African-American homes telling likely voters that the Democratic candidate was on his way to winning -- implying there was no need for them to vote. The gambit came after exit polls showed Ehrlich losing.
The ...
Steven Rosenfeld | Sourced from AlterNet 06 Dec 2011 Hits:1373 CFTE Articles
Dwight Eisenhower backed the 18-year-old vote nearly 60 years ago. Richard Nixon backed it a decade and a half later. Forty years ago, every Republican in the Senate supported amending the Constitution to lower the voting age to 18 across the nation. Only 19 Representatives opposed the amendment in the House.
The key argument: If you're old enough to get drafted and die and kill for your country, you're old enough to cast ballots for the people likely to order you into battle. The only way...
Meteor Blades | Sourced from Daily Kos 05 Dec 2011 Hits:1453 CFTE Articles
DCCC Chairman Steve Israel announced a major Voter ID education initiative to be headed by House Assistant Leader Jim Clyburn (D-SC).
"The DCCC will be announcing a major voter protection initiative headed by Jim Clyburn that will deal with legal, public relations and related strategies to make sure every American who has the right to vote is able to vote," Chairman Israel said.
"If the Democrats have one scintilla of a chance of either taking the House back or keeping the Senate or retaining the Presidency we...
Lauren Victoria Burke | Politics 365 22 Nov 2011 Hits:3347 CFTE Articles
"This year, thirty-four state legislatures introduced bills requiring photo identification in order to vote. This rash of legislation classifies several previously accepted IDs as unacceptable, and will affect roughly 21 million Americans if they are passed."
Ninety-seven-year-old Emma Lee Green balances an armload of old books and yellowing papers around the stacks of musty files in her San Bernardino attic. She remembers well the days of Jim Crow, poll taxes and literacy tests that barred many African-American citizens from the voting booth.
Americans set their...
Chris Levister | New America Media 19 Nov 2011 Hits:1414 CFTE Articles
House Democratic members held a forum on recent voter identification requirements in Kansas, Tennessee, and Wisconsin, which had passed voter identification measures requiring a photo ID to vote. They focused on the potential impact of these laws on minority, low-income, elderly and student voters.
C-SPAN 14 Nov 2011 Hits:1099 CFTE Articles
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"Making this lasagna a day ahead and refrigerating overnight allows the spices to meld, and gives it exceptional flavor."
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1 1/2 pounds
lean ground beef
onion, chopped
2 cloves
garlic, minced
1 tablespoon
chopped fresh basil
1 teaspoon
dried oregano
2 tablespoons
brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons
1 (29 ounce) can
diced tomatoes
2 (6 ounce) cans
tomato paste
dry lasagna noodles
eggs, beaten
1 pint
part-skim ricotta cheese
1/2 cup
grated Parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons
dried parsley
1 teaspoon
1 pound
mozzarella cheese, shredded
2 tablespoons
grated Parmesan cheese
Ok here's the scoop on any revision you might want to make! I've been making this lasagna for over a year and it is excellent...
**You do need more sauce! Just add an extra 14 oz can of crushed or diced tomatoes and increase garlic, onions and other spices by a small amount as well.
**2 Tbs of brown sugar is just right.
**1&1/2 pound of hamburger is an awful lot, I've decreased it to 1/2 pound and that was plenty for this non-meat loving family!
**I use 9x13 cake pan, and 12 lasagna noodles would fill it to overflowing! I've found 9 noodles (3 layers of 3 noodles each) to be enough.
**30 minutes is no where near long enough to cook this thing! 20 minutes uncovered just to get it started, then 1 hour loosely covered with foil, then remove from oven and let sit for 10 minutes is more like it!
This recipe is very forgiving, and judging by all the comments, very flexible as well. Hope my comments help someone one else...
DO NOT MAKE THIS RECIPE! How can anyone give this more than one star, let alone 5! Such a dry recipe, tasted burned because they had you simmer tomato paste which is already dry! Not even water helped this recipe. If you want a kick butt lasagna, search for WHITE CHEESE CHICKEN LASAGNA.... Wow, what a good meal that was, everyone raved over it! It's not your red, dried out lasagna, it's a moist, cheesy white chicken lasagna. Please mark this review as helpful, so others may see it too!
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WARNING... I made the receipe a day ahead as suggested. Although I thought it was odd, I saw the cook time was 30 min and followed directions without looking back at the cook and prep times listed at the top of the web page (when I hit PRINT, those didn't print out, just the actual receipe!). I should have known better. There must be a typeo at the bottom of the receipe, it does NOT cook in 30 min, but an hour and 30 like it says at the top! It was easy to figure out my mistake, and I should have prob known better, but in a rush I followed the receipe and planned for 30 min. Now we'll have to wait another 60 to eat. Oops. I hope it's as wonderful as everyone says, it smells fabulous! And DO add some extra tomato sauce and water to the sauce.
I have found my staple lasagna recipe! I used Italian sausage instead of ground beef, but I only used a pound, next time I will double it because I like lots of meat. I took the advice of another reviewer, and used 1/3 of the ricotta mixture on the top layer to keep the noodles from drying out, it worked beautifully. I used two 15 oz. containers of ricotta, and doubled the sauce as suggested by others. I doubled the garlic and added fresh ground pepper to the sauce, used a mixture of shredded mozzarella and shredded parmesan, and I only needed to use 9 lasagna noodles. I put it together the night before, baked it covered for 1 hour and uncovered for 20 minutes. If you do cover it during baking, make sure to use nonstick cooking spray on the foil, or the cheese will stick. It sliced perfectly, too. My husband said it was just as good as the lasagna his Italian stepfather makes, and he's been cooking for more than 50 years with recipes older than that! That was the best compliment I could have ever gotten! The next time we have people over, this is the dish I'm going to make. I served it with cheesy garlic bread, I only wish I'd had caesar salad to go along with it. I will make this again and again. Thank you, Rosemary!
PS: A disposable pan will be your best friend in this recipe.
I believe this is a great basic recipe. I made several modifications to fit my tastes (adding mushooms, increasing spices, using turkey instead of beef), but that versitility only increases the value of the recipe in my mind.
Others have commented on the dryness and that concerned me a bit. I didn't find it dry at all and have a couple of observations that I didn't see in other reviews.
First, the recipe isn't clear whether the tomatoes should be drained or not. Do NOT drain them, use the juice in the sauce.
Second, use cooked noodles. Uncooked dry or fresh noodles (I used fresh) will absorb water from the sauce and make the finished product drier. I suspect the same is true of the oven ready product I have never used.
Third, I did end up adding a half-cup of water to be sure, but this will depend on how you simmer and personal tastes. I think adding about this much red wine as some others suggest could add flavor and the needed moisture.
I gave it only four stars because of the discrepancy on cooking times (it needs 1 1/2 hours, not 30 min) and not being clear on retaining the juice in the diced tomatoes. Otherwise, I think it's a great and very adaptable recipe.
Thanks, Rosemary.
This is now going to be the lasagna recipe I use from now on. The only change I made was I used a mixture of half ricotta cheese and half cottage cheese instead of all ricotta. I refrigerated it overnight before baking it as the recipe author suggests and added 15 minutes to the baking time indicated in the recipe however I found that the edges were starting to burn before the center was done. If you're refrigerating the lasagna overnight before baking it I suggest covering it with aluminum foil for the first 20 minutes of baking and baking it at 350 rather than 375. That way the center can heat up without the edges burning first.
Wow!! Wonderful flavor! Be sure and simmer the sauce the maximum amount of time. Making the lasagna a day ahead and refrigerating is definitely key to having outstanding flavor! I made this a second time, and used Italian-seasoned turkey sausage, ground in my food processor. What a difference it made - will definitely do that again!! Also note that 1 tsp. dried basil works if you don't have fresh basil on hand, and lowfat ricotta is just fine as well. I bake mine covered with aluminum foil for 20 minutes (then 10 minutes without) to prevent it from drying out. I have made this lasagna several times, and like others, I thought it could use more sauce. I now add an extra 14.5 oz. can of Italian-style diced tomatoes, and increase the spices a bit. PERFECT! Thanks for the recipe!!
This is a great recipe, but better with some modifications. I followed several suggestions from other reviews. Mainly, this lasagna would be way too dry and bland without more sauce and spices. I added the equivalent of 1 1/2 28 oz cans of pre-seasoned sauce. To the sauce I also added lots of xtra garlic and fresh oregano plus I used half ground beef and half hot italian sausage instead of all beef (next time I might even go with all sausage because that added a lot of good flavor). I was going to add some crushed red pepper flakes but forgot, so I will add a little next time. To the filling I added a few xtra ounces of ricotta, a few xtra ounces of mozzarella (I used part skim), and 4 ounces of cream cheese. I also used xtra parmesan on the top. I cut the brown sugar in half and also used a little less salt.
I don't know if I needed to, but I sprayed the pan with Pam and also spread a little sauce on top of that and clean up was a snap. I had modified the recipe for 12 servings and used a bigger pan and I cooked it for about 1 hr 40 minutes. Clearly the 30 minute cook time at the bottom of the recipe is a misprint and should read the 1 1/2 hrs that it states at the top. Also, I covered with foil for half of the cooking time which helped keep it moist on top.
I served this to 10 girlfriends and they all thought it was terrific!
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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