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I am enjoying a quiet Sunday here in NEPA with family, and will be watching the Indy 500 and the 600 mile NASCAR race in Charlotte . But my heart is in St. Petersburg .   As many of my friends there will be beaching it and boating it, they won’t have the excitement and anticipation that comes with the first unofficial weekend of the summer.   This will feel more like Labor Day, with the wonder of how many more days on the water will be left until tarballs of oil, and dead marine life wash ashore.   The blame game is already underway, but BP, the Obama administration, the Bush administration, the lack of meaningful regulation, and our addiction to foreign oil have taken their rightful hits.   But the environmentalists have gotten away unscathed.   Blame the environmentalists?   Yes.   We need oil AND proper environmental protection.   But thanks to environmentalists we do not drill in the Alaskan wilderness, yet we deep water drill in the Gulf.   All the shallow water drillin
Welcome to Dave Bohman's blog: I will try to update this at least twice a week, and provide some insight into local TV news in Northeast Pennsylvania, giving some insight into the back stories of my investigative work and life in and out of the newsroom. Hope you all have a happy Memorial Day, and remember to thank a veteran. If you attend a ceremony where a vet of WWII, Korea, or Vietnam is being honored, pay close attention. Their special dedication and sacrifice made us what we are. Last year, I was in Bernalillo, New Mexico, where Veterans honored Daniel Trujillo, a man who was a prisoner of war in Korea for three years. I am happy my former employer KRQE-TV still has the story posted on-line. http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/politics/politics_krqe_bernalillo_veteran_remembers_forgotten_war_200905251921 I am looking forward to Monday....hope I can do a veteran's story, and make it a little different and a lot more meaningful and relevant than the usual "parade/c