Washington I’ve often told this story. It’s about a big, rookie mistake I made as a green organizer of 20 years old trying to figure out how to be head organizer of Massachusetts Welfare Rights when total craziness broke out between two contending groups of leadership. Because of some idealistically pure view of staff and [...]
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Washington Everywhere I go in Washington, just like the rest of the country, but more intensely, the discussion is about health care reform and whether there’s any chance of pulling through anything at this point that would really be reform. Disturbingly, it seems the White House and the Congressional leadership is getting leveraged by [...] Pittsburgh The G-20 was gone from Pittsburgh so it was back to normal as I passed through. Signs to beware of deer on some streets in working and lower income neighborhoods were not just reminders of the hills all around the city, but the fact that it has shrunk to 260,000 people within the limits. [...] Dallas A meeting of Local 100 leaders and stewards may be one of the only places in the country where you can hear a lively discussion break out over dinner on the merits and demerits of arm hoist back loading trucks versus side and front loaders and the relative dangers of a 96 gallon versus [...] Austin It was great to be welcomed by some of the progressive community in Austin last night to talk about Citizen Wealth, but to me the most interesting conversations continued to be about the strains of development in and around the continuing Austin boomtown, particularly at the intersection of development and water. One reason water [...] New Orleans Another reason it was good to be in Canada last week, is that I heard everyone’s views on Canadian healthcare, while missing a lot about the new bill being rolled out to almost no applause by Senator Baucus of Montana. The kindest thing people seem willing to say is that the bill doesn’t really [...] |
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