Quepos In the wake of the attempted blowup of an international flight into Detroit, TSA is instituting new rules, including many that will catch travelers unprepared as they return from the holidays. It goes without saying that airline and passenger safety is a tantamount concern. As a frequent flier, I also have to quickly [...]
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Quepos Five years ago the tsunami hit south Asia as bringing a terrible tragedy killing more than 225,000 people in more than a dozen countries. Banda Aceh in Indonesia was at the epicenter with almost 170,000 of the total estimated deaths. I have often spoken about our partner, the Urban Poor Consortium, and the work [...] Quepos A week before Christmas there was a long AP piece by Andrew DeMillo that indicated that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was going to take the lead in seeking to retire the campaign debt of over $400,000 which Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter owed himself from his election several years ago. All of this [...] Playa de Manzilla Certainly ACORN Canada didn’t expect a resounding endorsement from the conservative national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, from its editorial about the ACORN living wage campaigns that are front and center in the major city and national capital of Ottawa and in New Westminster, the important working suburb of Vancouver, and it’s [...] Quepos It’s probably always true to a huge degree in the New Yorker eye view of the world, but it was even more stark reading the current issue on the plane that was ostensibly about efforts to impact environments. The “world changers” as the magazine labeled them were all stereotypically weird, outsider, loner white [...] Central America For the next couple of weeks I’m going to be embedded in Central America, having cashed a horde of frequent flier miles to get to San Jose en route to Nicaragua and then Honduras, where ACORN International expects to open its 8th country operation, if all goes well in meetings to come. [...] New Orleans The last day in the office before a combination of the end of the year, vacation, and work that is so different from the normal day-to-day that it seems “vacation-like,” (don’t ask!), is maddening. There’s just not enough time. I had just gotten another reminder of how short time is only hours ago. [...] |
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