Houston Watching the World Cup in South Africa, reading the stories in the Times from slums outside of Johannesburg, makes me look at the calendar for the countdown to the next huge international sports event: The Commonwealth Games! In October teams from all over the former colonies of the British Empire will be parachuting [...]
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New Orleans The fight to get anyone to hold the charter school explosion to any accountability at all anywhere in the country is mainly a struggle to get anyone’s attention, since for the most part they could be getting away with murder and no one would know given the huge decentralization and the total lack of [...] New Orleans Mayor David Miller was whining in the New York Times about how the isolated black bloc anarchist violence on Saturday at the G20 march and rally had hurt the image of the City of Toronto as four police cars burned and an American Apparel store was even hotter than their ad campaign, but [...] Detroit I’ve been to enough World Social Forum events in Brazil, India, and even Nairobi, that I’ve got a pretty good idea how to navigate the chaos and mine through the rock to find the gold, and stepping in for a bit in Detroit seemed the same ‘ol, same ‘ol. [...] Detroit This was going to be an interesting evening: barbecue, beer, and a wide circle of 25 plus people talking about Citizen Wealth and how to built more sustainable organizations and create social movements. Kim Hodge, the director of Michigan Timebanks, had taken the initiative to put the people, party, and dialogue together to [...] Phoenix My head is spinning. I simply cannot keep up with the rate of devolution from state to state across the country, and the ways it is either directly or inadvertently benefiting everything for-profit businesses. Hardly a week ago, we were talking about for profit colleges finally getting off the government teat as the [...] Phoenix OK, let me try and get this straight. Fannie Mae (with its housing finance partner Freddie Mac) is already bailed out to the level of about 200+ billion with some estimates that the final federal bailout bill will hit almost $400 billion, right? Most of that is a transfer of their bailout money [...] Phoenix The government has a website that publishes the miserable statistics and farcical jokes behind the foreclosure modification programs which is called Making Housing Affordable. Some government wag must have seen the billboard we drove past in Phoenix yesterday advertising new houses with the line: selling at “foreclosure prices.” I guess their idea of [...] |
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