Washington Cory Booker is an interesting and talented young African-American politician now in his 2nd year of a huge challenge as mayor of Newark, New Jersey. He is the darling of the media and frequently followed by the Times. Even as a neophyte elected official, he is sometimes touted as an outside shot as …
Month: August 2007
Wal-Mart and Bharti Deal
Washington The Wall Street Journal claimed that the market and Wal-Mart’s stock rose on the news that Wal-Mart and Bharti had finally inked their joint venture deal for Wal-Mart to expand into India. Mainly, this should only be proof in the irrationality of investors, since this transaction now seems more like minimal face-saving than any …
Training Groups
Sausalito Helene O’Brien, ACORN’s National Field Director, and her team flipped the training program in a different direction for the mid-level ACORN organizers this year. Some of the features stayed the same, but the focus on the individual organizer and her individual contribution changed dramatically thanks to off-hand story we had heard from the training …