Calgary Walking this morning, light snow was still sticking to the embankments along the curbside and puddles had a thin sheet ice, as spring was coming late to the northern Rockies. Calgary continues to be an oil rich boomtown with population now surpassing a million people with low unemployment throughout the province of Alberta, the …
Month: April 2013
Changes in Eligibility Standards Made Food Stamps a Winner in Recession
Dallas There was some good news for citizen wealth during the recession and it can be found in the increased utilization of the food stamp program, which is now called SNAP standing for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The raw numbers tell the story. On the eve of the recession in 2007, the government was spending …
Citizen’s Crowdsourcing News and Laws in Syria, Latvia, and Arkansas
New Orleans Recently I have been working closely with the volunteers and board of KABF 88.3 FM, the 100,000 watt noncommercial, community radio, “Voice of the People,” in Arkansas. Just as the programming is delivered by a huge crew of volunteer djs, we developed the notion that we could create unique news and public affairs …