Taranto The Scuola de Bollenti Spiriti, which is translated as the School of Hot Spirits, is an unusual name which may strike you as different, but in this case that’s a good thing because it is different and in quite a good way. The school took applications from all over the state of Puglia, receiving some 600 …
Month: November 2014
ExFadda, a Model Social Enterprise Incubator for Youth in Puglia, Italy
Taranto, Italy After flying from New Orleans to Houston to Newark to Munich to Bari, Italy over an 18-hour period, there’s no sense in lying, I was beat up a bit when we coasted into the small airport at Bari along the Adriatic Sea. Nonetheless, I was intrigued with the sense of place and whimsy that …
Affordable Care Act Renewal Time and the Puzzles for Workers
New Orleans The window has now opened for new signups under the Affordable Care Act. This time around there won’t be any do-overs or make-ups, I’ll bet. The Administration is already soft selling the numbers and predicting less than 10 million enrollees by the end of 2015, dampening expectations, either tactically or determinedly. This is …