Little Rock Recently, President Trump in his usual stream of consciousness blurted out that he didn’t believe automobile exhaust caused air pollution. I hope he’s not back to blaming trees again. More frighteningly, a rumor circulated widely among the environmental cognoscenti, that the president was preparing an executive order that would declare groups working …
Author: Chief Organizer
The Bad Business of Public Education Privatization
Marble Falls A headline in the news said that the great state of Texas was moving to allocate $1-billion to a voucher program there. One red state after another has tried to skim dollars away from public education support to support private education, largely through church-based schools or pick-up places, based on a …
Swallowing the Ask and Negotiating from Weakness
Marble Falls It’s not often all of us in the cheap seats get a ringside view of what big time negotiations look like, especially between nation states, but we’re getting an huge eyeful, courtesy of Trump and his tariff tantrums. The whole world watched with some degree of horror as he huffed and …