Vancouver Mary Rawles of the British Columbia Government Employees Union (BCGEU) had responded with grace when I asked several weeks ago, “Hey, I’ve got Citizen Wealth coming out, could we do something at the union?” What did either of us know about what we were doing? I didn’t know enough to really understand what a …
Author: wade
Very Small First Step for Immigration Reform
Vancouver President Obama is convening the twice delayed political summit (no-non-pols invited) at the White House to discuss comprehensive immigration reform. This should be good news, but the political framing is depressing. It seems that this critical issue is now a HUGE political football being played to see whether the Democrats or Republicans will get …
Name Games
Rome I should have suspected that being without internet and simply depending on my Blackberry while in Sicily was still a dangerous thing to do, and sure enough as I was being driven to the Catania airport I got a message from a reporter for the Washington Times named Amanda Carpenter asking about ACORN International’s …