Washington On the eve of the dramatic and historic health care vote, I got a letter from a friend, Mary Rowles, who is also a labor official in British Columbia. She had been sick all week with pneumonia and equally ill reading with consternation the mis-characterizations of what reform might mean south of the Canadian …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Report Card on Millennium Villages
New Orleans The first report cards at the 5 year mark for some of the 80 Millennium Villages, including Sauri, in Africa are coming in now, and despite criticisms and skeptics, including me, you have to have a horse to beat a horse, and Jeffrey Sachs’ project is proving that it can produce real and …
Obama Feeling Heat on Immigration Reform
Washington There is finally hope for comprehensive immigration reform if only because the inside-the-beltway strategy is crumbling and the anger and hurt if finally forcing itself into the open and driving the debate. Many activists and advocates have been pleading for a rally, march or some show of strength and purpose since exactly such an …