New Orleans After endless delays and speculation the Administration announced that Dr. Rajiv Shah, currently an Department of Agriculture official and formerly an executive with the Gates Foundation, would become the head of the United States Agency for International Development (US-AID) last week. From all reports he sounds like a competent administrator and a first …
Category: Ideas and Issues
TV with the Tea Party
Palmer, MA Bill Gunn, the leader of the Western Massachusetts 912project.org and Tea Party protestors at my presentations at Springfield College and UMass at Amherst, had written me an email and invited (challenged?) me to be interviewed by him and some of his friends at the local cable access station for Comcast in the Palmer …
Boosting Employement of Indian Rural Poor
New Orleans Using the weekend to catch up on old papers, magazines, and whatever, allowed me to stumble on some head scratchers. Newsweek has a new format in order to try and survive as a news-based magazine in the cutthroat environment of the internet and the 24-hour news cycle. Sometimes they try to stir the …