St Petersburg        The romance has been gone from flying for quite some time, but in the current fuel crises, the ridiculous has become the absurd as schedules worsen and costs accelerate.  Earlier this week I took what once was a relatively painless hop to Chicago on direct flights from New Orleans up and back …

Chicago        Prime Minister Singh took a big political chance on a confidence vote, essentially substituting the left parties that formed with his Congress Party, the UPA coalition, with a collection of right parties, sufficiently to win the right to continue bargaining a treaty for nuclear assistance from the USA.  Had he lost the vote, …

New Orleans         The Tides Momentum conference is designed to move and educate the Tides donor community by integrating them with organizations, activists, and thinkers.  Ironically, the lessons that I kept taking from the event and the speakers was the urgency we must bring to our work to find more effective ways and means …