Seattle        My morning started with a long call with a young producer and 8-year veteran of Fox News Special Reports explaining to me why the special reports in depth documentaries were different from the regular whack Fox News.  What a job?  Her real pitch is that they had been “tasked,” as she said with …

Rome Labrino was designed as a plan for a new city (la nuova citta) by the famous architect, Kenzo Tange, and his associates based in Tokyo in the early 1970’s.  Groundbreaking on the first building was in 1976.  This was a grand plan designed for 70,000 people.  There were ten sections of Labrino which would each house …

New York I awoke this morning to a pleasant surprise as I hustled to fly to Sicily.  Sammy Ndirangu, one of our ACORN Kenya, organizers sent a half-dozen pictures of his first organizing committee meeting in the Highridge section of the Korogochu megaslum where we are launching the first two community organizations.  There were 50 …