Months before Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, I said he was modeling after Ronald Reagan, not in policy, but in practice. This week’s submission of the FY2010 budget proposal, “A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America’s Promise,” was just another example. While the headlines read that President Obama is [...]
My friends at WETA TV 26 are probably thrilled to the gills because they’re at the White House right now taping the first “In Performance at the White House” for the Obama Presidency. Presdient Obama presents Stevie Wonder with the second Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize for Popular Song named for song writers George [...]
Two years ago I packed my video camera and accompanied my friend Johari Rashad and a suitcase of her prized homemade mini pound cakes to New Orleans for my first Mardi Gras ever. Johari was returning to NOLA, her adopted home city, to bring some comfort food to friends she hadn’t seen since before [...]
I actually enjoyed last night’s Academy Awards as a production. Hugh Jackman is a performer! I’d invite him back. The stage was amazing in a way that wasn’t over-the-top extravagant or one of those “looked good on paper” budget busting disasters. Crystal curtains are expensive, no doubt, but it was well [...]
Washington, D.C. residents need your help tomorrow, Monday, February 23. Senate Bill 160, the DC House Voting Rights Act, is coming up for a vote. This bill will give Washington, DC residents a single representative vote in the U.S. Congress.
The DC House Voting Rights Act is a bipartisan legislation that would [...]
This week’s message rolled out later than usual yesterday, but the topic is next steps after the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act aka stimulus bill. BTW the National Endowment for the Arts managed to keep their $50 million in the package. A victory for working people like carpenters, electricians, performers, teachers, [...]
I like totally spaced out on Fashion Week (Fall 2009 collections) which wrapped up in NYC yesterday.
On the topic of “fashion,” I tend to defer to Robin Givhan on this blog. Like me, Robin knows fashion is more than just expensive clothes. And we don’t obsess over Anna Wintour’s sunglasses.
In [...]
Are we living in Dickensian Times? Four years ago I wanted to explore this question, but recently, I’m starting to believe it’s pretty much fact. Period. I’ll go so far to say it hasn’t been a question for the last 12 years.
The times and even the attitudes, I’ve noticed, more or [...]
Yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised that Valentines Day didn’t take a nose dive with the economy. I happened to be driving through Columbia Heights, DC, an area see sawing on a boom of commercial and residential development and the bust of gentrification for working class blue collar residents. The remaining working class residents [...]
….our goal must be to spend these precious dollars with unprecedented accountability, responsibility, and transparency. I’ve tasked my cabinet and staff to set up the kind of management, oversight, and disclosure that will help ensure that, and I will challenge state and local governments to do the same.
President Barack Obama
Can we apply this goal to [...]
