President-elect Barack Obama’s topic for this week is the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan.” When the bailout plan was on the table for Wall Street and the investment banks, it was chop-chop, quick quick or our economy’s toast. In all that hustle, I didn’t hear “strategic investment,” “long-term,” “oversight” or “accountability” in the [...]
The Manifest Hope: DC gallery (3333 M Street, NW, Washington, DC) is accepting online art submissions for their exhibit — Jan. 17 - 19 –preceding the Presidential Inauguration. You can make one submission per category, totaling a maximum of three submissions. The three categories are: Health Care Reform (Manifest Change), Workers’ Rights (Manifest [...]
When I was growing up, I was a bit of a science geek. You start out with the basics — bringing the outdoors indoors in jars. Mom saying, “make sure that lid’s on tight.” Having your aunt and uncle catch the bigger specimens for you. Then came space club. No [...]
I plucked the following from Ethelbert Miller’s e-Notes. The poster’s from the WPA collection at the Library of Congress.
Update: Sign the petition for including support for the artists and writers in the stimulus bill.
To contact Representative John Conyers
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December 16, 2008
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President-elect Barack Obama announced his Cabinet pick for HUD (Housing and Urban Development) Secretary: Shaun Donovan, New York City’s current commissioner of housing. The plan is for HUD, Treasury, and the Economic Council picks to work together as a team on an economic recovery plan. Topic for this week’s chat: [...]
This week I received an email from my healthcare broker alerting me that my monthly payments will be increasing in 2009. Since I’m self-employed, an illness can put me out of business fast, and ultimately result in no access to healthcare coverage altogether. I’ve started playing Lotto just to dream again if for [...]
If anything else, Barack Obama’s weekly YouTube addresses sends a message that the President-Elect is on the job – Which is the topic of this week’s address: Jobs.
I’m glad they found another set and backdrop. Not quite the Oval Office….not yet. But the “Mad Men” wood paneling in the first [...]
You know, I kind of regret that I didn’t listen to the President’s weekly radio address. Somehow I thought it was more about tradition and ceremony than policy. Like the national tree lighting at the White House. My bad. But then there was never any big promotion campaign or a heads up [...]
Yesterday Barack Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, died peacefully in her sleep in her home in Hawaii. Mrs. Dunham was 86 years old. She did cast an absentee ballot before her death and it will be counted in Hawaii. [You go girl!] She joins the ancestors to guide Barack and the rest [...]
