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 [...]
As one President exits the White House, and another one in waiting prepares for his entrance, there’s no time like the holidays to wind down the final days. The Bushes are wrapping up their White House years with a total of 25 holiday parties and 7 dinners for a total of 60,000 guests according [...]
Today I read President-elect Barack Obama will take the Oath of Office January 20, 2009 using the Lincoln Bible. I’m not talking about a versioning of the bible with a Lincoln-like writing style, but the 16th President’s own bible in which he laid his hand when he took the Oath of Office in 1861. [...]
As the LGBTQ community continues to be upset, and rightfully so, about [Rev. Rick] Warren taking the podium/pulpit for the invocation to call the nation together for Obama’s inauguration as our 44nd president, we, the queers of America and our allies, need to keep in mind that the outgoing blessing and charge will be given [...]
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 [...]
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies has tapped poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher Elizabeth Alexander to deliver the inaugural poem January 20th. Alexander grew up in DC (Yay!). She teaches at Yale University and is a scholar of African American literature and culture. [Click on Alexander's name above to visit her [...]
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 [...]
President-Elect Barack Obama used the Thanksgiving holiday as the theme for his weekly address. And guess what? He gives a little background history about the origins of the Thanksgiving holiday.
