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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
…part of what we want to do is to open up the White House and, and remind people this is, this is the people’s house. There is an incredible bully pulpit to be used when it comes to, for example, education. Yes, we’re going to have an education policy. Yes, we’re going [...]
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.
I had Teaism with my friend Ethelbert yesterday evening. He showed me the cover art for his second memoir The 5th Inning designed by Andy Shallal (release date is in March 2009).
There’s an interesting post on the E-Notes Blog/E mag this morning: an interview with Brenda Greene, Ph.D., Professor of English and Executive [...]
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 [...]
About two years ago I had the fortune of meeting and getting to know Byron Hurt while organizing our local Community Cinema screenings of his documentary “Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes.” Byron has been exploring a topic that’s always fascinated the wannabe anthropologist in me: masculinity.
Byron’s got a new conversation [...]
