It was family reunion time last weekend. One "gift" I wasn't expecting was a box of Aunt Bessie's research and correspondence from the 60's thru the 80's. I've been spending this week going through it and a lot of what she had was not commonly known to the rest of the family. There were a couiple of letters that tied…
This is the most important subject on the President's agenda. The economic crisis is important, but health care is the problem that is affecting everyone's lives... Nowhere else in the world is so much money spent with such poor results. On that point there is rare unanimity among Washington decision makers: The U.S. health system needs a major overhaul. For…
Is eating locally produced food a civic duty?The folks at Kitchen Gardeners International might not call it a duty, exactly. But the group -- one of the organizations whose efforts led to the planting of a kitchen garden at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. this spring -- argues that buying and eating locally bolsters American communities and economies even as it makes…
This was to be the start of my last year at my former employment. A couple of years ago or so, I thought the 30th anniversary of Earth Day would be an auspicious time to start a new phase of my life...Then the knee jerk reaction to the economic picture of the autumn of 2008 ended my plans for a…
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Here's my contribution to today's tax day festivities: an effort to get you to think about federal taxes a little bit differently than usual. Normally, when we talk about taxes, we end up talking about percentages of people: the top 1% pay a certain amount, the bottom third pay a different amount, etc. But this is the wrong way to…
David Brooks spends a good deal of time laying the grounds for a non-blame blame for this economic meltdown. While saying, "Banks got too big to manage. Instruments got too complex to understand. Too many people were good at math but ignorant of history." He still maintains that it wasn't the greed of the players but their arrogance. Forgive me…
Thursday, April 02, 2009 This week, I will vote against the massive $3.6 trillion budget proposed by President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress, and Texans deserve to understand why. I believe this budget taxes too much, spends too much and borrows too much. This budget will delay economic recovery in Texas and across the nation, and it will reduce…
