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Still have the energy to talk about Sam Adams?

Posted in Public Events, tagged , , , , on January 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Then join City Club for a free, public panel on politics and ethics as part of their Agora program:
Private Lives in the Public Eye:
A panel on politics and ethics
When: [...]

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We have a TARP with a huge, gaping hole

Posted in Budgets, Concept vs. Reality, public policy, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Between running my business, tracking the Sam Adams story and everything else on my plate last week, I fell behind on my newsfeeds. My feeds have become more important to me because I have been listening to NPR less and less lately. I think the ongoing mantra of layoff numbers is counterproductive to economic recovery.  [...]

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Justifying Mis-steps (and I don’t mean by Sam Adams)

Posted in Community, public policy, tagged , , , , , , on January 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »

This weekend,Winston Ross, a Newsweek Reporter, interviewed me about media sensationalism and the Sam Adams story.  He had read my previous blog post and thought I might have some insights to share.  Later in the day, after Sam Adams committed to return to work, I, naively, hoped that we would be able to put the [...]

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Why Sam Adams should not resign as mayor of Portland

Posted in public policy, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 21, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Below is a copy of an email I sent to Sam Adams this afternoon:
I am the go-to person on local politics for Portland’s open source tech community.  I have lost track of how many times I have been asked today my thoughts on your current situation.  Given all of the pressure that is being placed [...]

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Heralding back to a better day

Posted in Community, Public Events, Public gathering spaces, tagged , , , , , on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

January 20, 2009 was an emotional, historic and ground-shifting day in more ways that I can count.  There have been so many excellent blog posts on how it affected people (I should know, as I have many of them opened in tabs in Firefox so I can catch up on reading them when I get [...]

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Addendum

Posted in public policy, tagged , , , , on January 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The term “sea change” has been so overused that it has become almost meaningless.  However, given my last post, renaissance is probably a better descriptor anyway.  What am I talking about?
In his introduction to Senator Hillary Clinton’s confirmation hearing this morning, John Kerry explicitly stated that global climate change is an issue of national security [...]

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Debating garden hoses while Rome burns

Posted in Budgets, public policy, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I enjoy a good public policy debate as much as anyone (ok, to be honest, I seem to enjoy them more than most), but I have been getting frustrated lately about arguing about minutiae while we (and that is an inclusive we) seem to lose sight of the bigger picture.
In the past few days, I [...]

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