Wednesday-Night

See also Wednesday-night.com on Burma

(NYT) YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s ruling military junta gave no sign to the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, that it was prepared to accept any outside pressure about the future of democracy here, rejecting his request on Saturday to visit the opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and offering […]

22 April 2009

In The Air
Reflections on Earth Day and state of American environmentalism
(The New Yorker) The first celebration of Earth Day, on April 22, 1970, was a raucously exuberant affair. … Among those who seemed unmoved was President Richard Nixon. He avoided the festivities and made no public comment on them. (One of his aides, […]

T H E  R E P O R T
John Mavridis introduced his friend Jean  Lalonde, CEO of Pleio Health Support Systems, Inc.—which has pioneered a system for helping people with newly-diagnosed conditions to adhere to medication regimes.The original way in which Jean put together the initial concept of the company could be an inspiration to […]

See also Global Treaty on Climate Change

Yes, They Could. So They Did.
In New Delhi, it was refreshing to meet idealistic young people who are not waiting for governments to act, but are starting their own projects and driving innovation.
August 13, 2008
Elephant seals join fight against climate change
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Elephant seals swimming under Antarctic ice […]

Links for coverage of the convention, including the NYT Caucus , CNN Election Center,  Politico, TIME’s Swampland, even Fox  (we aim to offer balanced reporting)
 
‘Country First’: 2008 Republican National Convention Announces Full Program
September 1 - 4 2008
Minneapolis-Saint Paul
From September 1-4, 2008, an anticipated 45,000 delegates, alternate delegates, party officials, volunteers, […]

Welcome home to all the summer’s happy wanderers. We have missed you - and you have missed some fascinating evenings - and look forward to catching up with your news, along with your thoughts on The News as it unfolds.
Speaking of unfolding,-  or more accurately, unravelling -, the Republican Convention will surely go down in […]

Remembering the incredible pluck of the Times Picayune during Katrina and the aftermath, we returned to this long-neglected source and found it better than ever. Hurricane Gustav News and Storm Tracking
BBC, as usual, does a fine job of reporting the story and the context, including photos from the destruction wreaked in Cuba
Reuters/Planet Ark FACTBOX […]

John, Don’t Go
Paul Krugman, NYT
It’s an ill wind that blows nobody good. Three years after Hurricane Katrina, another storm is heading for the Gulf Coast — and this has given Republicans a reason to cancel President Bush’s scheduled appearance at their national convention. The party can thus avoid reminding voters that the last man they […]

See also  Katrina Update: A Billion Dollars Later, New Orleans Still at Risk (2007)
and CNN Katrina coverage
After Fanfare, Hurricane Grants Leave Little Mark
NEW ORLEANS — It was the largest housing aid program in American history, billed as the essential government tool that would make New Orleans whole after Hurricane Katrina.
Yet even though about $3.3 […]

More on the 2008 campaign and issues
Although the early days of the campaign were regrettably short on serious exploration of issues and the candidates’ positions, their websites supplied considerable information. Now that the Democrats have united (sort of) behind Barack Obama, we are moving away from following the issues in one post. There are now […]