Wednesday-Night

The warmly-applauded opening announcement concerned Herb Bercovitz who has been proposed by Mayor Peter Trent as a recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s award for volunteerism.
Victoria Kiyatkina introduced Ian Branum, a multi-talented U.S. Naval Reserve Officer recently returned from being USN’s point-man in Bangladesh and soon to go to Iraq, while Diana introduced Marc Garneau’s Riding […]

If the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti carry any message for those of us fortunate enough not to live in those places, perhaps it is that government regulation could save your life—while right-wing ideology may kill you someday.
(Truthdig) For those of us unfamiliar with geological terminology, it may come as a shock that the Chilean […]

Photos and videos
Kimon reintroduced a most welcome face from the past, Concordia Associate Professor (Communications Studies) Scot Gardiner, whom he had first known at Cornell when both were graduate students. Scot has taught, written books - as each of my courses evolves into a book, I become more obsolescent - , traveled the planet […]

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In Bolivia, Water and Ice Tell of Climate Change
If the water problems are not solved, El Alto, a poor sister city of La Paz, could perhaps be the first large urban casualty of climate change. A World Bank report concluded last year that climate change would eliminate many glaciers in the […]

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 […]

The doom and gloom which naturally surrounded the discussion of the world economy was alleviated by the most welcome return of Vithal Rajan, who has spent a number of years in India building organizations to empower the poor, notably the Dalit or ‘Untouchables’. He is a firm believer in microcredit because it gives the […]

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 […]