Daily Archives: 05/30/2008

(Community Matters) Based on Scott McClellan’s information about McCain’s involvement in the Iraq war disinformation campaign.

(Community Matters) Hillary Rosen is an old friend from my Human Rights Campaign board days. She’s the former Chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America and now the Political Director and Washington Editor-at-Large for the Huffington Post:

Hillary’s campaign is still going for every woman who has spoken up in a meeting and was greeted with silence only to have a man say the same thing and be praised. It endures for the mothers who are taking care of their children and their parents and their home and has no time to take care of herself. It endures for women who are so scared to see her fail because of what it may say about their chances in life. And yes folks, it resonates for all the women who have seen the younger guy come along and get the promotion even though she has worked in the company loyally for years.

(Community Matters) Sorry to have missed last night’s Ernst & Young Entrepreneurs of the Year awards. It’s an annual reunion for everyone in the high tech and entrepreneurial worlds. So is the annual martini fest hosted by Andrews Kurth immediately after.

Congrats to Richard Halpin, founder and executive director of American Youthworks on being named the 2008 Social Entrepreneur of the Year. And, thanks to Bill Wood, Andy White and the Silverton Foundation for awarding AYW $100,000 in recognition of Richard’s award.

Business Entrepreneurs of the Year are Sam Goodner of Catapult Systems, Mark Adams, Advocate MD, and Satin Mirchandani and Mike Rosenfelt of MessageOne.

(Community Matters) The Economist says American housing prices are falling Through the Floor.
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(Community Matters) In this week’s Economist, an article on the continued growth and increased diversity of American suburbs here.

Such diversity is now common in suburbia. According to William Frey, a demographer, the white population of big-city suburbs grew by 7% between 2000 and 2006. In the same period the suburban Asian population grew by 16%, the black population by 24% and the Hispanic population by an astonishing 60%. Many immigrants to America now move directly to the suburbs without passing through established urban ghettos. Having conquered suburbia, ethnic-minority groups are now swiftly infiltrating the more distant “exurbs”. . . . Gary Gates, who follows the subject at the University of California at Los Angeles, says the number of gay and lesbian couples in suburbia is also increasing. Much of this can be put down to greater tolerance . . . . America’s suburbs have had shopping malls since the 1950s, and factories for longer. Increasingly, though, they are centres of white-collar work.

(Community Matters) Hat tip to Andrew Sullivan’s posting, Facebook as Reality

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