Daily Archives: 08/01/2009

Anger Has Its Place

(Community Matters)

You can yell at a cop in America. This is not Iran. And if some people don’t like what you’re saying, too bad. You can even be wrong in what you are saying. There is no law against that. It is not an offense for which you are supposed to be arrested.

Welcome Another Stoppard

(Community Matters)

marvelous

Arcadia to run through Sept. 12 at the Duke of York’s Theater

Babe?

AISD Performance

(Community Matters) State Education Commissioner Robert Scott makes some good points.

Brooks on Wise Muddling Through

(Community Matters)
Insightful perspective http://mobile.nytimes.com/art/408324/28?sub=Columnist

I do not think this pertains to the sale of Goldman warrants. The price was arrived at just weeks ago. (A friend commented that amidst the crisis, we may have gladly accepted a 23% return – heck even just a gurantee of return of principal.) The 23% return wasn’t negotiated during the meltdown; it was negotiated a few weeks ago. Plans had called for an auction. Instead we settled for less than one fifth of Buffett’s rate. Posted from my blackberry